Uh, I'm not too sure if this is the place to post this question, but as I didn't find the answer anywhere... Is there any way to translate the old good SCUMM games (like monkey island 1 and 2), that is NOT with a hex editor, and/or without the risk of corrupting all the game and having to start over again and/or being able to change the lenght of the in-game texts (like if you need to translate a small word like "at" to a bigger one like "uhiuwdywgueygfu" and the entire phrase becomes bigger. Note that "uhiuwdywgueygfu" is a word I just created. :) )

You might just want to use this:
www.scummvm.org

I just stumbled accros it a few days ago.

Man, did I enjoy Flight of the Amazon Queen... It always ran to fast for me. But now it doesn't do that anymore!

I already use that to run my SCUMM games, as the original EXEs didn't run on WinXP. But I couldn't find any links related to game translations there tough.

Most likely you would need a SCUMM compiler+the original scripting source code. And I doubt Lucas would release it.

I stumbled upon a program called scummtr some days ago. It theorethically (sorry if this word is not right) would export a text file with each string on a line and then re-incorporate the text into the game (after you edited it).

The exporting worked right, but unfortunately the import didn't. I just exported and re-imported the same file and the game crashed as soon as I put the cursor over an object. I just tried to use it with monkey island 1 however. Maybe I should try on MI2.

Woo hoo! Never mind! I just realized I was using the wrong game ID with scummtr, now the program works beutiful! The texts can even change length!

Thanks anyway for the responses!