What is this?
This translates between english and the dinosaur language from Star Fox Adventures, also called Saurian. The name is derived from the planet name in later games: Sauria.
Saurian is a simple substitution cipher where letters of the alphabet are substituted in for others. For example, many children make up their own ciphers when they tell their friend that an "a" is an "f" in a note that they pass back and forth.
I made this mostly for the fun of doing some simple text manipulation. Of course, the fact that I enjoy the game always helps in making something fun to code.
Substitution Rules
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z English
U R S T O V W X A Z B C M D E F G H J K I L N P 0 Q Dinosaur
Issues and things I'd like to fix
- Currently, this translates all '0' into an uppercase Y. I'd like to make that case sensitive.
- In game, proper nouns are not translated. I'd like this to ignore proper nouns.