EDIT: I totally meant to flag the title with [RELEASE]. Can a mod do that if they happen by this post?
For those not aware, the English DS version of Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of Chosen excluded the Party chat dialogue when it was translated. This is a lot of flavor text that really helps build out the characters and I've always felt the characterization of the Party members suffered because of it. Fortunately, when Square Enix ported these games to Android, they finished the translation and gave us the Party chat dialogue in English.
About a year ago, a user by the name of concreted created a patching tool that would let you hack your own rom dump of the JP version of DQ4 and insert the text files from the Android rom, but you had to extract the files yourself and run it through python. This would take the JP text and replace it all with English text, including the party chat (English versions of DQ4 had party chat disabled in code so simply patching in the translated text wouldn't work). There are caveats with tbis method as somethings won't change (the name selection screen remains in Japanese, for example). See concreted's GitHub here for a list of known issues. He did a really huge thing here but wasn't familiar with romhacking in general so he left the patch at that.
So I took my finished product and made some xdelta patches for the game. One patch is for the Japanese rom and the other is for the English. There will be absolutely no difference between the end results of the two. I only included the English version patch in case you don't have access to the JP version to dump the rom for whatever reason.
Big thank you to concreted for doing this! It isn't perfect, but it is perfectly playable and a gift to those of us who want to play this game but don't really care for playing games on mobile.
English Version: Patch Download
Initial Release Post
Dragon Quest IV - Chapters of the Chosen (USA) (En,Fr,Es)
Database: No-Intro DS (all) (20210221-111036
File/ROM SHA-1: B9132B77597BFEB8F4162B4EE51D87B4F92EDC
File/ROM CRC32: C433DB29
Japanese Version: Patch Download
Initial Release Post
Dragon Quest IV - Michibikareshi Mono-tachi (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: DS (all) (v. 20210227-111036)
File/ROM SHA-1: 84BAF75D79B842FA5ECFDC66C112F1D19BF228AE
File/ROM CRC32: 3257B207
For those not aware, the English DS version of Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of Chosen excluded the Party chat dialogue when it was translated. This is a lot of flavor text that really helps build out the characters and I've always felt the characterization of the Party members suffered because of it. Fortunately, when Square Enix ported these games to Android, they finished the translation and gave us the Party chat dialogue in English.
About a year ago, a user by the name of concreted created a patching tool that would let you hack your own rom dump of the JP version of DQ4 and insert the text files from the Android rom, but you had to extract the files yourself and run it through python. This would take the JP text and replace it all with English text, including the party chat (English versions of DQ4 had party chat disabled in code so simply patching in the translated text wouldn't work). There are caveats with tbis method as somethings won't change (the name selection screen remains in Japanese, for example). See concreted's GitHub here for a list of known issues. He did a really huge thing here but wasn't familiar with romhacking in general so he left the patch at that.
So I took my finished product and made some xdelta patches for the game. One patch is for the Japanese rom and the other is for the English. There will be absolutely no difference between the end results of the two. I only included the English version patch in case you don't have access to the JP version to dump the rom for whatever reason.
Big thank you to concreted for doing this! It isn't perfect, but it is perfectly playable and a gift to those of us who want to play this game but don't really care for playing games on mobile.
English Version: Patch Download
Initial Release Post
Dragon Quest IV - Chapters of the Chosen (USA) (En,Fr,Es)
Database: No-Intro DS (all) (20210221-111036
File/ROM SHA-1: B9132B77597BFEB8F4162B4EE51D87B4F92EDC
File/ROM CRC32: C433DB29
Japanese Version: Patch Download
Initial Release Post
Dragon Quest IV - Michibikareshi Mono-tachi (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: DS (all) (v. 20210227-111036)
File/ROM SHA-1: 84BAF75D79B842FA5ECFDC66C112F1D19BF228AE
File/ROM CRC32: 3257B207
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