ROM Hack ANOTHER DragonBall Kai Ultimate Butouden Translation

[coolpro9828]

SON GOKU IS COMING TO TOWN!!!
Hey guys! I finally finished up my finals, and I'm back to work at full force! I would like to first of all wish you all happy holidays to whoever celebrates Christmas, and hope you enjoyed opening your gifts. Speaking of gifts, even though you're supposed to open them in the morning, I guess I'll give you mine fashionably late. I would love for you all to enjoy the latest patch of the translation, with chapter 2 fully complete, and with the slight errors (where it said after finishing a level in the result screen QA クセサリー or something like that, which was supposed to say Accessory) now fixed. Fixing that error, however, necessitated that I decompress the arm9, which means patches will now be a lot bigger, so I would like to apologize for that from now, but trust me, this game is worth it! So please enjoy these 3 new episodes to your hearts' content! I know some of you might have already seen episode 2-3 from my bluesky account (if you haven't, check me out on there), but here is a quick preview of it, along with the new episodes:

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Here's the link to download the patch:


And for whoever is interested in maybe editing the lines of dialogue, the app I made over on github is able to do that now, so check it out over on this link: https://github.com/OmarAlTaki1/NDSTextEditor/releases

And if you want to follow me on social media, you can do so over on bluesky using this link: https://bsky.app/profile/deathkill781.bsky.social

And finally, I would like to apologize for only having this much to offer after such a long hiatus, but sadly, I couldn't do much in these 2 days, as I literally just finished finals, and they were brutal. I would also like to wish y'all a happy holiday. And till the next one! See ya!

just played this on real hardware, absolutely blew my mind, keep up the good work! i would love to see this be completed!

 

[smashburger]

I'm asking the question out of curiosity, how likely is it or is it even possible that the game will be completely translated this year because I can't estimate how long something like this will take, especially if you do it more as a hobby

 

[deathkill781]

I'm asking the question out of curiosity, how likely is it or is it even possible that the game will be completely translated this year because I can't estimate how long something like this will take, especially if you do it more as a hobby

Oh it'll 100% be done this year. Hopefully we're looking at the next 2 months max if I'm not lazy, in terms of the text at least. As for the title menu, while I know it's not necessary to translate it, as the text in it says "press start button" plainly in English, but I really wanna be able to fix the logo too. So hopefully, it doesn't take too long either.

 

[smashburger]

Oh it'll 100% be done this year. Hopefully we're looking at the next 2 months max if I'm not lazy, in terms of the text at least. As for the title menu, while I know it's not necessary to translate it, as the text in it says "press start button" plainly in English, but I really wanna be able to fix the logo too. So hopefully, it doesn't take too long either.

If Son Goku were real then he would love you and eat or train with you!

 

[Xdqwerty]

No worries! Just send it to me when you do get home, as I need to make sure whether or not I will have to edit the app or not

Thats weird... I tried it again (this time with only the ¡ simbol) and it didnt break as badly as before

 

[Xdqwerty]

Ndstexteditor seems to crash when opening one of the msg files

 

[coolpro9828]

have you tried redownloading the software or maybe refreshing the file?

Post automatically merged: Jan 5, 2025

Hey! Thank you for your kind words. Unfortunately, it is against the regulations of this site to provide complete roms, so I can't provide it even if I wanted to. I truly apologise. There are websites that host the game already patched, but to my knowledge none of them have this one, sadly enough. So I'm sorry, but I can't be of any more help! I do greatly appreciate the support tho!

there's an entire section in gbatemp that lets u download complete roms, i think its allowed

 

[Xdqwerty]

have you tried redownloading the software or maybe refreshing the file?

Post automatically merged: Jan 5, 2025

there's an entire section in gbatemp that lets u download complete roms, i think its allowed
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@x65943 Is this against the rules or not?

 

[x65943]

To share roms is against the rules

You can share a patch

 

[coolpro9828]

Oh it'll 100% be done this year. Hopefully we're looking at the next 2 months max if I'm not lazy, in terms of the text at least. As for the title menu, while I know it's not necessary to translate it, as the text in it says "press start button" plainly in English, but I really wanna be able to fix the logo too. So hopefully, it doesn't take too long either.

can u also fix the inconsistency with the bottom screen displaying 'touch skip' rather than 'touch to skip'

also the icon on the home menu could be changed from

to

 

[deathkill781]

can u also fix the inconsistency with the bottom screen displaying 'touch skip' rather than 'touch to skip'

also the icon on the home menu could be changed from

to

For the touch skip, that's the way the game comes, even in Japanese, so I never really thought of changing it. As for the game icon, I don't see a reason to change it. It says kai in Japanese, which symbolises the game. I don't see a reason to change it honestly.

 

[coolpro9828]

....As for the game icon, I don't see a reason to change it. It says kai in Japanese, which symbolises the game. I don't see a reason to change it honestly.

the only reason im asking is because the compressed image on the dsi home menu looks weird and crunchy, dont get me wrong, i like the kai kanji but not when its shrunken down to 1024 pixels. i think the second one will fair much better on the eyes

[32px x 32px] (i outlined it to look better scaled down)

 

[coolpro9828]

I uploaded the patched rom and any previous update patches to internet archive if anyone's interested:
https://archive.org/details/dbkai-ultimate-butouden-english-translation

 

[coolpro9828]

I uploaded the patched rom and any previous update patches to internet archive if anyone's interested:
https://archive.org/details/dbkai-ultimate-butouden-english-translation

for some reason, its not letting me add the first patch file. gives me an error
"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Error><Code>BadContent</Code><Message>Uploaded content is unacceptable.</Message><Resource>image file has non-image contents: application/octet-stream, try one of these extensions: .bin .a .dll .exe .o .obj .so .deploy .msu .msp
</Resource><RequestId>a5d018b4-7cf8-43e0-94c3-17ee96c6ead1</RequestId></Error>"

side note: the other patch files went in no problem but this one wont go through

 

[SatoriSato]

How is everyone doing?. I myself have been great, just enjoying the gane and the last patch.

 

[glockwizard]

Everybody else: talking about the switch 2
Us: waiting for @deathkill781 and others to pour more retro-gaming happiness into our lives

 

[deathkill781]

How is everyone doing?. I myself have been great, just enjoying the gane and the last patch.

Glad you're enjoying it! I'm really sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, but during this vacation, I really needed to take the time to regain my strength, and before I realised it, the vacation passed and I didn't put any work, and neither did my translator, so we do truly apologise. And we're not any less busy now, so please excuse the delay and know that we've not abandoned the project, but our schedules really aren't free enough to work on it much. So I really ask you to be patient with us. The patch is coming, THAT MEANS IT'S COMING!!!

 

[Xdqwerty]

I'm waiting for @Angelus to reply to me so we can properly start the spanish translation

 

[Ringloom]

WE'RE BACK BOYS, GALS, AND THAT TECHNICOLOR RAINBOW IN BETWEEN!

Yo! How's everyone? Hope you're all doing well! As the title implies, I'm back with another patch. There's a lot that went on for this patch (even if doesn't seem like it), so kick back, relax, and please enjoy reading this post!

THE GOOD NEWS / WHAT'S NEW:

• The text and font:

So, as you might know, I've been having a bit of trouble with the font, as I needed to make it smaller so that more words would fit, seeing as to how some quotes and their descriptions wouldn't. But that is now a problem of the past! After a lot of useless testing around trying to see if the font width was within the game's code, I figured eventually that it was actually imbedded into the font files. However, I couldn't really figure out how the fonts worked, so I just replaced it with the one from Dragon Ball Origins 2 (great game btw for those who want to check it out), as it was officially ported to the west, meaning it had a good font to work with. But then I was met with another problem. The new font didn't have japanese and special characters, and it didn't have any of the characters that represented in game input. So I had to painstakingly replace each english character with its counterpart from the newer font in the old font to get it to work. And lo and behold, it did! I like how it turned out because the new font really does look a lot neater, and it helped the text that didn't fit, well, fit. Here's a quick comparison of before and after and a preview of the font:
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I also changed it for the titles of the episodes, as it lacked special characters (like commas "," and apostrophes " ' "), but I kind feel like it's out of place, but my brother told me it was fine. Please tell me what you think! Here's a quick comparison of before and after:
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Good thing is that it seems like it would fit more characters, but tell me what you guys think. Is it out of place?

• The images:

As for the next thing, all images in the game are officially in english! (to my knowledge at least, if there is still more, do tell me, but I'm pretty sure I got them all). You already know that all the menu top graphics have been translated. Only things that were left were the story mode, and the what-if episode icons (to and back). Here's how they look:
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Massive thanks again to @verypedro for doing the graphics for the top graphics and the buttons (Ik I didn't use all the buttons, but replacing them isn't an easy process, and the story mode is kinda the only one with wonky font, while the rest are actually more uniform, so I feel like it fits. FORGIVE ME PEDRO!!!)

• The text:

As for what I continued translating in terms of text, you'd be happy to know that all text in regards to menus is completely translated!!! The most recent of which, which I did for this patch, is completing the customize menu, and know all quotes and effects are fully translated!!!

THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS / WHAT'S LEFT:

• The text:

While most of what needs to be translated is done, it is in desperate need of a revamp, mainly the story mode menu (and what little of the dialogue I already translated) as I did most of it when I was still starting out with the project, meaning I didn't know about pointers yet, so I thought everything had to fit within the same space that was allocated for it in the japanese, which created some wonky dialogue. There is also a lot left to translate regarding the cutscenes, so I got my work cut out for me.

• THE TITLE SCREEN:

I am currently struggling with the title screen, as all of what's in it is not a regular picture, rather they are 3d models. But not your regular DS standard 3d models, they are their own format (called .dse files for anyone interested), and I have no clue how they work. While I can decompress them to view them in their raw form, I have no clue how they're structured or where the textures are pulled from or where they are. I attempted to try debugging the game to see if I can figure out where they're being taken from, but I lack too much knowledge to be able to do it.

CLOSING STATEMENTS:

I just wanted to quickly apologize for this patch taking this long, but I have stated multiple times that I am in a very much unstable situation as of the current moments, and passing through very trying times. And for those that say I don't need to be working on this in such situations, I know and I agree, but doing this makes me pass time and brings me some feel of normalcy and comfort in such a hard situation. I use it to keep my mind off of what's going on around me, as I can't destroy myself by constantly agonizing over it. It's unhealthy. And as they say, life goes on. So yeah. That's it from me guys. I hope you enjoy this patch and await the next one! Talk to you when it's time for the next patch! See ya!

TL;DR: New patch is out. Finished all text translations (the new thing is the customization menu) and translated all images. All that's left is revamping some old stuff, finishing dialogue in cutscenes, and the title menu, which I have no clue how to do.

PS: I hope someone notices the DBZA cell reference in the title lol

LINK:

That's a Mario font? I think it's better sticking with the original font for the episode titles, for accuracy. Isn't a game but they also kept the original font when translating the Dragon Ball Super title cards, at least in LatAm

 

[glockwizard]

Glad you're enjoying it! I'm really sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, but during this vacation, I really needed to take the time to regain my strength, and before I realised it, the vacation passed and I didn't put any work, and neither did my translator, so we do truly apologise. And we're not any less busy now, so please excuse the delay and know that we've not abandoned the project, but our schedules really aren't free enough to work on it much. So I really ask you to be patient with us. The patch is coming, THAT MEANS IT'S COMING!!!

No need to apologize my friend, there's no pressure. You can tell we are all excited haha, but please take your time and enjoy the process