ROM Hack Translation Tomodachi Collection: New Life English Translation Attempt

[girlfromnimbus]

Hello, I wanted to try my hand at translating Tomodachi Collection: New Life into English since I love the regional differences in the game. But I like being able to understand what I'm reading most of the time lol. Right now, I've translated a good chunk of the message folder's game.bin (mostly system files, map information, the tutorial, etc.), to where I can play for a bit before needing more work.

Here's all that editing in real view, I'm not encountering that many problems with Japanese exclusive-stuff like blood types or the island naming scheme.
For a rough draft, it's looking pretty good so far to me. I'm also trying my best to keep the integrity of the original text without it being too lengthy.

Also, I do know I could just play the NA or EU version, but I like projects! Maybe I'll release this as a kind of patch one day, similar to how theres an English translation of the original Tomodachi Collection (I believe).

What I have fully translated right now includes:

• Album
• Birth
• Birthday Party
• Child
• City Hall
• Clock
• Distribution
• Edit
• Friendslist
• House
• Song
• SongG
• System
• Time
• Tutorial
• Wanderlist

 

[sample-text12]

this looks incredibly interesting! I was actually hoping for something like this so im glad to see someone working on it. please, keep up the good work and keep us updated! maybe even post this on the r/tomodachiLife subreddit if you haven't already since i think that's a more suitable place for this kind of thing and it's more mainstream

 

[girlfromnimbus]

this looks incredibly interesting! I was actually hoping for something like this so im glad to see someone working on it. please, keep up the good work and keep us updated! maybe even post this on the r/tomodachiLife subreddit if you haven't already since i think that's a more suitable place for this kind of thing and it's more mainstream

Hi there! Thank you for the recommendation, I'll do my best to keep you posted. I'll make a post for this project on reddit when I've finished some work to display later today

 

[sample-text12]

Hi there! Thank you for the recommendation, I'll do my best to keep you posted. I'll make a post for this project on reddit when I've finished some work to display later today

sounds great! do you plan on making it publicly available after its done?

 

[girlfromnimbus]

sounds great! do you plan on making it publicly available after its done?

I do actually! I was thinking to post it on GitHub so I made an account for that.

 

[sample-text12]

I do actually! I was thinking to post it on GitHub so I made an account for that.

good to hear! hope it all goes well for you!

 

[girlfromnimbus]

More work has been completed (finished around 1/4 of all common dialogue your Mii will trigger when you enter their room, fixed a crashing issue with certain dialogue, translated some food and clothing descriptions, etc.)

(Issue here was resolved)

 

[sample-text12]

glad to hear you're still at it. got a question, will the TTS be in english or japanese?

 

[Oxymint]

Wow! This project looks pretty good, could you post it when you get done? :3

 

[Cazu_315]

Omg can you post when you upload the patch? im really interested in this project :3

 

[girlfromnimbus]

glad to hear you're still at it. got a question, will the TTS be in english or japanese?

Apologies for being so late!
I am leaving the TTS in Japanese for now, but there is possibility that I can change it to English at a later date.

Post automatically merged: Mar 14, 2025

Omg can you post when you upload the patch? im really interested in this project :3

Of course!
I will either upload the patch on GitHub or on this website, I definitely want others to enjoy this project as well.

 

[Lunaaa]

Heyyy super excited for this patch I've been wanting to play this version w my boyfriend for so long!! It's completely fine if not but do you have a progress update by any chance? Thanks :3

 

[girlfromnimbus]

Heyyy super excited for this patch I've been wanting to play this version w my boyfriend for so long!! It's completely fine if not but do you have a progress update by any chance? Thanks :3

Hello!
I have been working on translating more relationship based interactions while solving crashing issues. If I had to say where I am progress-wise, it would be around an 16%. Here is all of the things I have translated so far:

• The entire tutorial
• All map information and clear conditions
• All settings (City hall, mii editor, office, etc.)
• All food, treasure, and tool names translated
• All loading messages
• All Personality Types
• Some problem dialogue
• Some relationship dialogue
• Some tool dialogue

I also took some screenshots while testing the tutorial dialogue + shop.

 

[girlfromnimbus]

I'm really happy with the way things are turning out so far.

And I found the source of the crashes, it was related to my changes in the Map.mbst, 90% sure it was just indexes being indexes. But, those are all fixed now. I'm getting around to translating minigames, news reports, and the random things Miis talk about.

The game is actually mostly playable and readable right now. I may have underestimated the work I have been doing, instead of around 16%, it's more like a 39%.

Oh last thing, here are some screenshots.

 

[sample-text12]

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I'm really happy with the way things are turning out so far.

And I found the source of the crashes, it was related to my changes in the Map.mbst, 90% sure it was just indexes being indexes. But, those are all fixed now. I'm getting around to translating minigames, news reports, and the random things Miis talk about.

The game is actually mostly playable and readable right now. I may have underestimated the work I have been doing, instead of around 16%, it's more like a 39%.

Oh last thing, here are some screenshots.

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it's looking fantastic so far! BTW if you can't get the TTS to nglish then it's all good, me and im sure others woun't mind if it's in japanese as long as we can read it in english. Just incase you were stressing about getting it into english lmao

 

[girlfromnimbus]

it's looking fantastic so far! BTW if you can't get the TTS to nglish then it's all good, me and im sure others woun't mind if it's in japanese as long as we can read it in english. Just incase you were stressing about getting it into english lmao

That's good to hear

I'm happy that the project looks good to you! I have begun to translate so much that it's really starting to look like an English patch.

(i fixed the typo here)

Showing off some UI and text changes here,

Post automatically merged: Mar 26, 2025

Wow! This project looks pretty good, could you post it when you get done? :3

I saw that this was edited, I will be posting this patch when I finish it!
It will come with a README.txt file for setup information.

 

[TheGuyFromReddit]

When r u finished?

Post automatically merged: Mar 29, 2025

When is it finished, and is the dialogue for touch all finished?

 

[girlfromnimbus]

When r u finished?

When is it finished, and is the dialogue for touch all finished?

I'm hoping I can get a release in by June or July.
Second question was answered on reddit

 

[Josei-Tenno]

Hey, is this available for download?

 

[girlfromnimbus]

Hey, is this available for download?

Soon! I'm still working on this, and college is about to start back up after today so progress may be a bit slower.
I do hope I can release this by June or July, I'm very excited to share this with others!

Screenshot dump for those of you who want to see how things look in-game + notes :

Oh if you're wondering why "itadakimasu" is not "thanks for the meal," I thought it would a bit awkward since Miis say that even when given medicine. So I used a more literal meaning to get around it for now.

And! The happy birthday song has lyrics here! Such a small detail but I prefer it to the humming they used to get around copyright troubles in the other versions.

(Bonus dialogue I couldn't get to naturally trigger is in attachments, didn't want the post to be too long.)