Happy New Year, fellow Ace Attorney fans!

We'd like to kick off the new year by releasing a taste of what's to come with the translated Demo of The Great Ace Attorney - The Adventure of Ryuunosuke Naruhodou. We're sorry we couldn't finish Episode 1 in time for New Year's, but please enjoy this until it's ready. Let us know what you think.

This free fan-translation uses the dialogue font of Dual Destinies, so you will need to own a version of it in order to play our patch. Team If would like to remind you that we DO NOT condone piracy - so please, please don't share a completed CIA with other people. We know the patcher is not very user-friendly yet, at the time of the release it was less then one day old. It will be much better in time for our Episode 1 release.

Fellow fan-translators: we would absolutely love to see The Great Ace Attorney translated into many, many more languages, so fans all around the world can enjoy it. We're working on a program to take in "representatives" of other groups to work closely with our translators, so you can get all the nuances right in your native language. We're currently not sure when we can start with this program, because it shouldn't interfere with our releases of the English Episodes, so please be patient and don't just steal our work.

Regarding voice-acting: we're not sure what we're going to do here, to be honest. We may offer an alternative patch with voice-acting in the future, but no promises yet. We'll see.

It's no secret among Ace Attorney fans that our decision not to localize character names and re-locating the story to the US is controversial. We hope you will understand our decision (which was unanimous among our translators), after you've played Episode 1. We still tried to keep the typical "Ace Attorney feel" and we do try to localize jokes and references so they work in English, but the nature of the Game - in our humble opinion - makes white-washing the main cast impossible. Yes, we're aware of a completed translation script that does exactly that. As a team, we disagree with the direction it went, we believe the "liberties" it took to fit the Game into previous localisations were way to drastic, even for Ace Attorney standards. The resulting change of atmosphere and even character's personalities were simply too much for us to accept. You can form your own opinion on this matter by playing our take on the translation before condemning it.

Remember - we're fans, too!

-- Team If - DGS Division

Most of you probably already know this, but you can install CFW on all 3DS firmwares up to 11.3 now: https://3ds.guide/ - if you updated to 11.4 (without A9LH), there's currently no way for you to play this patch!

Spoiler: Install instructions - PLEASE READ THEM

Prerequisites: You need to have the newest version of FBI (at least 2.4.5), the latest version of Decrypt9 (20161113), the original DGS Demo and ONE version of Dual Destinies installed on your Home Menu:
* Dual Destinies EU Demo
* Dual Destinies EU Full Version
* Dual Destinies US Demo
* Dual Destinies US Full Version

1) Extract the contents of the archive into a folder.
2) Put the 3DS/DDFontDumper folder into the 3DS folder on your SD card, so it will look like this:
sd:/3DS/DDFontDumper/DDFontDumper.3dsx
sd:/3DS/DDFontDumper/DDFontDumper.xml
3) Launch it via the Homebrew Launcher. It will dump Dual Destinies' font archive to the root of your SD card:
sd:/dd_font.bin
4) Use Decrypt9 to create a decrypted CIA of your LEGALLY installed DGS Demo:
[Content Decryptor Options] > [CIA Builder Options] > [CIA Builder (SysNAND/decr.)]
/title/00040002/0014ad01
5) Put both the dd_font.bin and the decrypted CIA (should be in sd:/D9Game/ or sd:/files9/) into the folder you made in the first step and rename the CIA "demo.cia" (without quotation marks, of course).
6) Run build.bat to create "demo_english.cia". If all went well, you can now install this new CIA with FBI. Make sure once again it's at least version 2.4.5!

Last, but not least: we are still looking for a skilled reverse engineer (knowledge of ARM ASM and the 3DS in particular would be great) to help us figure out some of the remaining mysteries of the game. Other helping hands for inserting and proof-reading text can apply as well, but please note that we do not take testers.

Spoiler: FAQs - PLEASE CHECK HERE FIRST BEFORE POSTING

* The font dumper crashed on me...
- Did you use homebrew launcher 1.1.1? Is Dual Destinies installed? Did you try again?

* Why not make the dumper a CIA?
- Technical reasons. A home menu installed app can't easily access another RomFS.

* I got an error building the CIA: Game CXI hash invalid...
- That means you either dumped the wrong CIA or it's still encrypted. Read the instructions once more and try again.

* The CIA installed, but the label is empty and it crashes when I start it
- Did you see us asking you to update to the latest FBI 2.4.5? Yeah, it was about that. Delete title 000400020014AD02 from the Titles menu in FBI and try again with the newest version...

* Why not just release a CIA?
- Because that would be illegal.

* OK, but why not just include the font?
- Again, because that would be illegal. We don't want to be shut down before we release our first episode.

* Isn't this just going to end up in the usual places anyway?
- Probably, though we urge you - please! - don't do it.

* There's still some bugs/untranslated text/one pixel off
- Yeah, we know. It was either that or no release for New Year's...

* [Generic translation nitpicking]
- Japanese is a contextual language that can't be translated 100% accurate. It will always be more of an interpretation, but our translators know their stuff and did tons of research and revisions together with the proof-readers.

* [Generic technical nitpicking]
- Yeah, we know. That's why we'd like to have a reliable reverse engineer...

* OMG! I LUV YOU GAIS ARE THA BEST!!!1!
- Hehe, we love you guys, too. Happy New Years!

Our friends of LJT asked for permission to translate our DEMO to (European) Spanish and just finished with a little help from us:
http://aceattorneyspain.foro.bz/t913-traduccion-the-great-ace-attorney#16701

PS: Yes, "People", not "Profiles"...
PPS: Yes, "Post Mortem" - it's not a complete autopsy and the Japanese word was different, too...

Mods: I asked @Chary for permission to post the patch itself. It doesn't contain a single byte of copyrighted code. Only delta patches...

 

[darklord1013]

Ok Thanks

 

[Dirky]

The font dumper stay in green screen when i launch it. (I have the homebrew launcher, the latest version of FBI, the full version of DD and i have try many time.)

 

[Uwabami]

The font dumper stay in green screen when i launch it. (I have the homebrew launcher, the latest version of FBI, the full version of DD and i have try many time.)

Hm, this seems to be a problem with the new firmware 11.4 - I'll look into it...

 

[Dirky]

Hm, this seems to be a problem with the new firmware 11.4 - I'll look into it...

I am on 11.3 with arm9 and Luma in 7.0 (but thanks for help)

 

[Uwabami]

I am on 11.3 with arm9 and Luma in 7.0 (but thanks for help)

Hm, it worked on 11.3 for me. How are you starting the homebrew launcher?

 

[Dirky]

Hm, it worked on 11.3 for me. How are you starting the homebrew launcher?

With HBLoader (in 2.3 i think)

 

[Uwabami]

This? https://github.com/yellows8/hblauncher_loader/releases

Try using the newest version and also update the boot.3dsx on your SD card root to the newest version: https://smealum.github.io/ninjhax2/boot.3dsx

 

[Dirky]

Thanks, that worked !

 

[darklord1013]

Hmmm... shouldn't the disclaimer on the first page (the one about if you're on 11.3 without a9lh then you can't play the demo...) be changed to say if you're on 11.4 then you can't do the patch since cfw is available now for 11.3?

 

[Blutooth42]

I have really no idea how to run this a step by step guide would help me so much.

So far I have only installed citra or will this only work on a 3ds??
I know I need a home brew launcher as well and im having trouble finding one and installing it on citra

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[darklord1013]

Citra will not work for this patch and you need to have cfw with a 3ds on fw 11.3 or lower( you can check this on settings) Look up a video online on how to install cfw for 11.3 or under or type 3ds cfw 11.3 in google and click the first link.

 

[Uwabami]

Hmmm... shouldn't the disclaimer on the first page (the one about if you're on 11.3 without a9lh then you can't play the demo...) be changed to say if you're on 11.4 then you can't do the patch since cfw is available now for 11.3?

Yes, you're right. I'll update it.

I have really no idea how to run this a step by step guide would help me so much.

So far I have only installed citra or will this only work on a 3ds??
I know I need a home brew launcher as well and im having trouble finding one and installing it on citra

Any help is greatly appreciated

DGS does not work correctly with Citra, nor do we support it. You need a real 3DS.

Citra will not work for this patch and you need to have cfw with a 3ds on fw 11.3 or lower( you can check this on settings) Look up a video online on how to install cfw for 11.3 or under or type 3ds cfw 11.3 in google and click the first link.

Don't use video tutorials! They are often outdated or give wrong information which can lead to a permanent brick of your 3DS.

This guide has been proven over and over again as the best one (and it's always current):
https://3ds.guide/

 

[darklord1013]

I have learned something new from you Uwabami.

 

[Jubash]

Yes, you're right. I'll update it.


DGS does not work correctly with Citra, nor do we support it. You need a real 3DS.


Don't use video tutorials! They are often outdated or give wrong information which can lead to a permanent brick of your 3DS.

This guide has been proven over and over again as the best one (and it's always current):
https://3ds.guide/

Jus to be clear, @darklord1013 said that we need a 3DS with firmware 11.3 or below (even with CFW, as I understood from his post). The method that you use to patch the game won't work on 11.4 (CFW) or that was a miscommunication? Just asking, 'cause ctr-httpwn is broken, God knows if something else also broke...

 

[Uwabami]

Jus to be clear, @darklord1013 said that we need a 3DS with firmware 11.3 or below (even with CFW, as I understood from his post). The method that you use to patch the game won't work on 11.4 (CFW) or that was a miscommunication? Just asking, 'cause ctr-httpwn is broken, God knows if something else also broke...

To clarify: you need CFW like Luma3DS (which we recommend) - to install said CFW, your firmware can't be higher than 11.3 until it is set up. After it's set up, it's OK to be on 11.4.

Now a different issue is that we've had reports of the font dumper not working on 11.4, but I didn't have the time to thoroughly investigate and fix it...