Translation Shining Force Feather Translation Patch

[luckymouse0]

Game Info (Wikipedia)​

Overview:
This will be a partially translation for Shining Force Feather for Nintendo DS. This is a fan-made patch so don't expect a professional translation here. And because I am alone doing it, I won't be doing a full translation. Sorry.
I am not like NicoBlogs and his shady blog, so this will be a xDelta patch, not the full rom but you can wait a few hours/days and look for it in his blog....


Downloads: (last updated: 11 July 2016)
v0.8

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Changelog - What's translated:

v0.x - ??????????? - Maybe this will happen...
- Text Images
- Free Battle Objectives

v0.8 - 11 July 2016 - Final Version for now...
- Every Menu and Command Menu
- Every Facility Menu
- Battle Objectives of Story Missions
- Every Item Description except Amors
- Every Skill, Spell, MaxForce Skills Description
- Settings Menu and Load/Save Menu
- Many Bug fixes

v0.6 - 11 June 2016 - Bigger patch, thanks to CrystalTile2 bad compression on arm9.bin...
- Characters Names

v0.5 - 09 June 2016
- Chapters/Battles/Free Battles Introduction
- Glossaries
- MaxForce Skills Names

v0.4 - 08 June 2016 - Initial Release
- Equipments (Weapons, Armors, Accessories, Dresses)
- Consumables
- Monsters Names
- Skills, Spells, Dress Abilities  Names

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Patching Instructions:

1. Get Ilegally download the rom. (CRC32: 400FF45D MD5: d34e22e2eb7838b0f336b6e8965fc571 SHA256: 3eaaf771ac5b1e8fdcd6441375ff26c7b3e4bbc8a667ee69036d29cbeecdca5a)

• Download Xdelta from here

• Apply the patch using xDelta.

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The Current Team:

• Me: ROM Hacker

• Myself: Main Translator

• I: ROM Editor

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Translated Screenshots:

Tools used:

• Tinke

• MadEdit

• Crystal Tile 2

• Cue's GBA/DS compressors

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From the inside:

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system.pac_2.pac
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ARMORS, ACCESSORIES:         system.pac_2.pac_1.bin
CONSUMABLES:             system.pac_2.pac_2.bin
ATTACKS:            system.pac_2.pac_3.bin
SKILLS, SPELLS:            system.pac_2.pac_4.bin
MONSTERS 1:            system.pac_2.pac_5.bin
MONSTERS 2:            system.pac_2.pac_6.bin
MONSTERS 3:            system.pac_2.pac_7.bin
MONSTERS 4:            system.pac_2.pac_8.bin
WEAPONS:            system.pac_2.pac_9.bin
DRESS ITEMS:            system.pac_2.pac_10.bin
DRESS ABILITIES:        system.pac_2.pac_11.bin
CHAPTER BATTLES INFORMATION    system.pac_2.pac_12.bin
GLOSSARY INFORMATION         system.pac_2.pac_13.bin
CHAPTERS INFORMATION        system.pac_2.pac_14.bin
FREE BATTLES INFORMATION    system.pac_2.pac_15.bin
CHAR EPISODES NAMES? UNFINISH?    system.pac_2.pac_16.bin
CHARACTERS GLOSSARY        system.pac_2.pac_17.bin
HELP: TIPS            system.pac_2.pac_18.bin
MAX FORCE            system.pac_2.pac_19.bin
HELP: TYPES OF ATTACKS        system.pac_2.pac_20.bin
NPC CHARACTERS GLOSSARY        system.pac_2.pac_21.bin
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system.pac_7.pac
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(.CGT) ARROW TEXT IMAGES
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arm9.bin (Compressed)
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CHARACTER NAMES
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overlay9_3 (BLZ Compressed)
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BATTLE REWARDS
DEFENSE MENU
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overlay9_2 (Compressed)
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"MOVE TO" MENU
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overlay9_4 (Compressed)
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MEDICAL ROOM FACILITY
STATUS CURE/PREVENTION MENU
SCREEN INFORMATION FOR INVENTORY, SKILLS, ETC.
AFTER BATTLE MENU
EQUIPMENT MENU
SKILL MENU
UPGRADE WEAPONS MENU
ITEM CREATION/BREAK MENU
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overlay9_5 (Compressed)
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COMMANDs MENU
SCREEN INFORMATION ON EVERY COMMAND
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overlay9_6 (Compressed)
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AIRSHIP "START BATTLE" MENU
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overlay9_8 (Compressed)
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UPGRADE FACILITY MENU
CHANGE DRESSES MENU
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overlay9_9 (Compressed)
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LOUNGE FACILITY MENU
LIBRARY FACILITY
RANDOM OBJECTS, VERBS, NOUNS
BATTLE TYPES
BGM NAMES
IMAGE AND VIDEO GALLERY
RANDOM TEXT OR MAYBE GALLERY INFORMATION
BATTLE, DRESS, ITEMS IN-BATTLE INFORMATION
SAVED BATTLE RECORDS
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overlay9_10 (Compressed)
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BATTLE ROOM FACILITY MENU
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overlay9_11 (Compressed)
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SAVE/LOAD MENU
SETTINGS MENU
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script.pac (LZ Compressed)
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CHAPTER 1 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0090.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0092.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0093.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0094.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0095.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 BATTLE 1        script_0100.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 BATTLE 2        script_0101.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 1 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0111.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0190.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0192.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0193.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0194.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0195.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 BATTLE 1        script_0200.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 BATTLE 2        script_0201.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0210.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 2 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0211.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0290.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0292.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0293.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0294.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0295.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 BATTLE 1        script_0300.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 BATTLE 2        script_0301.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 BATTLE 3        script_0302.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0310.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 3 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0311.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0390.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0392.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0393.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0394.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0395.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 BATTLE 1        script_0400.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 BATTLE 2        script_0401.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0410.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 4 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0411.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0491.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0492.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0493.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0494.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0495.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0496.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0497.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 BATTLE 1        script_0500.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 BATTLE 2        script_0501.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0510.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 5 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0511.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0591.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0592.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0593.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0594.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0595.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0596.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0597.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 BATTLE 1        script_0600.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 BATTLE 2        script_0601.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 BATTLE 3        script_0602.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0610.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 6 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0611.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0691.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0692.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0693.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0694.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0695.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0696.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0697.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 BATTLE 1        script_0700.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 BATTLE 2        script_0701.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 BATTLE 3        script_0702.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0710.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 7 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0711.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0791.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0792.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0793.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0794.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0795.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0796.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0797.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 BATTLE 1        script_0800.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 BATTLE 2        script_0801.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0810.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 8 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0811.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_0891.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0892.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0893.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0894.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0895.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0896.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0897.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 BATTLE 1        script_0900.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 BATTLE 2        script_0901.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_0910.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 9 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_0911.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP LOBBY    script_0991.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP BRIDGE    script_0992.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP CORE        script_0993.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP LOUNGE    script_0994.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_0995.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_0996.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_0997.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 1        script_1000.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 2        script_1001.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 3        script_1002.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 4        script_1003.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 5        script_1005.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 6        script_1006.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 BATTLE 7        script_1007.PSI3.lz
SAVE CHAPTER COMPLETE        script_1010.PSI3.lz
CHAPTER 10 MISSION SELECT MENU     script_1011.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP LOBBY        script_1081.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP BRIDGE        script_1082.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP CORE        script_1083.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP LOUNGE        script_1084.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP BATTLE ROOM    script_1085.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP LIBRARY    script_1086.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE AIRSHIP MEDICAL ROOM    script_1087.PSI3.lz
SAVE GAME COMPLETE        script_1090.PSI3.lz
COMPLETE MISSION SELECT MENU     script_1091.PSI3.lz
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What's not translated (for now...):

• Free Battle Objectives (Can't find these!!)
• Text Images

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Wanna give me a hand:

• If someone can make a patch for single byte encoding or Half width characters: I will be very grateful and I will translate everything better!

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What's not going to be translated (sorry ):

• Story
• Lounge facility
• Library facility

Interesting Sites:

• Translation of items, battles and more
• Names of characters
• WIKI
• Tables
• Cheats
• Spanish Guide

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Thanks to:

• StorMyu: for his tips about command menu location.

• Dr.Razor: for his excellent tutorial about editing arm9.bin file!

• Random guy from jap chat: translated something for me!

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Special Thanks to:

• exorcizamus: for his SAO IM patch. He inspìred me to hack against all odds.

Legal Stuff:
Shining Force Feather™ is owned by Sega. No copyright infringement of this game was intended. We have not received any compensation for this localization patch. If you like this localization patch, we would appreciate it if you purchase the game to support the software developers.

 

[Deleted User]

Looking good!!

 

[amicus]

What's not going to be translated (sorry ): Story

 

[luckymouse0]

Looking good!!

Thank you!!

Sorry about that! But I am no translator nor hacker. This is fan-made because nobody wants to translate it .

See the other project that got stalled here.

 

[Deleted User]

Can you do a dump of the script? I'm swamped right now, but I can take a look to see what it would take to translate. Also if you can dump or put up the text files for items, skills.

 

[luckymouse0]

Can you do a dump of the script? I'm swamped right now, but I can take a look to see what it would take to translate. Also if you can dump or put up the text files for items, skills.

Thanks for your offer! BUT the problem is not the translation per se, I have many things translated already, but without a single byte encoding like ASCII, I can't do it. The game is encoded in Shift-JIS, and uses two byte per character!

So for example, the character name is Jin(three chars in ASCII = 3 bytes), which in japanese is ジン(two chars in Shift-JIS = 4 bytes), if I want to translate it I would use Ji(two chars in Shift-JIS = 4 bytes), because I have to use the same space as original!

If someone is willing to add ASCII support, the translation could SKYROCKET, and I could dump the scripts for translation!

 

[luckymouse0]

Eureka! Using the same method as explained in "Thanks to:" section, Finally I found the command menu!!!!

Spoiler

Not only that! I found too many things!! Read "From the inside:" section from arm9.bin onwards!

So expect bigger and better patches!

 

[Deleted User]

Nice job. Keep up the good work!!

 

[luckymouse0]

Finally patch 0.8!

Many many many things translated!

Please give it a try !

PD: Any suggestions will be appreciated

 

[flame1234]

Conversation with @FAST6191 on GBAtemp IRC; some ideas on where to start looking re: the font that must be changed.
We should look into the file that stores font data and also no$gba debug (emulator) or other disassembler programs.

Spoiler

<flame1234>: http://gbatemp.net/threads/shining-force-feather-translation-patch.430236/#post-6453120
<flame1234>: want to add halfwidth font... but no idea where to start I'm a NDS noob... so where do I start?
<FAST6191>: when you say halfwidth do you mean like the Japanese input/display method?
<FAST6191>: Or just a narrower or possibly variable width font?
<FAST6191>: Oh wait should have read the link
<jplayer>: the link is just the TL thread

<FAST6191>: You appear to want to go to 8 bit encodings
<FAST6191>: Is it an in game memory issue?
<FAST6191>: Because DS pointers should be able to handle that well enough
<flame1234>: So you suggest keeping the SHIFT-JIS decoding and reducing the width, is that right?
<FAST6191>: No I misread what you wanted
<FAST6191>: Though sorting font dimensions is a good plan for hacks as well
<FAST6191>: I was wondering whether the issue was the hackers don't understand pointers or whether it was more that the text was dumped into system memory and the extra space was causing issues
<flame1234>: Need more space on-screen. That's the issue.
<FAST6191>: No "next page"/auto scrolling going on in this game?
<FAST6191>: Fair enough if so, not all do
<FAST6191>: That said bytes having nothing to do with screen real estate
<flame1234>: I just need to get to a place where I can do *something*. I want to try reducing width. So what tool is used for asm hacking NDS?
<flame1234>: ASCII was tried and doesn't work; I'm not sure the details.
<FAST6191>: Though shiftJIS technically supports ASCII most games do not
<FAST6191>: As for assembly, if you have to go there right away (I would personally suggest looking at the font first) then you want a few things
<FAST6191>: An emulator of couse and no$gba debug is free these days so go that
<FAST6191>: A static disassembler helps, crystaltile2 has a fairly basic one. ndsdis2 is another and if you want to get silly there are things like IDA
<FAST6191>: there might even be more now android has taken off
<FAST6191>: and an assembler to put it back together again
<flame1234>: I need to modify font width. For that you need asm. Is there another way? OK, no$gba debug it is then. Thanks, I'll take a look.
<FAST6191>: armips is probably the suggested one
<FAST6191>: You do not necessarily need assembly for that
<FAST6191>: the ntfr font format used by loads of DS games has sizes and encodings within it
<FAST6191>: and I have seen several others with similar fairly high level traits
<FAST6191>: Also there is a guide on the forums to ROM hacking that covers a lot of this
<FAST6191>: http://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentation-project-new-2016-edition-out.73394/
<flame1234>: I *think* this game does not have ntfr, let me look that up...
<flame1234>: Stormyu says it does not have the ntfr font: http://gbatemp.net/threads/shining-force-feather-translation.321936/
<flame1234>: OK thanks for your help
<FAST6191>: do check the font anyway
<FAST6191>: not many are as complex as that but they still might have dimensions and other good stuff in it
<FAST6191>: Nothing quite so annoying as ploughing through assembly for many hours just to find it was all in the file format after all
<flame1234>: I am a PSP guy, you sometimes find that the info you were looking for was there in files all along... but you'd never find it without that dissassembly

 

[StorMyu]

I've started some work on that, need to get back on it though. I should at some point I guess.
the game will crash if you try to draw offscreen so, if you're testing a sentence too big you're gonna have a problem.

and NDS and PSP are both really easy systems, especially with the current emulator for them.

 

[Deleted User]

Hey mouse. I was successful with the patch, but drastic gives me the error that the rom is now encrypted. It will not load even with the arms7 bios. Any way to fix? Anyone else having this problem?

 

[luckymouse0]

Hey mouse. I was successful with the patch, but drastic gives me the error that the rom is now encrypted. It will not load even with the arms7 bios. Any way to fix? Anyone else having this problem?

That is strange... Did you try DSEmuME? Because that is what I used to test it.

Please test it and reply .


Also, make sure that you patched the right rom: Check CRC, MD5, SHA.

CRC32: 400FF45D
MD5: d34e22e2eb7838b0f336b6e8965fc571
SHA256: 3eaaf771ac5b1e8fdcd6441375ff26c7b3e4bbc8a667ee69036d29cbeecdca5a

 

[Deleted User]

That is strange... Did you try DSEmuME? Because that is what I used to test it.

Please test it and reply .


Also, make sure that you patched the right rom: Check CRC, MD5, SHA.

CRC32: 400FF45D
MD5: d34e22e2eb7838b0f336b6e8965fc571
SHA256: 3eaaf771ac5b1e8fdcd6441375ff26c7b3e4bbc8a667ee69036d29cbeecdca5a

Confirmed that it works on desmu just fine. It does not work on drastic. My guess is drastic checks for an encryption were desmu does not. Anyway, translation is also confirmed for menu, skills, items etc and looks good.

 

[Cidthunder]

Oh no! I didn't realize this wasn't gonna be a full translation. Would you ever make a full one if you get help? Not with the coding but writing. I would help if you would need that.

 

[luckymouse0]

Oh no! I didn't realize this wasn't gonna be a full translation. Would you ever make a full one if you get help? Not with the coding but writing. I would help if you would need that.

Thanks for your comment! I don't think so, because I would need a team and time. My idea doing this was to make SFF a bit more popular so a team could pick it up and translate everything. Is not hard to do so, but I got Zero experiencie in ASM hacking.

But if anyone can contribute with the hacked fonts and single width, I will considerer making it better.

 

[Alexander_86]

i sent you a pm

 

[SubLoverD]

Hi there just came across this and wondered how the translation was going is it at 100% yet?

 

[luckymouse0]

Hi there just came across this and wondered how the translation was going is it at 100% yet?

Sorry, but this isn't a full translation, It's only a menu patch.

 

[ekrezem]

Thanks for what you guys did!

Sorry for asking out of nowhere, but do you guys mind sharing the script dumps anywhere?
Would like to look around in it. (no I'm not a translator, unfortunately)

Edit: Would be awesome if you guys have terminologies / general terminologies used in the game too.