ROM Hack Gyakuten Saiban 1-3 Translation
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Now that I've finally finished exams and am on summer break, I'll attempt to finish this.
As I stated somewhere earlier I think, I'm a newb at ROM hacking, so I'll be spending a fair bit of time learning more first (and re-figuring out the tools). Also, I'd like to translate the evidence and names as well, but I don't have the English translations for the evidence description. If someone could provide me a list of Japanese English evidence descriptions, that'd be AMAZING.
Hopefully I can release a less buggy version of the first two cases by the end of next week.
As I stated somewhere earlier I think, I'm a newb at ROM hacking, so I'll be spending a fair bit of time learning more first (and re-figuring out the tools). Also, I'd like to translate the evidence and names as well, but I don't have the English translations for the evidence description. If someone could provide me a list of Japanese English evidence descriptions, that'd be AMAZING.
Hopefully I can release a less buggy version of the first two cases by the end of next week.
I just came across this thread. Good luck with the hack. I would love to play these games on my Micro. I wish I could help but I haven't a clue how to translate Japanese...
*Crosses fingers and prays to the Great Lawyer In The Sky...*
*Crosses fingers and prays to the Great Lawyer In The Sky...*
Since most of the above links are dead, for anyone still interested I have re-uploaded the latest patch by kcaze here:
Patch 05/06/2011 by kcaze
Edit:
I am a newbie and I don't know anything about rom hacking, but I managed to add all the translated evidence graphics by cocomonk22 into the kcaze's rom. I haven't tested it though.
Patch 05/06/2011 by kcaze with english evidence graphics by cocomonk22 (11/07/2008)
I would also like to add the rest of the graphics and the title screen, but I don't know how.
I also plan on trying to add the english voices for "Hold it!", "Objection!" and "Take that!", and I think I've found a way to do so.
Patch 05/06/2011 by kcaze
Edit:
I am a newbie and I don't know anything about rom hacking, but I managed to add all the translated evidence graphics by cocomonk22 into the kcaze's rom. I haven't tested it though.
Patch 05/06/2011 by kcaze with english evidence graphics by cocomonk22 (11/07/2008)
I would also like to add the rest of the graphics and the title screen, but I don't know how.
I also plan on trying to add the english voices for "Hold it!", "Objection!" and "Take that!", and I think I've found a way to do so.
Update:
- Added the english title screen by cocomonk22
- Replaced the "Coldkiller Z" graphic with "Coldkiller X" by cocomonk22
- Replaced the Japanese voices of Mia and Payne with the English ones from NDS
Patch 003
Update 2:
I think I started to figure out a couple of things, so I've tried to replace the Guilty/Not Guilty verdict with the English graphics. The graphic substitution by itself wasn't that hard, but I run into a couple of bigger problems.
The first problem was that the japanese kanji have very different positioning from the english text:
After hours of searching Hex values of the coordinates with a hex editor, reading technical information about Gameboy Advance OAM's, trial-and-error tests and a lot of guessing, I finally figured out the addresses of the coordinates, so I managed to re-position the 2 sprites:
I was happy with the result, so I moved on to the "Not Guilty" part, only to find out that my previous change has affected it too! The Japanese kanji were in the new position, and one of the 2 previous sprites was used in inverted colors!
It seems that the rom uses the exact same image and the exact same locations to display both "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" verdicts.
Images from the original rom:
Does anybody have any idea about how I could change the verdict displaying routine?
- Added the english title screen by cocomonk22
- Replaced the "Coldkiller Z" graphic with "Coldkiller X" by cocomonk22
- Replaced the Japanese voices of Mia and Payne with the English ones from NDS
Patch 003
Update 2:
I think I started to figure out a couple of things, so I've tried to replace the Guilty/Not Guilty verdict with the English graphics. The graphic substitution by itself wasn't that hard, but I run into a couple of bigger problems.
The first problem was that the japanese kanji have very different positioning from the english text:
After hours of searching Hex values of the coordinates with a hex editor, reading technical information about Gameboy Advance OAM's, trial-and-error tests and a lot of guessing, I finally figured out the addresses of the coordinates, so I managed to re-position the 2 sprites:
I was happy with the result, so I moved on to the "Not Guilty" part, only to find out that my previous change has affected it too! The Japanese kanji were in the new position, and one of the 2 previous sprites was used in inverted colors!
It seems that the rom uses the exact same image and the exact same locations to display both "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" verdicts.
Images from the original rom:
Does anybody have any idea about how I could change the verdict displaying routine?
Update:
Patch 004
- Added all the missing English name tags from cocomonk22
- Replaced "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" verdict with the English ones
- Added English voice "Hold it" and "Objection" for Phoenix
- Added English title for the 1st case in the case selection screen by cocomonk22
- Added English diagram symbols in evidence by cocomonk22
- Fixed a corrupted sprite of Mia
- Fixed both "Guilty" and "Not Guilty"
Screenshots:
P.S.: I am still trying to figure out why the hyphens are not displayed in the text.
Patch 004
- Added all the missing English name tags from cocomonk22
- Replaced "Guilty" and "Not Guilty" verdict with the English ones
- Added English voice "Hold it" and "Objection" for Phoenix
- Added English title for the 1st case in the case selection screen by cocomonk22
- Added English diagram symbols in evidence by cocomonk22
- Fixed a corrupted sprite of Mia
- Fixed both "Guilty" and "Not Guilty"
Screenshots:
P.S.: I am still trying to figure out why the hyphens are not displayed in the text.
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Wow! Great to see this project has been revived!
Keep it up! I would love to see a 100% English version for the GBA
Keep it up! I would love to see a 100% English version for the GBA
After countless hours of trying to figure out how to change the Exclamations (Objection!, Hold it!, Take That!), and after hundreds of experiments and manual hex editing bit by bit, I managed to reach this point for the "Take that!" exclamation:
Update:
Patch 005 (see below)
- Replaced all the exclamation graphics with the English ones! (Objection!, Hold it!, Take that!)
Screenshots:
Edit:
It seems that when I added "Objection!", I accidentally overwritten a small part of the memory area of "Hold it!", corrupting it. I fixed it in the following patch:
Patch 005.1
- Replaced all the exclamation graphics with the English ones! (Objection!, Hold it!, Take that!)
Screenshots:
Edit:
It seems that when I added "Objection!", I accidentally overwritten a small part of the memory area of "Hold it!", corrupting it. I fixed it in the following patch:
Patch 005.1
Update:
Patch 006
- Added the rest English voices
- Fixed a glitch producing white rectangles when Objection is played from the Prosecution side
- Added a dark red outline around the "Take that!" graphic
Patch 006
- Added the rest English voices
- Fixed a glitch producing white rectangles when Objection is played from the Prosecution side
- Added a dark red outline around the "Take that!" graphic
That's some amazing progress!! really good work! i'd like you to help us with summon night hajimari no ishi's translation to insert the translated script, once you finish this and are actually interested, that is. The tools are already there.
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