Hi guys, I am still around. I was one of the lucky ones when the corona crisis started because i had just signed a contract for a new job and even if because of corona i had to delay the start of it, i am working full time and actually just finished the "the 3 months test phase" in this job. I am on it to stay until the bitter end
I actually didn't know about Filetrip and actually didn't think that somebody still cared about this game but it seems i was wrong so:
I updated the links on the first post to the new GBATEMP files.
I am thinking about starting a TikTok channel with the name "Grumpy old man" (yes, that's me) where i complain about all the things so let me start here.
1) To the people asking about links or how to patch: AAI2 is a text novel with a lot of text so please, take 2 minutes more to read the first post, read the "read me" in the patch or the search function / google. Most of the question can be answered like that and as bonus, you don't have to wait for anybody to answer in here.
2) To people like
@celltf that want to "correct errors": thanks for wanting to help but the patch is 5 years old, the group is no more and sorry if i am straight but.....if my memory is served, it's was about 50K downloads for the patch 1-3, 30K+50K for the 1-5 patch and more or less the same amount for the V2 version .....and this numbers are from the downloads in Filetrip alone.
The patch has been released by me example on Romhacking.net where i don't have a download counter and mirrored / reposted / hosted by many others in many other places and without counting the places where you can get the patched rom (even if we say clearly in the read me that we don't want that) in internet sites or torrents &Co that probably have even more downloads than the patch itself.
There are not many people that reported errors in the text (I would say a 3 digit number of an estimated 6-7 digits downloads) and most of them, actually said that not even the official releases had typos and such so i would say that the errors that are still in the game, contribute to the charm and "continuity" of the serie and because of that, we / I don't have any plans to correct them.
As a side note, I posted some images a while ago from the android version of the game that is being worked on by another group based on this patch / work.
The info that i had at the time was that they wanted to rework the text so maybe you can wait for that version (i actually don't know if they are still working on it or if it is already released). From experience with AA translations in the past, i would say it's dead but I am not involved or following it.
For the anti piracy protection: it has always been a chase between the systems and the copy cards and or emulators. This will never change and as the group is no more, there is nobody that can follow the evolution of the emulators, cards or what ever. You need to find a solution yourself.... sorry.
Anyway, I would like to thank all the people that still are complimenting, thanking and actually playing the patch / game even after this long time. You can't even imagine how nice feeling it gives me and actually it make me want to translate other games but sadly work take a lot of time and make me tired (you know that i am not so young anymore
) and i spend my free time playing games and streaming.
Stay healthy and safe