ROM Hack 100% Completed Thai FF3 Nds translation

[kenghot]

Hi all,
My name is kenghot my site is www.kenghot.com, I come from small country "Thailand". I just completed 100% for ff3 nds translation to my own language (Thai) and released it to Thai's gamer on 11/1/2006 .
It quite successful for this project. So I need to do next project and I've plan to translate FF5 or FF6 on GBA . After I start hacking gba rom , i've found that it's more difficult than NDS . So, Anybody would tell me , where should i start or what exactly i need to know for hacking GBA rom?

Best Regard,
Kenghot

 

[sandreezy]

nice job man, too bad i dont read thai. lol

 

[azndragonguy115]

on damn misleading title :[

 

[carloandreacchio]

any chance man you could translate it to english?

 

[zoharmodifier]

any chance man you could translate it to english?

FFIII and both FFVA/FFVIA are coming out REALLY soon... there's no reason why anyone should be worrying about an english patch at this point..

 

[Tripp]

...

1st post?

nuff... said...

 

[Deleted User]

I'll need to swallow my heart now. I thought it would be an English translation. Good work though!!!

 

[FAST6191]

Impressive work there, I am sure the fine people at http://www.romhacking.net/ would be happy to hear about this too.

As for GBA roms they are slightly different to DS in that the pointers in FF3 are contained within the files the text is in whereas the GBA pointers are the byte address of the file with a 08 or 09 (depending on whether the address is in the first 16 or last 16 megs of the file).
I looked briefly at the Japanese FF5 rom the other day and the graphics were not viewable in a tile editor meaning they were likely compressed and it is a good bet the text will be too. Some may say I hope you know ARM7 ASM but if you use VBA-SDL you may be able to trace the decompression routine(s) (especially if they are straight BIOS calls) and then implement your own version.
Other than that it will be buisness as usual: find the and font, make a new one and replace it, make a table, dump the text, translate, reinsert, repoint, translate any graphics you find.
I wrote up a document on GB/DS rom hacking a little while back and made a preview release here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=36860 the final version is a little while away but it should help a little.

 

[kenghot]

Thanks a lot FAST6191,

Unforturnately, I'm quite new for arm7 i'm just .net programmer. Actaully i didn't know about it. First i'll try to understand your documents.

------------------------- edit -----------
I just read a few pages of your document . It's so a awesome. I might spend a month to read it all.

Thanks again

 

[outphase]

on damn misleading title :[

How? It was indeed a 100% completed FF3 translation.

 

[xpestilencex]

nice work

 

[GBAer]

This has got to be possibly the fastest 100% fan base translation ever made.

Great work.

 

[Deadmon]

I'm really impressed by your skills! Hope the Thai community appreciates your work too!

 

[754boy]

Good job playa. We sure could use your skills for English translations

 

[binary_rain]

that was TOTALLY amazing..

 

[MAIcrosoft]

lols. the translation is very good quality O: didnt expect it! Good job Kenghot! : D My mom is all hooked to FF3 now Xp Ahahahahahhaha

 

[.TakaM]

nice work dude!

 

[saikorebon]

Very nice work!! I'm Thai too, that is so great! XD