Absolutely! I wonder why this hasn't been done before, since the GBA version is kinda better on a few things.

 

man if you finish this hack you will be hero for many people.
i played smt a little time ago, and i did enjoy, but i thought the snes version very primitive comparing with smt 2 and the recent one. i would love to play these games again in gba

 

I would love to have a fan translation of SMT 1 and 2 for the GBA however I would request if you could offer a sound restoration patch because the GBA OST is horrible in comparison to the SNES version.

 

The intelligence and magic points are actually for late game armors that require certain stat allocations before you're allowed to wear them. And one stat decreases the amount of damage you take from magic attacks I believe, so it's not actually a bad stat to train.

Now about the GBA translation project.
I actually looked into this a while back, and the ATLUS translation of the game on iOS is very similar in structure to the GBA rom. Not 1:1 of course, or we could just emulate it, but the structure is similar enough that if someone where able to hack the font and text display routines, it shouldn't be too difficult of a project to then insert the script.

 

Yeah Magic reduces damage taken by spells and Intelligence decreases the odds of being affected by status ailments like poison or instant death, but you'd be better off putting stat points into speed and vitality as the most immediate threat in the game is physical damage.

I hope the game gets an official english port for consoles.

 

The first one already got an official translation with the iOS port, so the translation itself won't be an issue. The problem is the hacking more than anything.
For the second game though, it'd have to be translated from the ground up at worst, depending on how different the SNES fanTL and graphical remake scripts are. And even then, with using the fanTL, a lot of terminology and consistency work would have to be done with the first game's TL since the fanTLs did not use preexisting translation terminology at all.

 

Er, I don't know what you're trying to get at? There's no need for a space saving measure if the text routines are hacked. The nomenclature of the iOS translation is perfectly fine, and uses the same demon names that show up in other entries of the series, like SJ.

And I wasn't discussing their quality. The quality is fine. What I was talking about is how different they are from ATLUS's official translations and terminology. Which is why there'd need to be an editing pass or two to unify terms and translations between an SMT1 patch and an SMT2 patch.

 

Er, yeah? That's kind of the point of using the iOS translation? I really don't understand what your point is.

And that's not the only thing the fanTL differs on. A lot of terminology used within the game's plotline itself is different between the two, from small things, to series staples like the Expanse. The entire script for the second game would have to be gone over to fix issues and inconsistencies between the iOS version and it to bring it up to the canon terminology.

The point of hacking the text routines is to make a variable width font in the first place. If you only settle for building a half-width font, you're losing space overall and it's a lot more difficult to make a suitable translation.

 

I think tons of people are interested! Fans of the game would love this

 

Just one quick shot to show a proof of concept.
I injected the whole iOS intro script into the GBA rom.
The character spacing is a bit off, but I'll come back to that later when I have most of the script done.