Mother 3 Translation RELEASED!

[raulpica]

the thing that scares me about this patch is that the rom is 32 megs to begin with. adding text (even after taking out the japanese text) will only increase the game size. i'm curious to find out what "hacking" they did to keep the file size at 32 megs. they mention that they were careful to keep it at 32, but at what costs? something had to be removed or rearranged. i'd love to read the specifics, i hope they publish that info.

-another world

Mato did some AWESOME hacking and empty space hunting. Don't worry, they've been able to fit everything in the original 32mbytes, not removing anything and even throwing some extras in, like the little Silver Star

Actually there's a thing called compression.

They haven't compressed anything

I've read ALL the updates and Mato hasn't mentioned using compression ever.
IIRC, they had enough space already just by replacing the 16-bit Japanese text with 8-bit English text. Not too sure about this, though

 

[Noitora]

the thing that scares me about this patch is that the rom is 32 megs to begin with. adding text (even after taking out the japanese text) will only increase the game size. i'm curious to find out what "hacking" they did to keep the file size at 32 megs. they mention that they were careful to keep it at 32, but at what costs? something had to be removed or rearranged. i'd love to read the specifics, i hope they publish that info.

-another world

Mato did some AWESOME hacking and empty space hunting. Don't worry, they've been able to fit everything in the original 32mbytes, not removing anything and even throwing some extras in, like the little Silver Star

Actually there's a thing called compression.

They haven't compressed anything

I've read ALL the updates and Mato hasn't mentioned using compression ever.
IIRC, they had enough space already just by replacing the 16-bit Japanese text with 8-bit English text. Not too sure about this, though

I'm pretty sure there's no need to mention the hacking techniques they used but they can also add padding instead of keeping the original size.

 

[raulpica]

the thing that scares me about this patch is that the rom is 32 megs to begin with. adding text (even after taking out the japanese text) will only increase the game size. i'm curious to find out what "hacking" they did to keep the file size at 32 megs. they mention that they were careful to keep it at 32, but at what costs? something had to be removed or rearranged. i'd love to read the specifics, i hope they publish that info.

-another world

Mato did some AWESOME hacking and empty space hunting. Don't worry, they've been able to fit everything in the original 32mbytes, not removing anything and even throwing some extras in, like the little Silver Star

Actually there's a thing called compression.

They haven't compressed anything

I've read ALL the updates and Mato hasn't mentioned using compression ever.
IIRC, they had enough space already just by replacing the 16-bit Japanese text with 8-bit English text. Not too sure about this, though

I'm pretty sure there's no need to mention the hacking techniques they used but they can also add padding instead of keeping the original size.

They had to keep the original size (32M) because right now the ROM only has some free Kbytes (maybe even less), as the ASM hacks they had to put in took a lot of space

 

[shadow1w2]

I only play RPGs half way most of the time but I've been looking forward to this.
Can't wait.
I've got my ol EZFA flash cart all ready and everything.
Can't wait to play it in english xD

 

[zelgadis]

I cant wait! I want to play it once in english then after I get the jist of it try it out in japanese for practice

 

[illithid]

Just noticed that the site went down for anticipation of the patch release.

 

[raulpica]

Just noticed that the site went down for anticipation of the patch release.

Actually they've put the site down because they're making the last preparations. So this might mean they're gonna release the patch today

 

[Eon-Rider]

Just noticed that the site went down for anticipation of the patch release.

Actually they've put the site down because they're making the last preparations. So this might mean they're gonna release the patch today

Yeah probably. I've been refreshing the site every few minutes for the past 2 hours. o.o

 

[Noitora]

Just noticed that the site went down for anticipation of the patch release.

Actually they've put the site down because they're making the last preparations. So this might mean they're gonna release the patch today

I hope they do release it today

 

[WildWon]

Yea, i had rechecked the site this morning and got a raging hardon at that red screen w/ pixelated letters. And thats embarassing at work.

 

[raulpica]

IT'S OUT!

 

[Eon-Rider]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND! It's out! WOOO! =D

EDIT: Damn... Got beaten. Loading it into my 3-in-1's NOR as I type. =D

 

[WildWon]

Just saw its up as well! Was hoping to be the first here, but i'll just join in and show my excitement. WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!

 

[powser]

IT's OUT!! omg i'd thought I'd be first!

 

[Noitora]

IT's OUT!! omg i'd thought I'd be first!

DOWNLOAD NAO!!

 

[illithid]

It's out now. Yay!!!

Downloading and will write result later

 

[jos7960]

minor slowdowns till now on my supercard lite

ill try my standard m3 gba expansion pack in a minute.

 

[raulpica]

Works great on my EFA Linker!

Awesome, no problems saving either

 

[jos7960]

Hmm problems saving on my supercard lite... But real time save takes care of that

 

[DivineZeus]

A really great work they did! looks like a pro translation to me!

Btw there are some sound glitchies and slowdowns at the startup... oh well, we can live with 'em...