Still, even Japanese text is pretty useless to anyone who doesn't speak or read Japanese just as much as question marks are.
Even if I installed the Japanese language pack, I'm not going to bother to attempt to translate all that Japanese "TV Antenna" text to readable English just for a bunch of games I'll never play. Like dbgtdob said, it's WAY too much work to be worth the effort, especially for a person who doesn't know Japanese in the first place. In my opinion, life's too short to muddle through a bunch of Japanese text-laden games when I can't understand the language. I'll either wait for the English version, the Euro version which will usually have English selectable or not bother to play them at all.
If someone wants to translate the Japanese codes to readable English, I'll add them, but my next usrcheat.dat upload will have the "screwed up" question marked Japanese codes removed until that time. The translation should be done preferably by someone who understands Japanese AND English to make it less of a chore. The original usrcheat containing those codes that likely aren't "screwed up" due to a lack of a Japanese language pack being installed is posted a few pages back by someone other than me.
If anyone has a problem with my decision to remove the question mark codes, I can always just update my dat file for myself and stop bothering to make it available for anyone else. I admit, removing the Japanese codes will kind of be contradictory to my goal of the ultimate usrcheat.dat, but since they are useless as they are anyway, I don't see any other choice but to just delete them.
I'll also admit that it was probably me who screwed up the Japanese codes when I added them to my dat since I obviously don't have a Japanese language pack installed. But let me remind you of the first line in this reply.
I generally don't use cheats, but I was trying to be useful to the community. I spent a lot of time adding all those codes and removing duplicates. It made me feel good to give something back to the community. I had many reservations when I saw all those question marks myself, but if my efforts are not appreciated and I'm just going to be flamed or belittled about any mistakes I made, I can just forget about continuing my usrcheat.dat project just as easily as I took it up.
I can take retman's attitude about it and say screw everyone else and just update the dat for myself, if that's what you guys would prefer. I'd rather not be like that though.
Even if I installed the Japanese language pack, I'm not going to bother to attempt to translate all that Japanese "TV Antenna" text to readable English just for a bunch of games I'll never play. Like dbgtdob said, it's WAY too much work to be worth the effort, especially for a person who doesn't know Japanese in the first place. In my opinion, life's too short to muddle through a bunch of Japanese text-laden games when I can't understand the language. I'll either wait for the English version, the Euro version which will usually have English selectable or not bother to play them at all.
If someone wants to translate the Japanese codes to readable English, I'll add them, but my next usrcheat.dat upload will have the "screwed up" question marked Japanese codes removed until that time. The translation should be done preferably by someone who understands Japanese AND English to make it less of a chore. The original usrcheat containing those codes that likely aren't "screwed up" due to a lack of a Japanese language pack being installed is posted a few pages back by someone other than me.
If anyone has a problem with my decision to remove the question mark codes, I can always just update my dat file for myself and stop bothering to make it available for anyone else. I admit, removing the Japanese codes will kind of be contradictory to my goal of the ultimate usrcheat.dat, but since they are useless as they are anyway, I don't see any other choice but to just delete them.
I'll also admit that it was probably me who screwed up the Japanese codes when I added them to my dat since I obviously don't have a Japanese language pack installed. But let me remind you of the first line in this reply.
I generally don't use cheats, but I was trying to be useful to the community. I spent a lot of time adding all those codes and removing duplicates. It made me feel good to give something back to the community. I had many reservations when I saw all those question marks myself, but if my efforts are not appreciated and I'm just going to be flamed or belittled about any mistakes I made, I can just forget about continuing my usrcheat.dat project just as easily as I took it up.
I can take retman's attitude about it and say screw everyone else and just update the dat for myself, if that's what you guys would prefer. I'd rather not be like that though.
