You need to hack the pointer read routines to check if the text pointer index is past a certain point and if so to execute the bank swap code. There are no docs on this subject, but I have done it on the GB and the idea is the same. Depending the ROM size limitation of the MBC type, you can probably expand the ROM and relocate part of the text to the expanded space. You probably don't need to compress the text. I do have some technical advice for you though. Even when I was first learning I still managed to find someone, but I guess it is probably difficult for someone new to hobby to find one. Some are part of the community, others have dreams of being hired by a game company and want to build a resume of games translated, others just want to polish their skills. From my experience there a lot of decent translators floating around the net. This is just the elite prick in me speaking, but the better than nothing approach to translating is a bunch of crap. There is no text in the ROM that matches it, so any help would be appreciated. NOTE: In the second game, the description of where the boat lands is still in Japanese, because I couldn't find it in the game, strangely. But for now, enjoy the fruits of my labour, and any comments are welcome!ĭetective Conan: The Mechanical Temple Murder Caseĭetective Conan: The Legend of the Strange Rock Island Treasure I feel like writing a much more in-depth report on my work on my blog at some point, for any newbies who'd like to follow in my footsteps. Now I've got all three games to version 0.1, if you like, I think I'll take a little break, then get to work on the first game. All that remains is a hell of a lot of dialogue - and this is one text heavy game (or games). The hard part is done: the technical side of the game is more or less completely clear to me, most of the graphics are done, and the first chunk of text is done. I didn't just fix a menu and upload it (I saw that someone else already did that), I wanted to show (me as well as you guys) that I was capable of doing this.
I wanted to get to a stage that I call 'Proof of Concept': as in, you can play all three games with my patches up to the point that you start moving around and talking to people, and everything is in English. I suppose hacking AND translating all three games, alone, is a big task, but I don't want anyone to think this'll be done overnight.
I used to learn Japanese years ago, and although I have a reasonable grasp of grammar, I suck at vocab, so every sentence takes a while, using And hey, it's better than nothing.
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I think there's enough free space to exploit in these ROMs, though.Īs for the language, that's the hard part. I had a play with another tutorial for the NES, but unless someone can tell me how a NES ASM routine could be adapted for the GBC, I'm stuck. Basically I've been picking things up pretty quickly in terms of hacking, and although I know almost nothing about ASM, some compression would be handy on this. A big shout out to Coolboyman for his Gameboy pointer hacking doc ( ), it really helped me to get this working. Which is another point: this game was my first test of hacking pointers. And the third is double the cart size (16Mbit rather than 8Mbit), which allows for a bigger game, but also gives me much more empty space to fit my text in. The second is very similar but presumably a bit more complex (I haven't played much of any of them, I confess). The first one seems a little simpler but sets up all the graphics and ideas, and uses more or less the same stuff as the other two. The basic architecture is the same in all three games. So, for my first translation project, I decided to tackle Detective Conan on the GBC. The three games by Banpresto were ideal for several reasons:ġ) they hadn't been fully translated before Ģ) they were for the GBC (simpler system to hack, but with the bonus of enormous carts) ģ) I'm a fan of the Conan anime, which helps Ĥ) I imagine there are plenty of other Conan fans who would actually like to see this. Until I came across the Detective Conan games for the Game Boy Color. Years later, however, I thought about it again, and couldn't think of what to translate. until I realised that it was released (in bastardised form) as Tecmo Cup Soccer Game in the USA. I got interested in rom hacking a while ago, mainly for the purposes of translation, and I even had a stab at translating Captain Tsubasa for the NES.
Greetings all, this is my first post, but it's been a long time coming, so I may take a while.
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