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A title that I have been following with acute interest as of late is a group over on Serene's Forest that started to translate the newest 3DS Fire Emblem title, Fire Emblem if. Within a short period after release, the team has finally come out and released a translation patch that translates menus, with further work being done to translate the story and other game elements, with the thought that localization is quite a ways off and that certain features may end up being censored. Under the lead of SciresM and Cellenseres, the translation project has made incredible progress in other matters, having fully translated the first several chapters of story dialogue.

To apply this patch, tread carefully because the means of applying the patch may cause irreversible damage. Unfortunately, the patch is only available to a Nintendo 3DS that is below or equal to firmware version 9.2. It currently works on any 3DS region but may require the region free patch to operate. The patch comes in two flavors: A ROM patcher and the NTR_CFW method.

For the ROM patcher, please refer to the readme.txt attached to the download. Using the NTR_CFW method follow these instructions:

1. You need a (New) Nintendo 3DS with Firmware 9.2 or lower, otherwise there's no way to execute custom code on your 3DS now,
2. You need to get NTR_CFW + RegionFree-Plugin + LayeredFS-Plugin (1.1 for 3DS, 2.2 for N3DS).
3. Download our Patch and extract the content to the Root of your SD Card.
4. Start NTR_CFW on your 3DS (MSET-Exploit, Spider-Exploit or Cubic Ninja Exploit) or on your N3DS (Cubic Ninja Exploit).
5. Start "Fire Emblem If - Special Edition" (Retail Cartridge or eShop Version, both will work).
6. While the 3DS - Logo screen, the top-screen should blink in green for ~0.5seconds (like in the Video).
7. Your Game is temporary patched! You can play our Translation!

The GBAtemp.net Staff will not take any responsibility for any consoles damaged using this exploit. Please proceed with caution, and best of luck. The two methods of patching are linked below.

ROM Patcher Version
NTR_CFW Patch
Link to ongoing discussion

 

[flame1234]

You have to add in the cost of the Gateway to this $150 figure. Unless I'm somehow mistaken- can you leave your Gateway at home and still use the patched game?

So no requesting zero-day translations. But translating them yourself, or posting a link to another site with one is OK?

 

[Xenon Hacks]

You have to add in the cost of the Gateway to this $150 figure. Unless I'm somehow mistaken- can you leave your Gateway at home and still use the patched game?

So no requesting zero-day translations. But translating them yourself, or posting a link to another site with one is OK?

Gateway is irelavant now since rxTools does the same thing and more for free.

 

[SciresM]

What is the format of the released files?
.lz is the format used by the game, or it's a patch format? (like xdelta/ips/ppf?)

I don't want to be the party breaker here, but sharing extracted or edited game files is still illegal (or else we would just edit any ROM to make them legal).
if they are all patches to patch the file content, then it's fine. if they are final files to replace/swap to the extracted ROM, it's not very clean...

Neo XY (https://gbatemp.net/threads/pokemon-neo-x-neo-y.388272/) uses an identical distribution format...and has been up on this site for two months with no commentary.

I'd also point out that what you're saying makes no sense -- "You cannot share raw extracted files, because that's illegal", "You cannot share edited files, because that's illegal", "Feel free to share something that transforms encrypted raw content into encrypted edited content, because even though both input and output are illegal and the patch HAS to contain illegal data about the illegal input to work that way, it's legal."

I don't believe Nintendo has copyrighted the MESS_ARCHIVE file format, nor have they copyrighted LZ compression, so I see no problem with sharing completely re-built, compressed MESS_ARCHIVES containing English translations of their raw extracted equivalents.

 

[Cyan]

encrypted ROM patches are not legal either if they contains more data than your own work.

I don't know if the "file format" is copyrighted (probably not), but the data inside is.
if the file contains only your work then it's fine.

 

[SciresM]

encrypted ROM patches are not legal either if they contains more data than your own work.

I don't know if the "file format" is copyrighted (probably not), but the data inside is.
if the file contains only your work then it's fine.

All the translation files have been re-built to contain only strings we've translated...so, yeah, should be fine. (Code to re-build them from .txt files is here: http://pastebin.com/hxaCRHcs)

 

[Cyan]

all is fine then.
sorry for being the "bad guy"
I had to verify

 

[bradzx]

I hope this won't be next like they did to Final Fantasy 0-Type in PSP for English patch.

 

[pdensco]

so its not releasing on usa or eur?

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is that the reason they are creating a eng patch?

 

[endoverend]

woops

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so its not releasing on usa or eur?

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is that the reason they are creating a eng patch?

THe game is releasing in English, but not till late next year. Also there are inevitably censorship issues with the official translation.

 

[potato3334]

Hi, I'm one of the translators on the team for this project, and I just wanted to say that at the pace we're going, I am pretty confident we will be done with the story well before release date.

 

[Nobunaga]

Hi, I'm one of the translators on the team for this project, and I just wanted to say that at the pace we're going, I am pretty confident we will be done with the story well before release date.

Any ETA on 0-6 chapter patch release?

Also Thanks for your hard work!

 

[JazzCat.CL]

I think i'm going to play this version instead of the "legit" transtated one. I fear about censorship and stuff. Nice work!!!

 

[Prior22]

Who is most people? Where do you take your stats from?

Think of how many quality Japanese games there are which will never be seen in North America. I absolutely believe the majority of gamers would prefer a Japanese exclusive game receive the translation, rather than a game which in due time will come stateside.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Think of how many quality Japanese games there are which will never be seen in North America. I absolutely believe the majority of gamers would prefer a Japanese exclusive game receive the translation, rather than a game which in due time will come stateside.

But there is a problem with your statement, the majority of gamers don't translate shit.
People that actually fan translate are the ones that are entitled to decide what they want to do, and they translate whatever they feel like.
They don't work for anybody but themselves, so why would the majority of gamers decide what they translate?

 

[RedDragonEmperor]

Think of how many quality Japanese games there are which will never be seen in North America. I absolutely believe the majority of gamers would prefer a Japanese exclusive game receive the translation, rather than a game which in due time will come stateside.

Bottom line is this is what the team chose to translate and its quite unfair to ask more of them.
I for one support this translation because who knows how nintendo will screw up the game with censorship because of the game's content.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Is there a full list of whats actually been translated anywhere?

 

[TripleSMoon]

Most people don't care about this stuff. You are literally translating a game just to play is a few months faster. That's wasting time and effort on a redundant Project.

People who don't care about 3DS hacks in general is "most people," and yet here we are. I think it stands to reason that the same people who care about modding their 3DS to run unofficial patches, etc, would be pretty likely to care about something like this. I'm sure the the fan translation team is aware it's a niche project, but there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[SciresM]

Think of how many quality Japanese games there are which will never be seen in North America. I absolutely believe the majority of gamers would prefer a Japanese exclusive game receive the translation, rather than a game which in due time will come stateside.

Here's the thing: Regardless of whether it would be "better" if a quality Japanese game that's not going to be localized got translated instead of FE...the people translating are all FE fans, and are doing this because they like FE, not because they're interested in translating a quality Japanese game that's not going to be localized.

Popularity matters -- it's not like we sat down and went "What game should we translate?", we're just fans of Fire Emblem. The interest just isn't there for other games, unfortunately.

 

[Deleted User]

If it was done so fast, it cant be that good. Probably google translate quality. Also the fact that FE fans cant wait a couple of months for a translation of much higher quality is absolutley hilarious, how spoiled.

 

[SciresM]

If it was done so fast, it cant be that good. Probably google translate quality. Also the fact that FE fans cant wait a couple of months for a translation of much higher quality is absolutley hilarious, how spoiled.

None of it has been machine-translated...there are 21 of us working on it, though.