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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Hey guys, I'm suspending work on this translation to focus on work and all that good life stuff! I've had a lot of fun working on it and learnt a lot of great new skills. I've also learned that I enjoy romhacking and programming infinitely more than I do translating Japanese to English. If any...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Update! I'm done with hacking for now. Everything works, no crashes, no weirdness whatsoever! I've also translated lots of image files: The sound test page Media gallery pages (all 5 of them) Endings list page Minigames page (both of them) Minigame thumbnails (all 16 of them) Minigame tutorial...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    I've definitely noticed some stuff in the game's subroutines that makes absolutely no sense (redundant instructions etc.), so I definitely can believe this. A decompilation would be tight. I'm definitely making the game slightly slower in some areas with how many extra cycles my VWF routine...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Making huge strides. My to-do list for hacking is empty for the time being! Smashing out some pixel art translations. Stoked with how they've come out.
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    GBA Translation Need help in translating Megaman Zero GBA.

    Do you have programming experience? If not, getting text in and out of the game will almost certainly require it. I can't speak for general tools such as Cartographer/Atlas, but it would be wishful thinking to assume they would get the job done without a hitch. Luckily, since you have text...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Update: I had a catastrophic drive failure on BOTH SSDs at the same time and had to reinstall windows and everything! Luckily, I had a backup of the project from ~3 weeks ago. I've been playing catch up, but I'm just about back to where I was when I made my last post. Always back up your...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Huge progress this week on more menus! I even managed to figure out how to allow the game to accept save games that are tampered with! I just had to edit the instruction that checked the checksum so that it was always accepted even if the checksum was different. This means I can now edit saves...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    I know it's been a month, but I'm back! And I haven't been translating, since I've been in a coding sorta mood. In the last month I've: 1. discovered a lot of bugs 2. fixed a lot of bugs 3. found (most) menu text 4. translated (most) menu text 5. discovered more bugs. the vwf hack has just...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    I have been fighting through what I can only describe as ASM hell the past couple of weeks. Turns out the rewind feature was NOT fine after my vwf hack. This was due to the fact that the way the game stores and retrieves text lines for the rewind feature is HEAVILY tied to the assumption that...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    My VWF hack is causing issues with a number of interactions, and so I'm taking the time to fix all of them, for example: 1. rewind feature no longer displays text 2. file select screen is a jumbled mess 3. notebook screen is a jumbled mess 4. red text is tied to individual tiles (via palette...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Thanks mate! Fortunately I've already sorted out my workflow for reinsertion, so grabbing text from google sheets, putting it into the rom and updating every pointer at once is as simple as 1 click. The only thing is the sheer quantity of text. But hey, I've done ~3000 lines in a day before, so...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Great news! I've completed my first VWF hack and it's working flawlessly. 423 lines of assembly! Was a hell of a brain workout and I'm glad it's done. Here's an example of it in action! Pay attention to the 'i' and 'l' characters. They suffer a lot from the fixed width text routine that...
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Taking a few days to learn THUMB ASM and put together a VWF (variable width font) hack. It's gonna look beautiful!
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    Hacking ROM Hack GBA Translation Zero One SP English Patch Project (on indefinite hiatus)

    Hi everyone, I'm back with another translation project. Apparently the letter 'Z' is too alluring for me because I'm translating Zero One SP for the Gameboy Advance this time around. Those of you who know of this game probably know it from Bowl Of Lentils' YouTube video covering the game...
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    ROM Hack GCN Translation Zoids VS III Translation Project (OUT NOW)

    Up to 78% complete now. 1674536013 Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that my English translation for Zoids VS III is out and you can download it right now! It's been a busy start to the year but I'm proud of myself for going from nothing to a fully playable translation in just a few weeks all...
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