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Sweet, finally.

>It seems the guy who translated is a bit butt hurt saying that he got a lot of harassment and hate speech from the community

It was just one guy? I thought this translation was in the works for years, I would have assumed more than one person would take a crack at it

>>15634610

>I thought this translation was in the works for years

It was finished a long time ago. The guy just refused to release it until people stopped saying mean things about him on the internet.

awsome

so you can just use an snes emulator to play this? i got one but i need a rom for IF

>It seems the guy who translated is a bit butt hurt saying that he got a lot of harassment and hate speech from the community

What? Why?

>>15634630

It's up on the vola, you just need to patch it

>>15634625

I guess now that it's out, everyone can bully him as much as they want. Bad call

>>15634625

>The guy just refused to release it until people stopped saying mean things about him on the internet

Sauce?

>>15634610

People typically don't pick up projects someone else is working on. This gives whatever faggot who picked it up first carte blanche to act like a perpetual victim and keep pushing it back for more attention, forever. I'm shocked it actually came out, maybe the false flag mail bombings spooped him.

>>15634634

You better bully him with compliments. "Good job, BAKA!!"

>>15634632

The guy is a known asshole. He claims random games and sits on them for years without update, throwing fits if anyone else tries to hack them.

>>15634647

Your translations still sucks.

>>15634605

I think one of the big point of contentions is that the translation is from a script of the PlayStation version. And he's cut and pasted it into the Super Nintendo version. So it's not probably going to be completely accurate for that reason. It would be interested in if the translator put up any notes for this.

From what I've heard about him he's a notorious Lefty that has an almost lethal case of Trump derangement syndrome.

>With Majin Tensei 2 being mostly done elsewhere, don´t expect any further Megami Tensei work out of AGTP. No updated patch for SMT1, no back-porting of if…´s work into SMT2, no Majin Tensei 1. I´m done. To those who were looking forward to the aforementioned, I truly apologize. Maybe focus on cleaning up your community.

Thank buttery fuck, at least he's out of the way and maybe the other megaten games can be picked up by other groups. Hopefully the guys that are translating Majin Tensei II are working on MaT 1.

But hey, at least this whining bitch released a translation before the Private Imagine team finished theirs. It would have been very embarrasing if they finished before he finished/released If.

>>15634634

Its up on the what now?

Does anyone have it working yet? Maybe LunarIPS just fucked up but my patched rom crashes after the Atlus splash. I checked the original Japanese rom and it works fine, there's no problem with the file.

I really wanted someone else to come in and snipe this translation. Oh well.

>>15634668

Nah fuck Majin Tensei, it needs a hack of a different kind before a translation. It's not even related to the actually good sequel so it can stay a curiosity.

Thanks God this faggot will leave the community, the last thing I was waiting from that massive cunt is to fish his translation of Romancing Saga 2 but then Square-Enix released a proper release for mobiles. Not the best experience compared to the original but at least I got to play the game.

>>15634695

you need to remove the header. check the read me. it says to use this to remove the header http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/608/

>>15634704

Oh whoops, thank you

>>15634665

So is there any reason to play this instead of the PS version?

>>15634702

Was the first one that bad? What do you think needs fixing?

>>15634703

I saw that release, but I haven't played it yet. It makes me curious, has anyone tackled Romancing Saga 1 for the SNES? I heard that one is a much different beast from is remake.

>>15634605

harassment and hate speech are buzzwords

joyous day, we finally have access to Persona 0

>>15634716

Compatibility stuff maybe? Like, you could get it running on a 3DS for example

>>15634737

It's just a slog to play. Just visible HP bars on the map along with animation skip would go a long way.

>>15634716

Is there a translation of the PSX version?

>>15634855

Yeah, look at OP. He used the PSX script :^)

>>15634605

>>15634610

About time, this guy takes forever I got fed up with him constantly taking on new projects.

>>15634605

Does that mean he "localized" the game with some modern shit or what?

>>15634880

Yeah but when I search for the damn thing every result goes back to Aeon Genesis Super Famicom translation.

>>15634855

>>15634923

For the uninitiated whats the difference? Between Snes and PSX. More Story or obviously better music.

>>15635013

Usually the backgrounds are the improvement and the sound is basically your preference.

>>15634605

> It seems the guy who translated is a bit butt hurt saying that he got a lot of harassment and hate speech from the community

GIDEON ZHI IS NOT THE TRANSLATOR

That faggot has openly admited he knows no japanese.

>>15634896

Yes. Most probably.

>complains about harrassment

Maybe if he didn't take 30 projects as hostages, preventing people who actually have the time and willpower to make a patch for them, was less of a vocal leftiest cunt in twatter, was less pretentious and stopped making 3 paragraph excuses for what can be summarized as 'I had no time/didn't feel like working on it', he'd get less insulted for being a gigantic macro faggot.

>>15635858

looks like the anon was right

I put a pre-patched version of if… up on the vola as well for anyone who's lazy. I think maybe the version of the rom I put up earlier had something wrong with it, it got an ok checksum but the patch just wouldn't work.

>>15635858

Man, what a shame

That's not SMT Imagine.

>>15634605

Been a busy October for English fan-translation releases.

>Song of the Angel (Tenshi no Uta); v1.00.

>.hack//Link; v1.00.

>JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind; v1.00.

>7th Dragon: 2020-II; v0.91.

And now this.

>>15634880

If it's the PS1 script, wouldn't that at least cut down on work needed if someone wanted to "unofficially" port it back to the PS1 version? Or would it have to at least be matched up with the actual lines once more since I I'd assume the calls used in the SFC version differ somewhat? Obviously it would need dubugging and insertion regardless.

>>15635858

I know that usually once a game gets a patch it's considered "demand satiated" but that hasn't stopped the likes of Mystic Ark and Tales of Phantasia PS1 from getting separate patching efforts. Stupid to just cancel shit, especially if it's meant for use with a better version. But beyond that, how can they say the majority is cancelled, while still claiming to work on it? Do they just mean "put on the backburner?"

>>15635214

He's just debugging/insertion/promotion, right? Or does he also do script editing? Actually been curious as to what all he does, and if there's a chance he's vengefully shat shit up.

>Maybe if he didn't take 30 projects as hostages,

Don't forget not even releasing his Magical Drop 2 patch despite being done because it got an English release in some format and thus people should have to pay for it. Also still funny to see him try to make excuses on Star Ocean: Blue Sphere because the baguette translation patch released before the English one.

>>15634665

The readme file has a small translation notes section, but it only mentions two changes to names. Do have to wonder though why, if both versions of a game are available, the earlier one tends to be the first chosen (this isn't the only case of it). Is it just easier to manage SFC insertion than PS1, or is it more that SFC/SNES emulation is more accessible and thus more people get to enjoy the game?

>>15634882

I honestly find myself checking Dynamic-Designs page more often than his for possible new patches, especially after his two plus years of not even a hint of news. They've actually been getting a lot done lately to the point they've been picking up new games to make projects of as things have gotten freed up.

>>15635905

I wanted Black Shadow and Blood Falcon.

>>15636235

>still pretty behind on the translation front

I only want UI translation, I don't care about stories in mmos.

>>15636235

>What is it with modders and fan translators being the biggest pussies around?

Probably a difference between being in the scene out of actual liking for the games at hand as a fan, and being in it for the attention. AG having one of the largest amounts of finished translations under a single name that I've seen, that's reason for attention, and Zhi being the guy that's the "face" of it, of course he's going to have a huge ego. Now, I know that patches, especially for very text heavy games, can take a long time, between translation, editing, trimming (if need be; better to find workaround like variable width fonts), insertion, debugging, etc, but this faggot needs to realize that if he was getting spite, he brought it on himself. Two and a half years of no updates on his site for anything, much less his "priority" projects he left off with, coupled by a policy of instant blocks on twatter for those that wanted to know how or if things were going, anyone would get fucking annoyed and fed up. And that's not getting into the projects he's still had tied up, let alone what he was doing in his spare time instead. I'd wager if he wasn't a "muh feels" cuck before he started on this stuff way back when (I'm not real sure of his history), I'm sure the attention helped contribute to it.

Sure, he and others can claim that they're not doing this as salary work and can take as long as they want as a free service to others, but patience does have a limit when there's no obligation or even desire felt to keep people informed on how things have been going.

>>15634703

I wouldn't be surprised if he's silently dropped it in light of that, but won't confirm or deny since it might add clicks to the site from hopeful SaGa fans.

>>15636956

Is it actually the scene as a whole though? It sounded more like it was just being done working with MegaTen, and going to take another extended period of working on fuck all as "recovery".

>>15636818

Sadly self centered faggots like him think all bad will towards them are just people who are jealous or "hating" on them for no reason.

For everyone not up their own ass its easy to see that blue balling people looking forward to your projects pisses them off and lack of info why makes it worse as people will naturally assume the worst, then on top of that complaining that the people excited are bothering you frequently while you make no effort to explain why its taking its time, its no surprise people are going to angry towards him and are going to """harass""" him.

Didn't he also hold some of his translation hostage while 2016 elections were going on?

>>15636999

Checked. And yeah, actually having something to show for the time that's passed does a lot to remedy things. Before they went full "shut it down, series doesn't need fan-translators anymore", I actually liked how A0t used to do monthly reports on their projects. Or .hack//Translate; regardless of how one feels about Link (from what I've seen anons say, it's an iffy game), the guy behind it kept a progress report on the front page that was updated monthly or so, as well as actual posts reasonably often. It's just the proper way to do things if you wind up building a base of people interested. And as to "harassment", I have to wonder just what he even considers that to be. People making death threats? People just asking for updates he didn't want to type up and thus annoying him? Is asking a reasonable question grounds for "toxicity" or whatever?

>Didn't he also hold some of his translation hostage while 2016 elections were going on?

I don't really know; I do remember that between summer 2015 and spring 2018, he made absolutely no effort to make updates, at least on his site; I could see it meshing with the time frame as a "punishment" of sorts though.

>>15636818

>I'm not real sure of his history

His oldest, and most popularly used translation, Live-A-Live was released about around 01-02. He then updated it again to basically release a new and improved version at the height of his popularity and credibility which is about 07-08. SMT1 was released in full completion '02, SMT2 '04. Pretty much all his best stuff is between the time frame of 01-08.

>>15636956

>>15636972

He stated:

>With Majin Tensei 2 being mostly done elsewhere, don´t expect any further Megami Tensei work out of AGTP. No updated patch for SMT1, no back-porting of if…´s work into SMT2, no Majin Tensei 1. I´m done. To those who were looking forward to the aforementioned, I truly apologize.

So no further MegaTen work

As SMT1's patch has a cleanup patch done by another romhacker and SMT2's has nothing wrong with it that I ever found, that really leaves only Majin Tensei 1 in the wind. Eh

Welp, now he can focus on SRW4/EX and Hero Senki

>>15637458

>he never updated the srw3 patch

"Fuck you!"

also i remember this guy satsu(who did the eternal filena patch) doing a goon lp of if.

>>15637741

in a recent news update (back in June, actually) he said he was monkeying about in EX's font code and would be applying the toolchain to both 3 and 4 with a re-edit of 3's script

As EX would be the focal point on this, give him at least until "year's end" like he said in the post

Reminder that the Devil Summoners translator is sitting on a half complete translation with tools and spends all his day on reddit r/politics instead of releasing the script and letting others do it.

The rom hacking "scene" is a fucking joke.

>>15634646

Pretty much what has happened with Fate/Extra CCC. I don't doubt he sat on it for as long as he could. Maybe someone threatened to start working on it if he didn't put out

Okay so the game has a translation but you are all still bitching and insulting the guy?

>>15636833

>kana

Am I supposed to differentiate categories of moonshit? How am I supposed to delve into stat autism like that?

>>15637880

He only released it to save his own ego cause another group was working on it despite his bitching. Also dose not help that he decided to soapbox about how "toxic" the SMT community was for not putting up with his horseshit. Fucker deserves all the shit he gets.

>>15637806

I am convinced the SJWeeb sitting on it just cause the game is too "problematic" for his tastes He will sit it on it for as long as he can and then after complaining about "harassment" he will give it to another sjweeb who will do jack shit on it for years.

>>15638079

Does the Fate fanbase lack the autism to just take it upon themselves and fan-translate it instead? I know there's a sense of not wanting to waste time when it comes to other people possibly picking a game up, but there comes a point where it becomes fairly clear that either there's a disinterest in a game compared to other projects and/or a desire to just sit on shit out of the assumption that no one else will take it (AG being king of that hill). Beyond that, if that faggot has SJW tendencies, all the more reason someone that isn't should pick it up, since the quality of the final product stands to be questionable.

>>15637880

Because he a) is sitting on twenty-fucking-eight other projects as he's been doing for years now, b) spent two years giving no progress reports about anything and autoblocking anyone that asked on his twatter, and c) is now whining about the fanbase for this game without defining just what the "harassment" was. Had he not done (b) he likely could have avoided (c), as a little information on a reliable schedule does a lot to mollify people. Also hear he spent the better part of said two years just retweeting SJW shit, like that was a better use of his spare time than working on games he'd already announced, but I don't follow social media much myself, so it's not like I've actively followed it.

Seriously, six years from announce to patch release. Probably some people that had been interested that died in that amount of time. And that was a priority project (along with Romancing SaGa 2 and Lagrange Point).

>>15634651

What gives this asshole any leverage? Why would somebody give him the time of day if he's going to act like this?

>>15638127

>What gives this asshole any leverage?

Knowing moon. Actually, not even in his case. More likely that at ninety finished patches and nearly two decades of doing it for free, AG (and thus himself) are amongst some of the bigger names in the scene. I would assume that sniping games from a group like his is a fast way to get blacklisted from being able to get help and/or promotion, since people in the scene know other people in the scene, and unfortunately, there's yet more games he wants his name eventually on the patch for, and thus has put his ass down first on another twenty-eight. I have to wonder if he even has any personal liking for the games his group picks up at this point, or if it's more translators coming to him that are, and are looking for eventual insertion/debugging/promotional skills.

>Why would somebody give him the time of day if he's going to act like this?

Probably a mixture of the fact that games are already "claimed", and that (on the user end) this is a service they (as translators/hackers) don't have to provide. It's rare to see a game get multiple separate patching efforts, whether it's respect for the choice whoever it was made to pick it up in the first place, or not wanting their own plural effort to be wasted on account of the prior team putting out a finished patch first and thus satiating, or at least confusing, demand (I still am not sure of which patch for Mystic Ark is supposed to be better; it has two). There's nothing outright preventing it from happening, but still. And on the user end, when the options are either "deal with it because who knows if anyone else actually will pick it up," "don't play it ever because the patch got cancelled," or the same "go learn moon" that localization companies tell people, a lot are more apt to play the waiting game with the first option, assuming it does come out. But even then there is a limit to patience. And at this point I would assume (or rather hope) SMT fans are not amused with the lack of communication and now being labelled a "harassing" community.

Being able to provide a service that can be denied whenever, as well as control of how an entire language receives and perceives a game, likely gives a sense of power to be exerted. I'm not sure I'd say every group lets it go to their head, but he sure has, as likely have some others.

>>15638122

I think it's less to do with the lack of autism(trust me type moon fags are autistic as fuck) and more that most of the fanbase has yet to get fed up of him like most anons here(me included). There is a script for all the cutscenes for Gilgamesh's route out there and someone on jewtube is editing the script into gameplay footage and plans to be done by the time NA FGO releases the CCC event(if it gets it at all) so not everyone sitting around doing nothing. Only a matter of time till people lose there patience like they did with SMT:if and take things into there own hands.

>>15638246

I can kind of understand it now. That's a shame.

>>15638432

Typemoon fans translate the scenes they want to know about the most and learn how to read and decipher moon runes on their own.

>>15638432

They should. If anything just to drive fuckers like cjiwacuck to suicide.

Fuck sjweeb translators.

>spent an entire half hour pestering the hall monitors before learning that one of the four partners is restricted to new game plus

>>15636054

As an update to this, I figure I should add that apparently a v1.01 for .hack//Link is going to happen soon to polish some things that were missed, so if there's interest from people, maybe hold off until it drops.

>>15637782

I wonder the same thing! I hope someone ports the tl but let's be real nobody will do it, nobody bothered porting SMT1 (iOS) to SMT1 (GBA) which it was based on.

>>15641361

Pick Charlie for the quickest route.

>>15638246

Ridiculous. Crackers have the same thing going on what with doing it for free and they compete with each other to get the cracks out first, they don't piss off from a title because some other group "claims" it.

>>15641787

I could admittedly be wrong as I don't know how much effort actually goes into the process of cracking, but it's probably not the same amount as fan translation. Competition can work out well when there's an expected short turn around for results; if some group gets a game cracked before another, it seems like it should be easy to move onto attempting to crack another game without there being much lost, and if it takes everyone longer, it's more likely that approaching it from different angles is more apt to yield results. Meanwhile with fan translation it can be years, even over a decade in one particular case, of time and effort involved, and when a patch is expected to suffice for serving the entire demand for the game in a given language, other people that might have been interested in translating are more likely to find something else of interest that isn't being worked on to invest their energy into.

>>15642157

Yeah, for Manga scanlations you see a fair amount of sniping and drama regarding who is translating what. But it's vastly easier to do such a thing like that than tackling an entire video game romhack.

Speaking of DDS too, didn't they do Kyuuyaku even with someone else working on it or were they the only ones handling the Megami Tensei games?

>>15641787

The amount of work required doing a full translation patch generally discourages sniping and therefore one of the competitive drives for cracking and other forms of translation. To snipe the competition for a project you'd have to both have a completed script and beat them at every step of implementing the translation in the Rom before they release.

>>15642187

Doing some looking, DDS did work on Kyuuyaku, but is credited as hacker and editor, while the actual translation was by an Iriliane and a Fernando Garcia, the former of which also listed as having done text editing for Super Robot Taisen Alpha Gaiden. DDS released the patch through aerie.wingdreams (KaioShin and Kingcom's site) as a host site, though RHDN also hosts a page and the patch since as well. The release of Kyuuyaku's patch released before the patches for the Famicom originals; Megami Tensei I FC taking until this year to be released (Tom there having been on it, along with Stardust Crusaders and Esperknight), while Megami Tensei II FC is still incomplete (by Dushbadge), though listed as "undropped" (I want to say I recall hearing one of the Famicom efforts was dropped as a result of Kyuuyaku finishing, so maybe it was this one). I don't see any separate efforts listed as incomplete for Kyuuyaku, just a pair of addendums. If DDS wasn't working with those two translators from the start, maybe they decided to team up and thus combined a translation and hacking effort. And the Famicom versions look to have been by entirely different groups

DDS is also listed as having been on hacking for Tom with Last Bible.

Played SMTIV, then Apocalypse, then Raidou 1. Now I'm onto Raidou 2.

Don't play Apocalypse: I waited and waited the whole game for the massacre ending to justify the amount of cringe in the story, but the payoff never came. Let me tell you exactly what Apocalypse is - set this in stone and teach it in school:

APOCALYPSE IS A JOKE MOD FOR SMTIV

Raidou 1 was an entirely different beast. Very classy, until the story explodes in the finale into total anime bullshit. But that's normal for all Atlus games. It is true that the real time gameplay feels limited (you spend half the game oneshotting enemies in melee, then the other half waiting for demons to do the job for you) but be wary of the monkey paw effect, as the sequel undoes those mistakes with a very heavy handed approach that brings as many problems, albeit different ones.

>>15645966

But BSNES doesn't load pdf's.

I just checked byuu's twitter for a dose of degeneracy and it looks like he nuked most of it. He also recently moved to Tokyo to accomplish his lifelong dream of being a sexy catboy ^-^;.

>>15645966

>torrent

>For a game that is 2.4mbs when patched and still readily findable if one knows where to look.

I'm just saying that seems a tad much, but that's just me. It already got a vola upload, though admittedly those are time limited.

>>15641361

sheeit this really is persona 0

>>15637880

>but you are all still bitching and insulting the guy?

Shut the fuck up Ghideon. That you've acted like an ungrateful ass even to those who were courteous to you and just concerned about the status of whatever favorite weeb game they wanted translated is proof that you deserve all the shit you get and then some. You want to claim curious fans were "bullying" you, then fine, I hope people actually bully and "harass" you into a well deserved suicide.

>>15646007

D-E-C-E-N-T-R-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N

Volafile will expire your file in less than a week. Volafile will dox you. Volafile will ban you. Volafile will contraband it.

You are asking to repeat history, every centralization effort. Even for a 2bit file

ALWAYS DECENTRALIZE!!!

>>15646162

doing God's work, anon.

>>15646029

Is he a part of the staff there, or does the owner just like him (given how cliquish hacking and translating can get)? Or are you meaning the average community there in general? I can understand one group providing English options for that many games is a reason to be appreciative, but if it's a cult of personality, that's probably done nothing good for his ego.

>>15646104

Yeah, that's definitely fair, especially with how things have been going of late.

>>15645882

IV was irredeemable shit to begin with. I don't know why you expected 4A to be any better.

>>15646237

I've heard RHDN is close with him given his previous releases from a decade ago. I've heard said ties are why other translators were so fearful of taking on games he already "claimed" to be working on.

>>15646271

AGTP/Ghideon has their name on many classic releases and has been a big name in the community for over a decade now.

Which is what makes it infuriating, because Ghideon isn't stupid, he knows he's taking advantage of his position to manipulate people for his own ego. He doesn't do it for the money, he just wants to feel important, and all this for a guy who doesn't even know japanese!

>>15646029

He is really still mad that someone had the audacity to ask him for pointers on how to fix his shitty patch and translate it to taco language.

>>15646372

>translate it to taco language.

That's completely justifiable to get mad over. Beaners do not deserve nice things.

>>15646372

>>15646395

Source. Has anyone used his libcuck white guilt against him for denying spics to play SMT in taco talk?

>>15646104

2 days, only special VIP rooms have any time limits higher then 2 days now.

It doesn't even matter since it's a SNES rom those are fucking everywhere. The shake down of big emulation sites only really harms roms newer than N64/PS1, seriously nobody cares if a snes rom is uploaded to vola. A quick google then bam SNES rom maybe have to google specifically for no headers. Since this thread is 3 days old an english patched rom is already floating around by now.

>>15646316

His expertise is in hacking NES and SNES ASM code. There are few to none better at it.

But yeah, he does seriously need to chill with the attitude. At the same time, the SMT fan community sending death threats would indeed suck when you're busy trying to make shit available to them.

>>15646372

For fixing it, someone else beat him to the punch:

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2616/

>>15646252

I disagree, IV has flaws and limited production values due to being a portable title: but the kneejerk reaction about DLC is just memekids.

I believe gamers are not dead, but some are still pretty fucking stupid. Isolated communities like this often end with fucked dynamics that push consensus.

>>15646818

IV lacked real dungeons, a defense stat, had smirking, dumbed down fusion, and had a completely retarded plot. Most of the new art was so bad they replaced it or reworked in 4A.

>>15646638

>(((death threats)))

Fuck off Yideon

>>15646818

That you're so full of shit that you pretend that the shit they pull with DLC is acceptable doesn't make you better than anyone. It just means that you have absolutely no standards. If people had the sense to not be idiots like you such practices would never be accepted, but no, you have to gobble that corporate cock.

You're probably going to go >ehehe you said mean things to me that means I'm right, but that's not how it works. When you're an arrogant piece of shit like you, it's the only treatment you deserve.

>>15642338

>(I want to say I recall hearing one of the Famicom efforts was dropped as a result of Kyuuyaku finishing, so maybe it was this one)

That was my recollection as well. It wasn't Kyuuyaku, it was someone working on one of the standalone MT games.

whats a good way to put your stats in this?

>>15646638

>the SMT fan community sending death threats

Didn't fucking happen. But if that's the way you want it, get aids and kys Ghideon.

>>15646818

Modern Atlus games has DLC locked on the disc/cart, yes that includes IV.

>>15636054

> Actually been curious as to what all he does, and if there's a chance he's vengefully shat shit up.

I think he does everything but translation, localization included. I remember someone mentioning he and a translator had differences over this.

I remember clearly he promoted his translation on twitter many years ago. Something about how it was already playable and he'd share it in a PAX convention. I do not remember if he went silent right after that or not but the timing about this other group taking on the project is suspiscious to say the least.

I wonder if it's an ego thing. Like he wants *his* name to be over all the translation patched roms. The way romhacking aerie foiled this by suddenly releasing a KMT full translation patch seems funny this way.

> Is it just easier to manage SFC insertion than PS1, or is it more that SFC/SNES emulation is more accessible and thus more people get to enjoy the game?

Both. Gideon definitely has more experience with snes things so it makes sense he chose that over the PS1 version.

> Stupid to just cancel shit, especially if it's meant for use with a better version

It really depends. If the patch was shit, then yes maybe it needs a better version but people would need to play through the game first to see if it holds. I think it will. It basically seems to use the same codebase as SMT1 and 2 so everything Gideon has learned with those roms, he could apply to this one.

As an aside, there are interesting guides on his site but it's pretty condescending at the same time.

http://archive.is/2UYfU

https://archive.is/gDOFE (The New Romhacker's Bible)

http://archive.is/DIQIx (JUST DO IT, IDIOT! (tm) Translation Document 1 - Basic Graphics and Text Replacement By Gideon Zhi)

http://archive.is/ETZwR (Using Pointers Effectively)

http://archive.is/19gQt (How the NES Stores 16x16 Tiles)

>>15636054

>>15641399

Adding onto these two posts, Phantasy Star IV got a "relocalization" patch. Apparently it fixes translation issues and removes censorship, which is good, but at the same time, the guy that did it is apparently a fan of how Working Designs handled things, which I'm not sure bodes well for overall quality:

>One of the 16-bit era’s hall-of-fame RPGs has received a Phantastic makeover!

>Phantasy Star IV was one of SEGA’s best RPGs, with great story, character interaction, and gameplay, but the English translation was merely adequate. It suffered from awkward, often laughable dialog, as well as many mistranslations that were meant to tie the 2,000-year-long story of the previous three games together.

>Among the goofiest translation choices:

>Misnaming the planet “Palma” to “Parma”, which is a suburb of Cleveland.

>The main character yelling “I’m not going to fight for no mission!” at a pivotal story moment.

>An emotional goodbye between bros punctuated with “You silly!”

>And so on.

>The patch author, Chris Hatala – “GhaleonUnlimited”, was surprised that a Phantasy Star IV hack fixing the series references was never tackled, so he decided to learn what ROM hacking was all about.

>Thanks to the help and support of two other fan-project leaders – vivify93 and lory1990 on RHDN – Chris was able to completely rewrite the script where needed and inject it into the game, along with adding bugfixes, fixing censorship, and allowing for player preference in which script they wanted to play.

>Also, thanks to their help and also great resources online, the original Japanese was used to best match the original creators’ intentions.

>Being a big fan of the breezy dialog and whimsical nature of the Lunars on SEGA CD, Chris aimed to add a naturalness to the dialog, as well as accentuate each character’s personality.

>He also added humor that was appropriate to the established universe and tone of the game, because much of the game’s funnier moments were lost in translation or were simply missed opportunities in the original script.

>Now that English fan translations of the brilliant SEGA AGES remakes of Phantasy Star 1 and 2 have been completed, this project was meant to link both both the classic translations together but also these new exciting developments in the Phantasy Star world.

>At version 1_48, most of the text errors and bugs should be fixed. The author hopes that this relocalization will give 16-bit RPG fans who missed out on PSIV – as well as long-time PS fans – a reason to revisit one of classic gaming’s best RPG story arcs!

Suffice to say I'm more than a bit leery.

>>15656615

Speaking of interesting guides, 46 OkuMen has been putting out a few for things they encountered in the games they'd handled

https://46okumen.com/2018/09/25/text-encoding-in-e-v-o-folkulore-part-1/

https://46okumen.com/2018/10/02/gdt-images-in-e-v-o-folkulore-part-2/

And there's going to be a third focused on Rusty soon

>>15656675

Actually, I guess those are less guides, and more just looking at how problems were gotten around/processed. Still interesting though.

Whatever nip thought it would be a good idea to make players have to grind their way through the sloth dungeon by walking back and forth for fucking hours on end is my personal enemy! I will find out who is responsible for it and I'll fucking kill them! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!

>>15671016

>you have to beat the sloth dungeon by working hard

Your enemy isn't the nip who coded it, you should look in a mirror to see your true enemy.

>>15637793

>The rom hacking "scene" is a fucking joke.

Adjusted for you. if its not a sjw its a furry or a tranny or all 3.

>>15671041

Walking back and forth isn't fucking working hard, you stupid bitch piece of shit! That's bullshit! Bad fucking game design! My enemy is exactly the stupid nip fuck who made this! I will fucking annihilate him! Fuck him.

>>15671221

so in addition to being lazy your wrathful as well

>>15634634

How do you patch it exactly?

>>15673247

you dont. just download a version with the patch already in it

>>15639634

It's scary how many weebs went SJW. I think even the original OP of the nipponese learning thread did.

I beat Raidou 1 and 2 back to back.

>Raidou 1

>iconic and fitting story for the MC

>theme of modernization of japan

>nicely lived and trafficked levels

>unimaginative gameplay that only begins to shine in later parts

>story explodes into japanese nonsense at the end

>Raidou 2

>story unrelated to the roaring 20s setting

>shoehorned or bad taste story elements

>new levels are heavier on fantasy and interesting, but the old ones carried from the first game are empty shells (making it feel more of an expansion, than its own thing)

>gameplay is way more enjoyable and varied than Raidou 1, but it's incredibly easy to get overpowered and oneshot bosses

>story becomes distasteful at 1/3 of the way, then nothing happens for the rest of the game

I start to believe that the japanese know how to start stories, but not how to end them.

>>15673247

If you haven't already figured it out. Get a clean ROM of SMT If…, make sure the file size matches the number listed in the translation patches README. It should have no header if they do.

Then use: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1040/ and it's simple. You just locate the patch file, then the ROM, select your output folder and you have your complete product.

>>15694971

Does it really make a difference when you upload only the patch, instead of the whole patched rom? We're not so bluepilled to believe either would be considered legal.

>>15695067

>Does it really make a difference when you upload only the patch

I couldn't tell you. At this point I just know how to apply my stuff and roll with whatever release I get my hands on first whether it's pre-patched or not.

>>15695292

I would tell you that's really grasping at straws to find something relevant, but you're probably already aware you did something stupid.

>>15634605

I went into his Discord and gave him some honest opinions. I realize that I (and everyone else) have been harassing him for almost a decade, but, like, maybe not have 30 fuckin projects my dude, then you wouldn't have every fandom on the internet with how much they hate you always on their breath

And stop responding to shitposts gideon

>>15698092

>(1)

Hi Gideon, are you over your trump derangement syndrome yet?