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Fresh off of releasing his NBA Jam TE - Double Z Mod romhack of an SNES classic basketball / beat-em-up extravaganza, eskayelle has released his Hacking NBA Jam TE: A Beginner’s Guide document.

An aggregation of everything eskayelle researched and learned while modding the game, the document purports to provide guidance on everything from modding court and uniform colors, to injecting PAR codes into players, to modding stats and graphics, and more!

While eskayelle’s goal is to generate interest in NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, and more hacks of it, he admits to two alterior motives:

• The hope that hackers may find the document useful enough that they consider annual roster updates to the game.
• The hope that experienced hackers may find the document interesting enough that they may want to pitch in with some guidance on sound hacking.

For those of you interested in digging into some fun, smash-mouth, 2-on-2 basketball, please pick up a copy of a document (and perhaps the Double Z Mod patch) today!

Rejoice once more! News has come from Nightcrawler’s Translation Corporation! The Song of the Angel English translation has been released! This is a milestone in the fan translation community as it is the first introduction of the Tenshi No Uta series to English audiences. Fans of Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean will be happy to know the game shares many of the same developers known as the ‘Wolf Team’, as well as sharing the main musical composer too! As a result, Song of the Angel is a very charming game with a great soundtrack. The atmosphere will certainly feel familiar.

Nightcrawler made every effort to ensure the hacking work is amongst the best seen on the SNES platform. Nearly everything was expanded and proportional font deployed throughout all dialog and menus. The result ensures the dialog was uncompromised, and menus are up to standards set on future generation consoles. As an added bonus, a number of original game bugs were fixed too! Liana of Metal Max Returns fame did the translation work. So, you can expect to experience a well written translation to convey the aforementioned charm of the original game.

For those not familiar with the game, Song of the Angel is a love story at its core. It blends together a tale of love, angels, demons, and even Satan himself! Gameplay is typical 1994 RPG fare with the addition of a Parley negotiation system. You’ll meet a wide cast of characters including old friends, new friends, a tyrannical count, a soothsayer, and more. You will walk, teleport, sail, and fly by the time your adventure concludes.

Some further details are available in the readme file for those of you interested in more about the project and game. For the rest of you in a hurry to get things done, go start playing!

• Nightcrawler’s Translation Corporation
• Song of the Angel Project Page
• Gallery of Images on TransCorp
• Song of the Angel Readme

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Addendum

• FF:CRASH (Final Fantasy)(NES)

Complete

• Castlevania III: Curse of the Moon Hack ROM (Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse)(NES)
• Monty Mole Island 2 - Redrawn Island (Super Mario World)(SNES)
• NCAA Football 2019 (Tecmo Super Bowl)(NES)

Improvement

• Super Mario World: Bowsette Edition. (Super Mario World)(SNES)
• EarthBound Zero Tweaks (Mother)(NES)
• Uniracers Uncensored (Uniracers)(SNES)
• Bowsette (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
• FFL2 Text Update (with Saga 2 Title Screen Hack) (Final Fantasy Legend II)(GB)
• Punch Out Lag Fix (Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!)(NES)
• Streets of Rage 2: Battletoas & Double Dragon (Streets of Rage 2)(GEN)
• Pac-Bomber (Bomberman)(NES)
• Phantasy Star Generation: 4 - A Relocalization (Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium)(GEN)

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The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):

Chinese

• Super Mario World (Fully Playable)(SNES)

English

• Chaos World (Addendum)(NES)

Indonesian

• Super Mario Bros. (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Final Fantasy III (Fully Playable)(SNES)
• Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse (Fully Playable)(NES)

Portuguese

• Battleship (Fully Playable)(NES)
• The Legendary Axe (Fully Playable)(TG16)

Spanish

• Batman: Return of the Joker (Fully Playable)(GB)
• Batman: Return of The Joker (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Yo! Noid (Fully Playable)(NES)
• The Pirates of Dark Water (Fully Playable)(GEN)
• The Pirates of Dark Water (Fully Playable)(SNES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From the Sewers (Fully Playable)(GB)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (Fully Playable)(GB)
• Wonder Boy (Fully Playable)(SG1K)
• Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (Fully Playable)(SNES)
• The Battle of Olympus (Fully Playable)(NES)

Nearly 25 years ago, Donkey Kong Country was released to the world, and it quickly won over gamers with its pre-rendered CGI graphics, became one of the best-selling Super NES games of all time, and spawned numerous sequels. And while its graphics might not have the wow factor they had in 1994, Donkey Kong Country’s gameplay holds up to this day.

While Donkey Kong Country is known for being difficult, many people have mastered it. Are you one of them? Donkey Kong Country - Expert Edition will put your platforming skills to the test. It removes the DK Barrels (which give you your characters back if you lose them) and Star Barrels (which act as checkpoints), so you can only take two hits in each stage before losing a life and being forced to start over from the beginning.

Additionally, all the Warp Barrels have been removed. If you think you’re just going to skip over Mine Cart Carnage, Stop & Go Station, or any other stage in the game, think again.

Since the NES EarthBound Zero prototype was leaked two decades ago, many gamers have been frustrated by the game’s tedious pacing. EarthBound Zero (known as Mother in Japan), the famed prequel to EarthBound for the Super NES, is an old school RPG known for it’s high random encounter rate and for requiring large amounts of grinding to level up and purchase equipment, which has discouraged many potential fans from completing the game.

This problem was fixed in the fan translation of the GBA version of Mother, which added an item called the “Easy Ring.” Now, you can enjoy the benefits of the Easy Ring while playing the original NES version of EarthBound Zero. Q’s Gameplay Balance hack—which is included in his EarthBound Zero Tweaks collection—quadruples earned experience, doubles earned money, and significantly reduces random encounter rates, just like the Easy Ring mod.

If you enjoyed EarthBound for the SNES and Mother 3 for the GBA but could never get into the first game, then apply this patch, and give it another chance.

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Assembly Tools

• cmpdism (Multiple)

Compression / Decompression

• Zlib archiver (Multiple)

Data Extraction / Insertion

• Quake 3 Revolution Tools (PS2)

Debuggers / Special Emulators

• meisei (MSX)

Game Specific

• Final Fantasy IX translation tools (PSX)
• Dandy Map Editor (FDS)
• Inindo_edit (SNES)

Graphics Editors

• SMB Graphics Workshop (NES)

Miscellaneous

• NESExplorer (NES)

ROM / ISO Identification

• Valkyrie Profile ISO Fix (PSX)

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The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):

Chinese

• Valkyrie Profile (Fully Playable)(PSX)
• Silent Bomber (Fully Playable)(PSX)
• Xenogears (Fully Playable)(PSX)
• Grandia (Fully Playable)(PSX)
• Sangokushi Koumeiden (Fully Playable)(PSX)

English

• Gigantic Gear (Unfinished)(PC)
• Outlanders (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Armed Dragon Fantasy Villgust (Fully Playable)(NES)

German

• Super Mario Bros. (Fully Playable)(NES)

Indonesian

• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Fully Playable)(NDS)
• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Fully Playable)(NDS)
• Balloon Fight (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Ice Climber (Fully Playable)(NES)

Portuguese

• Gulkave (Fully Playable)(SG1K)
• Tennis (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Driver: You are the Wheelman (Fully Playable)(GB)

Russian

• Dudes with Attitude (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Bird Week (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Star Soldier (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Karateka (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Gyromite (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Bible Buffet (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Spelunker (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Shooting Range (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Star Luster (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Super Mario Bros. (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Mickey Mouscapade (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Onyanko Town (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Castle of Deceit (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Dragon Buster II: Yami no Fuuin (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Hana no Star Kaidou (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Bubble Bath Babes (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Field Combat (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Exerion (Fully Playable)(NES)
• The Karate Kid (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Destination Earthstar (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Mini Putt (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Challenger (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Hon Shougi: Naitou 9 Dan Shougi Hiden (Fully Playable)(NES)
• Kid Kool and the Quest for the 7 Wonder Herbs (Fully Playable)(NES)

Spanish

• The King of Fighters ‘95 GB (Fully Playable)(GB)
• Ecco the Dolphin (Fully Playable)(GG)
• Ecco the Dolphin (Fully Playable)(GEN)
• Ecco the Dolphin (Fully Playable)(SMS)
• Psycho Fox (Fully Playable)(SMS)
• Quest for the Shaven Yak starring Ren & Stimpy (Fully Playable)(GG)
• Quest for the Shaven Yak starring Ren & Stimpy (Fully Playable)(SMS)
• Skyblazer (Fully Playable)(SNES)
• Two Crude Dudes (Fully Playable)(GEN)
• The King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood (Fully Playable)(GBA)

Turkish

• Astyanax (Fully Playable)(NES)

After some work, the retranslation of Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden was finally completed. This franchise is based on an old toy line used to play a tabletop RPG. It spawned an OVA, two games and some other types of media. It was decided that this game would be a good candidate for a retranslation (there are a couple more games like that from the early period of romhacking). It’s a pretty simple action RPG, and hopefully the potential players will enjoy the efforts to give it some more polish.

Also, additionally, congrats to Pluvius/Eien Ni Hen/Filler on completing the patch for Outlanders, yet another franchise that got its own anime adaption!

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• NBA Jam TE / NBA Jam 2k17 Bug Fixes (NBA Jam: Tournament Edition)(SNES)

Complete

• Rockman 2: Advanced (Mega Man 2)(NES)

Improvement

• SMB1 Green Springboard (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
• Pac-Man GB - Redux (Pac-Man)(GB)
• Castlevania 2: Improved Controls (Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest)(NES)
• Blades of Steel Goon mod (Blades of Steel)(NES)
• Donkey Kong Country - Expert Edition (Donkey Kong Country)(SNES)
• Klax E1M1: At Doom’s Gate (Klax)(NES)
• Mortal Kombat 3: Redux (Mortal Kombat 3)(SNES)
• Arkanoid II Password (Arkanoid II)(NES)
• Castlevania Chronicles Arrange Mode Knockback Restoration (Castlevania Chronicles)(PSX)