Romance of Forgotten Kingdom (DOS) Translation

Not a progress update this time (although there has been some progress), but I've got an interview with the director of this game, and we also talk a bit about Romance of Forgotten Kingdom:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/specials/interview-mirinae.htm

With help from Tauwasser, I was able to convert the ending credits now:



The script is now fully translated and "only" needs reinserting the final third. This is the most annoying task in the whole process, but I should be able to upload a patch before the end of June.

Nice work!

Wow, this game looks pretty cool and I've never heard of it. I wonder how complicated it is to do DOS hacking. I know nothing about it.

I wonder how complicated it is to do DOS hacking. I know nothing about it.

It really depends on the game. This one made some things comparatively easy, as it had an English font already built in, and the Korean text was fairly accessibly stored in an old standard format.

Graphics hacking has been the hardest part, the tile viewers used for ROM hacks of console games are mostly useless here. I had to write two converters for graphics myself, and there are still a few things I have no hope finding without assembler hacking, which I'm incapable of. These two bits will most likely remain untranslated in the release:

   
Left: "Miss" notification above the character in white; Right: Analyze spell enemy status information

After the translation has been sitting on my hard disc in an almost-done state for nearly half a year, I finally found the time to put it all together. It's currently waiting to get approved for the database, in the meantime you can get more info here:

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/11/romance-of-forgotten-kingdom-english.html


EDIT: The entry is up:

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1660/#translation

Is there a chance to get a news post on the front page for this? AFAIK this is the first ever fully playable fan translated Korean RPG.

Just click "Submit News" on the left sidebar and write your own front page news story.

Is there a chance to get a news post on the front page for this? AFAIK this is the first ever fully playable fan translated Korean RPG.

News articles are user created. Feel free.
http://www.romhacking.net/submitnews/

OK, I submitted an entry, thanks.