Lupin III - Hunt for the Legendary Treasure! (SNES)

I've known about this game since 2003 or 2004 or so, and it still hasn't been translated! So, sometimes if you wanna get something done, you gotta do it yourself, right? (I'd tried it back then, too, but it was too difficult at the time. Now I'm a better hacker and we have better tools. Also, back then my Japanese skills couldn't even qualify for Japanese 101; now I'm experienced enough to handle most of it myself.)

Sample screens:


(EDIT: I can now get two more chars per line than before, so "surprise" no longer needs to be hyphenated, but I'm too lazy to update the screenshot.)

I expect it to take a couple weeks before I'm done. Maybe sooner, but I'll say a couple of weeks to be safe. Most of what's left on the hacking side is mildly annoying stuff like the title logo and the options screen -- nothing too severe, it just takes time to work with.

Sweet, looking forward to this.

Who doesn't love Lupin? Stellar work so far 

Hah. This has been on my super ultra secret to-do list for years. Glad to see it finally getting some love.

Yay!

I can remember trying this while still in Japanese. Was still pretty fun.

Arggh! I may end up having to take a little detour to write an assembler, because WLA is terrible, terrible, terrible, and xkas doesn't seem to fit my style of doing things...

I don't know, maybe I'll write the assembler afterwards so it doesn't impede progress on Lupin, but you try doing anything with macros in WLA and everything just goes to hell...

The hack and translation are halfway done, BTW.

Have you tried this: http://www.romhacking.net/utils/269/

and xkas doesn't seem to fit my style of doing things...

yes.

What kind of ASM hacks are you doing? Seeing stuff like this makes me really happy.

The main thing I'm doing that requires heavy hacking (as opposed to just inserting graphics and changing addresses accordingly) is translating the typewriter sequence in the opening, where it writes out the episode title.

I've already coded it as a separate demo; I'm just trying to put it into the actual game now. I am very happy with how it looks, and it looks much better than it did in the Japanese version.

I signed up for an account, just so I can say, thank you!

I've been wanting to play this game for years in English. I'm glad somebody is finally translating it.

Thanks, and I look forward to your great work.

Is this still going on? I've checked daily in hopes of an update. I hope it's not dead.

It's not dead, just in stasis or something.

The whole mess with the assembler has kinda sapped my motivation. Staying with WLA is impossible -- it's too much of a crappy bug heap. So my only two options (that I know of) are to switch to xkas, which I don't really want to do, and write my own assembler, which is the thing I'm dragging my feet on getting around to doing.

I'll get it, it just might take a while...

Take your time. The lack of updates just had me worried. But, then again I'm an impatient person.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I shall wait patiently, even if it kills me.