Detective Conan vs Kindaichi Translation (NDS) Disable the Select Button?

Apart that the last post was on june, so i doubt he is still working on this but did you carefully read his last post??
You don't need a patched version of the game to help him.

The fact that he created an account just to ask for the patch along with the surplus in innocent/happy smilies is leading me to think that he's just asking so he can get the partial translation.

That aside, while the project hasn't been updated in threads since June, the DCTP thread has been posted in to notify that the project was still active as late as last month.

Hasn't posted much here, but translation has actually been going well. Translated over halfway through the game if you go by episode count.

I have decided to fake the handwriting recognition. It actually works pretty well in game.
Anyway, the translators were asking if it was possible to disable the Select button, because they don't want to translate the "story progression scripts" that periodically get updated as you progress in the game.
After you finish an episode, only one version of the complete story is displayed. Hopefully I can figure out something to solve this.

Also, have to find out where this graphic is:
1) L:全体 in bottom left of this picture:

There are 2 places where to look:
or they are in another bank in the same file as the button
or the button is graphics and the text is real text.
if you have any font that look like the text in those buttons, then it's probably that is the second of the above.
If not the first :p

Well, I have completely replaced all Japanese text, so they are not text.

Anyway, the translators were asking if it was possible to disable the Select button, because they don't want to translate the "story progression scripts" that periodically get updated as you progress in the game.

http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm#gbakeypadinput
The game will read that register periodically, and then most likely save it in memory to later check if any input happened. You will have to figure out where it does that, and then just look for the bit mask used for the select button.

Also, have to find out where this graphic is:
1) L:全体 in bottom left of this picture:

Try replacing the graphic files with zero bytes to identify which file that button is located. I'd guess it's in some of the 'flow' graphics, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, you can make some zero bytes files and replace the suspicious graphic files with these zero bytes. Ex. You can try to replace 10 files at a time with zero bytes then test the game. If you can still see the button, then that means the button is not located in those 10 files. Then you try some other files until the button doesn't show up or show up as some messy graphic. Then narrow down the files until you find out which file the button is located.

If the button is not in any of the files, it could be in arm9.bin. (I can't recall if this game has overlay files or not, but I think it's less likely to store a button graphic in overlay.)