Author Topic: vivify93's Projects (Read 5292 times)

FlamePurge · « **on:** December 31, 2021, 06:05:30 am »

Discussion for my various console and handheld game modding projects. View the full list.

1. For projects that have their own threads, please continue to discuss and report there. (You can also PM me about projects with or without dedicated threads.) I won't be upset or anything if something with a dedicated thread is brought up here, but I would prefer to keep conversations about them centralized in one place.
2. I will never announce a project on RHDN before its release. I like to work without expectations or pressure.
3. I do not take requests or suggestions for new games to work on.
4. Feel free to propose ideas for supported projects, but bear in mind that my skills are limited and I'm less suggestible than I used to be.
5. Adding to that, please remember that I'm largely the details guy, localizer, and tester. I can't translate and my ASM skills are nonexistent.

Completed Projects with Support:

Completed Projects without Support:

Discontinued Projects:

Breath of Fire: Soldier Name Reverter (Obsoleted by vivify93's Breath of Fire: War of the Goddess)
Breath of Fire Text Cleanup (Obsoleted by vivify93's Breath of Fire: War of the Goddess)
Phantasy Star: Brunette Alis (Obsoleted by SMS Power!'s translation)
Final Fantasy Proper-caser (I don't play this version)
Final Fantasy Adventure: Adventures of Mana Title Screen (I don't play this game)
Final Fantasy Legend: Makai Toushi SaGa Proper-caser (I no longer play SaGa)
Final Fantasy Legend II: SaGa 2 Text Cleanup (I no longer play SaGa)
Phantasy Star III Battle Music Hack (No desire to work on this further)
Phantasy Star III Text Cleanup (Obsoleted by R. Capowski, Peaches, and lory1990's translation)
Sailor Moon: Another Story - Enemy Name Fixer (Obsoleted by mteam and vivify93's translation)
Secret of Mana Proper-caser (Obsoleted by Secret of Mana Remastered, as well as Queue's Secret of Mana, Turbo)
Tales of Eternia Original Opening (I no longer play Tales series)

MD_Prometh · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2021, 08:24:30 pm »

Is it possible to port the Breath of Fire text cleanup to the SNES version?

Looking forward to seeing what future projects you'll be working on either way

FlamePurge · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2022, 01:21:55 am »

I've thought about it. I'd probably only do it if someone made a patch for Cancel Button dashing, like BoFII Retranslated has. I know there are some patches for VWF in BoFI as well as a script expansion xkas hack by Gemini. It's totally feasible.

Really, what I'd like to do, or at least see happen, is BoFI Retranslated but nobody with the know-how has the interest.

lexluthermiester · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2022, 12:49:50 am »

I think the reason no one has any interest in retranslating BOF1 is because the original translation was very good and reasonably accurate. Couple that with the fact that BOF1 wasn't as popular as many other RPG's of the time and there we go.

FlamePurge · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2022, 08:29:15 am »

Apparently, it actually cut out wide swaths of dialogue to make everything fit. But yeah, the latter makes sense. I'm just surprised there are zero Japanese-speaking BoF fans who haven't ever even made a text-based translation. IDK.

Noside · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2022, 02:38:14 pm »

Aww man, I was going to suggest a game nobody has ever translated.

FlamePurge · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2022, 05:07:38 pm »

Not like I'd be able to do it anyway. I don't know Japanese, lol.

darthvaderx · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2022, 10:08:39 pm »

By the way about Phantasy Star II, would you ever think about offering an alternative font like Mad-Dentist did in your hack?

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6272/

FlamePurge · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2022, 05:55:47 am »

That's not a bad idea. I'm not sure when I'd get to it, but I'm sure I could do something. I've been meaning to make some tweaks to the original font if nothing else, but I could probably plop in the PSIV menu font.

I was worried for a while that I'd have to port over PSII Improvement to Lory's latest disassembly, but I might be able to find a workaround and not need to do that... yet.

lan-vuhoang · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2022, 02:11:25 am »

You could add "Secret of Mana: Relocalized" (http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4324/) into your "Obsoleted by" list for Secret of Mana Proper-caser.

FlamePurge · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2022, 03:26:52 am »

thank you lan. secret of mana relocalized is included in turbo, last i recall.

lexluthermiester · « **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2022, 01:35:09 pm »

Quote from: vivify93 on January 12, 2022, 03:26:52 am

thank you lan. secret of mana relocalized is included in turbo, last i recall.

This is correct. All those features were carried over to SOM Turbo.

lan-vuhoang · « **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2022, 07:50:10 pm »

Quote from: vivify93 on January 12, 2022, 03:26:52 am

thank you lan. secret of mana relocalized is included in turbo, last i recall.

But I want to play the game normally, without that Turbo stuff.

the_grobe · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2022, 08:05:14 pm »

this guy has got to be trolling you.

FlamePurge · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2022, 09:35:16 pm »

Quote from: lan-vuhoang on January 12, 2022, 07:50:10 pm

But I want to play the game normally, without that Turbo stuff.

then do so?

here's secret of mana relocalized https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4324/

here's rhdn's online patcher https://www.romhacking.net/patch/

go find a secret of mana rom yourself

apply the patch to the rom and talk to timbo about it b/c secret of mana relocalized isn't my mod. bye-bye

ainge · « **Reply #15 on:** January 14, 2022, 11:32:04 am »

Quote from: vivify93 on January 01, 2022, 01:21:55 am

I've thought about it. I'd probably only do it if someone made a patch for Cancel Button dashing, like BoFII Retranslated has. I know there are some patches for VWF in BoFI as well as a script expansion xkas hack by Gemini. It's totally feasible.

Really, what I'd like to do, or at least see happen, is BoFI Retranslated but nobody with the know-how has the interest.

Hi. I totally support cleaning up the text for SNES Breath of Fire. Like you, I'd only really want it if it also included a dash feature. I was able to find this thread that may help with that: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=29005.0
I have zero knowledge of rom hacking but would love to see this happen one day! Thank you for your awesome hacks over the years!

FlamePurge · « **Reply #16 on:** January 14, 2022, 11:26:48 pm »

Hi ainge. Thanks so much, but we tried it and it doesn't work. I have it on good authority that something may be in the works for BoFI SNES, but the group working on it aren't ready to talk about it yet.

lan-vuhoang · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2022, 09:19:00 pm »

So, since posting about "Phantasy Star: Classic-style Names" in the general PS hack thread is apperantly an off-topic post, Iam just going to bump this in the general thread instead:

In PSI, "First Food" is a mistranslation. It was supposed to be "Fast Food". See this for info on common translation problems, like the Vovel-R problem that leads to it being mistranslated: https://legendsoflocalization.com/the-problem-with-l-r-and-other-letters-in-japanese-translation/

FlamePurge · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2022, 01:47:54 am »

They were originally pharmacies in the Japanese version. In fact, they are pharmacies in SMS Power!'s official fan translation. There was no reference or mention of First Food or any other restaurant in the Japanese version. They were pharmacies. "First Food" was an invention of the localization team.

lan-vuhoang · « **Reply #19 on:** February 19, 2022, 09:19:21 am »

Quote from: MD_Prometh on December 31, 2021, 08:24:30 pm

Is it possible to port the Breath of Fire text cleanup to the SNES version?

Looking forward to seeing what future projects you'll be working on either way

Your wish has been granted: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6611/
Also, why is BOF Text Cleanup discontinued already, when its replacement is for a different version? I am sure that there are people who want a BOF1 GBA improvement hack, but don't want to rely on a discontinued hack, or want some of the changes in the SNES patch, like swapping Shin and Debo, the new script, or uncensored Karn, without downloading a SNES ROM or buying a SNES cartridge and a SNES dumper.