I’m glad you like it. 🙂

Thanks to morintari’s great 3D artwork, the book looks far more presentable than what it would have been if I had been responsible for all of the artwork. If I had done it all alone, then all of the images in the book would simply be colored-in screenshots of the game being played on an emulator, which about sums up the extent of my artistic abilities.

thunderstruck wrote:

HorvatM wrote:
Nice. But I already knew how to do that. 🙂

🙂 I guessed so. I reused the tool I’ve written for SpaceSquash to replace the BGMap. Some more tweaks and I might release it (even though no one will ever use it).

I just tried it out on a Virtual Boy. The new title screen looks very nice! Nice job.

thunderstruck wrote:
Here is the final version including a translated control screen. Tell me if something is broken, I didn’t test allot.

I just got done play-testing the whole game, and everything looks great! The only opponents that ever mentioned their own names were Paozo and Lyone, and since their names did not get altered/shortened, no inconsistencies arose from the new, shortened names in relation to the old translations.

Thus, I would say that your ROM in post #48 of this thread is the one to use for the cart release in the future.

Thanks for helping to finish translation-patching the game, thunderstruck!

I’ve erased my previous message here as I have now resolved some technical difficulties. I’ll test the whole game out this afternoon and reveal the results.

thunderstruck wrote:

Honestly I would prefer max. 5 letter names…

Well, if 5-letter names must be used, then go with these:

ETABE
PAOZO
RABIX
BYRDU
SNAKU
BATTO
MONKI
LYONE

One letter cutting into the picture should probably look okay for all of them, so any names that are 6 or less characters should still be fine. I’m worried about how bad it will look for the character names that are 7 or more characters. Would you be able to show screenshots for what it looks like for BURDLEE and KOMOREE? As for Monki-DK, I think the “DK” is pretty silly sounding anyway, so lets just shorten his name to “MONKI.” Here is the new modified list of translations.

ピートロン = PEATRON
メタBE = METABE
パオZO = PAOZO
ラビーX = RABBIX
バドLEE = BURDLEE
スネィQ = SNAY-Q
コモREE = KOMOREE
モンキDK = MONKI
ライオーN = LYONE

thunderstruck wrote:

Hacking around in the ROMS is more fun then expected and after all of that work that went into doing the translation it would be a shame to not patch the whole ROM.

I looked into how the game handles the character names this evening. Somehow I didn’t run into the problems Greg had so far. I guess I’m using a different approach. I figured out how the game handles the names and where they are stored in the ROM. I can change the names using the characters that are loaded to the memory. Meaning I can change what is written there, but only to other Japanese characters. There are some Latin letters (B D E K L N O Q R X Z) but I will need more to write the correct names there.

The solution to this is simple. I will have to copy some new letters to the memory. Well, but not this evening.

Excellent! Sounds like you will have it all figured out soon, then.

I think many people will agree that of the 8 Japan-only games, Space Squash is by far the best and, therefore, deserved a North American/English release the most. It will be great to see that dream realized at last!

jasonbar wrote:

I’ve ordered the Faceball packaging from Uncle Tusk & want to get the Faceball cart. I understand that a limited run has been made & has all been spoken for.

You will likely have to send PVB User: UncleTusker (http://www.planetvb.com/modules/usercenter/index.php?section=profile&uid=2945) a PM about this.

The intention that bigmak announced here:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=24554#forumpost24554

was that about 25 complete-in-box copies of Faceball VB will be made available for sale at uncletusk.com in the near future. This still has not happened yet. What was supposed to have happened is that only people who received the free carts from donating would order the box, instruction booklet, and hint book to go along with their cart if they so desired. If somebody did not get a free cart and wanted one, then he or she was supposed to wait until the 25 complete-in-box copies were made available for sale at uncletusk.com and then order the whole package at that time. Thus, I would recommend sending PVB User: UncleTusker a PM, informing him that you already bought the extras and asking him if you can simply purchase one of the 25 carts when they are made available in the near future, since you didn’t realize that they could all be purchased at one time soon.

thunderstruck wrote:

Well, just tell me if you want the svg files then. If done everything with inkscape, so stuff is easy to change. For my version of the manual I’ve redrawn the IPS adjustment image and the controller overview image. So you want get a better quality if you clean up a scan.

What I was thinking could be done is that once I’ve figured out how the modified and shortened manual should look, I could send you a pdf file of the new manual that shows how all of the new and condensed text as well as screenshots are to be laid out on each page, but my more simple-looking file won’t contain any of the backgrounds or special images that you’ve already made for the manual, and then you could use that as the basis to modify the existing manual that you still have saved accordingly. I would also send you each of the individual screenshots as their own separate files, which are to be used as replacements for the old scanned screenshots (unless you want to replace them yourself by playing through the game and capturing screens similar to the ones that appear in the current instruction booklet). This way, you should simply have to reduce the total number of pages of the current manual (I think I’ll try to shrink it down to about 20), for the most part modify the current text that is already there, and replace the current screenshots with the new ones, while the rest of the manual should remain largely the same. Does that sound like too much trouble? I’m guessing that I won’t begin work on this for a few more weeks, though.

thunderstruck wrote:

I just checked and I still have the vector graphics of the translated Space Squash manual. So if there are some typos or stuff I can provide you guys with an improved version.

I think a lot of rework on the first manual is going to have to occur. Uncle Tusk said that the less pages for a manual, the better, and right now, the original manual has a lot of pages, and the information on them can be condensed into far fewer pages, so I will probably try to do that. Plus, the current translation is a very literal translation of the Japanese text, which doesn’t read very smoothly to an English-speaker, admittedly. Thus, I was going to try to reword it to make it more presentable and similar to the official English VB instruction booklets. Not only that, but Emulator screenshots should be made to replace the poor quality scans of the in-game screenshots on the original instruction booklet pages, so I was also planning to make those.

Possible good deal on Mansion of Insmouse and Teleroboxer:

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h177261194

Yeah… I did have plans to make translations for Virtual Fishing, but I keep finding Virtual Boy-related reasons to put it off. To be honest, Virtual Fishing interests me the least of all of the Japan-only games. Right now, I’m continuing to help out the Uncle Tusk team with the planned future releases. I’m currently working on the inner pages for the English instruction booklet for SD Gundam Dimension War, which will be included with the cart and box that will be released in the near future. This might take me a few more weeks to complete. Then, I think I’ll be the one making the inner pages for the Faceball: Remastered Instruction Booklet since I made the inner pages for Faceball VB. That might not take me too long since I can use the Faceball VB pages as a starting point. Then, my help might be needed for instruction booklets for Space Squash and Blox 2 and who knows what else… not too sure about those, though. In addition, I want to make a new Mansion of Insmouse game using HorvatM’s new InsmEdit 1.2. By the time all of that is done, there might be new Virtual Boy stuff with which I can occupy myself, which could push translating Virtual Fishing even further back on my list of things to do. Thus, if you are motivated to translate Virtual Fishing and get that cleared off my list of things to do, I am all for that, especially if you can also make a translation patch for the game itself! That will save me from having to bug my brother about making one for me again. 🙂

Anyway… here are the scans.

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Wyndcrosser wrote:
Can you only modify your posts for like the firs couple of hours or something?

I can’t go back and fix the first to posts, but I could late last night.

You can only modify a post you make for 30 minutes after you post it.

In case it may be helpful to you, I thought I would let you know that a lot of the information in the Japanese instruction booklets appearing on the first several pages is almost exactly the same across all of them. Thus, it may save you some time to look at the translations I made for the other 7 Japan-only games. To find them, simply go to Games>Released Games>, click on one of the Japan-only games, then click on the “Manuals” tab and then click on the “Translation” link under the instruction booklet image on the left. This will take you to my translation thread for that particular game, which contains all of the Japanese text of the instruction booklet in digital format as well as my translations for such.

Wyndcrosser wrote:

Bottom-left
Still working

The bottom left of the front of the instruction booklet reads:

取扱説明書
INSTRUCTION BOOKLET

Your work on this translation is greatly appreciated.

So, nobody has given you high quality scans of the instruction booklet yet? I can make them tonight and post them on this thread, if you think you will still need them.

Cosmoliner wrote:
Wow…the same game but a lot more money 😯

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NES-Nintendo-Stadium-Events-CIB-Complete-in-Box-NORTH-AMERICAN-NTSC-VERSION-/111038409786?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item19da67ac3a

Yeah, this game is definitely the Holy Grail of all commercially released video games across all systems ever made. I’ve read that there are only about a dozen complete-in-box copies of NTSC Stadium Events confirmed to be still in existence, and a sealed copy of NTSC Stadium Events sold on Ebay 3 years ago for $41,300.00, but Wikipedia states that the winning bidder never paid.

It appears that the above seller is hoping to break the record selling price with a copy that is not even sealed. Perhaps he would be willing to accept any offer over $40,000.00.

bigmak wrote:

When you say that the English version for Space Squash is not fully translated yet, does this mean that a programmer is already lined up to finish up the controls screen and the character names on the versus screens?

I know you and your brother got a bit stuck with finishing the translation of space squash (the data was saved in a different way). I was hoping a programmer might take a look at it..but I haven’t had anyone in particular lined up. Did you want to give it another shot ? anyone else want to work on it ?

The last time I talked with my brother about it, he informed me that he was completely stumped on both the controls screen and the character names on the versus screens. I wouldn’t count on him being able to figure out how to hack them and modify them accordingly. He explained to me in detail the problems that would have to be overcome, but I don’t think I would be able to relay them correctly, so I won’t even make an attempt to do so.

John E Bravo wrote:
I’m watching it to see how high it goes. It looks real to me too Ben, I think your right. Of course people online are complaining its fake, they wish it was them owning it. It looks very aged to me, of course I could be wrong but looks legit!

Well, I received clarification from people at NintendoAge, and their information does make the auction seem very fishy. Check out the latest info on the “The Official Stadium Events Auction/Sale/Discussion Thread.”

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1101&catid=3&threadid=48839

Apparently, the photo in the auction is indeed a photo of a genuine CIB NTSC Stadium Events, but the photo does not belong to the person who is running the auction. The person who is running the auction Photoshopped out the original information on the sticky note that appears on the cart in the photo and Photoshopped in his own information on the sticky note.

Now, if he truly has the CIB Stadium Events in his possession, why would he alter an old photo that does not belong to him and present it as the only photo for the auction? Why not take all-new pictures of it? Thus, it seems that he is intending to send the winning bidder an item that does not appear in the photo or else send no item at all and try to run away with the money by some means.

[Benjamin Stevens]

How often does this happen?:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Family-Fun-Fitness-Stadium-Events-NES-1987-NTSC-RARE-/251279678582

Do any of you NES collectors want to make a guess as to what this auction will end at?

I’m going to guess $22,500.00.

*EDIT:

Hmmm… people on NintendoAge seem to think that it is a phony copy. I guess if that is true and found out by many people, then it won’t sell for much at all. It is certainly a convincing auction to me.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 1 month ago by Benjamin Stevens.

It is so great to hear that the ability to edit monsters has been added! As I mentioned before, I hoped to create an all-new game once the ability to edit the starting positions of the monsters had been added. I still plan to do this, but I will likely have to wait until I’m done helping the Uncle Tusk team with all of the instruction booklets and what not for the planned near-future releases.

thunderstruck wrote:

I might do a booklet for Fishbone. I have some cool ideas. I also started on an updated Boxart.

Sounds good. If anything changes and someone is needed to make an instruction booklet for Fishbone, I would be willing to do it, but I would much rather it be made by one of the game-makers. Thus, I won’t do any work on an instruction booklet for Fishbone unless I am called upon.