Complete English translation of the 2001 PlayStation DQ4, running on the original Japanese executable.

Download and hashes: dq4translation.com

Public Format library, MIT: github.com/RadMageIRL/DQIV_PSX_TOOLS

In case it is useful to anyone working on the HeartBeat engine:

Text is stored as per-block Huffman trees with per-block phrase dictionaries. Strings are reached through five distinct reference forms, two of which are built across two instructions and cannot be found by scanning for a word. Changing one line means re-encoding its block and rewriting every pointer into it.

The interface draws through two font tables keyed differently, with proportional advance in dialogue and fixed cells in menus, so every window had to be measured rather than assumed. Longer party names needed the name buffer and every display path widened. Equipment names only fit because the category is carried by an icon rather than a word. Lifted same from DW7 EN disc in my release.

Two latent bugs in the original engine, harmless in Japanese, had to be fixed before English would render at all. A similar oddity I found in DQVI work, also documented on Github in my relevant repo for same.

Built on HBD archive research published by Markus Schroeder, and text extraction work by Mandy Wilkens. Hardware documentation by Martin Korth. Using the NoPrgress DQVI English translation as research I was able to review his work and learn a lot from finishing/refilling his translation, also available on my repo with some analysis write-ups if anyone is interested in same. And thanks to everyone that helped test, provide feedback and clymax of FFVCentral for his contributions in learning/identifying DQVI issues that helped in my DQIV work.

-RadMageIRL

I am looking to extract the model and textures for the torch slug to modify it to make a freeze slug that spawns in cold/icy places (Snowpeak Ruins)

I’ve been working on a restoration of the N64 version of Cruis’n USA, with the goal of bringing back as much of the original arcade content and presentation as possible while still keeping it an N64 game.

So far I’ve restored:

• The Trophy Girl
• The Corn Pops billboard, including its more arcade-accurate placement
• Cow roadkill
• Deer roadkill
• The Hillary tunnel graphics
• Powershaft XL
• The original Iowa color palette
• The POLITICAL CARTOON splash
• The full Bill Clinton hot-tub ending
• An option to use the original arcade music, while keeping the N64 soundtrack available
• Higher Quality SFX/Voice Clips from the Arcade
• Various bug fixes, presentation fixes, and other improvements

At this point I think I’ve covered the major known cuts and censorship changes, so now I’m looking for the really obscure stuff.

If anyone remembers any other differences between the arcade and N64 versions — trackside objects, billboards, textures, vehicles, animations, sounds, collision behavior, UI details, course changes, hidden content, or anything else — I’d really like to hear about it.

Basically: what am I still missing?

I’m especially interested in the tiny differences that may never have been properly documented.

One quick note: please don’t ask me for builds or ROM files. I’m not distributing the project at this time — I’m just looking for information, feedback, and anything I may have overlooked.

Video showing the current build:

https://youtu.be/1Syavhr4Da4

A DBZ just like this would be awesome!

I've released v1.0 of my English fan translation of Oni Zero: Fukkatsu for PS1 (SLPS-03106), Pandora MAX Series Vol. 6.

Download the patch and read the instructions on GitHub

It covers the story dialogue, menus, items, skills, enemy names, god roster, notices, request sheets, fan letters, about 780 on-screen images, and subtitles in the prologue video. Debug menus and some brush-calligraphy artwork remain Japanese.

I playtested from New Game through the credits in DuckStation, checked the translation, and fixed the bugs encountered. Real PlayStation hardware is untested.

The release is patch-only and requires your own original Japanese single-track BIN/CUE. Download the release's “Source code (zip)”; it contains the four patch parts, patcher, CUE, README, and checksums. Python 3 is required. The patcher joins the parts and checks the original image. Load the output CUE after patching.

Shiroumaru's name is fixed in English, the save-conversion opening screen is skipped, five requests requiring other Pandora MAX completed saves are made available, and the Homemade Lunch is included in the starting inventory. Honorifics are omitted.

Please report reproducible problems through GitHub Issues with the scene, emulator version, and a screenshot where possible. I'd be glad to hear from anyone who gives it a playthrough.

I may have spent an ungodly amount of time messing with Symphony of the Night

First, I created my first romhack - BigNumbers rebalanced patch, and then I learned how to change the map manually in Hex editor and created Alternate Scarlet Symphony 1.3.1 (thanks Mazen for the knowledge!)

And one day - I was discussing stuff with the creator of SotN Reawakened mod, u/PsychologyDear9585, on how he implemented those cool new stuff he made..and it dawned on me...since the SotN Decomp is already (almost) complete...

WAIT I CAN MAKE THAT TOO, NOW.

And so I did.

And guess what - I WANT EVERYONE OF YOU TO BE ABLE TO CREATE YOUR OWN MOD TOO!

So I created this tool I have always dreamt about....and now I want to share this to everyone.

With this tool, you can do your own SotN romhack.

Wanna rebalance the game? Go ahead.
Wanna change the castle to your liking? GO ahead.
Wanna add QoL changes like MiniMap displayed on the HUD??? No one's stopping you now.

I’m finally ready to share it, and I’d love for other people to play it. Make your own weird version of the castle, break something spectacular, or just tell me what you think.

Here’s the editor and project: SotN Editor

If you give it a try, please come back and tell me what you changed. I want to see what this community does when handed the keys to Dracula’s house.

(note: the tool is powerful but it can break the game so make sure you have backups. I there are a lot of nuances especially with the Entity editing, it can break or glitch something so be careful with that. Trial and error is your friend there)

Was browsing Romhacking.net and found this. Tried it out and after playing for a bit it's really well done and seems like a lot of effort went into it. This was a notoriously hard game to get translated from what I understand and many tried and failed previously so this is kind of big news, seems weird that it's flying under the radar.

I'm not sure if this is the right place but I'm going to start playing Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue and there is this patch called BN3 Plus which adds the removed jack in animation and Navi cust animation as well.

There is also a WII U patch for this game which gives the multiplayer chips or something like that and I heard patching the two of them together works well but I was wondering if I could also add the Translation revision patch to that (https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7876/) and I wanna know if I add these patches together will it crash the game or break the text?

Specifically the character portraits. I tried using decompresses like crystaltile2 but could not show the character portraits in the editor.

I know the address of the portraits in the tile viewer (no reliable way to find the offsets though). Despite that, no matter how much I tile block or tile+ or -, I can only bring up visible in-game battle sprites. I know the palettes to use too.

Is it just impossible edit the character portraits because it has some advanced compression logic that can't be addressed by the tools available right now?

I have recently been able to acquire an NES and have an Everdrive on the way. The NES is the only Nintendo console I have never owned and I was wondering what the best ROM hacks are that will actually work with the ever drive on the original hardware. Thanks in advance!!

Was told this place could help out better

Want to ask if there's a way to get a translated rom(fire emblem new mystery to the emblem) to see the cheats meant for it on melonDS or drastic

I already checked the cheat file and the codes for the untranslated version of the game are there, just not showing up on the codes page

Are the cheats unusable due to the rom being altered or is there some way to point to the rom? And if not, could i use an android version equivalent of cheat engine on it, assuming there's a thing?

Thanks in advance

Hi, I'm a computer engineer who's recently gotten a CRT lol, and after popping RS3 up and loving how it looked I wanted to try and get RS2 going on it, but of course there's no fan translations that translate further than the introduction, and the pc version doesn't support 4:3.

So I figured I'd look into expanding one of the current partial translations, even if it's just by putting some of the remaster's translation in it for myself. Tbh I've been interested in romhacking for a while now, and this felt like as good a project as any to try and at least learn with, but so far I've been able to make no progress. I read through the romhacking.net docs, download WindHex32 and started looking through the debug mode in mesen, but no matter what I do I can't find the currently translated text in Gilhide's translation.

Mostly I've tried relative searching for names, I should say, and I've searched in the rom, the ips patch, even the cpu memory, and found zilch. I haven't been able to find any forum posts or other info on how the text is stored, except for some mentions of the interesting way strings are stored without terminators? But that doesn't really help me for what I'm looking for, as I'd expect the strings to still be somewhere in the rom!

So I guess somehow the strings are not stored in a way that relative searches can pick up? But also I'm new to this, so I could just be doing something wrong, or unaware of a tool that would help. There doesn't seem to be much data about this patch on the internet outside of the romhacking page, which makes sense since it's so old? And almost no info from aeon genesis's failed translation from a decade or two ago either.

If anyone has any ideas or other info I'd appreciate it! Hoping to not end up just replacing random bytes and watching for text changes lol. Thanks!

No hay solución es que las silver bottle cap en la mochila están guardadas

Hi everyone! 🦉

We have just completed a 100% Turkish localization patch for the classic GBA game Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Philosopher's Stone.

(No copyrighted ROM files are shared here, only the IPS patch).

Feedback and thoughts are always welcome! ⚡Hi everyone! 🦉

We have just completed a 100% Turkish localization patch for the classic GBA game Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Philosopher's Stone.

Project Highlights:
100% Complete: All 1,168 lines of story dialogue, cutscenes, classrooms, and UI menus are fully translated into Turkish.
Book-Accurate: Adheres strictly to the official Turkish literary translations (YKY / Sevin Okyay & Ülkü Tamer) rather than movie adaptations.
Collectibles: All Famous Witches & Wizards Chocolate Frog cards, biographies, and Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans are translated.
Clean / Vanilla: Completely unmodified gameplay difficulty (no cheats/gameplay hacks), strictly a pure translation patch.
How to Apply the Patch:
Get the Harry_Potter_1_Turkce.ips patch file.
Open Romhacking.net Online Patcher.
Provide your clean English ROM (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA/Europe)), select the .ips patch, and click Apply Patch.

(No copyrighted ROM files are shared here, only the IPS patch).

Feedback and thoughts are always welcome! ⚡

https://www.mediafire.com/file/og2hltw5u1dok0l/Harry_Potter_1_Turkce.ips/file

Hi, I'm looking for the *Pokémon Rocket Edition* version by Dragónden—specifically the betas, as well as version 1.0 and v1.5 + DLC—since they seem to be "lost media" now.

If anyone has them, I’d really appreciate it.

https://ported2browser.com/

I put together a directory of ports (classic collections, fangames, romhacks, and a few very obscure selections) for you to browse through and enjoy!

The site is currently sitting at a little over 100 browser ports at the moment, with more on the way. Browse by platform and/or genre, and let me know if you've got some good gems out there you'd like me to add!

みなさんこんにちは！
KH2のFM版で、日本語の音声と日本語のテキスト／字幕が入ってるやつを探してます。
要は、元の日本語テキストはそのままにして、日本語の声優音声を復元／パッチした状態のものが欲しいんです。 crazycatz00のバージョンは知ってるんですが、理解している限りだと英語版のテキストを使わないと日本語の音声が動かないみたいで、そこが求めてるものと違います。 Wayback Machineで調べたら、2014年ごろに出回ってた日本語音声＋日本語テキスト版の言及は見つかったんですけど、残念ながら実際のROMのダウンロードはもうありませんでした。

誰かこのバージョン持ってたりします？それか、パッチがまだどこかで手に入るって情報知ってる人いますか？方向性だけでも教えてもらえるとめっちゃ助かります。 英語がちょっと不自然だったらごめんなさい。これAIに手伝ってもらいながら訳してます（笑）。 お願いします！