Over the years I have worked with several individuals who had the same desire as myself; of seeing various games we had liked translated into English.  After many laughs, successes, disapointments, tantrums, sulks, etc we finally had our desires fulfilled! :) What follows is a list of translations which I have contributed to (mainly tool writing, recoding aspects of the game code and script editing), and links to their respective Homepages. My thanks to those who let me work with them, and knowing it was all about fun and respect for others.

Front Mission | Romancing Sa.Ga 1 | Alcahest | Papuwa

Front Mission

Overview:

Released in Japan in 1995; this game had excellent sound and graphics, along with a powerful storyline. A tale of betrayal, loss and deception; of a band of mercenaries' need to survive in an unwanted war in their land, and their eventual fight to free it.

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Notes:

This was my first translation project I was involved with!  It involved the translators working through a 365KB EUC-JIS script dump of the game, and three people working through that translated script making it 'flow' in line with the story's characters and story line.  Their was a large amount of ASM reworking (8KByte of ASM code, if I remember); notably the addition of a 'Variable Width Font', 'Dynamic Font Wrapping' and support for Japanese SaveRAM names. Insertion was achieved through custom forms which ended up being the format on all other translations I worked with.  Altogether, a great experience, and a nice bunch of people to work with (plus the fans of FM were so supportive to us! ^^ ).

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