Hello skilled hackers! I need a tiny bit of assistance.
Recently I discovered the outstanding Rockman 4 Minus Infinity hack, easily the most impressive NES hack of all time. The least build even adds a language option to convert the entire script to English. Unfortunately, almost every line is broken Engrish. Of course, I realize that the skilled hacker is Japanese and English is very different than Japanese in many ways.
the patch can be found here: (apply to Rockman 4, not Megaman 4)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/910/
If needed, pm me and I'll email you the prepatched 1MB rom.
Although the hack is simply amazing, it is filled with Engrish. In this capacity, I'd like to help.
With only some minor changes, the english could be so much better, and still stay within the character limits.
Although I have no rom hacking skills myself, I'd like to fix the grammar mistakes through visual mockups of every string of English text in the game.
Here's what I've finished thus far. Left is the original Engrish, right are my edits.
The exact wording of the text isn't finalized by any means. Right now, this is all just a proof of concept.
If there are any skilled rom hackers reading this, it would GREATLY help if someone could take a look at the newest version of the hack in a disassembler or such and could produce for me some sort of image file to tell me exactly what English characters the game can produce.
Is it as limited as the Megaman 2 font? This is Megaman 2's font:
Or is it expanded like the Rockman/Mega Man 9 and 10 font?
Mega Man 9 font:
If it's as limited as the Rockman 2 font, could anyone possibly add in additional characters? If just the lowercase a-z letters were added, it would add greatly. Typing all in caps, even in an 8-bit game, feels like everyone's always shouting. I guess that works for the time period, but I think it would be better overall if I could add lower case characters.
Thanks!
Recently I discovered the outstanding Rockman 4 Minus Infinity hack, easily the most impressive NES hack of all time. The least build even adds a language option to convert the entire script to English. Unfortunately, almost every line is broken Engrish. Of course, I realize that the skilled hacker is Japanese and English is very different than Japanese in many ways.
the patch can be found here: (apply to Rockman 4, not Megaman 4)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/910/
If needed, pm me and I'll email you the prepatched 1MB rom.
Although the hack is simply amazing, it is filled with Engrish. In this capacity, I'd like to help.
With only some minor changes, the english could be so much better, and still stay within the character limits.
Although I have no rom hacking skills myself, I'd like to fix the grammar mistakes through visual mockups of every string of English text in the game.
Here's what I've finished thus far. Left is the original Engrish, right are my edits.
The exact wording of the text isn't finalized by any means. Right now, this is all just a proof of concept.
If there are any skilled rom hackers reading this, it would GREATLY help if someone could take a look at the newest version of the hack in a disassembler or such and could produce for me some sort of image file to tell me exactly what English characters the game can produce.
Is it as limited as the Megaman 2 font? This is Megaman 2's font:
Or is it expanded like the Rockman/Mega Man 9 and 10 font?
Mega Man 9 font:
If it's as limited as the Rockman 2 font, could anyone possibly add in additional characters? If just the lowercase a-z letters were added, it would add greatly. Typing all in caps, even in an 8-bit game, feels like everyone's always shouting. I guess that works for the time period, but I think it would be better overall if I could add lower case characters.
Thanks!