I've never posted here before, but you can find the ancient and pretty much worthless patch in the translations section of the site. I've come back to it, and started working on it again, from scratch.

I've taken some japanese classes since I last worked on it, but certain things are still proving to be above my knowledge. The entire game in in kana so there are no kanji to know the exact specific meaning immediately. Some of it may be unique, made up terms. Like the spells/skills are called りりょく (riryoku. ryoku means strength or power, but what does that leave for the ri put in front? There are like, 5 different kanji for ri, and some of those even have multiple meanings!

Some sort of power called がっせいパワー (Gassei Power). I know so far this cannot be used until you have both A) a 2nd part member and B) have learned at least one. But I have never seen the word Gassei before, and throwing that into a japanese<->english dictionary returns no results.

The same thing goes for some of the item/monster names, though the monster YamaOrochi was instantly recognized as Yamata no Orochi, a mythical 8-headed snake--NOT a hydra--known as just Orochi to english speakers.

the menus and windows also need some assembly work to expand them, but it's not entirely necessary. If I end up having to truncate and reword stuff to make it all fit into the rom itself, bigger windows are going to be a moot point. I'm currently working on translating the small stuff (menus, items, monsters), and I'll worry about finding any extra space in the rom if and when I need it.

hrm. Thanks! That confirms that my translation of りりょく as just 'power' or 'powers' is as accurate as it's going to really get, especially with the space provided! (the base menu has a limit of 4 characters per menu item, so I could only fit Pwrs)

and those kanji for がっせい work well, as it fits the reasoning behind not being able to use them when you have no party members. and Holy/Saint certainly fits the two party members I've played through far enough to get. Saint Pheonix and Jyoujika Angel.

How to fit a somewhat descriptive word in place of it though. Team is too close to Party, which is already on the menu...Combine or Merge would work. Merge would be the least of an eyesore on the menu as Merg.

Edit: bingo! 4 letters and meaning is pretty similar! Link!

Dude, thank you. That's PERFECT o.o;"";

Feitan's contacted me over MSN and helped me quite a bit with this. It appears there is NO EMPTY SPACE in the rom. Which means I'm quite screwed. o.O

I'm gonna have to find ways to say things in as few letters as possible >.<

Huh. Now that I think about it, even DTE would help. Especially with the menus, where DTE would be the easiest to implement. (the menus use a similar method for dakuten/handakuten, dialogue just places the byte value for either of those two specific tiles before the affected kana.) Unfortunately, assembly is way beyond my ken, and where my previous foray into hacking this SOB 3 years ago caused me to give up.

Thanks for the offer. I'll keep that in mind. And you pretty much don't need to worry. Bikkuriman is copyright Hudson Soft, not Bandai.

I'll work with what I can at the moment, though at this point it's going to turn out rather similar to my attempt at this game 3 years ago. (But with a nicer font.)

This is the PC Engine version? Why not just expand the rom? Remove any copier header and add an additional 128k to the rom.

Yeah, the NES version. sorry, Why I didn't point that out in my first post I don't know. the PC Engine version's already been done.

This game is a completely different style, too.

Anyways, throughout my work on this, I sometimes want to praise the programmers, while at other times SHOOT them for their use of any and all free space in the entire rom. In the file menu, they had New Journey and Continue Journey as three strings. One string contained 'Journey' while the other two contained New/Continue respectively grouped with a 1 byte pointer to the string containing 'Journey'. That's a smart space saving move. But then....WHY in the name of everything good and holy did I just have to replace 15-20 'hai iie' lines that were COMPLETELY IDENTICAL with 'Yes No'?! 

I just might take all the pointers to those and point them all the the same 'Yes No' line just to see what happens. But not right now though, I gotta head off to work.

If I change all those pointers and they still work, then all that space it'll free up will make me gidd--awwwww CRAP. They aren't seperate strings, they're attached to the same string as the question that is answered...

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*blink* Somehow, I saw that harry foot avatar and the name didn't register until just now. Yo!

Yeah, you had Bikkuriman World listed on this page full of untranslated RPGs that you thought deserved one. At one point the page still existed, but it was no longer linked to from your main page. As I lost the link, I don't know if it still exists. XP

And for your information, no. It doesn't use the FFTA font. Bikkuriman's font isn't even a VWF >.<