First of all, WindHex blows the doors off of Thingy and Hex Workshop. Get that and start using it instead.

Now, I've never heard of the game you're trying to translate before, but if it's in Japanese and you're trying to translate it into English, then you're starting way, way too early. Every romhacker with even a modicum of interest in translation will need to learn a bit of Japanese themselves, even if they intend to hand over the actual translation duties to a full-on translator. Trust me on this one. You should at least learn to read the hiragana and katakana, plus some of the basic details of grammar and sentence structure.

If you're translating from Japanese, naturally you'll need to figure out a Japanese table for the game. This can be either very easy or very hard. If you've found the game's Japanese font, you can try using its pattern to Relative Search strings in the game ROM. Pick a word preferably three or so characters in length, where all the characters used are close together in the font. Make sure it doesn't use dakuten unless characters with dakuten themselves exist in the font. You can use the regular English alphabet to search out Japanese strings: for example, if the word you're looking for is あおい, and the font is in the fairly standard あいうえおかきくけこさしすせそ format, here's what you do.

あ (a)=A
い (i)=B
う (u)=C
え (e)=D
お (o)=E

So you would relative search the sequence AEB if you were looking for that string.

Actually, the options say "Open", "Pennant", "Edit" and "All Pro". Though I'm not much of a baseball expert, so you name 'em whatever's appropriate. >_>

To "translate" the little kanji icons for the stats, you can just open the game up in a graphics editor like Tile Molestor, find the icons and replace 'em wholesale with the corresponding letters.

The one problem I will point out is that simply changing the kanji to initials may potentially make the screen completely impenetrable. Even Yu-Gi-Oh! games typically replace the "kou(gekiryoku)" and "shu(biryoku)" kanji with appropriate little sword and shield icons. You might want to figure out a way to convey the information in a similarly iconic fashion, like maybe a little bat icon for the batting hand or a baseball diamond for position. Are the icons for "Average" and "Home Run" part of the original? They might also be a guideline to follow (though you might want to tweak the "v" in "Av"""; it looks dangerously like "Au").

(On a side note, why would you use "S" to denote "both hands"/"ambidextrous"?)

Open would be the Japanese baseball term for an exhibition game, Penant are rewarded to teams who finish a season with the most wins, and Edit and All Pro would both work for me.

So I should use Tile Editor to change the kanji icons.  Would that work to replace the words on the menus as well?

Actually the tilemap is not interleaved, it just contains more than just the tile indices.

Each entry is 2 bytes:

I see this project went nowhere

I was going to post about this, there are 3 additional games in this series that have also not been translated.

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban
Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 2
Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban  3

Can anyone tell me what "Jitsumeiban" means? They seem to have 2 series of Ultra Baseball, the first (released in the US) is called "Choujin - Ultra Baseball" what are the main differences in these series? They both have super power ultra baseball. -> I am asking this mainly for the Wiki Page (I added the lesser known Jitsumeiban games).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Brain#Games_not_part_of_a_series_or_family

I am also new to ROM hacking, I did some some reading and playing w/ various hex editors etc. though these games don't have a lot of text (like RPGs) I am starting to doubt they will ever get translated (seems like everyone translates the same games, how many trans do we have of FF4 J now??).

This looks to be over my head, more of a request (prob in the wrong forum) but these were unique and fun games esp. when you create your own edit league.

Thank you very much sa♥tsu. I revised the wiki page, which I assume translates to "NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) licensed" correct me if I am wrong.

This is very true InVerse, good point. I don't know much about NPB except they do appear to use the licenced logos, esp. apparent in the third game. I guess "Real Names" is the best way to describe it until someone confirms it to be NPB licenced.

Thanks.