That's awesome.

Also, as far as the hacking goes, I like what you've done thus far.

However, I have one small complaint. The Capital and Small letters do not match. It's really displeasing to the eye. >.<

And this is probably out of your control, but those battles need to last less than 10 minutes. They really do.

~DS

Yes, but after all of that work is done, you have no idea how many nerds you'll have made happy!  :laugh:

~DS

Lindblum, there are many versions of FF7 for Famicom.
Do you mind to say wich version you're hacking? I would love to make visual changes on those TERRIBLE graphics.

I have a very special announcement to make...
The 90% translation patch is ready for you to try!

It's on MediaFire...
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzf1ykzxckr
FF7NES-CH2EN-90%.ips

I don't know the text engine deep enough yet to tell how to use the blank tile above each letter.  Even if I did, there aren't enough free tiles in the English tileset.  I can use the Chinese character set space, but so far I only know how to extract 16x16 characters from there. 
That's why I call it a "90%" translation and not a "10000%" translation.  There is an entire block of text that doesn't exist in the original game, so I can't cross-reference it to game transcripts, and they're arranged without context.  If you're going to tell me that I have translation gaps I'd appreciate it if you would help by saying WHERE. 

Hold on, I made a naive move to replace instances of "No." with "#", resulting in stupid text.  I've just replaced the link.
Oh hell, do I have that animated BG bug again?  I don't know what that is, I don't believe I'm overwriting anything I shouldn't...

By the syntax I can't tell if that was intended to be a question.  I'll address it as one just in case. 
1: I mentioned the non-contexed text.  Not only don't I know where half of it goes, I can't translate it to anything that makes sense to me. 
2: Spell names are not finished, because I don't know what they do.  I'd like to cheat my materia inventory and levels to find out, but haven't succeeded.  Save state hacking was always so easy, what's going on?  I wouldn't trust all their names just yet. 
3: A couple of boss names could be off, because I don't know who they're supposed to be for.  They combined Palmer and Scarlet into someone called Blair (布莱尔).  I haven't seen its map sprite, yet I always assumed it was Palmer (Cid uses the "fat" line), yet its battle sprite is a kunoichi.  I named the enemy Scarlet as if Palmer sent her to attack for him. 
4: I gave spells elemental icons.  These are liable to change. 
5: Armor names are not translated yet. 
6: I don't know what the 板,锁,皮,布 stats refer to.
7: I'd love to fix the punctuation spacing and improve text-wrapping, but (and I've said this many times before) they give me limited memory for each block, and English is not as memory-efficient as Chinese.  I've had to shave a lot of fluff text and minimize punctuation, by deleting spaces after punctuation, and using single-tile characters for interrobang and ellipsis.  I plan to keep looking for ways to save memory, so that I can restore some of the shaved text. 
8: I want to add a couple more credits to the title screen. 

Now that I'm at 90% the rest of my work seems asymptotically greater since it requires more work and investigation.  Honestly I'm a bit exhausted right now. 

I don't know if this is related, but it definitely sounds like it.  In the game's text blocks it uses ASCII values for alphanumeric and punctuation, but when it uses Chinese hanzi it uses a 2-byte code.  An earlier page in this thread shows the game's entire Chinese character set.  It starts with value 0xB0A1.  I guess when it strikes a value of B0 or higher it knows that byte and the next are a hanzi reference.  Notice how the A0 and FF second-bytes don't really seem to point to any character?  I wonder what that's all about.  Thanks for taking a look, by the way.