Valkyrie no Densetsu English translation patch released

[EmperorIng]

Oddly enough, the merchant actually says to go right in Japanese, but it didn't make any sense because the right path had nothing and the left had a treasure chest, so I changed it when I got a chance to look back over it.

I recall the PS1 version doing the same thing at one point, where a character (Sabine) tells you to go one way in the lava cave when the opposite leads to treasure. I wonder if it's a trick left in the game.

[shawnji]

P.S.  I don't suppose any of you have scans of those instructions, do you?  I have a copy of the game, but no scanner...

I didn't, but I have a scanner and the game. I may have overdone it, since I scanned everything at 600 dpi and directly to png, it is a 400 MB file: http://junkerhq.net/Valkyrie/

Awesome!  Thanks for doing that!  I'll have to take a look at it when I get back from Thanksgiving.

[Bonknuts]

Well, if you end up doing a pixel replacement title screen - I'll put in the rom for you.

[Gredler]

Well, if you end up doing a pixel replacement title screen - I'll put in the rom for you.

As for the title screen; I had thought about trying my hand at a photoshopped mock-up of an English version, but decided it wasn't worth expending the effort on if we couldn't hack the title.  I still want to translate the instruction manual, though; so I'll probably go ahead and work on a logo if I can get ahold of some scans of the instructions.  I'd be happy to help get it in the game if someone knows how.

If artwork help is needed please let me know if I can help, love this game and want to help in any way I can. Thanks for all the hard work to translate and hack this, nice job!

[Keith Courage]

This is awesome! I've always wanted to play through this game but never really gave it the time of day due to the language barrier. I know the game could still be played not knowing the text, but when doing that, games just feel dull and boring to me. Especially if it's a RPG or action adventure style game. Now, I have a new game on my list to play. Great work!

[Bardoly]

Great work guys, and thank you!

[lukester]

Just finished the game today. Really great stuff! Definitely a well-crafted action-adventure game, especially the action part.

Thanks for your hard work Cabbage and Shawnji!

[roflmao]

Cabbage and Shawnji are winners. Thanks so much!

[m1savage]

Thanks for this! Much appreciated.

[esteban]

NOTE: Awesome!

[Digi.k]

thank you so much Cabbage

[NightWolve]

Anybody get this patched ? Beyond having the ROM, it's a quest in it of itself to learn how to patch this thing (and I'm no beginner)... You must first find random SNES (as he says) ROM header strippers (first one I found/tried rejects a PCE ROM, second PCE one made in VB6 locked up) and then find random IPS patchers (first one I found crashes, needed WinXP compatibility settings to work)... :/

ProTip: If you patched it but have the common ROM with a header, it will crash at the intro... You must find a ROM header stripper as mentioned and repatch.

[Digi.k]

Anybody get this patched ?

does anyone need the patched file ?

[NightWolve]

Thanks, but between then and now, I decided to figure this out (which I did) and make a quick patch kit for others.

Instructions:

1) Download/find the "Valkyrie no Densetsu" PCE ROM (headerless size: 524,288 bytes, WITH header: 524,800 bytes).

2) Download my patch kit: http://www.ysutopia.net/downloads/ValkyriePCEROMPatchKit.zip

3) Copy/unzip all in the same folder and double click the batch "PatchValkyriePCEROM.bat" file. That's it.

4) It'll output a new file called "Valkyrie no Densetsu (T-Eng).pce" if successful. Should work in MagicEngine past the title screen without crashing.


Information/Findings:

** PCE ROM headers are the first 512 bytes of the file and mostly zeroes it appears. Removing if present can be done with my FileGet.exe app which is included in the patch kit above. Removal then is trivial, simply reading out the file past the 512th offset, deleting the first 512 bytes essentially.

An example command to do so would be:

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FileGet "ValkyrieWITHHeader.pce" 0x200 0 "ValkyrieNoHeader.pce"New headerless file size of 524,288 bytes would now be proper for this particular game.

** LiteIPS.exe which is also included is a command line IPS patcher I found that worked for me here. Use that if you want for other games if you haven't already got a GUI version you know works.

** Cabbage has 2 other PCE fan translations projects, one I didn't know about, Street Fighter II: CE, which, although it's not critical having all the fighter messages in English, is certainly nice.

http://pce.lifeabroad.org/translation.html

P.S. Cabbage, if you ever see my patch kit, you're welcome to use it to make it helpful for others. I can't imagine your patches have gotten much playtime by just sharing the IPS file which presents a patching quest/obstacle right from the start... My old RIGG ROM had the header so I encountered the crashing, and the first 2 apps I found for removing the header either crashed or rejected non-SNES ROMs... Then the first apps I found for IPS patching crashed or sucked... :/

Well, that's about it.

[MNKyDeth]

Thanks, but between then and now, I decided to figure this out (which I did) and make a quick patch kit for others.

Instructions:

1) Download/find the "Valkyrie no Densetsu" PCE ROM (headerless size: 524,288 bytes, WITH header: 524,800 bytes).

2) Download my patch kit: http://www.ysutopia.net/downloads/ValkyriePCEROMPatchKit.zip

3) Copy/unzip all in the same folder and double click the batch "PatchValkyriePCEROM.bat" file. That's it.

4) It'll output a new file called "Valkyrie no Densetsu (T-Eng).pce" if successful. Should work in MagicEngine past the title screen without crashing.


Information/Findings:

** PCE ROM headers are the first 512 bytes of the file and mostly zeroes it appears. Removing if present can be done with my FileGet.exe app which is included in the patch kit above. Removal then is trivial, simply reading out the file past the 512th offset, deleting the first 512 bytes essentially.

An example command to do so would be:

Code: [Select]

FileGet "ValkyrieWITHHeader.pce" 0x200 0 "ValkyrieNoHeader.pce"New headerless file size of 524,288 bytes would now be proper for this particular game.

** LiteIPS.exe which is also included is a command line IPS patcher I found that worked for me here. Use that if you want for other games if you haven't already got a GUI version you know works.

** Cabbage has 2 other PCE fan translations projects, one I didn't know about, Street Fighter II: CE, which, although it's not critical having all the fighter messages in English, is certainly nice.

http://pce.lifeabroad.org/translation.html

P.S. Cabbage, if you ever see my patch kit, you're welcome to use it to make it helpful for others. I can't imagine your patches have gotten much playtime by just sharing the IPS file which presents a patching quest/obstacle right from the start... My old RIGG ROM had the header so I encountered the crashing, and the first 2 apps I found for removing the header either crashed or rejected non-SNES ROMs... Then the first apps I found for IPS patching crashed or sucked... :/

Well, that's about it.

Awesome stuff Nightwolve. I had the crashing issue when patching this game but never knew why. I always figured I would come back to research it more when I had time but looks like you have us all taken care of now. I probably would never have figured it out.