Once I get situated with school and place to live, I'll work on this to get a working print routine (might not be VWF though - depends on the time needed for it). This I promise. I REALLY want to play this game translated.
Bonknuts, man, if you ever want to do some translation projects, I am in.
I love Esperknight, but he's got a million projects going at once, and at this point all I really hope for from him is that he finishes Xanadu II someday. He loves games, but I don't think he was ever really that interested in Xanadu II. I, on the other hand, get a lump in my throat when I hear the intro music because it's still one of the best action RPGs I've ever played.
If you can help get Xanadu II out the door, that would be freaking awesome. The hacking side is just stagnant right now, and a few emails between you and Esperknight could be all it takes to make the wheels start turning again. There's not much I can say to motivate him anymore, but just talking with you could be a huge catalyst for him. He respects you a lot, and I think he would gladly accept your help. This stupid project has been so close to being done for so long, it's maddening.
But I'm not just talking about Xanadu II.
You've got the passion for the games, and you might be the single most capable PCE hacker around. I don't want to brag, but I've definitely got the Japanese credentials. We could be a very formidable team. Yes, teams can be dysfunctional, but one person getting a lot of shit done can motivate another person to get a lot of shit done, and we're just the right guys to get a whole lot of shit done.
If you've got anything else like Spriggan mk2, where you had a dumped script and working insertion/printing, send it my way. Did you dump those Cosmic Fantasy scripts? If there's something you would be interested in doing, you should let me know. I can't promise that I'll want to work on just anything, but I'm open to a lot.
By the way, seriously, let's finish Spriggan mk2. All I need is for the stage 4 text to insert properly so I can tweak it. Give me a fully working inserter and two hours and I'll have my end at 100%. Once that's in, we just get BurntLasagna to do the dub, and it's finished.
(PS: I am internetless for a few more days at least, but I'll be back. Like you, I just moved)
On the Spriggan stuffs, might be a couple of weeks until I can get to the assets (my PC tower). But hell yeah! I hope Burt Lasagna is still interested.
Slightly offtopic:
EsperKnight and I had chatted about making an extended system card for translated games. I.e. a hucard rom+ram; something a little bit more than the 192k of the system card adds. I was thinking an additional 64k of ram. The problem was, no one was making hucards. So it would be limited to emulators. I still like this idea, and when that one guy from France started making those new hucards with the rom bump - the first thing I thought was SCD 3.0+ card. You'd just need another trace setup for another chip (or two more). So 512k rom, and 256k ram (or two 128k ram). Done and done. This would make CD translation hacking soooooooo much easier. There are a few unused bios functions entries in the system card; those could be easily used to point to the code in ram (indirection). The idea, is basically the same as ROM expansion.
If I do a serious homebrew CD game, I'm probably gonna go this route (though maybe 512k rom + 512k ram for a sys card, or 256k rom + 768k ram).
Anyway, let's get Xanadu II and Spriggan Mark 2 out of the way - since they are sooo close to being finished. My son, when he was 7 years old, played through and beat Xanadu II (he doesn't know any japanese, but he's a falcom fan). Not only for my own love of the game, I'd love for him to be able to play through it again in English.
