Monster Gate - Gameboy Advance


Game Info
This game is a "Rogue Like" (i.e. You go into a randomly generated dungeon and pick stuff up) and is somewhat like those Torneko games that Enix released. This one, however, is quite a bit of fun :) Apparently, or so I've read, this is a port of an arcade game that Konami did at one point in time... I decided after playing around with it for a while that I was missing out on some interesting story (there are cut scenes every few dungeons) and that's why this translation was started. Bear with me now, this is my first translation :)

News
Gatsu - 12/7/2002 01:23
Well, it looks like I've hit my first road block :) Being a beyond unexperienced ROM hacker, and my limited japanese knowledge, I've come to an impasse. The patch, as linked below, contains translations of almost all of the cards you can pick up (there were 3 I couldn't come up with names for and 2 that I gave names that I'm not sure of). Unfortunately all of the dialog and text that is displayed in the game is compressed and I'm not sure what to do about that. Also, SOME of the graphics are compressed, and I did not delve into finding and decompressing those graphics so they could be changed (the main game menu screen is one of those screens :P)
Anyway, if you are an experienced ROM hacker, and want to help, let me know. I will also make available to you the dinky little tool that I made for editing the tiles in the ROM. If you speak Japanese and want to help with translating (if I ever get a text dump and decompress the rest of the graphics) please let me know that as well.

Anyway, I'm not giving up yet... Enjoy the patch :)
Cheers


Gatsu - 12/4/2002 23:55
So far I've translated about half of the card names and some of the larger text graphics. Things aren't exactly moving quickly, but I hope to have all the script dumped soon. I've written a couple of tools to help me out with things though (expect to see them here sometime). I am in need of a translator, since my japanese skills are lacking somewhat, so if you know/are one, let me know :) Here's some screenshots for now :).

Patches
Monster Gate English v0.01 - 12/7/2002 01:23

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