This was some project I started a while back after learning some l33t ROM haxx0ring. There's already some translation floating around the new but it's crap and really lazy, e.g. infantry is translated as "man", just because the Japanese for it (ホヘイ ) was originally 3 characters. But my one's done right... well what I've translated anyway. Here's some of what I've done so far: One of the major issues though, as shown in the picture above, is that the main menu (build, select, stats, etc.) is all written with vertical Kanji - all either 1 or 2 characters. I was trying to think what would be the best way to put English in there - I can't change the shape of the menu buttons (I don't think I can with any ease anyway), so I need to be able to put English in the same spaces. So any ideas of how I should do this? I was thinking of writing either vertically, or sideways - I'm not sure what would be best, though. Drawing new graphics tiles shouldn't be a problem - there's enough space anyway.
Cool stuff. Am I the only one who gets annoyed with people who think Advance wars is some amazing whole new series? I hate the fact that people are oblivious to the earlier games.
You look like you have a 16x32 pixel space for each command, so why not draw your own graphical icon for each one? You could even put the english text very small at the bottom of each command.
Good idea, but I can't really think of what icons to draw, or what game to steal them from if I'm feeling lazy ^_^ It'll certainly solve the problem of the vertical-ness of the commands. Also, anyone know much about setting the colours for tiles with NES games? I've got a "D" tile (looks the same as the "G" in a circle for "gold") to replace the kanji for day, but when I put it there it's just all grey - I'd like it to be yellow/red just like the "G".
Could you post an illustration of the problem? It could be a problem of the tile graphics having the wrong colours set, or the wrong palette being used (but that would be caused by a more serious bug.) I can help you with some technical problems, if you want.
Sorry, I got mixed up in my last post - I meant I wanted to replace the kanji for day with a "D" in a circle like the "G" already there for money (I've edited the last post now - it was the wrong way round before so it didn't make sense!). I assume the problem is that only monochrome colours are set to that tile (as it was previously just white kanji on black). Sorry I don't have any pictures right now because the server I usually use is down for the weekend.
