Tuesday, March 31, 2009

UBBJ ROM verified (!)

Today I got my UBBJ cart in (I got it from eBay for $3.00) and was able to do a new dump. I wanted to verify the known ROM dump as there is a video glitch during skipped games (you will see a black line between the 6 & 7 inn) and sometimes the video gets messed up at the end.

The good news is we can verify the known dump as Good(!) as my dump matched 1:1 and I am able to verify that ;) The only thing is the current dump is missing a header but that doesn't seem to be an issue or fix the video glicthes.

The video glitches do NOT occur on the real SNES hardware, these seem to be an emulator bug produced by both Snes9x and ZSNES.

Oh we found the "Sound Test" (I am sure you're thrilled about that eh?)

UBBJ SOUND TEST (may work w/ other UBB games)

On the title screen hold L+R and press start

Lots of changes w/ 1.04f (final - no more after this) so we'll release it soon.

Monday, March 30, 2009

WIP Status for UBBJ, SUBB2 & UBBJ2

Well it seems another patch (1.04) will be released for UBBJ, I thought I was done w/ it until somethings came up :(

Here's the current progress:

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban (1.04)

Some new fixes will include:

-Translation of MGNR mode controls (these were actually missed).

-Km/h to MPH speed conversion (using CB's lame fix), the current patches actually say MPH but they are really a little fast because it's Km/h.

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CB never reprogrammed the speed display calculation for the pitchers, instead they lowered the pitcher's power, thus the pitchers are slower in the US version (lame).

As an example in the screen shots above taken in Standard Mode the Japanese version min speed is 100, whereas the US version is dropped down to 63. As with the total ammount of points to distribute the Japanese version has 210 and the US was cut to 131. Additionally the average pitcher SPD points in the Japanese version is 139 and in the US dropped down to 87.

NOT exactly the Km/h to MPH conversion is it?

Thus the US version is actually calulating the picthing display speed in Km/h but displaying it as MPH and in order to compensate they simply took a short cut and made the pitchers slower in the US version -thus I call it a "lame fix" and I did find the bytes and will add that to UBBJ not much else I can do.

-Few graphic and text fixes here and there.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 (WIP 0.233b)

97% complete, what's left?

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Lots of new options for batters! New MNGR mode w/ Team Personalties!

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MPH is wrong :)

-Title screen (not sure who's drawing the English logo yet)

-Some text in Standings that's a technical roadblock (Ryusui's been pain stakenly helping me hack it)

-Some misc gfx text like w/ ultra plays and score board that requires decompression. Tauwasser has successfully decompressed ALL of the GFX for us, I am waiting on him to *hopefully* finish a recompressor so we can reinsert the modified date :)

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 2 (WIP 0.50b)

As previously mentioned Tuffy da Bubba got about 85% done, we're progressing!

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More control for picthers and a nice real player hack by Tuffy da Bubba!

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Play in Cartoon mode or Standard mode!

Special Thanks to:

Tauwasser http://dds-german.blogspot.com/

Ryusui http://theryusui.googlepages.com/

Tuffy da Bubba http://www.geocities.com/tuffydabubba/

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.03 Update Patch

Hopefully the last update, but multiple text translation issues have been corrected.

V1.03 - 03/22/09
-Fixed a lot of translation text issues.

Patch 1.03 Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?2mw2vml0jcy

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.02 Update Patch

This new patch fixes some issues with the Season Mode.

1.02 - 03/14/09
-Fixed the Inning/Game display issues for season.
-Added option to play a full 162 game season (MLB standard).-
-Added player and team locations in ReadMe (for hard code-hacking).

Patch 1.02 Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ztxhd8hswpm

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

First look at Super Ultra Baseball 2 English Translation

I finally found some free time to upload our WIP status for the long awaited SUBB2 English Translation.

Please keep in mind that these screen shots are taken from our latest beta (v0.128) and there's still a lot of work to be done.

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Super Ultra Baseball 2: This is the 4th game in the UBB series, released in July 1994 for the SNES in Japan. This tite was planned to be released in the US as "Super Baseball Simulator 1,000 2" but was later canceld.

Some New Features:

-New 16 bit Engine.
-Extended edit options for Batters and Pitchers.
-PR (Pinch Runner) option.
-Highly improved graphics.

Translation Team:

VX - Rom Hacker

Tuffy da Bubba - Main Translator

DarthNemesis - Additional Translation Support

Monday, March 9, 2009

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.01 Update Fix

A new patch has been released for UBBJ that fixes a few minor issues:

V1.01 - 03/09/2009
-Some minor text corrections.
-Fixed two bugs.

Patch 1.01 Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?mzkbmcb4med

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban Complete English Patch Released

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban English translation patch v1.00

Author: VX
URL: http://vxtrans.blogspot.com/
E-Mail: tubebar@ymail.com

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Patch Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?gh48jy2uhi3

The game is 100% translated, this is the patch ONLY as the ROM is copyrighted and I will NOT distribute it...you're on your own to find it so don't ask me!