SNES VX TRANSLATIONS

Breath of Fire II Retranslation 1.1 Update Patch Wii VC Inject NTSC

2009-12-24T01:23:00.000-08:00

Ryusui's Breath of Fire II SNES Retranslation has been updated for the Wii Console. This includes his latest Eng Patch (1.2b) and additionally the PCM fix which should correct the reported sound glitches found in the previous WAD release.

Since there has been some improvements in the Wii scene, we are able to offer a xdelta patch which only includes the modified data.

Proper WAD:
Breath of Fire II NTSC-U SNES PROPER.wad
CRC C74DE536

Just place the WAD in the dir and simply run the bat file, couldn't be any easier :) Enjoy!
Download: Breath of Fire 2 Retranslation Wii VC Patch v1.1 NTSC.rar

You need a modified Wii console to play this game. You can try using the Wii emulator but I cannot confirm that it can play this WAD at the current time, but you can download it from: http://www.dolphin-emu.com/

Super Ultra Baseball 2 Wii Virtual Console WAD Inject

2009-07-16T13:49:00.000-07:00

Yes we did a full VC inject for UBBJ and SUBB2 for Wii Virtual Console.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 includes a full banner, save icon, name & manual hack! YES that's right we included the entire user's manual in the VC :) UBBJ only includes a banner, save icon and name hack.

Due to legal reasons we are unable to provide any links to the Wii VC WAD files, however I will will list the release names so if you want them you can search for them.

Ultra_Baseball_Jitsumeiban_Eng_NTSC_SNES.iNJECT_iNTERNAL_VC_Wii-0RANGECHiCKEN

Super_Ultra_Baseball_2_Eng_NTSC_SNES.iNJECT_iNTERNAL_VC_Wii-0RANGECHiCKEN

Breath_of_Fire_II_Retrans_NTSC_SNES.iNJECT_iNTERNAL_VC_Wii-0RANGECHiCKEN - Ryusui's BOF2 Retranslation we also did.

You do need a modified Wii console in order to play these WADs.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 Complete English Patch (1.00)

2009-04-25T05:06:00.000-07:00

SUPER ULTRA BASEBALL 2 (SNES) - 100% Translated English Patch

SUBB2 has been 100% translated into English, you can download the patch below.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 V1.00 English Patch w/ Manual
Download: SUBB2_e_1.00.zip

You can always get our patches from:
http://www.romhacking.net/ and http://www.zophar.net/

Culture Brain’s Ultra Baseball (Baseball Simulator in the US) series is a unique baseball statistical simulator. Players have the option to create their own Team, choose manager personalities, uniforms and stats. Additionally players have the unique option of using the Ultra League where players have higher stats and super Ultra powers!

Super Ultra Baseball 2 is the fourth game released in the Ultra Baseball Series. The first two games were released in the US under the titles of “Baseball Simulator 1,000”. Culture Brain planned to release this game as “Super Baseball Simulator 1,000 2” but later canceled the release.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 WIP 04/18/09

2009-04-18T06:21:00.001-07:00

Super Ultra Baseball 2 - SNES - English Translation Status:

It's been a while since I gave any updates, been busy finishing up SUBB2. We're basically finished - the text is 100% translated into English. However we are currently working on some fixes and improvments to make sure everything is perfect! I don't want multiple updates like we did last time, so for this one you'll have to wait it out.

Addtionally I am working on a new complete game manual - doing it all by hand and this will be released along side the patch. I will also release a text version manual included w/ the patch - the PDF is an optional download.

Here's who helped make this project possible:

Ryusui ASM coding expert + support (Ryusui converted the KM/h into MPH for pitching speed amoungst other things!)

Tauwasser For creating our graphics compressor/decompressor (without him be no title screen hack and text would never be 100%)

Tuffy da Bubba: SUBB2 main translator :)

DarthNemesis: Addtional translations

Patch v1.00 - coming soon.

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.04 Final + PDF Manual

2009-04-01T14:53:00.000-07:00

Our final patch for UBBJ is finished:

V.104 Final - 04/01/09
-Fixed untranslated text from Manager Mode that was missed.
-Multiple text changes.
-Converted KM/h to MPH using CB's method.
-Added Stadium Sizes w/ converted Meters to FT.
-Corrected some minor GFX issues.

Patch 1.04 Final Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?eavnclx0nnt

UBBJ PDF Instruction Manual: http://www.mediafire.com/?2vpdmssnop4

UBBJ ROM verified (!)

2009-03-31T15:54:00.000-07:00

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.

WIP Status for UBBJ, SUBB2 & UBBJ2

2009-03-30T16:19:00.000-07:00

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.

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?

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

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!

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

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/

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.03 Update Patch

2009-03-22T04:22:00.000-07:00

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

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.02 Update Patch

2009-03-14T02:05:00.000-07:00

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

First look at Super Ultra Baseball 2 English Translation

2009-03-12T23:58:00.001-07:00

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.

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

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 1.01 Update Fix

2009-03-09T09:29:00.000-07:00

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

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban Complete English Patch Released

2009-03-03T08:44:00.000-08:00

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban English translation patch v1.00

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

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!

WIP Status UBBJ 1, 2 and SUBB 2

2009-02-24T07:52:00.000-08:00

First off I would like to announce that Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 2 is also being currently translated into English. Actually it will be a revised and complete trans that was started by Tuffy da Bubba in 2003. He also started work on UBBJ3 but I can't say at this time when and if we'd ever get to that game.

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban: The next patch should be out soon (possibly by the end of this week) with 100% complete Kana translation. The Kanji is still not translated but is certainly planned to be.

Super Ultra Baseball 2: We just started work on this which is up to beta 0.27 and has a ways to go but is progressing fine since most of the code has been found already in UBBJ & UBBJ2 making it much easier.

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 2: Tuffy da Bubba hacked most of this code and I would venture to say that 90% of the Kana is already translated. There is some work left and lots of text corrections, revisions and pointers to fix but most of it is done.

I will try to get some screen shots up, just finding the time to do these things.

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban First English Patch Released

2009-02-06T05:38:00.001-08:00

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban English translation patch v0.50

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

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

The game is about 90% 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!

Contents
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1. Patch History
2. About Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban
3. Controls
4. Issues
5. Remaining
6. Translation Notes
7. Thanks

1. Patch History
================================================================================

v0.50 - 02/05/2008
-First public patch.
-English Fonts have been replaced.
-Most Menus and Kana have been translated.
-Some Kanji has been translated.

2. Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban
================================================================================

"This is the ultimate baseball game! Precise pitching, bulls-eye batting, and
Awesome fielding! It's all under your control with simpler yet more
sophisticated operation. With loads of features, you'll be an All Star! It is
the ultimate baseball simulation you've dreamed of."

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban (or Real Names Version) is the third game released in
the Ultra Baseball Series. The first two games were released in the US under the
titles of "Baseball Simulator 1,000".

The Baseball games are unique as they allow players to fully edit and automate
entire leagues and seasons. Additionally it's the optional "super power"
Ultra League that gives players the unique ability to well....play some very
wacky baseball!

-Ultra Baseball: released in 1989 for the NES as "Baseball Simulator 1,000".

-Super Ultra Baseball: released in 1991 for the SNES as "Super Baseball Simulator 1,000".

-Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban: released in 1992 for the SNES in Japan only. This is
basically Super Ultra Baseball w/ real names (Jitsumeiban means Real Names Version).
The graphics and sound are slightly better, and there is a new pennant option but
this obviously uses the same engine.

-Super Ultra Baseball 2: released in 1994 for the SNES in Japan only. Culture Brain
planned to release this title as "Super Baseball Simulator 1,000 2" but canceled shortly
after. This game uses a new engine and sports more features - yes this project is in the
works too!

3. Controls
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KEY representation for each button:

Y = Y button (pink)
X = X button (pink)
B = B button (dark purple)
A = A button (dark purple)
L = L button (gray, top left)
R = R button (gray, top right)
Control Pad = directional pad (black)
START = start button (black))
SELECT = select button (black)

______________
/Menu Controls/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
START - advances through most menus
A - confirms selection
B - rejects selection
Control Pad - navigates through menus

________
/Batting/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
START - calls time
X - picks power up (if available)
A - swings bat
Y - tells runner (on base) to steal
Control Pad - moves batter in box, affects where bat hits ball

/Pitching/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
START - calls time
X - picks power up (if available)
A - tosses pitch
Y - pitcher steps off rubber, pick off move
Control Pad - moves pitcher on white rubber (horizontally)
- also affects velocity, stamina used per pitch, and direction

4. Issues
================================================================================

-Some text is cut short or abbreviated due to space restrictions.
-Some menus are not translated due to not being able to find the text (i.e. they
maybe compressed).
-Some Kanji is not translated due to shared uses of the text.

5. Remaining
================================================================================

-Title Screen Translation.
-Season Config Menu.
-Pennant Screen Text.
-Season save menu at the end of the game.
-Some various Kanji.

6. Translation Notes
================================================================================

Jitsumeiban as the title suggests is the "Real Player Version" thus this game used
real players from NPB. It would have been too time consuming to have romanized
players names and anyone who actually cares about the real players would more then
likely speak Japanese and not have a need for this patch.

Baseball Simulator (Ultra Baseball) SNES Translations

2009-02-04T04:58:00.000-08:00

My 2 current Japanese to English projects are unique baseball games released for the SNES. Only the first two games were released in the US, under the titles of "Baseball Simulator" and the rest of the games never left Japan.

The Baseball Simulator (Ultra) games are unique as they allow players to fully edit and automate entire leagues, addtionally it's the optional "super power" Ultra League that gives players the unique ability to well....play some very wacky baseball!

Ultra Baseball: released in 1989 for the NES as "Baseball Simulator 1,000".

Super Ultra Baseball: released in 1991 for the SNES as "Super Baseball Simulator 1,000".

Current VX Translation projects:

Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban: released in 1992 for the SNES in Japan only. This is basically Super Ultra Baseball w/ real names (Jitsumeiban means Real Names Version). The graphics and sound are slightly better, and there is a new pennant option but this obviously uses the same engine.

Translation Notes: I am not localizing the game as the comercial versions did, and I am not translating the "real life" players names as it is to time consuming and it is safely assumed that any person of interest in Japanese Baseball would certainly be able to read Japanese and would not have any interest in my translation patch.

Super Ultra Baseball 2: released in 1994 for the SNES in Japan only. Culture Brain planned to release this title as "Super Baseball Simulator 1,000 2" but canceld shortly after. This game uses a new engine and sports more features.

Translation Notes: I just started this one a few days ago, I will try to get some screen shots for both titles up soon. So far progress is stable for both titles.