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ReadMe-DvD_Translations-The_Glory_of_Heralces-Labors_of_the_Divine_Hero.txt
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This file should be viewed using a mono-spaced font like "Courier".
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Use a font size where 79 columns are visible.
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The file is encoded in UTF_8 to display the Japanese characters properly.
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Please don't distribute the ROM file in patched form.
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Please don't distribute the DvDGloryOfHeracles.IPS file without this file
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or the ROM Expander Pro.txt file.
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Thanks.
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THE GLORY OF HERACLES
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Labors of the Divine Hero
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for the Nintendo Famicom
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Copyright 1987 by Data East Corp.
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English Translation Copyright 2011 by DvD Translations
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ReadMe Version 3 Release Date: December 27, 2011
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ReadMe Version 2 Release Date: December 23, 2011
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Patch Version: Rev A Release Date: December 23, 2011
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DvD Translations
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dvdtranslations.eludevisibility.org
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GAME
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Script Translation: aishsha
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Item, Monster, & Menu Translation: aishsha, DvD, harmony7, KlD
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Script Editing: DvD, KlD
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Code Editing: DvD
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Graphics Editing: DvD
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Alpha Testing by: aishsha, DvD
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Beta Testing by: KlD, Red Soul
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Final Testing by: KlD
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ReadMe by: DvD
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Font & Title Image: toma
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GoH 2 & 3 Comparison: DvD
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GoH 3 Files Provided By: DaMarsMan
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GoH 5 Comparison: KlD
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MANUAL
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Manual provided by: DvD
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Scanning: harmony7
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Translation: aishsha
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Text Replacement: Red Soul
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Text Editing: DvD, Red Soul, Pennywise
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Graphic Editing: DvD
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----------------------------------- CONTENTS ----------------------------------
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INFO
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(1) The Glory of Heracles Game Series
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(2) If You Read Anything, Read This
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USING THE PATCH
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(3) Expanding & Patching the ROM File
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(4) Playing the Game on a Flash Cart or Emulator
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TRANSLATION DETAILS
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(5) Why DvD Chose to Translate THIS Game
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(6) Why YOU Should Bother Playing THIS Game
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(7) Translation Comparisons
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(A) Items listed in the manual (or not in GoH1)
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(B) Weapons and armor listed in the manual
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(C) SPOILER ALERT - Characters, some not listed in the manual:
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(D) SPOILER ALERT - Items NOT listed in the manual
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(E) SPOILER ALERT - Weapons and armor NOT listed in the manual
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(F) SPOILER ALERT - Monsters, most not in the manual
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(G) SPOILER ALERT - Places, most not in the manual
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(8) DvD's Hacking & Translating Comments
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(9) aishsha's Translating Comments
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(10) KlD's Testing Comments
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(11) Red Soul's Testing and Manual Manipulation Comments
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(12) Project Timeline
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(13) Software Used In This Translation
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------------------------------------- INFO ------------------------------------
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(1)------------------- The Glory of Heracles Game Series ----------------------
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This game was the start of one of DECO's two main game series, the other being
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the puzzler series Magical Drop.
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The Glory of Heracles series consists of the following 6 games. The first five
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games were made by Data East Corporation, aka DECO. The latest was developed
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by Paon Corporation, supposedly made up of former Data East employees, and
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published by Nintendo, as DECO had long been defunct. Only the latest game was
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officially released in North America. None have been released in Europe. Both
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Super Famicom games were re-released for the Wii virtual console in Japan.
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Japanese Releases:
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1) Heracles no Eikou: Toujin Makyouden - Famicom - Jun 12, 1987
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2) Heracles no Eikou II: Titan no Metsubou - Famicom - Dec 23, 1989
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3) Heracles no Eikou III: Kamigami no Chinmoku - Super Famicom - Apr 24, 1992
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4) Heracles no Eikou: Ugokidashita Kamigami - Game Boy - Dec 27, 1992
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5) Heracles no Eikou IV:
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Kamigami Kara no Okurimono - Super Famicom - Oct 21, 1994
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6) Heracles no Eikou:
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Tamashii no Shoumei - DS - May 23, 2008
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English Releases:
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1) The Glory of Heracles:
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Labors of the Divine Hero - DvD Translations - Rev A - Dec 23, 2011
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2) The Glory of Heracles II:
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Titan's Downfall - The Spoony Bard - 1.31 - May 2, 2005
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3) The Glory of Heracles III:
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Silence of the Gods - DQ Translations - 1.0 - Dec 31, 2009
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4) The Glory of Heracles:
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Commotion in the Heavenly Realm - The Snap Story (tentative title)
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- aishsha & Stardust Crusaders - TBA
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5) The Glory of Heracles IV:
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Gift from the Gods - Translation Corporation - TBA
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6) Glory of Heracles - Nintendo - Jan 18, 2010
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They are all turn based RPGs with first person battles taking place in or near
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ancient Greece. A feature common to all of them is that that characters shout
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different words at the monsters when they attack them from round to round.
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(2)-------------------- If You Read Anything, Read This -----------------------
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For this game, DvD Translations has fully translated the original manual and
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inserted the text back into scans of the original manual. If you didn't get
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the patch from our site, you can find a link to it above. There you can get a
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copy of the manual. Read it before playing the game. Along with a full
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translation of the manual's original text, the last page of the manual shows a
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list of in game icons we used for weapons, armor, shields, and a few items.
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This game has a password save, not a battery save. This means two things.
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One, you can have an infinite number of saves, so you never need to overwrite
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your old save. Two, the game does not save EVERYTHING. The game designers
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designed the game with this in mind. So, you will notice that after you start
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the game with a password, everything resets. You will need to use this to
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your advantage to pass the game with such a limited inventory.
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This game is VERY old school. It's not for the wimpy linear RPG players of
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today whom GoH 5 was made for. That being said, we've done a ton of work to
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make sure every hint you need (that DvD didn't have when he played through it
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the first time) is in the game. The original Japanese game was notorious for
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not giving you some of the most important hints you needed. Anything that
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was hard for our beta testers to figure out, we improved the in-game hint on.
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Just remember to make sure your inventory is never full or people you talk to
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may not give you the hints/items you need and you will not know what to do.
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But, do NOT play this game if you are not planning on taking notes. It is
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essential from the very first minute of the game that you write down EVERY
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piece of text that mentions a person, place, or thing, even if it doesn't seem
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important at the time. Don't just plan to go back and check, because people
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might not give you the clue you need after you get items that prevent them from
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saying what you need to know. Plus, the random battle rate in this game is so
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high, it takes forever to walk back to places, at least at the beginning. Many
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times the clue only becomes clear when you combine 2 or more pieces of
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information given by completely different people. When you do know exactly what
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a clue means and you have dealt with it, cross/check it off your list. KlD,
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who doesn't like hard RPGs, took good notes, followed these rules, always used
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the password to save her game, and actually enjoyed the game more than anyone
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else who's played it so far.
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------------------------------- USING THE PATCH -------------------------------
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(3)------------------- Expanding & Patching the ROM File ----------------------
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There are two different versions of the ROM out there. They differ by 5 bytes.
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They represent two physical different mappers as there are two different mapper
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chips used in cartridges released in 1987 and 1988. DECO never changed the
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copyright date so you can't tell by looking at any of the game screens. The
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patch was developed completely with one ROM, but it should work fine with
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either of them. We don't know which is the '87 and which is the '88 version.
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(See the next section for more details.)
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For this translation, before patching the ROM file, you'll need to expand the
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ROM file first using a ROM expander.
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How to expand and patch the ROM file:
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You need:
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1) A ROM file. The file may or may not include the standard 16 byte iNES
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header followed by the program ROM. With header, the ROM file is 131088
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Bytes in size.
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I'm not telling you how to get the ROM file, but once you do, call
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it "Herakles no Eikou.nes".
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2) "ROM Expander Pro.txt" which is included with this patch.
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2) For PC users, use ROM Expander Pro.exe, which you can get from the
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DvD Translations website. It's pretty self-explanatory.
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Just make sure your ROM file, called
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"Herakles no Eikou.nes"
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"ROM Expander Pro.txt", and
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"ROM Expander Pro.exe" are all in the same directory and then run
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ROM Expander Pro.
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Regardless of whether your ROM has a header or not, always choose
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"Expand and Add/Replace Header". If ROM Expander Pro gives you an Error
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window telling you that you have the wrong MD5, but the MD5 it lists in
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it's window is:
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B649DF6B089F0C486624AF492CEFB667
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you have the other valid version of the ROM (Map B).
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ROM Expander Pro will not modify your original ROM file. It will instead
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make a copy of the file and modify it calling it
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"The Glory of Heracles - Labors of the Divine Hero.nes".
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Keep your original file for backup purposes.
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If you don't own a PC, hopefully someone soon will port ROM Expander Pro.
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In the meantime you'll have to expand the ROM file on your own using
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a hex editor. Fortunately, this particular game is easy to expand.
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Expanding using a Hex Editor:
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First, if your ROM file has a header, if your ROM has one, remove the 16
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First, if your ROM file has a header, if your ROM has one, remove the 16
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byte header, the first 16 bytes of the ROM file. In other words, remove
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bytes 00000 through 0000F. Then double all 128 kBytes of the ROM file, in
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other words, copy bytes 00000 through 1FFFF (hex) and then insert them ONCE
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either at the beginning or the end of the ROM file. Finally, insert the
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following 16 byte header at the beginning of the ROM file:
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4E 45 53 1A 10 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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3) Patch File: DvDGloryOfHeracles.IPS
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4) An IPS patching program
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Remember to patch the file only AFTER it has been expanded.
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Recommended IPS patching program for IBM PC: Lunar IPS.exe by FuSoYa
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Recommended IPS patching program for Mac: UIPS by Lucas Newman
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Using Lunar IPS / UIPS:
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a) Double-click "Lunar IPS" / "UIPS"
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b) Click "Apply IPS Patch" / "Apply Patch"
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c) Choose "DvDGloryOfHeracles.IPS"
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d) Choose "The Glory of Heracles - Labors of the Divine Hero.nes"
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(4)------------- Playing the Game on a Flash Cart or Emulator ----------------
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Original game ROM size: 8 16k program ROM banks
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= 128 kBytes
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= 131072 Bytes
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&
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8k character RAM
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Games designed for the original Famicom/NES hardware have one or two 16k
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program banks and one 8k character bank. Later, all games made for the NES
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used special mapper chips to expand the size of the addressable ROM beyond
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these limitations. Some even included RAM for the character bank, instead of
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ROM, like this one. This game uses one of the simplest group of 3rd party
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mappers that used RAM for the character bank, mapper 2, known as the "UxROM
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(and compatible)". For this game they used it to switch between 7 different
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program ROM banks and to use VRAM instead of ROM for the background and sprite
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tiles. This is a very basic mapper was used my many early Konami games.
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Here are the exact differences between the two ROMs. They represent the two
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different mappers chips the game was released with. Both are considered mapper
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2, but represent different actual chips. We did all of our development and
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testing with the Map A version, but both are valid.
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5 differences between
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File 1: Herakles no Eikou Map A.nes
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and
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File 2: Heracles no Eikou Map B.nes
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Address File1 File2
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1C578: 8D 99
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1C579: 40 6C
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1C57A: 80 C5
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lbl_c565: sta $94 ; A = vbl_94
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C567: tay ; Y = A
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C568: sta $8040 ; UNROM_8000 = A
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vs.
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C568: sta $c56c,y ; Table tbl_c5c6[Y] = A
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2000E: 2A B9
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2000F: 26 C8
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IRQ Vector:
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lbl_262a (middle of nowhere!)
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vs.
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IRQ Vector:
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lbl_c8b9: rti ; Return From Interrupt
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I could have made the patch convert both ROMs to be the patched version of Map
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A (or both be Map B), but I've decided to let it handle both as is.
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In my experience, all emulators and flash carts that can play the original ROM
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file can play the translation. Our translation expanded the ROM from 8 to 16
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banks, but we didn't change the mapper. For some reason, FCEUX 2.1.3 - 2.1.5
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no longer can handle emulation of the GoodTools version of the original game,
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so that is why we used FCEUX 2.1.2. But the FCEUX 2.1.5 handles the NO-INTRO
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version. I did a partial test in Nestopia and it seems to work fine with both
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versions, and that is the emulator I recommend.
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But, of course, the best way to play it is on a real NES. And the easiest way
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to do that is with a PowerPak, which KlD used for all of her testing.
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As the game uses password saving, if you want to switch from one emulator to
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another, you can. Also, it is possible to transfer a password between the
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translation and the Japanese version. You just need to see which English
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character represents each Japanese one. In the password, Japanese dakuten
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are represented in English as ' and the handakuten as ~. You CANNOT use
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save-states to switch between English and Japanese. This is because the font
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gets written to the RAM only once when you first start the game or first enter
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a password.
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----------------------------- TRANSLATION DETAILS -----------------------------
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(5)------------------ Why DvD Chose to Translate THIS Game --------------------
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I saw toma's translation of GoH II and thought the game looked really good. It
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looked like something out of the Final Fantasy series. Also, I knew the
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GoH III was mostly done. As I always play games in the order they came out,
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this game had to be translated for me to do so. But, when I saw this game, I
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thought it looked really ugly. I did think it was interesting how the
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over-world and the towns were one in the same. But, I wasn't sure if I was
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going to ever work on it.
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When I saw some pictures of an early version of this game where the graphics
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were directly lifted from Dragon Quest, I was more interested.
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I had never done a straight, turn based RPG, which is one of my favorite styles
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of games, and the first translated games that I ever played were of this type.
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I wanted to see what challenges they contained.
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I actually started the translation before I knew of the new game and especially
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before I knew it was going to be released in the US.
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(6)---------------- Why YOU Should Bother Playing THIS Game -------------------
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See how Data East's main RPG series, the Glory of Heracles series started!
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Having a fully translated scanned manual and playing it on a flash-cart will
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give you the most complete translation experience DvD Translations has ever
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released.
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(7)------------------------ Translation Comparisons----------------------------
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If you have played other games in the series or you will be playing them after
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this, it will be useful to know which items, characters, and places are the
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same, just were translated differently. When given a choice, we have tried to
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make our translation match those that are already out there. We could not find
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a list of the original Japanese names in GoH5, so we had to guess. With
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monsters we based this guess off of the picture.
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Let us know if we missed any in any of the lists.
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(A) Items listed in the manual (or not in GoH1):
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1 Ice Bowl ひむろのうつわ
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2 IceBowl "
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1 FirePillarBalls ほばしらのたま
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2 MastBall "
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3 Mast Ball "
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This one is the most interesting. We translated it also as MastBall before we
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saw the manual, but it never made any sense. From the GoH1 manual, you can see
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the original kanji for this, which is:
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火柱の玉 = ひばしらのたま = Pillar of Fire Ball(s)
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vs
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帆柱の玉 = ほばしらのたま = Sail Pillar Ball(s) = Mast Ball(s)
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But the DECO programmers made a typo on the first hiragana character changing
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the "hi" to a "ha" which completely changed the meaning. Oops!!
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What's funny is that the in-game name stuck and DECO used it for the later
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games in the series.
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1 Carrot にんじん
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2 " "
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3 " "
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1 Medicine くすり
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3 " かいふくやく
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2 MedHerb やくそう
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3 Herb "
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2 AntHerb どくけしそう
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3 Antidote "
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1 TravelWings たびのつばさ
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2 Wings "
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3 Travel Wings "
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(B) Weapons and armor listed in the manual:
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1 Iron[sword] てつのつるぎ
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3 Iron Sword "
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5 Iron Sword
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1 Silver[bow] ぎんのゆみ
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2 " ぎんのゆみや
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3 Silver Bow ぎんのゆみ
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1 Leather[clothes] かわのふく
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2 Hide[armor] かわのむねあて
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3 Leather Clothes かわのふく
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5 Leather Garb
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1 Chain[mail] くさりかたびら
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2 Chain[armor] "
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3 Chain Mail "
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1 Iron[armor] てつのよろい
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2 " みかづきとう
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3 Iron Armor てつのよろい
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5 Iron Armor
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1 Steel[armor] はがねのよろい
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3 Steel Armor くろがねのよろい
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1 Zeus's[armor] ゼウスのよろい
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3 Zeus' Armor "
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1 Wooden[shield] きのたて
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3 Wooden Shield "
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5 Wooden Shield
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1 Iron[shield] てつのたて
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2 " "
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3 Iron_Shield くろがねのたて
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(C) SPOILER ALERT - Characters, some not listed in the manual:
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1,2,3,5 Heracles
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1,2,3,5 Pegasus
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1,2,3,5 Zeus
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1,2,3,5 (1&3)Hephaistos / (2&5)Hephaestus
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1,2,3 (1&3)Aphrodite / (2)Venus
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1, 3 Apollo / Apollon
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1, 3 Artemis
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1, 3 Athena / Athene
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1, 3 Atlas
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1, 3 Ares
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1, 3 Poseidon
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2,3 Cronos / Chronos
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2,3,5 Daedalus
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3,5 Oceanus
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(D) SPOILER ALERT - Items NOT listed in the manual:
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1 Night Curtain よるのとばり
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2 NtCurtn "
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3 NightCurtain "
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1 SilkReins きぬのたずな
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2 SilkRein "
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1 Leila'sJade レイラのひすい
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2 Jade ?
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(E) SPOILER ALERT - Weapons and armor NOT listed in the manual:
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1 Rusty[shield] さびたたて
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2 " "
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3 Rusty Shield "
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5 Rusty Shield
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2 Rusty[sword] "
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3 Rusty Sword "
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5 Rusty Sword
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1 Zeus's[shield] ゼウスのたて
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2 " "
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3 Zeus'_Shield "
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1 Zeus's[sword] ゼウスのつるぎ
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2 " "
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3 Zeus' Sword "
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(F) SPOILER ALERT - Monsters, most not in the manual:
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1 2 3 5 Japanese
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Walking Tree Treeman Walking Tree Werewood ほこうじゅ
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Deadwood Bebudd Babwood Deadwood べブウッド
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Tree Demon TrDemon - Dryad まじゅ
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Pnoton - - Pnoton プノトン
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Hapnoton - - Hapnoton ハプノトン
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Armor Solider - Armor Solider - きこうへい
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Hell's Armor HellSold Hell's Armor - へルきこうへい
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- - Armor General - きこうジェネラル
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Satan's Armor - - - サタンきこうへい
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Sea Snake - Sea Snake - シースネーク
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- - Scorpion Scorp スコルピオン
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- Scorpio - - スコーピオン
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Mage - - - ようじゅつつかい
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- Mage - - ようじゅつし
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Conjurer - - - まじゅつつかい
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- Conjrer - - まじゅつし
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Wizard - - - じゅじゅつつかい
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- Wizard - - じゅつつかい
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1 2 3 5 Japanese
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Skeleton - - Skeleton がいこつ
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- Skelton - - スケルトン
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Red Skeleton - - Red Skeleton レッドがいこつ
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Grim Reaper DethGod - - しにがみ
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Mad Dog - - Mad Dog ラビ
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Hyena - - Hyena ラビタシス
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Jackel - - Jackel ラビソマタミス
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Hades - Hades - ハデス
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Hades's Dog - - - ハデスドック
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- Cerbrus Cerberus - ケルべロス
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In the manual, Hedes's Dog has two heads, like a Cerberus, but in the game he
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only has one head. Maybe he's supposed to be a different one of Hades's dogs!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Varroc - - - ヴアロック
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- - Barock - バロック
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These are clearly supposed to be the same character, a HUGE bird boss.
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In GoH1 they programmers clearly wrote the name with a Va. But in 3, they
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write it with a letter that usually is a Ba, but can be used to mean a Va.
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(G) SPOILER ALERT - Places, most not in the manual:
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1,2,3,5 Athens アテネ
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1,2,3,5 Underworld
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1 Heavenly Realm (yeah, we're different on this one. Oh, well...)
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2,3,5 Heaven
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1,2 Nana ナナ
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1 Selene セレネ
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2 Selen "
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1,2 Hebe へべ (2 mentions that Selen used to be called Hebe...)
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1,2,3 Gaia ガイア (2 an ex-town / 3 a person)
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1 Leaneira レアネイラ
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2 Reanira " (town is only mentioned in 2)
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1, 5 Miletus ミレトス (a palace in 1)
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3 Knossos クノッソス
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5 Cnossos
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3,5 Laconia ラコニア
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3,5 Sparta スパルタ
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3 Driskos ドリスコス
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5 Driscus
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3,5 Troy トロイ
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3 Bengaji べンガジ
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5 Benghazi
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3 Renz レンツ
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5 Lenz
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3,5 Trantia トランティア
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(8)------------------ DvD's Hacking & Translating Comments --------------------
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Hacking the menus was the toughest thing in this game. Expanding it from 7 to
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8 characters for the items was essential in getting items without any
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abbreviations like we have now. The problem was, this game draws the menus as
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2x2 tiles that exist all over the map based on where you are. So, suffice to
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say, it took an number of tries before I got it right. Also, I had more
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trouble than usual with the expansion.
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Lots of text in this game is not used. As usual, I analyzed every piece of
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text and all the code which accesses the text to determine which were being
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used and which weren't. I've added some text back in, always replacing the
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text for some NPCs that used to say "Hello!". Also, an entire area of the
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Heavenly Realm, which contained two NPCs, was completely inaccessible in the
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original Japanese game. I made it possible to easily go to this area. I kept
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the original way in which you leave the area intact.
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As usual, most of the time in this game was spent making sure that the text was
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correct, clear, and that all of the hints you needed were there. This was done
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by having beta testers attempt to play the game w/o any outside hints.
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Table Dumper Pro's disassembly was useful, as always. I added new features
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to the script inserter to handle inserting raw bytes mixed with text. Also,
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for Pocket Zaurus I added a feature to have multiple pointers to the same
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block. This wasn't essential for GoH, but made inserting the items list more
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automatic. What I also added to TDP, which REALLY helped with keeping track
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of all the final edits to the game, especially while KlD played it through the
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final time, were improvements to the file compare function. These improvements
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which show (a) what the text is, using tbl files, and (b) different separators
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for different gaps in the differing code, were EXTREMELY useful for keeping
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track of the final changes to the game as KlD played through it.
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ROM Expander Pro was recently created to be a generic platform user
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customizable way of expanding this game and all my games in the future.
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(9)--------------------- aishsha's Translating Comments -----------------------
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This was probably my first "global" cooperation with DvD who did a LOT of job
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studying this game all over. The game itself was quite poor on text and we
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spent a LOT of time together while checking the original typos and mistakes
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done by DECO developers whose knowledge on Ancient Greek history turned out to
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be so-so...
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Anyways, a great and a fun game - the first in the series, so it's a "must"
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for the series fan to try at the least. Enjoy - we were trying hard to bring
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it to you!
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(10)------------------------ KlD's Testing Comments ---------------------------
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This game turned out to be actually a pretty fun game. I love turn based RPG
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games, but I'm not the greatest at them. I tend to get a little frustrated
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when I don't know what to do next. Being pretty old-school, I did get stuck
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sometimes. Most of the time I simply had to re-read ALL of my notes and I
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could figure out what I needed to do. Anyplace that I got really stuck, I
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worked with DvD to fix up the in-game clues. The main hint I'd give has
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already been mentioned, but I'll repeat it: take advantage of the fact that
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the password does not save everything! It is the only way you can pass the
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game.
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By the way, I also played GoH 5 to get the monster/town/item names. It was way
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too easy and was totally linear. There was no challenge and I actually found
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it boring.
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(11)--------- Red Soul's Testing and Manual Manipulation Comments -------------
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I'm no newcomer to RPGs in general, having certainly experienced my fair share
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of them on several platforms. Heracles, though, was an experience that set its
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own standard for several reasons – playing it is like looking back in history
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and scratching the surface, look into the heart of a genre that even today,
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when the market is saturated with first person shooters, captures the hearts of
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so many.
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Potential players, I won't lie to you, Heracles will most likely feel like
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uncharted territory to many of the newer generations and on occasion, you will
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feel lost and overwhelmed, but believe me when I say, like a hard day, in the
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end it will be worth it. Each step taken in the right direction will award a
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great sense of fulfillment, that's the kind of sensation genre defining classics
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can impart.
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Having not only helped test the game during the second beta sweep, I also
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collaborated with DvD in composing the English version of the manual and while
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it was arduous at times, it was also rewarding and it gave me the certainty a
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high quality release would result of all the effort which I was happy to be
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part of.
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As for you player, stop reading my ramblings and go play this great game!
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Shoo, shoo!
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(12)---------------------- Project Timeline Highlights ------------------------
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Nov 6 2007 - Glory of Heracles project first considered
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Mar 3 2009 - Title screen graphics and code edited
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Mar 12 2009 - Initial script dumped
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Mar 16 2009 - Initial items dumped
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Sep 30 2009 - ROM Expanded
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Oct 2 2009 - First Items, Menus, and Menu Ptrs inserted
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Oct 5 2009 - Menus modified to handle 8 character items, the most complicated
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hack in the game
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Oct 7 2009 - Ready for first script
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Nov 16 2009 - Aishsha contacted for translating game
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Nov 30 2009 - First partial script inserted
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Apr 10 2010 - Ending translated & inserted
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Jun 16 2010 - Manual scanned
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Sep 14 2010 - Menus finalized
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Oct 24 2010 - DvD's alpha testing complete
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Dec 10 2010 - DvD's GoH 2 play through complete
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Feb 19 2011 - KlD's GoH 5 play through complete
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Mar 15 2011 - KlD's first beta test complete
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Aug 25 2011 - Manual graphics edited
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Aug 31 2011 - Manual translation inserted
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Sep 11 2011 - Manual title graphics edited (Wow, 10 years since THAT day.)
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Sep 25 2011 - KlD started final check of every line
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Dec 4 2011 - DvD's GoH 3 playthrough finally complete (thank you StrikeBomber)
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Dec 16 2011 - KlD's final checking of every line in the game complete
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Dec 22 2011 - ROM Expander Pro file created
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IPS patch file completed
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ReadMe completed
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Dec 23 2011 - Patch released
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(13)------------- Software & Hardware Used In This Translation ----------------
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* Emulator
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FCEUX 2.1.2
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by zeromus, adelikat (original and translation won't run in newer versions)
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* Flashcart
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PowerPak
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by RetroZone
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* Disassembler, Table Dumper, Script/Items/Menus Inserter, File Comparator
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Table Dumper Pro (ver 11.12.15)
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by DvD
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* Hex Editors
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WindHex32 2005.4.20
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by Genecyst East Software
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FCEUX 2.1.2
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by zeromus, adelikat
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Frhed 1.7.1
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by Raihan Kibria
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* Tile Editors
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Tile Layer Pro 1.0
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by Kent Hansen
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Tilemolester 0.16
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by Kent Hansen
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* Disassembled code manipulation, script editing, ReadMe creation,
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ROM Expander Pro file editing
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Notepad++
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by Don Ho and the rest of the Notepad++ team
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* IPS Patch File Creator
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Lunar IPS
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by FuSoYa
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* ROM Expansion
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ROM Expander Pro
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by DvD
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