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93 lines
3.6 KiB
Castle Quest Translation V 1.0
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Check out
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http://spookytornado.wordpress.com
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for updates!
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Credits -
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Romhacking - Dustin Hubbard
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Translators - John Rosewicki & Mathieu Charette
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Instructions On How To Use -
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Use an IPS patching program and apply the patch to an
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unmodiefied Castle Quest Japanese ROM. I cannot provide
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you with the rom so please do not ask me. Look for it
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yourself on the internet. For an IPS Patching program
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visit www.romhacking.net and find one there under Utilities.
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I like Lunar IPS myself.
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Game Information -
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Castle Quest is basically a pretty neat chess knockoff
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for the NES with RPG battles. Each piece has its own
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attributes and magic powers. You move the pieces around
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the chessboard and when they land on each other they go
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into a battle. Each piece then takes turns with cards,
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if the card rolled is higher than the opponents defense
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you will do damage, if not you will miss and lose a
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turn. Magic plays a huge role as well as it can be used
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on the chessboard to wreck havoc or heal your own
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units. The game is a lot of luck but also a lot of
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strategy too especially when it comes to magic. The
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later levels are ridiculously hard though and I
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honestly had to use save states to beat most of them.
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But very fun to play against another human player!
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And you can make your own boards as well.
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Project Information -
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Castle Quest was a game that was supposed to be released
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in the US under the name "Triumph". I remember being a
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kid and seeing it in Nintendo Power and wanting to play
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it badly. However, for some reason it never was though
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it was released in Europe for Gameboy. The Gameboy
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version while in English was missing quite a few bits
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of the NES version and of course didn't look as good.
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So I decided what the heck, I would romhack and
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translate it. I started the project approximately in
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March 09 and have finished it in March 10 after going
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back and forth on it for months when I got bored and
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had some freetime. It's by no means a quality hacking
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job as I am not a very experienced rom hacker. I
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couldn't figure out the pointer tables so some of the
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text had to be quite butchered to fit. And it had a
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lot of oddball Japanese humor that I couldn't really
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understand but tried to translate the best I could.
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I welcome anybody else to improve this hack and will
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gladly provide them with my materials if they want
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to give it a shot.
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Now that said here are some "bugs" -
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The name and password screens I unfortunately kinda
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screwed up due to how I setup the English alphabet
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in the ROM and didn't realize it until it was too
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late. All the capital letters are there but not all
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the lowercase so when you fill in your name I'd
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recommend just using uppercase. I have made all the
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passwords in uppercase though so you can still use
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those. Though they're kinda silly to use with
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emulator save states.
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For some reason random letters like Z and X etc
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appear in messages through the game most notably
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the battles. I could not figure out how to remove
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these as they must be hard coded into the game
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somehow. I could've blanked out the letters it used
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but again I realized this much too late.
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The tutorial throws in the statement "Cards are Used"
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at one point which it shouldn't. I wasn't able to
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figure out why it did this either. Just ignore it.
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While this is the first official release and I have
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played through it completely and then some I won't
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be surprised if I missed something or there are
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errors. Please send me any you find and I may do an
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update patch to fix them in the future. My e-mail is
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hardcorehubz@yahoo.com
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