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Kid Niki 3
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English to Japanese
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Translation
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v. 1.00
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-------------------------- DEDICATION & INSPIRATION ---------------------------
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This translation is dedicated to SnowBro. Not only did I use one of his tools
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to do the actual work (and would have used another if it worked in XP), I also
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used him personally. SnowBro is the kewlest Norwegian 6502 assembly hacker in
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the entire world!
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Lately, I've been listening to an Everclear compilation that I made myself, so
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that's what I'll credit with inspiring this particular translation.
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You know I want to be the way you want me to
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Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
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I would break in half if you said it loud
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Splinter out of myself just like mercury
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-Everclear "Nervous and Weird"
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------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------------
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I. Dedication & Inspiration
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II. Table of Contents
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III. Introduction
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IV. Version History
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V. Distribution Notes
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VI. Technical Notes
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VII. Staff
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VIII. Tools
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IX. Patching Instructions (** READ THIS BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS!! **)
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X. Contact Information
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XI. Closing
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--------------------------------- INTRODUCTION --------------------------------
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Kid Niki 3 is the second sequel to Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, which was released
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in America in 1987. It's quite an improvement over the first with Niki having
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added several new moves to his arsenal.
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In a highly original storyline, Kid Niki must rescue Princess Kurumi from
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his worst enemy, the evil Stone Wizard! What? That doesn't sound very original?
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True, but how often does the hero find out that his beloved has been kidnapped
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via a message written on a paper airplane? Pure genius, I tell you!
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-------------------------------- VERSION HISTORY -------------------------------
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v. 1.00 - February 28, 2003
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What's Complete
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- all text translated
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- minor graphics hacks (title screen, ending screen and 2 in game quotes)
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What's Incomplete
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- nothing that I am aware of
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------------------------------ DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------------------
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This Kid Niki 3 translation should be distributed in a file named kn3e100.zip
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and should contain the following files:
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kn3ev100.ips - the translation patch
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kn3ev100.txt - this readme file
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kn3-man.txt - a manual for the game
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kn3-fixed.ips - a patch that corrects the Mapper 19 hack.
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These files are (C)opyright 2003 by Suicidal Translations. All rights reserved.
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You may distribute this translation in any manner you desire as long as the
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original archive remains intact with no modifications and the archive is
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distributed free of charge.
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Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen is (C)opyright 1993 by Irem
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------------------------------- TECHNICAL NOTES -------------------------------
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There wasn't a whole lot of text in the game, just the introduction to the
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bonus stage and the ending, along with a couple of graphics, so everything is
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more or less accurate to it's original meaning. The poor English used when Niki
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yells WILL HELP YOU! is intentional, based on the opening scene of the original
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Kid Niki game.
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The full Japanese title of the game is Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu!
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Zouringen which literally translates into Swift Hero Yanchamaru 3 - Showdown!
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Zouringen. I went with Kid Niki rather than Swift Hero Yanchamaru since the game
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is known in the U.S. as Kid Niki. I was going to add a subtitle of Stone Wizard
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Showdown but the title screen is a bit of a pain to hack, so I ended up leaving
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it off.
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Ok, now for the really technical part. There are 4 different Kaiketsu Yanchamaru
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3 ROMs. The original (correct) dump, a bad dump, a Mapper 19 hack and another
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mapper hack labeled as a Nesticle hack that only slightly differs from the first
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Mapper 19 hack. So to which ROM do you need to apply the translation patch?
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Here's the kicker... none of the above.
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See, the original game uses a mapper that doesn't seem to be emulated properly
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by any emulator. I tried FCE Ultra, Nesten, NNNesterJ and anything else I could
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get my hands on and they all had the same problem, an intense hatred of epilepsy
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sufferers. The game flashes like a disco ball on crack. On the other hand, the
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Mapper 19 hack fixes the flashing problem, however, upon reaching the final
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boss, I discovered that the Mapper 19 hack had a problem that the original
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didn't, the boss graphic was glitched.
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Enter the all mighty SnowBro. In short, SnowBro ripped the ROM to pieces,
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figured out what was wrong with the Mapper 19 hack and fixed it.
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The kn3-fixed.ips file should be applied to the original ROM. This will create
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a proper Mapper 19 hack. You must then apply the kn3ev100.ips patch to that in
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order to have a fully translated game.
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SnowBro also went through hell helping me with the title screen hack. The
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graphics were uncompressed but the name and attribute tables were apparently
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put into place by someone smoking Japan's finest crack. I wouldn't understand
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what exactly he did to fix the problem but suffice to say, he worked hard and
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deserves more thanks than I can afford to give at the moment. I think he spent
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more time changing the palette used by about 24 tiles than I did inputing the
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English text.
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GoodNES calls the ROM Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen (J). Your best
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bet for locating the ROM is to check a full GoodNES archive, though you should
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import the original cartridge from a shichiya (Japanese for pawn shop) for the
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sake of legality.
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------------------------------------ STAFF ------------------------------------
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Hacking:
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InVerse - http://www.pigtails.net/ST
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SnowBro - http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kenth/
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Translating:
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Shih Tzu - http://www.flammie.net/vse/
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Oogami - Spongeriffic!
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Huge thanks to SnowBro for all his ASM skills. Thanks to Shih Tzu for the
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translation of the ending via MO's board and Oogami for the bonus game
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translation via MSN. Also, thanks to a_nevels666 for the translation of the
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title screen.
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------------------------------------ TOOLS ------------------------------------
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The following tools were used for this translation:
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Hexecute: hex editing
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Tile Layer Pro: graphics hacking & font insertion
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IPS XP: patch creation
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Most of these tools, as well as ROM hacking tutorials, can be downloaded from
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The Repository (http://www.romhacking.com).
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----------------------------- PATCHING INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------
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Patching a ROM is extremely simple. You need three things. A ROM, the patch and
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a patching program. To patch with ips.exe, you simply type:
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ips <ROM name> <patch name>
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So if your ROM was named kn3.nes and the patch was named kn3ev100.ips you
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would type:
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ips kn3.nes kn3ev100.ips
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Make sure you have the ROM, the patch and IPS in the same directory.
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To patch with SNES Tool, simply select USE IPS, choose the patch and then
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select the ROM to which you wish to apply the patch. It's self explanatory. If
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you can't figure it out, the game is probably too hard for you anywayz.
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To patch with IPSWin, you simply select the ROM you want to patch, the patch
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you wish to apply and then click Patch. Once again, if you can't figure it out,
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the game is probably too hard for you.
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------------------------------ CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------------------
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The official Kid Niki 3 english translation home page is currently located
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at http://www.pigtails.net/ST
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E-Mail addresses concerning the project can be located on the official page.
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Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, ask for ROMs. You will not only be denied,
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you will have your request for illegal files forwarded to your ISP.
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------------------------------------- CLOSING ----------------------------------
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So there you have it. Have fun and remember, it's just a game.
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-InVerse |