If you’ve been following my other thread you know that Benjamin Stevens and I are working on translating Virtual Fishing which is the only VB game that hasn’t been translated so far. While Ben did the translation part I did the patching of the ROM.

The ROM is almost done. The only things are missing are the logo on the start screen, the header on the stage selection (both of them are images, not text) and the player names on the all times records screen. The images should be rather easy to patch while the player names seem tricky. I still plan to patch theses things but I might not get to it in the near future.

As all of these are not actually needed to play the game I decided to release the ROM in this state. Also, everyone is asked to play the game and try to find screens that are not translated yet. They will either be in Japanese or just look glitchy. If you happen to find one of those screen please post the exact conditions under which you got to said screen so that I can reproduce them. A screenshot and savegame might also help.

Have fun playing.

Attachments:

1. fishing.patched_pad.v.0.1.zip

Fantastic work! Would love a CIB copy of this 🙂

Looks amazing – hats off! 🙂

Awesome job! If any Japanese game needed a translation this is the one!

Thanks so much!

Also would be interested in buying a repro if anyone is working on one.

Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

Seam wrote:
Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

If I get a chance this weekend I’ll try to record some and post it.

I am gonna try this on my Flashboy soon! Thanks, I’ve owned the Japanese version CIB for 5 years but never could play it.

mellott124 wrote:

Seam wrote:
Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

If I get a chance this weekend I’ll try to record some and post it.

awesome, thanks!

they pop-up on ebay from time to time but i’ve no idea of those PCBs have a battery or not. rumor is an official run from our local crew of repro makers is also in the works.

Seam wrote:
Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

I’ve posted a video of the early menu translation here:
https://youtu.be/zKpgE3Jq6HM

I made another video showing most parts which I apparently never uploaded. I will see if I find it tomorrow.

thunderstruck wrote:

Seam wrote:
Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

I’ve posted a video of the early menu translation here:
https://youtu.be/zKpgE3Jq6HM

I made another video showing most parts which I apparently never uploaded. I will see if I find it tomorrow.

nice, thanks!

Seam wrote:

thunderstruck wrote:

Seam wrote:
Is there a video of this english patched version anywhere? I couldn’t find one on youtube.

I’ve posted a video of the early menu translation here:
https://youtu.be/zKpgE3Jq6HM

I made another video showing most parts which I apparently never uploaded. I will see if I find it tomorrow.

nice, thanks!

There you go: https://youtu.be/ZJkKtEfrxtM

no audio?

thunderstruck wrote:
There you go: https://youtu.be/ZJkKtEfrxtM

Hey! Don’t think I didn’t see you selecting me as a female.

😉

Seam wrote:
no audio?

Nope

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

thunderstruck wrote:
There you go: https://youtu.be/ZJkKtEfrxtM

Hey! Don’t think I didn’t see you selecting me as a female.

😉

🙂

This is amazing! I had the patched one that still had the Japanese title screen and some other Japanese things in the game. This looks amazing with the full translation!

I know someone posted the translated instructions somewhere too, so I need to get that since I have no clue how to pull the damn fish back once it bites!

UHATEIT wrote:
This is amazing! I had the patched one that still had the Japanese title screen and some other Japanese things in the game. This looks amazing with the full translation!

I know someone posted the translated instructions somewhere too, so I need to get that since I have no clue how to pull the damn fish back once it bites!

Yeah, I needed a break and released the half done translation. The remaining screens actually didn’t took that much work. But damn, that work was annoying.

WOAW incredible, like ever a fantastic work <3
Thanks a lot ...

[Sketcz]

Necro bump, but I found a bug in v1.0 so thought I’d post.

Playing patched v1.0 and really enjoying it. Several of the tournies are quite difficult, so I did two of them, the easier ones at the north of the map, and then did the one furthest south (skipping two others), since the signal to reel in was easy to recognise (second small bend in the rod). It was catfish.

So I reel in a huge amount. Like double what the next highest fisher-person got.

And then they say congrats in English.

And then a new dialogue screen opened up. I would say 4 lines of text, all gibberish since the font was replaced. Any idea what this was? I can find no longplays in English on YouTube, only JP longplays. Which is weird. because they’re emulating, and this patch has been out for 4 years at least, and the emulated longplays are like from last year?

So I feel like people don’t really know this is available in English now.

But anyway. Four lines of dialogue were left untranslated, after beating the catfish tournament early, before the others, and I presume it relates to unlocking the next course? Which I was then able to access.

I did not get any photos of this. Playing on FlashBoy+. Nervous about reflashing it in case my save is deleted. But I think it should be fine as long as it’s the same game.

Obviously I can’t re-access this dialogue without resetting and playing over from the start.

If you need any more info please let me know. 🙂

Is it possible I’m playing a badly patched ROM? The title screen is in English. Does anyone have a longplay video of the English version?

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Sketcz.