Firebird English Translation

Nice job!

So, I was right about at least one of the secret projects that are the great hobby of MSX Translations, contrary to an answer on 18/09/13 :

http://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/software/fray-translation-...

Let's not forget that Django was the first to translate Hinotori, it could have been mentioned in the news ...

YYYYYYYEEES! One of my absolute fave MSX games get's the proper translation it so deserves. Me, I'm a happy fella.

Great Job Guys...

You can create your own Hinotori passwords on MY WEBSITE
or with my Hinotori Password generator (Windows)

Mars2000: actually back in 18/09/2013 there was no work being done on Firebird at all. We didn't know it would be released at this time either. All of the work was in 2014 so it was no smoke and mirrors back then.

The first translation I made for Hinotori was back in 2003. Some of the current icons even stem from that version. But a lot of others I didn't like enough. And I wasn't able to create the extra space for the texts I wanted by myself. That's why (amongst other reasons) it got shelved.

Django's full translation is quite nice too and if people want to play that, more power to you. Why it was not on the news (wasn't it?) I wouldn't know...

The project we were talking about back then is a project someone else did actually guess back then and he knows he did. That project is soon to be announced.

But the translated equivalent does...

We kept some that were already proper English. Others like enddemogamitaina which are basically Japanese we translated. It was a choice. Level passwords are unchanged.

= Same - Old + New

= HAYAME
= METALSLAVE
= ULTRABOX

- SUPERBALL
+ SUPERSPHERE
- KOKOWADOKO
+ WHEREAMI
- AUTOSHOT
+ AUTOFIRE
- ILOVEHINOTORI
+ ILOVEFIREBIRD
- NANDANANDANANDA
+ WHATWHATWHAT
- ENDDEMOGAMITAINA
+ IWANTTOSEETHEENDDEMO
- DOKODEMOMAP
+ MAPTOANYWHERE

? HANEYOKAGAYAKE -> Shiny Feathers ?
? FULLITEMDAYOON
? GAOOOOOOOOOOH
? KINOOOIHITODANE
? TURBO
? HOIHOIHOINOHOI

Mars, you could try IWANTTOSEETHEENDDEMO

enddemogamitaina is indeed an MSX cult password everybody knows and therefore should not have been scratched.

I guess that an additionnal IPS patch restoring the original passwords is required

Wow! So many simultaneous nice news! Even more than I have free time to comment!

But I had to comment on this one. Thank you so much again for translating another gem.

I just couldn't grasp exactly why the King Kong 2 is required to allow savegames... Can't the needed routines be included in the patch?

And it's optional so that if you want to save it the regular way for instance you still can.

If you want to be invulnerable during the game, you allso could
apply the Ulver crack IPS patch

With ILOVEFIREBIRD you can't walk thru walls, with the Ulver crack you can

@ AlexF: That is nice, I will add link to it on the translation page.

I will also add link to larsthe18th's web page with password generator.

Thanks Mars2000

Did you perhaps found out the missing english TRANSLATED passwords ?

In stead of SUPERBALL, it's not SUPERSPHERE but SUPERSPHERES

@ sd_snatcher: HINOTORI has built-in subroutines to save King Kong 2 to tape. Now they changed to SRAM save. So you need to patch HINOTORI ROM and run King Kong 2 with Hinotori inserted.

Your patch breaks the translation. How can I enjoy it now?

If you don't have the intention to use the english translation, just don't apply this patch!

Seriously, you've broken all the statue texts. Did you test your patch at all?

I have patched the game with the 4 patches included in the zip file. When I press F2 and choose a different weapon the game is frozen and rubbish appears on the screen. Tested on a real MSX Turbo R and 8245.

There is another bug in the beginning of Level 5.
When you touch the first firebird-statue on your right a message appears.
Normally you can continue by pressing the space bar.
Nothing happens, the text box doesn't disappear.
But the music keeps playing.

tested in openmsx
patched rom with english ips and original passwords ips.

Why did you argue with me when I told you that 9 hours ago...

Ok, with the GoodMSX´s rom the game works fine in real MSX.

Hi everyone, I'm looking forward to experiencing FIrebird in English for the first time. I guess I missed out on this classic. : )

Just one small issue I've run into, I was attempting to patch the Hinotori.rom with the 3 different IPS patches and I don't think I had success. I applied the patches in this order, using the IPS patcher program called Lunar IPS. I first did the EN patch, then the Turbo patch (since I'm running this on a Turbo R GT) and then lastly the KK Fix patch. Unfortunately this results in an unplayable rom that when I try to flash it to either the MegaFlashRom or MegaFlashRom SD. Oddly it finds it to be using an R-Type mapper by default, whereas the original uses the Konami mapper. I can force these settings such as using /K4 to make it a Konami Mapper type and it will write it, but it won't run when I boot up the MSX.

Is my patching process incorrect? Perhaps Lunar IPS is not a good program for this?

Thanks for your help!

-Thomas

Great! Worked like a charm, thanks for the heads up. I must have missed a crucial step to all of this. Now to figure out how to get it to work with KingKong2, GameMaster 2, MSX-Audio and the Slot Expander. : )

Thanks again guys for working on this.

I live in the United States, and I'm trying to think of a two letter city name, the only thing I can come up with is "DC" which is short for Washington DC. : ) So something.... D___ C___? lol

"DR.CHAOS!"... oh wait, wrong system.

-Thomas

@ TheSpecialist: Good guess

Fantastic work, guys! I'll try to reach the english ending asap

BTW, translating the japanese passwords is a nice touch

About the clue about the secret project, I thought about LA and Last Armageddon... but I think there's to much to translate there!

I guess we are not afraid?

ys ys baby

OMG, how have I only just found this patch!

One of my fav MSX2 games!! Nice

Just (re)started playing this game. Finished it very often as a kid without knowing what was going on besidess the shooting. This translation gives some hints what to do so that's very nice, in game...
It's just that there are so many items of which I have no clue what they're about, so I found a pdf of the manual... In Japaneeeeese... Darn...
Anyone up for a translation of the manual? Or any translated game in particular?

Edit: Forgot my ignorance. It was already translated and I found it after a bit of google

I don't know for Firebird, but I do have a version of Parodius where I did this. More than 20 years ago I rewrote the loader and converted the whole game into a single file. Effectively, this was what we call a ROM file today with a custom loader. I could apply the Parodius translation patch to this file. I didn't work out of the box, because the cracked ROM file had a few changes and the patch would overwrite them. But they were just a few bytes and I could simply set those back to their cracked values. That's how I got a translated Parodius that loads from disk.

Haha, I'm a bit oldskool. Sometimes I forget the progress that has been made the last 20 years.

Very nice,
I remeber fiddling with these password hashes back then,
there were multiple results for the same password if I remember correctly ?

For example these passwords allso work:
KUE = TURBO
OWL = SUPERSPHERES
SMO = TURBO
WOF = SUPERSPHERES

You can use the [CODE ] [/CODE ] blocks to post code [SHIFT] + [ALT] + [D] ....
Or a link to GitHub would also work

Looking forward to see your code.