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#7309 - snocap - Sat Jun 14, 2003 5:58 pm

hi,before I order MBV2 Multi Boot Version 2 I was wondering if you can perform a text dump into a official gba cart and modify the text from japanese to english in a japanese imported gba game???


thanx

#7339 - tepples - Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:04 pm

snocap wrote:
hi,before I order MBV2 Multi Boot Version 2 I was wondering if you can perform a text dump into a official gba cart and modify the text from japanese to english in a japanese imported gba game???

Provided you have a translation patch and a flash cart, you can do this:
  1. Dump your Japanese game: mb -1 japanese_game.gba -w 200
  2. Apply translation patch downloaded from Zophar's Domain or elsewhere.
  3. Write the patched game to a flash cart: mb -p patched.gba -w 200

You can't automatically translate the text (a human has to do this), and you can't overwrite a mask ROM Game Pak (you need a flash cart).
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