Breath Of Fire 2

Post by **badinsults** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:30 am

d4s is back at it again, this time with Breath of Fire 2. He is not only coordinating a full retranslation, but so much more. Have a look yourself:

http://bof2.blogspot.com/

It is simply amazing.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:33 am

Wow, it's pretty much a remake.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:38 am

LobStar's doing the English re-translation? Cool.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:23 am

*Chokes* Wait. They're translating to German, then translating to English? Isn't that naturally a bad idea?

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:54 am

That's great, but the reason I (and many people, I imagine) play that game is purely for nostalgia. BoF2 wouldn't be BoF2 without all the funny mistranslated lines. =p

I'll still get it though. Looks pretty good.

LobStar · Post by **LobStar** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:06 am

Actually I'm just adding "flare" using the japanese script to get some idea of what supposed to be going on. I haven't played the game and haven't gotten very far in the script, been working on something very dear to me at the moment.

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:02 am

Excellent. But what's the deal with translating it to german, and then english?

Tomato · Post by **Tomato** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:53 am

Wow, some pretty sweet work there

For a VERY short time me and Gideon were thinking of retranslating BoF2, but then we both got too busy. Glad to see someone tackling it, and a remake of it is like

For fun, here are some dumb screens from the game, yay!
http://tomato.fobby.net/old/junk/bof2_1.png - Uh oh, your control code is showing

http://tomato.fobby.net/old/junk/bof2_2.png - Me is.
http://tomato.fobby.net/old/junk/bof2_3.png - Makes no sense unless you know Japanese

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:02 pm

This guy spent all this time doing such nice hacking work and new eye candy, yet he didn't put in a VWF!? That makes no sense to me. The script, grammar, and text readability is the main point of retranslating this game. I do applaud what he has done, but from a fellow translation hacker to another, I do find the lack of VWF at the expense of graphic whore eye candy(It's still damn cool though) to be a flaw in his work. The text should be number one before other unnecessary additions or extras.

Anybody find an e-mail address for that guy? I don't see one.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:19 pm

You've already discussed this with him, if you want to discuss VWF more, here you go:
http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3217

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:54 pm

LobStar wrote:been working on something very dear to me at the moment.

Holy

tell me
the sekrit

do it.
Has it anything to do with CS

talk or i choke you

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:07 pm

grinvader wrote:
LobStar wrote:been working on something very dear to me at the moment.
Holy

tell me
the sekrit

do it.
Has it anything to do with CS

talk or i choke you

Hahahaha. I think I already know. Just try me.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:14 pm

grinvader wrote: talk or i choke you

Perfect, the choke someone over the internet device was discovered long ago, I just never realized it...

Louis Cypher · Post by **Louis Cypher** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:58 pm

Nightcrawler wrote:This guy spent all this time doing such nice hacking work and new eye candy, yet he didn't put in a VWF!? That makes no sense to me. The script, grammar, and text readability is the main point of retranslating this game. I do applaud what he has done, but from a fellow translation hacker to another, I do find the lack of VWF at the expense of graphic whore eye candy(It's still damn cool though) to be a flaw in his work. The text should be number one before other unnecessary additions or extras.

Anybody find an e-mail address for that guy? I don't see one.

He did add one, it was just recently though and he hasn't posted screens of it to the blog. He's also added multiple fonts.

Carnivol · Post by **Carnivol** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:29 pm

I just love the look on this one... Guess this one'll end up on a cartridge once it's done ^^

LobStar · Post by **LobStar** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:30 pm

Agozer wrote:
grinvader wrote:
LobStar wrote:been working on something very dear to me at the moment.
Holy

tell me
the sekrit

do it.
Has it anything to do with CS

talk or i choke you
Hahahaha. I think I already know. Just try me.

Its not what you think, and I'd rather not discuss it in public :/

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:38 pm

LobStar wrote:
Agozer wrote:
grinvader wrote:
LobStar wrote:been working on something very dear to me at the moment.
Holy

tell me
the sekrit

do it.
Has it anything to do with CS

talk or i choke you
Hahahaha. I think I already know. Just try me.
Its not what you think, and I'd rather not discuss it in public :/

Ok. Fair enough.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:44 pm

Nach wrote:You've already discussed this with him, if you want to discuss VWF more, here you go:
http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3217

Haha.. you're right! I did have a slight feeling of deja vu. Thanks for pointing that out.

After I wrote my response today, I got a private message. Suffice to say, I no longer have a need to carry on this discussion.

Should be interesting to see the finished patch in the future.

D4s has gotten to play around with and learn alot of SNES features. I'm interested to see some of the HDMA intro effects and Hi-Res mode useage. I'm actually somewhat inspired to actually do some sort of cool intro to my next patch release demonstrating my own SNES coding skills. I wonder how many hours he spent on all the 'extra' stuff in there.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:24 pm

LobStar wrote:
Agozer wrote:
grinvader wrote:
LobStar wrote:been working on something very dear to me at the moment.
Holy

tell me
the sekrit

do it.
Has it anything to do with CS

talk or i choke you
Hahahaha. I think I already know. Just try me.
Its not what you think, and I'd rather not discuss it in public :/

Then why mention it in the first place? You know people are gonna ask.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:06 am

I will definately play this again.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:13 am

It really looks cool. I hope it doesn't get released so quietly that no one notices since it's already an english game.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:40 am

Looks amazing. I wonder if they plan on redoing any of the sprits or town graphics.

It would really be amazing to see more works like this.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:38 pm

It would be pretty nice to see more fan remakes like this. At least from a translation perspective, all the games I'm currently working on take so damn long just to do the basic translation on it, I'm not about to invest another large amount of time remaking part of the game. They take long enough as it is. The other reason you don't see too many hacks like this is there are limited people with the SNES coding skills necessary to do so!

If you really get into the pure romhacking side of the scene though, there are quite a few impressive hacks out there already. Alot of them are Mario World and Zelda 3 hacks though due to the advanced editors available for them. They are good nontheless. And there are plenty others aside from those.

Magusx · Post by **Magusx** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:08 am

May i suggest a remake of a Chrono Trigger over this? hehe

d4s · Post by **d4s** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:18 am

Magusx wrote:May i suggest a remake of a Chrono Trigger over this? hehe

plain and simple: no.

i've implemented a vwf, but i'm still working on the autoformatting part.
screenshots will follow once i'm done with that.