Wikifang:Telefang 1 Translation Patch

Welcome! This page follows the updates on the Telefang 1 Translation Patch (currently active on Tulunk Village).

Started out as a vision and a thought, the members of Tulunk Village worked together to work towards what one day we would all achieve - a completely translated Telefang 1, as a proper English replacement to supersede the currently infamous bootlegged version.

Although still a work in progress, one day we can all realize this dream.

Links:
Text dump and translations ・ Graphics ・ Bank map ・ RAM map ・ Malias compression
Known bugs ・ Things to do
Thread on Tulunk Village

Latest version

The latest version is v89 Sanky

• Updated Kimbles' translations
• Corrected evolution graphics which were crashing before.

Originally (Japanese version):

 0x1d - bank 0x4d +   0x65c9 (0x1365c9), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
 0x1e - bank 0x4d +   0x622e (0x13622e), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
 0x1f - bank 0x4d +   0x648d (0x13648d), 0x190 bytes compressed read in  0x9400

In v88 the graphics have mysteriously dematerialized. Now:

0x1d - bank 0x61 +   0x4000 (0x184000), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
0x1e - bank 0x61 +   0x4350 (0x184350), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
0x1f - bank 0x61 +   0x46e3 (0x1846e3), 0x190 bytes not compressed read in  0x9400

The first two are backgrounds and need not to be changed. The second one is the CANNOT EVOLVE text, which we might want to change (I fudged it a bit), so it's uncompressed. Yay! http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch89.ips

Changelog

Version 1

By andwhyisit

• Added the english text characters in the rom
• Added all the english move names

http://fast.filespace.org/andwhyisit/TelefangMenuPatch.ips (link dead)

Version 2

By andwhyisit

• Name input, attack names and denjuu names

http://www.mediafire.com/?4yflnptly8y

Version 3

By andwhyisit

• The symbol for Chiru has been replaced
• Fangs renamed to Fungus with all the evolutions following suit
• All of the Evolutionary Stages are written out in full apart from "Super Machine Denjuu" which was shortened to "S.Machine Denjuu".

http://www.mediafire.com/?lddymatjmvo

Version 4

By Blaziken257

• Intro inserted in rom
• Added "NAV" to the bottom
• Changed font to a Pokémon-like one

Added text such as:

• "Give nickname?"
• "Fight/Status/Run" (I guessed on Fight and Run, but I know "Position" is supposed to say "Status")
• "____ has challenged you!"
• The T-Fanger Stranded Child (I called it "S. CHILD" due to the 8-character limit)
• "Save number?"
• "Critical!!" (I know I got this one right)
• Changed "Kryptoraid" to "Kryptoride" and "Kryptoarmor" to "Kryptoarm", but I didn't change any other Denjuu names

etc. http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1494247

Version 5

By andwhyisit

• Made some name adjustments plus cleaned up alot of the squashed effect with the names.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ifvznqpr3m6

Version 5.1

By Blaziken257

• Added "___ appeared!"
• Changed "Escape" to "Run"
• Added the "Fight"/"Run" text in the battle screen
• Added the types (used the same ones as the bootleg, because there's a 4-character limit, but I capitalized "Wood")

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1495075

Version 6

By Blaziken257

• Replaced "You defeated the enemy Denjuu!" with "The enemy Denjuu were defeated!" It means the same thing, but you don't have to worry about the was/were thing.
• Edited the screen where you pick your Denjuu. If you have none, it now says "- None -" and the top-right says "Pg."

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1495784

Version 7

By Blaziken257

• When viewing the D-Shot on a regular Game Boy, it loads different tilesets (from $1E4000-$1E7FFF, as opposed to $1EC000-$1EFFFF). Those buttons were redisigned, but only for the monochrome Game Boy so that we could still have the already existing ones.
• Added "ISOLATE" as a T-Fanger.
• Added the "NO SIGNAL" icon on the bottom left.
• Changed "___'s attack! ___!" to "___ used ___!" because of the text length issue.

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1498440

Version 8

By andwhyisit

• discovered where the preset name is (it is limited to 3 characters and each character is stored separate from each other), attempted to squeeze Shigeki into the 3 tiles.
• cleaned up names, renamed "Krypto" to "Crypto" (in both the Denjuu names and Dialoue text), and added the 's symbol (hex value 06).

http://www.mediafire.com/?655woxsybdm

Version 9

By Blaziken257

• Translated Crypto's picture book entry. Scrunched down so that it fits two lines.
• Changed "___ used ___!" to "___'s move! ___!" There weren't any issues with text wrapping here.
• Revamped the phone button graphics to the Game Boy Color. In case anybody liked the old ones better, THOSE were moved to the Game Boy ones for now. Also added are the Speed buttons, unused.
• Added "You received ___ mail messages." There were different lines of text for each number (1-4), so there weren't any singular/plural issues.
• The NO SIGNAL fixed.
• Fixed the chopped off 0 on the phone.
• Added "I tell you my phone number!" because I got tired of looking at the garbled text, though since I just took it from Diamond, it's probably inaccurate.

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1516892

Version 10

By Blaziken257
A lot of translations of battle messages, plus:

• Added in Toronko Village and Kurinon Village as map locations; check them out.
• Switched the lowercase and uppercase buttons, but didn't change the entries yet.
• Copied all the Denjuu Arrive/Denjuu Attack phrases from the Diamond ROM
• Added "___ arrived!" when a Denjuu arrives.
• Added the Smoke status effect. Called it "Fog" for now.
• Added "Are you sure?" when you selected your Denjuu.
• Added "Go! _____!" when fighting a T-Fanger.

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1530618

Version 11

By andwhyisit

• Fixed the name entry values

http://www.mediafire.com/?dbmhom4mjd2

Version 12

By Blaziken257

• Added Kimbles' battle translations

http://z15.invisionfree.com/Tulunk_Village/?act=Attach&type=post&id=1592847

Version 13

By andwhyisit

• The "You have # messages" tiles are done.
• "Ok!" stamp is done, with palette changes of course!
• Item names done.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ml0kozmn2hu

Version 14

By Sanky

• Added Cancel in menu and "No Items".

http://sanky.master.sweb.cz/TelefangPowerV14.ips

Version 14.1

By Sanky

• Made Cancel and No Items look better.

http://sanky.master.sweb.cz/TelefangPatchV14dot1.ips

Version 15

By andwhyisit

• Added personalities and status effects

http://www.mediafire.com/?th23nmhegjw

Version 16

By Blaziken257

• Added Kimbles' shop text.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gz2ezzzmzyz

Version 17

By Blaziken257

• Added most of the dialogue in Toronko Water Station, up to part of the way when you wake up Nejiro.
• Made all the shop text point to one place, freeing some space.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bxnmny2mnmj

Version 18

By Blaziken257

• Rest of the translated stuff for Kakuza Party done.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y1dj2rzdzwn

Version 19

By Blaziken257

• Toronko Village dialogue almost done.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m0gemyzdjyx

Version 20

By andwhyisit

• The word "Denjuu" can now be accessed with the code E56600.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mtyc0ommkyg

Version 21

Skipped.

Version 22

By andwhyisit

• The default name is now "Shigeki".

http://www.mediafire.com/?0mzmqzrljlm

Versions 23-25

Andwhyisit's in-house developtment versions.

• v23 and v24 contained the fix for the E5 code words but aside from that they were mostly failed attempts.
• v25 contained Kimbles font and that E5 code word fix (which I pulled from v24). I was set to release v25, but I waited until v26 was done instead.
• v26 contains the rest of the updates mentioned..

Version 26

By andwhyisit

• Changed the font to Kimbles' font
• Cleaned up some code
• Cleaned up the look of the Denjuu names so that it doesn't look ugly
• Updated the Denjuu names to match the wiki
• Skipped three versions

http://www.mediafire.com/?m20nj14t0wx

Version 27

By andwhyisit

• Made the promised fixes
  • Changed the T-Fanger ISOLATE to KAKUZA
  • Fixed minor cases of double characters in wrong places
• Made the attack list header read "Moves"

http://www.mediafire.com/?wfwonznomzy

Version 28

By Sanky

• All the map label text is now translated
• Made "Cancel" in the menu look better again since Andwhyisit probably skipped version 14.1, to go with the soon-to-be-added translated menu.

http://www.sankysoft.com/tulunk/TelefangPatchV28.ips

Version 29

By andwhyisit

• Created some asm code to allow running asm code from the previously empty bank 1.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kotnb5gygmx

Version 30

By Sanky

• Replaced the place names with correct translations (see here).

http://www.sankysoft.com/tulunk/TelefangPatchV30.ips

Version 31

By Malias

• Added a working variable width font feature!
  • Width table is located at 2FB00.

http://www.mediafire.com/?njzy2dmhl3j

Version 32

By Blaziken257

• Modified the font to work with Malias' variable width hack.

http://www.mediafire.com/?njzy2dmhl3j

Version 33

Skipped by Sanky for unknown reasons. Shame on him! (okay actually this version had the modified intro but not the other changes)

Version 34

By Sanky

• Title screen now says "POWER VERSION".
• New lines in the intro are modified to make full use of the VWF.
• Labels on the map when you press start are done (again!). Includes full names like Toronko Village instead of Toronko Vill.. The only shortening is Pepperi Mount., because Pepperi Mountain didn't fit by one character.

http://www.sankysoft.com/tulunk/TelefangPatchV34.ips

Version 35

By andwhyisit

• Solved a problem with the VWF code.

http://www.mediafire.com/?pttatgp7pog6mg9

Version 36-38

By andwhyisit: v36: Ported back over the changes from v29. v37: Didn't go anywhere really. Dropped v37 and started the counter back up at v38 because v37 was going in the wrong direction and needed to be scrapped and stated again from v36. v38: Restructured some of the VWF code to make it easier to read.

Version 39

By andwhyisit

• Rewrote all suspect "LD (nn),A" and "LD A,(nn)" in the code so that they wrote to and read from an otherwise unused section of ram. THIS FIXES THE DENJUU CALL GLITCH.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y5v2owpiwc3cp0r

Version 40

By Sanky

• Made various ASM fixes to get rid of the disappearing first character bug:

Made this change:
3E 08      ld a,08
3E 07      ld a,07
on the following adresses:
Status screen personality  - 9164
"Fight" upon opening moves - 14CCA
In-battle Denjuu names     - 17633
                             142F0
                             
Additional in-battle Denjuu name fixes:
ROM:017E2C  CD 61 64    call 6461
ROM:017E2C  00 00 00    nop nop nop

ROM:01594B  CD 61 64    call 6461
ROM:01594B  00 00 00    nop nop nop

This fixes the Denjuu name after winning:
ROM:017363  3E 04       ld a,04
ROM:017363  3E 03       ld a,03

• Still needs fixing:

• Denjuu name when a status effect appears, e.g. Fog
• The HP/DP bars, first character gets overwritten on battle start

http://www.sankysoft.com/tulunk/TPatch40.ips

Version 41

By Blaziken257

• Changed the font to a custom, thinner one
• Applied the SGB enabling patch

http://209.85.117.197/12414/167/0/p1036525/TPatch41.ips

Version 42

By Sanky

• Put in all new translations by Kimbles using a dumper and a script to re-insert the text I wrote

• Redone everything story-wise (intro, Nerikara's speech, Nejiro/Netaro text, etc.)
• Redone battle messages and "general" bank
• Started work on Kurinon

• Changed 0x00 to a full-width space

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch42r1.ips

Version 43

By Blaziken257

• fixes the monochrome phone graphics and the ? and - widths

http://209.85.117.197/12414/167/0/p1036732/TPatch43.ips

Version 44

By Sanky

• Garbled text removed.
• Wrapping line breaks fixed.
• Full-width spaces (0x00) replaced with half-width spaces (0x20).
• "DEKICHBA" changed to "Tabasco".
• "KAKUZA" changed to "Kakuza".
• Untested fix to text rendering while switching Denjuu.

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch44.ips

Version 45

By andwhyisit

• Title screen is now IN ENGLISH!
• "Civilized Denjuu" changed to "Cultured Denjuu".

http://www.mediafire.com/?xtd1h45c5daygsf

Version 46

By Sanky

• Kurinon story text
• Some calls, partially text messages but they don't display properly.
• Other fixes in older text.

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch46.ips

Version 47

By andwhyisit

• Minor title screen edit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?83r0zk0c553g5rh

Version 48

By andwhyisit

• Fixed some Yes/No questions.
• Changed garbled text on level up screen. Not perfect but it'll do for now.
• Started work on breaking the denjuu name limit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?17a4ho3i8qb6ydn

Version 49

By andwhyisit

• Solved the disappearing personalities bug that showed up in the last version.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mqrx7hgrx64dc8b

Version 50

By andwhyisit

• Wrote a few asm functions later used in v51. No visible changes.

Version 51

By andwhyisit

• More advancements made towards breaking the limit.

Note: The E5 code for pointer 0x114060] needs to be changed to E5 A0 CC or «&0xcc90» in the text dump to match this patch.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1xmyrbqq5a6ka94

Version 52

By andwhyisit

• Repositioned and repointed the compressed data from bank 37h.

http://www.mediafire.com/?q0e3yu91zgx2b95

Version 53

By Sanky

• Completely translated the menus
• Translated the status screen
• Changed the ugly "No items" icon
• Changed the ugly "POWER VERSION" text on the title screen

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch53.ips

Version 54

By andwhyisit

• Fixed the nicknaming screen.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bme7vboq046vblg

Version 55

By Sanky

• Changed the status screen a bit.
• Added in Kimbles' translations of the Denjuu phrases!

http://www.mediafire.com/?qx1dia24z1ejpf3

Version 56

By andwhyisit

• New English title screen added.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qx1dia24z1ejpf3

Version 57

By kmeisthax

• Sprite layout modified so that sprites 0Fh and 10h were situated below the G in the telefang logo.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3on2j28te2vt3n9

Version 58

By andwhyisit

• The G in the title screen was moved down thanks to kmeisthax repositioning those sprites for me.

Version 59

By andwhyisit

• The 2-char character tiles were removed, as well as all use of them in-game.
• All missing ascii characters were added in (20h to 7Fh) and the dash shortened. This means that the tilde will now show.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ksbleyhlie646il

Telefang - Power Version (J) [C][!] (Eng. beta branch-vwffix)

or just Version 60: by kmeisthax

• Made VWF work for the rest of the text

http://www.mediafire.com/?z767hcto1e8891v

Version 61

By kmeisthax

• Disabled the string centering routine

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?em14dism6lkld91

Version 62

By RacieB

• Translated the index complete certificate

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?he53ki7ihvrnr1d

Version 63

By User:Sanky

• Put in new translations and doubled the character limits of the following:

Item names, T-Fangers, attacks, habitats, personalities, status effects

See Lists for details

• Made the Denjuu name in ___ appeared! correct

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch63.ips

Version 64

By User:Kmeisthax

• Fixed the Denjuu call screen text routine to not use clobbered tile pointer every character and instead respect the VWF state OldTileMode.
• String centering undisabled because Sanky's branch didn't get the patch and I forgot to document it.

(Speaking of which, did you know I document all my patches in my Findings section?)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ka7i4666ta9sjg1

Version 65

By User:Kmeisthax

• "Status item" text no longer shows graphical errors after 16 drawn tiles.
• VWF core routine no longer touches MainScript state, other users of VWF no longer corrupt MainScript state
• Known bug: Oshe's curry speech seems to be improperly formatted or I have more main script corruption bugs. Denju call screen main script is weird because it doesn't get initialized like regular main script windows.

http://www.mediafire.com/?75d9i2s7bqdcq41

Version 66

By andwhyisit

• All Denjuu name occurances are now entirely sourced from the 16-char entries. No more uppercase names.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zy1i993496wkwid

Version 67

By User:Kmeisthax

• VWF core routine now much more conservative with drawing onto the next tile, should fix all "next tile in VRAM gets erased" bugs.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o66us8fvbn2z4d2

http://www.filedropper.com/telefang-powerversionjcengbetav67

Version 68

By User:Sanky

• Fix for "INVALID" placeholder Denjuu nature on certain status screens

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch68.ips

Version 69

By andwhyisit

• Fixes auto-nickname limit.
• Known bug: Denjuu loss screen shows incorrect denjuu name

http://www.mediafire.com/?ae94sbwz2pd3p1d

Version 70

By User:Kmeisthax, un-by User:Sanky

• Removed Sanky's v40, as we fixed the underlying cause of the behavior by making the VWF more conservative on tile usage. This was causing a bug where VRAM clears would complete one tile earlier then they should.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vg6rbsea1aqni4f

Version 71

By andwhyisit

• Fixed the Denjuu loss screen bug.
• Updated Denjuu names.

http://www.mediafire.com/?58lale7mv8hojgk

Version 72

By andwhyisit

• Bug fix for v71. Denjuu names other than Crypto were behaving stangely due to the code looking for the sram Denjuu data in 6-byte blocks rather than 16-byte blocks.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1cqkeh5b9xivtc9

Version 73

By andwhyisit

• A bugfix for my.. bugfix? o_O;

http://www.mediafire.com/?h00bkea2ujncal9

Version 74

By Sanky

• Changed one ld a,09 to ld a,10 so attack names don't get cut off in-battle
• Changed "Cultured Denjuu" to "Cultivated Denjuu"
• Changed "Dark Void Denjuu" to "Dark Space Denjuu"
• Inserted Umekichi "dialogue"

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch74.ips

Version 75

By andwhyisit

• Moved the name data in D460 to D6A0 to prevent data in ram from being overwritten or misread.

Note: All E5 60 D4 codes in the script are now E5 A0 D6. Unfortunately there are too many to list.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3i363mxfhicnecb

Version 76

By andwhyisit

• Moved the name data in D440 to D68D to prevent data in ram from being overwritten or misread.

Note: That one E5 40 D4 code in the script is now E5 8D D6. It's from the line that says "[name] appeared!" in bank 45.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gginzeict2onohw

Version 77

By Sanky

• Kurinon Village done! Story, NPCs and even unused text. Kimbles probably knows better than me, by this point. XD

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch77.ips

Version 78

By andwhyisit

• Fixed garbage text in Denjuu names over 6-char by stopping the copied entry from being truncated before the trailing E0.
• Increased printed characters for Denjuu names on the status screen.
• Increased printed characters for the Denjuu names on the pre-battle Denjuu selection screen.
• Increased printed characters for the in-battle Denjuu name that appears above the health bar.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bsyvsbslglgwouc

Version 79

By Sanky

• Fixes the game crashing upon picking up and placing an item again.

The single change:
RO78:6FF9 ld a,0B
RO78:6FFB ld (C423),a
RO78:6FFE ret

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch79.ips

Version 80

By andwhyisit

• Apparently in v78 I only broke the character limit for the first name in the Denjuu selection screen. This should fix the limits for the second and third names.

http://www.mediafire.com/?1k1drpnt000llox

Version 81

By andwhyisit

• Nickname screen fixed.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vmqc4q3vljx5507

Version 82

By andwhyisit

• Fixes the Denjuu name not appearing during a phone call.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bws4rz0h7973b1c

Version 83

By kmeisthax

• This VWFs every other piece of text in the game (that I know about).

http://www.mediafire.com/?hz3r5w8srms52m6

Version 84

By kmeisthax

• This adds a byte at WRAM C7C8, when it's set to 1 it causes all letters to be treated as 8 pixels wide. This isn't actually set by anything, I need to write VWF-Enable and VWF-Disable control codes into the main script interpreter, but it's getting late.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8mc455y33rwh0m7

Version 85

By kmeisthax

• Adds two control codes EA (VWF disable) and EB (VWF enable).
• Still cannot be used until I modify the game to use a different script routine for the naming screens.

http://www.mediafire.com/?a66cb1jrzr1ipmf

Version 86

By andwhyisit

• Moved D4B1 names to D658 where they can't overwrite reserved values in ram.
• Mass replaced E5 B1 D4 with E5 58 D6 in the script.
• Fixed an E5 code typo in the phrase "[name]'s Denma attack went up!" causing the name to not display.
• Found a cure for Ornith's sadness. :P Yep. More name limit expansions.
• Expanded D420 to 16 chars and a trailing E0. Sorry Sanky but I had to remove your old hack.
• Moved D420's content to an unused section of ram to accomodate the full 17 bytes.
• Refixed the "[name] appeared!" message after the above changes.
• Applied FWF to name input screens. This adds an extra pointer to the game script btw.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e06d79bf25mbq7u

Version 87

By Sanky

• Added in Kimbles' Iris story and NPC translations!
• Tweaked the map text routine to enable text longer than 15 characters (moved it from CA00 to CCC0)
• Changed Pepperi Mount. to Pepperi Mountain accordingly, although we probably want to do full names later (i.e., The Devil's Mountain, Mt. Pepperi)

http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch87.ips

Version 88

By andwhyisit

• All dialogue and associated pointer table pairs now occupy their own bank.

Note: Previously empty bank numbers 25, 43, 44, and 58 are now used.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e4bwd172ekp3dcr

Version 89

By Sanky

• Updated Kimbles' translations
• Corrected evolution graphics which were crashing before.

Originally (Japanese version):

 0x1d - bank 0x4d +   0x65c9 (0x1365c9), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
 0x1e - bank 0x4d +   0x622e (0x13622e), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
 0x1f - bank 0x4d +   0x648d (0x13648d), 0x190 bytes compressed read in  0x9400

In v88 the graphics have mysteriously dematerialized. Now:

0x1d - bank 0x61 +   0x4000 (0x184000), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
0x1e - bank 0x61 +   0x4350 (0x184350), 0x350 bytes compressed read in  0x9000
0x1f - bank 0x61 +   0x46e3 (0x1846e3), 0x190 bytes not compressed read in  0x9400

The first two are backgrounds and need not to be changed. The second one is the CANNOT EVOLVE text, which we might want to change (I fudged it a bit), so it's uncompressed. Yay! http://wikifang.meowcorp.us/etc/TPatch89.ips