******Brave Battle Saga - Legend The Magic Warrior English patch******
                                      2009/2010

Version history
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21.02.2010: 1.00
	- Not beta anymore!
	- Fixed original game bug when
	  selling items from the bottom
	  of a list.
	- Fixed some typos.
	- Fixed original game bug while
	  switching spells' places in list.
02.01.2010: 0.99 beta 4
	- Fixed freezing when scrolling to the
	  bottom of the spell list to sell.
	- Fixed text control codes which were
	  preventing player to go further in game.
	- Fixed some typos and text formating
	  in some dialogs.
	- SRAM initialization fixed.
02.01.2010: 0.99 beta 3
	- Fixed output of spell and item list in battle.
	- Spell "See" renamed to "Analyze" and
	  fixed information output when it is used.
	- Fixed routine of numbers' output.
	- Fixed output of characters' names when
	  switching their places in menu.
01.01.2010: 0.99 beta 2
	- Text reinserted with correct encoding.
	  All em dashes are back to normal.
31.01.2009: 0.99 beta
	- Initial release.


About the game
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Released in 1996 in Taiwan as Barver Battle Saga - Tai Kong Zhan Shi - 
Mo Fa Zhan Shi, by ChuanPu Technology. The main title, Tai Kong Zhan Shi
(literally translated as Space Warrior) is what Final Fantasy is called in
Taiwan, a clear attempt the makers made in order to catch peoples attention.
After all, Final Fantasy on the Genesis sounds pretty nice :)

The game was later pirated in Russia under the name Final Fantasy. Unfortunately
the company who produced that version were apparently not well versed in Russian, as
the resulting translation is notoriously bad, possibly indicating an 
automatic translator was used. While making a translation of the Russian version
maight have been a much simpler task than its Taiwanese original, due to how horrible the
Russian was it just wouldn't have been possible.

Like many unlicensed Taiwanese Megadrive games, the game uses a lot of copied content
from other games, among other things numerous graphics, or "inspriration", from Seiken
Densetsu 3 and Romancing Saga 3 for the SNES. The sound engine is also assumingly
stolen directly from Data East's High Seas Havoc, the biggest giveaway being that engines trademark
organ sound. This same sound engine is actually used in quite a few other Taiwanese originals :)
The game engine itself also is reused in other unlicensed titles.


About the patch
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This is a 100% translation from Chinese to English. The whole
game has gone through a huge process to get where it is now, including in order:

-Disassembly and reassembly of the WHOLE game code  
-Insertion of 3 new fonts. One for dialogs and menus, a smaller one for  
items and magic, and a separate one for the intro text. 
-Completely working new VWF  
-Code modifications of the dialog, intro, shops, inns and battle text routines  
-Modified text windows  
-Modified Z80 code  
-Insertion of new title screen 


The most common circulating dump of the game, which can be found in the GoodGen set, has a bug that
prevents the DAC drum channel from playing correctly. This translation was built off 
of a fixed version that has been ciculating throughout Chinese sites for awhile, so
patching it on the common dump found on the net will not only translate it, but will also
fix that glitch.

Usage
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The patch has been tested and works with the following ROM:

Barver Battle Saga - The Space Fighter (Chinese).bin

Usage with other versions might cause glitching.


Credits
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Romhacking - Jinny - www.magicteam.net
Translation - SteveMartin
Proofreading - zera9924
Titlescreen art - taizou


Special Thanks
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Many people have helped and showed their support for this project. Many thanks to all of the
following:

108 Stars
aishsha
Gil_
Next gen Cowboy
Pennywise
Redcomet
saito
taizou
The romhacking.net forums
Zebbe




...and anyone else who ever showed their support!