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====================Rainbow Silkroad===================
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Genre: RPG

Source language: Japanese

Platform: Famicom

Patch language: English

Author: aishsha/Pennywise

E-mail:	aishsha@gmail.com
		yojimbogarrett@gmail.com
		http://aishsha.blogspot.com
		http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
 
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Pennywise's comments
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This translation of Rainbow Silkroad was discussed after
we finished work on our translation of Sansara Naga.
While looking for other games made by the devs, we
discovered this game.

This game was already translated by Gaijin Translations,
but we looked it over and felt that overall it was
somewhat abbreviated and would have benefited from a
new translation. So we undertook the project.

aishsha did the lions share of everything, while I focused
on other stuff. He did the translation and most of the hacking
relating to ROM expansion and various other hacks. I did the
title screen which was designed by M-Tee and also did a
hack that allows you to name your player up to 8 characters.

Once most of the hacking was done, the game was passed
over to our friend Eien ni Hen, who went through the
game and edited the script as she progressed.

Eventually the game began formal testing with a few
bumps along the way and now the project is finally 
finished a few years after it was started.
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aishsha's comments
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I believe this whole thing started for me loooong ago.
While being a Daikokukai Jidai series fan, this very
game reminded me of those. I looked through and found
that Gaijin's translation of this game, while being
top-notch for its time (eternal fame for the pioneers
of our trade :)), could be done even better with the
tools and knowledge of today. First, I'd like to say
that we by no case wanted to doubt the original work,
as this translation was made from scratch. And
I mean totally. The game was pretty non-standard to
hack, but in the end, with eien's assistance and w/o
any space limitations of old, we managed to make a
translation you're looking at now.
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Patching Instructions
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Due to changes made to the ROM, the patch is in BPS
format. You either want to download a program called
beat by byuu or Floating IPS, which can be found here:

http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11474

Apply either patch to the Japanese version of the game:

Niji no Silkroad (J).nes

We would be highly grateful, if you find some time to 
contact us with proposals or corrections. Information
on found bugs or corrections would be highly 
appreciated.

P.S.

Support the game industry by buying used games!

Even if the money doesn't go to the developers
directly, as the games become rare and harder
to find, the price goes up, and people become
more inclined to buy new releases "while they can!"

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Credits go to:

aishsha - hacking, translation, testing

Pennywise - hacking, testing, editing

Eien ni Hen - editing, testing

Ryusui - misc spot translations

harmony7 - misc spot translations

M-Tee - title screen design and misc hacking

Lord Oddeye - testing

Hubz - testing

Xanathis - testing

All those who contributed into this process.

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Compiled by Pennywise. March 2016.