ASSAULT SUITS VALKEN ENGLISH TRANSLATION V1.00 Copyright 2004 Aeon Genesis http://agtp.romhack.net ToC 1. About Assault Suits Valken 2. Patch History 3. Patch Credits and Contributors 4. Known Issues 5. Application Instructions ---------------------------- 1.About Assault Suits Valken ---------------------------- ASV is a giant robot platformer with somewhat realistic physics, a mature storyline, and plenty of huge explosions. Easily one of my all-time SNES favorites, Valken was released across the pond as "Cybernator", and received an absolute butchering of a localization -- gobs and gobs of stuff got cut from it. We're talking on par with FF4 here, folks, maybe worse. The game follows Jake, a normal every-day Assault Suit pilot in the service of the United Pacific States marine corps, as he and the crew of his mothership, the Versis, fight to end a long war over diminishing fossil fuel resources. Gameplay between levels is extremely well varied, the scenarios are fun and challenging. The game's a blast, and now it's completely uncut and in English! Have a ball, folks! --------------- 2.Patch History --------------- This is one I've wanted to do for a long time, and even after I started (no, I don't remember when, maybe a year or so ago) it took far longer than it should have. The programmers over at NCS/Masaya must've been having fun with the happy grass or something, the game's coding is absolutely nuts, and that put me off of working on it more than anything else. I don't really remember too much of this project's history other than the past few weeks, when I've been going absolutely nuts trying to get it ready for release. March 7, 2004 - Initial version 1.00 Release --------------- 3.Patch Credits --------------- THE ASSAULT SUITS VALKEN 009 TEAM Main Team: Gideon Zhi - Project leader, Romhacker Ian Kelley - Translation. Special Thanks: Tomato - Translation of prologue cutscene -------------- 4.Known Issues -------------- --The name entry screen remains partially hacked and is mostly unusable. It shouldn't be necessary though, it's only used if you want to change the hero's name. Otherwise, there are no known issues. If you find any, please post about them on The Pantheon (http://donut.parodius.com/agtp) -------------------------- 5.Application Instructions -------------------------- If using ZSNES, make sure that the patch has the same name as your ROM. In other words, if your ROM is called "valken.smc" make sure the patch is "valken.ips" okay? If you're using a Mac, a Mac IPS patcher is available. Check the AGTP Links page. If you're using a copier, you probably already know how to patch the ROM :) Be sure to apply the patch to a clean copy of the ROM, and make sure your ROM HAS A HEADER!. If you right-click the ROM and select Properties, it should read "Size: 1.00 MB (1,049,088 bytes)". SNESTool can add your headers for you easily, and you can find it at http://rpgd.emulationworld.com In the utilities section, click on the IPS Tools link. The answers to the questions it asks you do not matter unless you're using a copier to play the game. An easy way to tell if the game has a header or not is that if you do the above and the game does not run, it probably doesn't have a header. Use SNESTool to add one. And don't whine about SNESTool not working in Windows XP, it works fine for me and I'm running on XP Pro.