CYBER KNIGHT II ~ AMBITIONS OF THE TERRAN EMPIRE ENGLISH TRANSLATION V1.00 Copyright 2005 Aeon Genesis http://agtp.romhack.net ToC 1.About Cyber Knight 2 2.Patch History 3.Patch Credits and Contributors 4.Known Issues 5.Application Instructions 6.Troubleshooting -------------------------------------------------- 1.Cyber Knight II ~ Ambitions of the Terran Empire -------------------------------------------------- Cyber Knight 2 is quite easily one of the best RPGs I've hacked to date. The difficulty progression is well-balanced, the plot is astounding, the music is great, battles are fun as hell and awesome to watch, it innovates in places you'd never think nothing could ever innovate in. The game is fantastic! It's a direct sequel to the original Cyber Knight, so prior knowledge is a definite plus, but is not strictly necessary. The backstory, in short: in order to save themselves from certain destruction, the mercenary crew of the SS Swordfish performed a hyperspacial jump without inputting any destination coordinates, and ended up in the far-reaches of uncharted space. There they encountered lifeforms known as "Berserkers", biomechanical killing machines intent on wiping out all life in the universe. They also encountered a hyper-intelligent being known as Mentana, who was able to open a hyperspace tunnel back to Earth after they defeated the Berserker Queen and ended the threat. If only things were so simple. Upon their return to federated space, the Swordfish was beset upon by the Terran government, the hyper-advanced technology ("OverTech") developed through Berserker research seized and the crew placed in prison. They are soon sprung by the Kazelin army, and learn that a new dictator on Earth is planning on using the OverTech to create new weapons and take over the galaxy... --------------- 2.Patch History --------------- Cyber Knight 2 is the result of a tightly-coordinated effort between myself as ASM hacker and script proofer, Deuce as translator, and z80gaiden and his friend as compression gurus. Thanks to the incredible speed at which everyone worked without sacrificing any quality in the final product, I am extremely, extremely excited to announce that not only has the project taken just under two months to reach a very nicely polished completed state, we were able to get it ready for release on the fourth anniversary of the patch release for the original Cyber Knight, and damn was it worth the wait! November 17, 2005 - Initial version 1.00 Release --------------- 3.Patch Credits --------------- THE CYBER KNIGHT 2 TEAM Main Team: Gideon Zhi - Project leader, Romhacker, Assembly work, Script proof Deuce - Translation z80gaiden et al - Compression gurus Special thanks to... ...oacat, for translating the first script file at high speed and short notice. It helped a lot in testing! ...and all involved for a wonderfully speedy, excellent-looking release. You folks are the best! -------------- 4.Known Issues -------------- There are no known issues. Hooray! If you find any problems, please post about them on The Pantheon (http://donut.parodius.com/agtp) -------------------------- 5.Application Instructions -------------------------- Quick ROM Info: 2.00MB (16mbit LoROM), WITHOUT Header (2,097,152 bytes). If using ZSNES, make sure that the patch has the same name as your ROM. In other words, if your ROM is called "cknight2.smc" make sure the patch is "cknight2.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 DOES NOT HAVE A HEADER!. If you right-click the ROM and select Properties, it should read "Size: 2.00 MB (2,097,152 bytes)". SNESTool can remove 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. 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 has a header. Use SNESTool to remove the header from a clean Japanese ROM and try again. And don't whine about SNESTool not working in Windows XP, it works fine for me and I'm running on XP Pro. ----------------- 6.Troubleshooting ----------------- --If the game does not run at all, read the above section on application instructions (specifically on header removal.) Make sure your ROM is not read-only when you add its header. Also make sure that if you previously hard-patched the ROM and the game crashes as described, you will need to re-apply the patch a clean, Japanese original ROM. Also note that Cyber Knight 2 will not run on some earlier versions of ZSNES. It crashes in 1.337, but I know for a fact that it works fine in 1.40 and later. Unsure of 1.36.