This will age me quite a bit, but here we go.
Over a decade ago, I was browsing TRs Rockin and reading about counterfeit Pokemon games. One of these was Pokemon Jade and Diamond, Telefang hacks in reality.
I remember reading a reader email on her site that the bootleg was a mucked up/obfuscated version of their fantranslation, and I looked them up and played the original fan translation for a bit, and thought it was really well polished and put together, especially compared to the bootlegs.
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I went looking for it again five years ago, but TRs Rockin didn't mention the translation. I used the Wayback Machine, and skipped around dates, but found no trace of it.
I DO know of the one that's been worked on at the Telefang Village boards for quite a few years now, but that's far from complete, though its functioning. I only found out about them right as they started their patch, so no way I got those two confused.
The other thing was a book my BF kept on his shelf, though we were both kind of old for it, he introduced me to it as his favorite kids book from when he was a child, and asked if I wanted to read it for giggles. He warned me to not get too attached, because there were no sequels to the book. It was Into The Lands of the Unicorns, and after I had a quick breeze through it, Googled and found that, indeed, there were no sequels, and the book had been abandoned for his other series.
This would've been when we first met, a little over a decade ago, but I decided to look up the book again in 2014. Now there are three sequels and a couple of side stories. Not only that, but two of them were written before I read the book! I asked BF, and we both remember discussing about the book's lack of sequels, and researching it.
Both these have been the biggest stumping points for me, as I have an excellent memory, and my BF confirms my memory of the book being right. I could tell you about my emulation adventures from nearly two decades ago, but I can't figure out Telefang's vanished translation. It just bugs me.
(Side note: My BF also gave me two books, the first book in Guardians of Ga'Hoole and The Fire Within, but he doesn't remember doing it. Honestly, I think its his bad memory, as I read both plenty, and ended up tracking down some sequels for Ga'Hoole. This was way before the movie. Again, bad memory me thinks XD)
This is a partial disassembly of Keitai Denjuu Telefang, a wonderful RPG and creature collection game for the Game Boy Color.
Fan Translation
The English fan translation can be found here, on the patch branch of this repository!
Who are we?
We're Tulunk Village, the internet's first, probably only, and definitely coolest Telefang community! We can be found at Telefang.net, from where you can find all sorts of Telefang resources.
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Like Telefang? Wanna talk to the programmers and translators? Just want to talk with some like-minded people? We run a Discord for everything Telefang, and we'd be happy to see you there!
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Problems
If you find any problems with the disassembly, or there's something you'd like changed or added, you can open an issue here on GitHub about it (or even fix it yourself and open a pull request, if you're feeling up to it).
Technical stuff
ROMs built
This disassembly builds the following ROMs:
- Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Power Version (
telefang_pw.gbc, MD504f7ea139fef2bc2e3f70b2c23933d2e) - Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Speed Version (
telefang_sp.gbc, MD5ebfe05828463cc004898e6a95ee57fea)
How to build
To build the finished ROMs, two base ROMs are required: baserom_pw.gbc (Power Version), baserom_sp.gbc (Speed Version).
After placing them in the top-level directory, you can check their hashes to make sure you've got the right files:
If your Power Version base ROM has an MD5 hash of 8b0a1b6667040a52f6957c0eeea1dbd7, it's a known bad dump. In that case, replace it with a correct dump from a legitimate Keitai Denjuu Telefang Power Version cartridge.
Windows 10 and Linux
If you're on Windows 10 or higher, you'll first of all have to install and use the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The following needs to be installed in order to build:
- Python (on Linux or Windows with the Linux subsystem, it'll most likely already be installed)
- RGBDS version 0.3.6 (follow the instructions in the readme on the GitHub page to install)
Windows 8 and Lower
Download and install Cygwin with make, git, gcc-core and python3.
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Download the Windows release of RGBDS and copy the exe and dll files into C:cygwin64usrlocalbin.
Build
Once that's all in order, just run make (or make -j4 if you don't have all day), and the finished ROMs will be built.