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Master X
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Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#1 » Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:08 pm

Hello folks, Master X here!

A few months ago, I released some translation patches for some translated dreamcast games in RHDN forum, and now, I decided to share them here too, this way many dreamcast fans can enjoy your favorite translated game patched in GDI format to use it with your modded Dreamcasts.

Relevant link: http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=32078.0

So, here are the links to download the patches:

Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (612.95 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/yv913gpy ... ch.7z/file

Frame Gride (Patch Version: 1.0 (Final))
Patch (252.80 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/64bv0hls ... ch.7z/file

Karous (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (108.21 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/qb7dp7ny ... ch.7z/file

Nanatsu no Hikan: Senritsu no Bishou (Patch Version: 1.3 (December 2020))
Patch (839.56 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/hdx3hb6v ... ch.7z/file

L.O.L. - Lack of Love (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (286.37 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/59trpov1 ... ch.7z/file

Fire Pro Wrestling D (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (11.73 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/file/zguv2n203 ... ch.7z/file

Ao no 6-gou - Saigetsu Hito o Matazu - Time and Tide (aka Blue Submarine No. 6 - Time and Tide) (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (457.98 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/q6co5lrs ... ch.7z/file

Shinseiki Evangelion - Typing E Keikaku (aka Neo Genesis Evangelion - Typing E) (Patch Version: 2.0 (Final))
Patch (34.20 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/8ec5qhad ... ch.7z/file

Taxi 2 - Le Jeu (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (87.25 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/file/6b7e93itv ... ch.7z/file

Golem no Maigo (aka The Lost Golem) (Patch Version: 1.0)
Patch (167.87 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/file/1xqk3glvp ... ch.7z/file

Space Channel 5 Part 2 (Patch Version: 1.0 (Final Version))
Patch (509.89 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/file/snmp2tzfa ... ch.7z/file

Propeller Arena - Aviation Battle Championship (GDI)
Size (397.99 MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/f9zzs5u7 ... DI.7z/file

To apply any xdelta patch, you can use a tool named "Delta Patcher" or "Delta Patcher Lite". I used this tool to create the patches. You can download it here:

https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/704/

IMPORTANT NOTES:

* Just to be clear: I'm NOT the author of any translation and I'm NOT make part of any translation group. I'm just someone that made a GDI patch using the translated files from a patched CDI or using the zipped patch files released by the translators. The credit for each translation goes to original translators.
* All my patches comes with two "Readme" files, one file was written by me, other is an original Readme file released by translators with translation patches, except when I'm unable to get the original patch and notes.
* I'll NOT fix any grammar errors, typo and something like that if you find them in a translation. Please, report the errors/issues/bugs like that to original translators, so they can make an update patch to fix them.
* In the game L.O.L - Lack of Love, I noticed that the translators improved a movie of the game, especifically the file called TEST_AE320X448.SFD (original file has about 3.6 MB size and the modified file has about 7.7 MB size). This movie file in particular is used by the game to load the main menu, and it has the names of translators. Unfortunately, using this edited movie the games refuses to boot, I really don't know why, so I keep the original movie file in order to make the english patch possible. I'll try to insert the edited movie file later, so by for now, I'm really sorry for that. I'll update the patch if I insert this particular edited movie sucessfully.
* To convert the game Fire Pro Wrestling D from CDI to GDI, I needed to rewrite the main binary (1ST_READ.BIN), because some translated texts are in this file, but the main binary found in the CDI image is not compatible with original tracks organization, because usually these binaries are hacked to work properly in a CDI image and this game has 46 CD-DA tracks, so it can't be used.
* I can't find the original patch to the game Fire Pro Wrestling D released by translator. Searching in the google, I found that the game was translated by a guy named "Irvgotti452" for ReviveDC Project. To patch the GDI, I needed to convert a patched CDI found easily in the google. So, this translation doesn't have an original "Readme" file. But I know that the original translator is really Irvgotti452, because in main binary (1ST_READ.BIN) there's a reference to his name. If you want to know more about this translation, please go to translator's blog here:

https://theirvgotti452.wordpress.com/fi ... estling-d/

* I played the games in a real Dreamcast (Dreamshell and GDEMU), not in an emulator. All games worked perfectly.
* You can optimize the GDI (see below) to save some space and use it with Dreamshell/Retrodream. In fact, I use only optimized GDI.
* Only the edited/patched files used in the translations were replaced in GDI. All other files remains untouched, preserving the maximum original files.
* Not even a single byte of any translation was changed. The translation is exactly the same provided by the original translators.
* Propeller Arena is not a patch, but the full GDI game, converted from CDI source from scratch to GDI format.

- Please see the readme files that comes with the patches to know how to apply the patches correctly!

SPECIAL THANKS:

Special thanks to Seta, from RHDN, his request motived me to make the GDI patches.
Special thanks to Napple Tale translators.
Special thanks to Frame Gride translators.
Special thanks to Karous translators.
Special thanks to Nanatsu no Hikan: Senritsu no Bishou translators.
Special thanks to L.O.L - Lack of Love translators.
Special thanks to Fire Pro Wrestling D translators.
Special thanks to Blue Submarine translators.
Special thanks to Shinseiki Evangelion - Typing E translators.
Special thanks to Taxi 2 - Le Jeu translators.
Special thanks to Golem no Maigo translators.
Special thanks to Space Channel 5 - Part 2 translator.

Enjoy!

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yzb
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#2 » Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:15 am

For cdi games with cdda, the function program that reads the audio track needs to be changed back

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Swazen
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#3 » Sun May 30, 2021 7:26 pm

Hi Master X,
I was wondering if you have plan to make the translation GDI patches for this 2 CDI games :

Super Puzzle Fighter II X for Matching Service - English (J) T+Eng RDC
Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service (Japan)[English.Translated][RDC]

Thx for your great job.

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dubcity
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#4 » Sun May 30, 2021 8:57 pm

good job!

although.... you could've found all those in the gdemu/dreamshell collection on this site instead. We released them last year.

conversions of the two street fighter rdc translations are there also.

thanks for seven mansions. I didn't have that.

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Swazen
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#5 » Mon May 31, 2021 12:17 pm

Awesome !!! thx to you Dubcity, i haven't seen them.

behindshadows
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#6 » Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:54 pm

Has anyone done one for the GDI of Blue Stinger Japanese version...

I love the camera angle more in that version!

R1SKbreaker
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#7 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:34 am

Awesome! Thanks for the GDI patches!

Prukogui
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#8 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:46 am

Could you do the same with the translations into Spanish?

https://archive.org/details/romhacking- ... -dreamcast

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MoeFoh
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#9 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 3:48 pm

Prukogui wrote:Could you do the same with the translations into Spanish?

https://archive.org/details/romhacking- ... -dreamcast


And can you have it done by midnight? :shock:
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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Prukogui
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Re: Dreamcast GDI Patches

Post#10 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:12 pm

MoeFoh wrote:
Prukogui wrote:Could you do the same with the translations into Spanish?

https://archive.org/details/romhacking- ... -dreamcast


And can you have it done by midnight? :shock:


I do not understand your answer. I don't think asking if Master X can add the GDIs of Spanish translations to theirs is bad.

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