Any Emus Support Language Translators?

[rupan777]

My Japanese reading skills are actually perfectly fine but the fonts that the developers used in the 8 and 16 bit days were pretty horrendous pixelly things that my old eyes can't read well on a smaller screen. I tried using some translation patches that I have on my PC but they didn't seem to work, at least not in the way they do when running them on PC emus so does anyone know if there are any plans to implement this sort of support?

Thanks.

 

[iignotus]

Language translation in roms is usually done through an .IPS file which is taken care of by the ips patching program. It's almost never a feature of an emulator.

What problems are you having, exactly, with using patched roms on your gp2x?

 

[rupan777]

Language translation in roms is usually done through an .IPS file which is taken care of by the ips patching program. It's almost never a feature of an emulator.

What problems are you having, exactly, with using patched roms on your gp2x?

Sorry, I don't quite have the technical knowledge down (one reason why I put this in the 'no question is stupid' forum) but, to my understanding, the rom and the .ips patch file have to exist in the same directory with the same file name in order for the .ips file to 'work'. For example, I tried Shin Megami Tensei and, on my PC, the patch works but on my GP2X using SquidgeSNES (excellent emu btw) it doesn't. I assumed it was the emu not recognizing the .ips file but am I wrong in my assumption or am I just not doing something correctly?

 

[iignotus]

You don't simply put the rom and ips file in the same directory, you *patch* the rom with the ips file. You have to use the ips patching program and modify the internals of the roms file with the patch.

The included readme to the program should include these kinds of instructions.

 

[rupan777]

You don't simply put the rom and ips file in the same directory, you *patch* the rom with the ips file. You have to use the ips patching program and modify the internals of the roms file with the patch.

The included readme to the program should include these kinds of instructions.

I'll take a shot at it then, thanks. I just assumed that the patches would work just the same as when running them on the PC.

EDIT: Brilliant, it worked. I read about auto and manual patching on another site but thanks again for giving me the basic info.