#DRAGON QUEST VIII CENSORED UPDATE#

I'm curious if Nintendo still left any censorship in place script wise. I simply had to adjust the boxes on tile you referring to using the scripts from the GBC games? I haven't spent much time with those versions but I believe they did not use the medieval style and did use the Japanese naming (Roto, Laura, Laurasia, etc).

#DRAGON QUEST VIII CENSORED UPDATE#

Update #2: Looks like someone was able to answer my noob question on tile editing. After a little more tinkering, I had to restrict his upper body movement a bit while he faces upward but I'd say the look is correct and extremely close to the Japanese counterpart.

The issue arises from the original DW3 localizers eliminating frames on their replacement sprite and using a mirror of his lower body for his walking animation instead of separate tiles. I uncovered that the priest sprite was animating badly while facing upward. Update: I just redid the link to an updated patch. I'd love to fix all the sprites for the 2nd and 4th games as well before delving into the scripts. I'm wondering if it's that, or a simpler solution. When I access the second or forth game in graphical editing software, the sprites all appear mangled, likely compressed. However, only the 3rd game's sprites appear easy to edit so far. I thought that fixing the sprites would be the easy part for all 4 of these games (well, 3 of them because I don't plan on going back to the forward facing only sprites in 1). *Restored original king, old man with stick, priest & pilgrim sprites *Restored original coffin in pyramid & for dead party members *Restored area maps for Lanceal, Necrogond Shrine, and Dharma Temple *Item, Monster and Spell names restored to be mostly in line with the literal Japanese * Item and monster names restored to be mostly in line with the literal Japanese * Custom Dragon Quest title screen with subtitle 'Gods of Evil' * Restored censored cross design for room with secret passage in Hargon's Castle * Altered the head of the prince of Midenhall/Laurasia by changing his horned helm into a leather cap with goggles to better match the Toriyama art and in game sprite Examples includ torsos separating from lower body during walking animation and incorrect pixels during one frame of Cannock/Samaltria's animation. * Fixed several graphical bugs with the animation of the marching princes in the title screen intro. * Spell names are new, reflecting the style of the Japanese spell names but based on English words that translate the meaning of the original root words No medieval language remains, many problems corrected and overall is much closer to the original Japanese script. *Brand new retranslation of nearly all the game's text. * Updated coastal water made to be the same as the Japanese version A few of them were conservatively altered due to having to work around issues with importing them * Updated NPC sprites to their original forward facing Japanese versions. * Updated hero to original Japanese sprite, augmented with my own graphics to display him walking in four directions * Custom Dragon Quest title screen, coded and designed by Choppasmith with minor adjustments by me * Spell names are new, reflecting the style of the Japanese spell names but based on English words that translate the meaning of the original root words. * NPC, location, item, and monster names made to more accurately represent the Japanese. This was written with a strong emphasis on fluid readability. Script is now totally based on the original Japanese. * Custom script where all medieval language was removed. The below patches are what I've accomplished so far. After my efforts in the last couple years to find an experienced rom hacker to take on this project have failed, I decided to try to fumble my way through the process myself and hopefully accomplish all my objectives eventually. I've had a long kindled desire to restore censored and altered elements of the Japanese Dragon Quest releases back into the US Dragon Warrior games.

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