ROM Hacking to Fan Translate a Video Game (Jonko Panel at RWX)
Channel: Jonko the ROM Hacker
Date: 2024-01-24

This is a recording of Jonko's (project lead @haroohie) panel at Retro World Expo in August of 2023 in which he discusses ROM hacking and video game translation.

Blog posts for more details:
* Reverse-engineering the compression routine: https://haroohie.club/blog/2022-10-19-chokuretsu-compression
* Reverse-engineering the archive files: https://haroohie.club/blog/2022-11-02-chokuretsu-archives

Thanks to Andy Wolan for recording and editing this video and to Xzonn for the Chinese translation!

00:00 Introduction
04:44 Pre-History
16:18 The Main Series - Introduction
21:59 The Main Series - Reverse Engineering the Decompression Algorithm
27:57 The Main Series - Font Width Hack
36:24 The Main Series - Translation Flow
42:50 The Main Series - A Bunch More Work Was Done
47:13 Serial Loops Demo
54:41 Socials and Q&A