ÿþBelloncho Body Inspection English Translation v1.10 If you are interested in translations of PC98 games, please consider supporting my Patreon or donating via Paypal! https://patreon.com/nana_vs_nana Paypal: nanoqo@gmail.com Contents: 1. Installation/Running(!) 2. Translation Notes a.) Message from Nana b.) Trivia c.) Changes in 1.10 d.) Known bugs 3. Disclaimer/Legal Info 4. Special Thanks 5. Contact ============================================================ 1. Installation/Running ============================================================ This translation was created in the form of two Lunar IPS patch files. You will need a copy of the original ROM/backup of the floppy disks for Belloncho Body Inspection to make this work. The backup I used was in .fdi format. 1. Open Lunar IPS, and select 'Apply IPS Patch.' 2. Navigate to the folder where "BELLONCHO_ENG_A.ips" is saved, and select this file. 3. In the bottom right-hand corner of Lunar IPS, choose the drop-down menu that says "Most Common ROM Files," and change this to "All Files (*.*)". 4. Navigate to where your ROM of BBS is saved, and choose the first disk of BBS. For example, your file name may be "BELLON_A.FDI". 5. Repeat this process for BELLONCHO_ENG_B.ips and the second disk of Belloncho Body Inspection. 6. Once patching is completed, start up your emulator of choice (My personal recommendation is Neko Project II), and insert Disk 1 into drive A, and Disk 2 into Drive B. 7. Enjoy! ************************!!!NOTE!!!*************************** ** ** ** I have noticed that this game may refuse to launch ** ** without a hard drive running on your PC98 emulator. If ** ** you have this problem, I recommend googling the "YAHDI" ** ** hard drive image for PC98, as it should work well with ** ** it. ** ************************************************************* Version 1.02 of Lunar IPS was included with this translation, but you will need to get your own copy of the game to patch it with. Please contact me if you have any questions or trouble getting this game to work. I can create a copy of the patch specific to your ROM, or point you in the right direction to finding a copy of the game. ============================================================ 1. *Translation Notes* ============================================================ Thank all of you very much for taking the time to download my translation of Belloncho Body Inspection. I think this game is very cool and quirky, and I'm very excited to finish this translation. It didn't take me very long to fall in love with this game. From the gothic animated opening to saving your game by climbing into a well to talk to the Janitor, this game is just packed with self-aware absurdities from the get-go. It is very clear that a lot of love was put into this one. In addition to having plenty of secret content, the devs took the time of creating unique dialogue for just about every location or course of action you can take in the game. The translation unfortunately took several weeks longer than I had anticipated, but I'm overall pleased with the end result. The game stores dialogue in several different ways, and as a result some parts of the script had to be shortened to fit. Most notably is the text displayed with a custom font in the RPG portion of the game. As enjoyable as it was to recreate a font such that putting japanese characters into game code produces english characters in the game itself, testing and bugfixing such a thing was a nightmare. I was able to expand the script ever so slightly by using spare Japanese characters to fit two or more english characters in their space. Aside from this, while most of the game was programmed such that I could expand its files somewhat effortlessly -- or at least with some pointer hacking -- all of the classroom events just happen to be loaded into memory in a way such that expanding the script would break the game. As a result, this part of the script also had to be shortened or moved to other locations in the game, but I'm pleased with how natural the end result is. Aside from that, the Sugoroku minigame was pretty much just a lost cause for getting a decent script in there. However, there's not much to its original script nor minigame either, so I'm not too worried about this. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the bizarre little world of Belloncho Body Inspection. I think it's a fun game with a good sense of humor and a great style. &NANA& TRIVIA: *The song the girl in the gym sings is the opening to an old anime called "Kyojin no Hoshi," which I don't believe has an English version. You can find the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVUa_YN6Gg *The Janitor at one point says: "A bucket on the horse's ass," which is a reference to an old Japanese phrase, which can be translated as: "Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear." *The Janitor actually seems to have two data files storing his unique text events. However, as far as I can tell his events in one of the files never actually appear in the game. The text was rewritten into the regular RPG mode, and some of the events just gone entirely. CHANGES IN 1.10: --Fixed garbled text when getting Belloncho Power item --Fixed wrong spacing for: -Reiko singing -The nurse standing outside the infirmary -Entering the teacher's lounge after getting booze, but before investigating the infirmary twice --Fixed broken text during the big reveal (sorry!) --Fixed a typo of May-chan's dialogue when returning a stolen item --Readme updated. Special thanks + short discussion of Sugoroku. KNOWN BUGS: --The mode select screen and music room are untranslated. while it looks like they have regular text, they're stored as images which I cannot find out how to edit. If you find any typos or other bugs, please let me know via email! I'll do my best to get it patched immediately. ============================================================ 3. DISCLAIMER/LEGAL INFO ============================================================ This translation project is completely unofficial, and was not authorized nor permitted by HARD. Copyright for Belloncho Body Inspection and all contents within belong to HARD and creators of the game. Lunar IPS is copyright of FuSoYa, and was packaged without explicit permission from the creator. You may feel free to distribute my translation of the game for non-commercial use only, but please include this readme file alongside it. You may NOT charge money for this translation in any form, nor include any files from this translation as part of any commercial package. ============================================================ 4. SPECIAL THANKS ============================================================ All my backers on patreon and followers on twitter, and the wonderful community at Tokugawa Corp. forums for lots of great information. Infinite gratitude to Sapporo Momoko for acknowledging this translation and not shutting the thing down. Thank you for being adventurous enough to download this game and support the wonderful history of the PC-98. Special thanks to: Jazz Tomoyo Daidouji Skywelse Jonathan Walker Jacob Millerline Meinos Kaen Lewdgamer Matthew W. for your gratuitous support. You folks are awesome, and I'm putting in my all in hopes that you enjoy the games I work on.& ============================================================ 4. CONTACT ============================================================ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nana_VS_Nana Patreon: https://patreon.com/nana_vs_nana Email: nanoqo@gmail.com nana.must.die@gmail.com Paypal: nanoqo@gmail.com IRC: irc.EFnet.org #PC98