NeoRHDN, a prototype website aiming to be a replacement for Romhacking.net in the wake of its partial closure as reported here, has announced a decision to go forums-only.
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Spotlight: Jonko the ROM Hacker
Project Highlights in Fan Translation and More
Jonko is a ROM hacker and YouTuber whose primary work is with the Haroohie Translation Club, where he serves as project lead and main ROM hacker. He also dabbles with homebrew and emulator development.
You can follow Jonko via YouTube or website blog explaining how ROM hacking works.Jonko sits down with FFV Central to give an exclusive overview of project highlights.
Subheadings, screenshots, and trailers added during the editorial process.
0. Intro
FFV Central: How did you get into romhacking and translating?
Jonko: Kinda random. I picked up fansubbing (as a script editor) as a hobby at the beginning of covid lockdown. one of our shows was onegai my melody, and i found out there was a DS game for it. I’m a programmer by trade, so I thought I’d give trying to translate it a go. Cracked it open and found out that I just absolutely loved the work involved in figuring out how a game works and building little tools to edit them. I ended up doing a full translation of Sailor Moon: La Luna Splende with a graphics guy and one of my Italian friends, and then eventually founded this project because of a random gbatemp thread
It just sorta spiraled into a massive effort with a bunch of people involved. Learned a lot as a result of working on it and I’ve developed all sorts of stuff since then. Honestly, pretty life-changing
You might have seen on the site already, but Will and I developed a full editing suite for Choku based on my reverse-engineering work, which is something I’m very proud of haha
FFV Central: Can you share some highlights of your projects?
Jonko: yeah, my credentials are basically:
1. Sailor Moon: La Luna Splende (DS) Translation
Released: 2011 (game); 2021 (fan translation from Italian)
RHDN translation entry here
2. Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (DS) Translation
Released: 2009 (game); 2026 (fan translation completed)
Japanese: 涼宮ハルヒの直列
Original announcement post here
In flight: other Haruhi games, next up is Heiretsu and Gekidou (wii games)
3. “Serial Loops” – Chokuretsu Editing Suite
Available for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux
Project webpage here
For a video explainer on how this editing suite was made, click here.
In flight: Loopy Suite (hacking tools for the other Haruhi games)
4. Into the Dream Spring (DS)
Unannounced commercial DS homebrew game Jonko is developing with a friend (William278 of Breaking Bad DS fame) and a team of talented artists
FFV Central: Awesome! Thank you for this overview and for the scoop on the unannounced homebrew game. We wish you all the best on these and future projects.
So, what do you think? Have you played Jonko’s translations, and if so, which is your favorite? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
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Departure of Developer UnsolidSnake of Retro Achievements [Mirror]
To see UnsolidSnake’s developed sets on RA, click here.
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Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/24374?comment=251761#251761
December 3, 2024
Fact is, I spent the better part of 3 months busting my ass off making this set, only for my work to be invalidated at the last minute. This is just about the most disrespectful thing you could possibly do to a dev. I have no desire to come back until I can be certain that I’ll be allowed to work on whatever I want without having shit like this happen whenever a mod or DevComp member gets too antsy about my contrarian stances or if my tongue is too sharp for their liking (I did word some of my arguments harshly, but there were no instances of me outright insulting another person on this site).
All this and then I find out you already had a proper way of handling this back in the old days. You have no excuse.
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RHH to Close Submissions
[Update: in a follow-up post, the closure of the site has been formalized, and the remaining staff will be joining Romhack Plaza (RHP) [formerly Romhacks.org (RHDO)].]
Romhack Heaven (RHH), a website intended as a replacement for Romhacking.net in the wake of its partial closure as reported here, has announced a decision to close the majority of submissions.
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