Jewel BEM Hunter Lime - English Translation Patch by Alpharobo/Kirinn B/BabaJeanmel
Version 1.0 - 08/10/23

In this series of short VNs, you follow two friendly demons, Bass and Lime, on their quest to retrieve magic jewels from big eyed monsters (BEM) that are embodied in various objects and pose a threat to mankind. These games may be pretty minimalistic but they compensate with a fantastic art direction, impressive animation work, and a very goofy, lighthearted script reminiscent of some anime classics such as Ranma 1/2 or City Hunter. Also, even if there is quite a lot of fanservice involved, you should know that these games have actually no explicit erotic content. Yes, it's pretty unusual for me, I know ^^

The SGS engine was a tough beast to tame, with significant variations appearing at each episode, and seven different image/animation formats, each of them bringing more issues to fix. Even if they already sort of existed during Alpharobo's Guynarock project, the tools we had at disposal had to go through a massive overhaul. They also evolved a lot during the project, and both Alpharobo and Kirinn B patiently ironed out every single bug that occured while I progressed through the script and the numerous graphical edits.

As a result, you have our most polished project yet, having constantly been improved over the course of eight months. Everything was so fine-tuned that even the compression for the graphical format was optimized, making the patched games actually smaller in size than the original ones! I'm really proud of what we achieved, and hope you'll enjoy it.

All episodes have been playtested both on emulators and real hardware without any issue. If you happen to encounter some anyway, feel free to drop me a word on GBATemp or the PC-98 discord.

HOWTO
First, you need the Neo Kobe hdi version of the game, entitled "Jewel Bem Hunter Lime 1-12 Complete.hdi" with a CRC32 of B2431676. Put it into the directory where you extracted the patch files, and either launch "COMBINE.BAT" to get an unique HDI that includes all 12 episodes along with a selection menu, or "SPLIT.BAT" to get 12 HDIs, one for each episode. The second option might be of interest to you if you emulate and use a frontend, for instance.

Credits
Alpharobo: Hacking
Kirinn B: Graphics hacking
BabaJeanmel: Translation, graphics edits
ShintoCetra, ValleyBell: Playtesting, proofreading