

NORA TRANSLATION PROJECT


_Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo_ is an JRPG game developed
by Index Corporation (c) (Atlus) for the Nintendo DS. It was released
only in Japan in July 21, 2011.

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USAGE


-   Download the latest release patch from the releases page and
    unzip it.

-   Dump your Nora to Toki no Koubou - Kiri no Mori no Majo NDS
    cartridge to obtain a .nds rom file. There exist a few number of
    alternatives publicly available on the internet to do this. Just
    make sure that whatever method you use, you obtain an untrimmed and
    clean dump of the game;

(or) Obtain a copy of this game rom somewhere else.

-   Verify the clean .nds rom, make sure that it matches the
    following hashes.

  JAPANESE ROM INFORMATION:

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  CRC-32: 7625D9DF

  MD5: 49D2731D0F0F751F3CD7A2DA58E5B88A

  SHA-256:
  3DC05F7D97C7A931DD49C4257FB3969070D7E1C466187F8E253F357116598A09

-   Rename your .nds file to
    5783 - Nora to Toki no Koubou - Kiri no Mori no Majo (J)(BAHAMUT).nds

-   Copy or move your clean .nds rom to the patch folder.

-   Run the patching script and wait for it to finish.

  (WINDOWS) 3.Apply Patch-Windows.bat

  (LINUX) 3.Apply Patch-Linux.sh

  (MAC) 3.Apply Patch-Mac.command

-   In case you need the clean rom again, it will be moved to a folder
    namedold once the patching process is completed.

-   A new Nora and the Time Studio - The Witch of the Misty Forest.nds
    rom will be created in the patch folder, this is the patched rom.
    Verify that it matches the following hashes, if it doesn't probably
    you didn't use the correct clean rom.

(Optional) If necessary, apply the nora_apfix.xdelta AP-fix patch.

#### v0.1-alpha

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  ALPHA 2020: ENGLISH PATCHED ROM INFORMATION:

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  CRC-32: 68763BDF

  MD5: ED0CD2E9223C762A189DF6626B564A73

  SHA-256:
  6EF03A2EBE0F1D64D4B5FE134818A506A64B3F96DC81AA186BD17236C877D86D

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#### v0.3-c

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  RELEASE 2022: ENGLISH PATCHED ROM INFORMATION:

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  CRC-32: 2F29A9A4

  MD5: 724CDD4D32D58AF9023ACD58923F6A17

  SHA-256:
  71B9498682D806FB68DE5D7A223CE71E434D6AA2A58B1331385CC8CCBF4B84A4

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#### v0.3-d

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  RELEASE 2022: ENGLISH PATCHED ROM INFORMATION:

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  CRC-32: 8AD6FB6B

  MD5: AF802FC9611A03EACF8D10BB3D5A9B5F

  SHA-256:
  778F30A4C8A83DA13F717126DCE25D81C1F3268A9B5D30377D7200B65F815816

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#### v0.3-d-1

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  RELEASE 2022: ENGLISH PATCHED ROM INFORMATION:

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  CRC-32: 1892576A

  MD5: 9AD45EA9EC88D004537E98A9D60A6525

  SHA-256:
  DBF81250F7B3B2482A393C6E787ECA7FDD94FEEC510AAC745919907144F75808

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There is a wiki documentation under construction, if you are interested
in knowing what's the methodology used to create this patch, please
visit the following link.


Wiki



CHANGELOG


v0.1a (2020-03-27)

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INITIAL COMMIT

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_GRAPHICS TRANSLATIONS_

-   The main menu buttons have been translated and edited
-   Most of the in-game menu buttons has been translated and edited
-   Some of the in-game text boxes have been resized to fit English
    dialogues
-   A couple of the characters name labels used in the dialogues have
    been translated, edited and resized
-   Inventory graphic labels and backgrounds have been translated
    and edited.
-   The Exchange rate bar has been translated and edited.
-   Status menus and boxes have been translated and edited.
-   Item menus and boxes have been translated and edited.
-   Equipment management boxes and labels have been translated
    and edited.
-   Skills information box has been translated and edited.
-   Item processing, refining and transforming labels have been
    translated and edited.
-   Item category labels have been edited and translated.
-   Item description background has been edited and translated.
-   Request menus and boxes have been translated and edited.
-   Request status labels have been edited and translated.
-   Formation box has been translated and edited.
-   Sound configuration background has been translated and edited.
-   Button configuration background have been translated and edited.
-   Vademecum background and title labels have been translated
    and edited.
-   Adventure window on/off button has been translated and edited.
-   Battle boxes have been translated and edited.
-   The garden logboard has been translated and edited.
-   Load and Save background has been translated and edited.
-   The received requests list background has been translated
    and edited.
-   Money background has been translated and edited.

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_TEXT SCRIPTS TRANSLATIONS_

-   The first event scripts have been translated as a demo.
-   Battle texts menus have been translated.
-   Configuration menus have been translated.
-   Vademecum menus have been translated.
-   Collecting menus and dialogues have been translated.
-   Adventure game paused texts have been translated.
-   Load and Save texts have been translated.
-   Equipment management texts have been translated.
-   Adventure formation management texts have been translated.
-   Town map Nora phrases have been translated.

v0.3c (2022-04-03)

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TODO. MEANWHILE, CHECK THE LAST YEAR COMMITS.

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v0.3d (2022-09-28)

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_GRAPHICS TRANSLATIONS_

- The title screen version updated.
- Move item R, L, Select and Start buttons translated.
- Font fixed for a few characters.
- Some tutorial images where modified to match the terminology used in-game.

_TEXT SCRIPTS TRANSLATIONS_

- Some broken scripts that appear as untranslated had now been fixed.
- Characters description know shouldn't overflow the screen.
- A couple item names were shortened to fit on screen.
- Typos here and there were corrected.
- Inconsitent naming of items had been addressed.

Big thanks to the users at gbatemp who reported most of the above mistakes in the previous version.

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v0.3d-1 (2022-10-08)

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- Hardcoded AP-fix has been removed as it produced incompatibility with flashcarts in-built AP patching. Now a separate AP-fix xdelta patch is provided separately, but it shouldn't be necessary most of the time. No need to update if you're playing on emulator or TwilightMenu++ with nds-bootstrap.
- A bug that froze the game on flashcarts when trying to open the alphabetical sorting section of the game's items guide, has now been fixed. Again, no need to update if you're playing on emulator or TwilightMenu++ with nds-bootstrap.

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CREDITS


-   Tinke https://github.com/pleonex/tinke
-   Swiss File Knife https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/
-   Crystal Tile 2 https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/818/
-   Aseprite https://www.aseprite.org/
-   HxD https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
