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-BlackPaladin's "Aspic: Curse of the Snakelord" FDS Translation Patch-
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*Aspic: Mahebiou no Noroi*
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For those who are unfamiliar with this game, this is a sequel to an older RPG title, titled "Lizard".  This game continues where that game ends.  

While the hero, Samsom, is searching for the Book of Truth, a wizard from Suna (Sand World) makes a proclamation to the king.  This wizard can uncurse his daughter, the princess.  However, she needs to come with the wizard to Suna.  The king sends 10 soldiers with the wizard and the princess so that she could be uncursed.  The curse was lifted, but instead of returning the princess, she's to be a bride to Aspic the Snakelord.  The ten soldiers, except for one, were slain either by Aspic himself or by Suna's intense heat.  The lone survivor returns to the castle to relay the news, Samson being there to hear everything.  With the Book of Truth in hand, Samson embarks on another quest.  This time, it's to slay Aspic the Snakelord and return the princess to the king.  If only Samson knew what Aspic has in store...

One thing to point out is that when switching disc sides when prompted, it doesn't immediately start loading the game.  You'll have to eject and reinsert it (possibly more than once) for the game to start loading.  This issue exists in the original hardware as well.

Because of tight space limitations, some names had to be changed.  For example, the name of worlds mentioned in-game....

Hito (Human World)
Umi (Sea World)
Suna (Sand World)
Makai (Demon World)

In the enemy battle GUI, Samson's name is shortened to "SAM" and warrior companions are listed as "WARR" because there's only room for up to four letters per character listed in-game.  Also, any skeletons appearing in-game are simply called "BONE".

Some item names were given similar treatment.  The game only allowed up to eight characters per item.  (The overworld screen's dialogue box is eight character wide.)

Map (Miracle Map)
G.Viper (Gold Viper)
Spout (Whale Spout)
Runners (Running Boots)
Cane (Rock Climbing Staff)
Climbers (Climbing Boots)
Skaters (Water Skater Feet)
(key icon)Silver (Silver Key)
(key icon)Gold (Gold Key)
(key icon)Copper (Copper Key)

Patching Instructions

The patch come in two flavors...

Aspic - Curse of the Snakelord (English).ips
--This patch requires a clean and unaltered Aspic FDS ROM (IPS Format)
Aspic - Curse of the Snakelord (English).bps
--This patch requires a clean and unaltered Aspic FDS ROM (BPS Format)

Be sure to use either patch to the following FDS ROM (without a header) with the following hashes:

File/ROM SHA-1: BEFB31B3FFBBE26993DE0DD8F15443DBD69F5D15
File/ROM CRC32: 1999ADDB

After applying either patch, it should have the following hashes. (Don't use both patches.)

File/ROM SHA-1: B3EB387357749945AFF9B10602E1A4B2C3722427
File/ROM CRC32: 4752270D

What has been translated?

All character dialogue
All known item names
All known monster names
Subtitle screen
In-game intro and ending text

1.0

Initial release

Special thanks:

FCE Ultra Team (Used their hex editor)
Mesen Team (Used their hex editor)
Windhex32 Team (Used the hex editor the most)
YY-Char Team (used this for editing graphics)
Bunkai (Translated the game's script files and instruction manual)
Ryu-Senpai (Translated the game's script files)
Pennywise (Helped me crack the game's pointer system)
abridgewater (Scanned the Japanese Aspic FDS instruction manual)
Infrrod (Cleaned and edited the game manual to display English text)
xttx (Beta Testing)

All credit to "Aspic: Mahebiou no Noroi" belong to Xtalsoft, Bolthec and their respective creators and programmers.  This patch is mainly for pure entertainment for those who cannot enjoy the game.  All rights reserved.  (Xtalsoft and Bolthec, please don't come after me!)

