SS Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town
A Sega Saturn fan localization by Malenko. A Nonogram/Hanjie game by Human, the makers of FirePro.
These are AKA picross games, but this one does something neat and uses layers to combine colors on
the later stages. The puzzles get VERY VERY difficult near the end. There are over 700 of them to do.

Dedicated to:
Yuki Mei April 8th 2006 - June 19th 2023

Credits:
Malenko - General game research ,discovery, and documentation
Malenko - Graphics discovery and replacement
Malenko - Translation
and of course I couldnt have done it without: 
Malenko - English text injection


Resources used:
CrystalTile2: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/818/ 
Photoshop CS2: https://www.adobe.com
bytesearch: https://segaxtreme.net/resources/bytesearch.130/ 
Saturn 15bpp : https://segaxtreme.net/resources/saturn-15bpp-graphics-converter.352/
CRAM2PAL: No URL
wxMEdit: http://wxmedit.github.io/
Sega Saturn Patcher: https://segaxtreme.net/resources/sega-saturn-patcher.73/ 
Yaba SanShiro Emulator: http://www.uoyabause.org/

Special thanks : Derek (a-team) for amazing general purpose tools and Knight0fDragon for teaching me a bunch when I first started, and lastly to my wife for putting up with me. Regular thanks to the SegaXtreme and Shiro discords and a great big shout out to Craig Stadler! Almost forgot, thanks to Bo for helping me with the code. https://32bits.substack.com/

Files changed:
DATA_X.DAT      Puzzle names
GEMIMAIN.SH2    Menus and graphics
GEMIMAP.SH2     Overworld puzzle area names
GEMTITLE.SH2    Main Menu
INST.SBM   Tutorial background
TITLE2.SBM   Title Screen graphics
WORK.SH2        Various tiles and text
OMAKE\README.TXT I roughly translated the developer read me, a native speaker can prolly do gooder.

F.A.Q.

Q: Why this game?
A: I like Nonograms and this game has over 700 of them to do, plus... why not?

Q: How "literal" is the translation/localization?
A: Its pretty much dead on balls. The only real "changes" are changing of Japanese terms into English ones.
   The best example I can think of is one of the puzzles is called "Kyudo" and I named it "Archery" instead. Small things like that. Everything else is pretty literal which is easy because its almost all specific nouns and verbs and Proper nouns.
   There is no Masa in this game either.

Q: Why do the Shiro Patreaons get BETAs?
A: It is my way of helping them get more subs, and me getting involved BETA testers. I previously released betas to the
   public and didnt get a ton of feedback TBH. They just got to play an incploete version before the public release, don't be too butt-hurt.

Q: How much do you want for this patch?
A: Its free, don't pay for it.

Q: Do you have a pateon or anything?
A: No patreon, I don't want to feel obligated to work on things when I'm not up for it. You can buy me a donut
   if you want to.  https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Malenk0 ; spoiler: you won't and I'm ok with that.

Q: Where did you hide Craig Stadler? 
A: Its less funny if I tell you if I did or where he is.

Q: You're said what files are what,aren't you afraid someone is going to "steal your work" and re-translate this game?
A: The goal is for people to learn. I encourage people to poke around and change this to their hearts desire. Credit is nice tho.
   I wish someone would remove Stadler from Drift King 97 so I could stop hearing about it.

Q: Do you think people read the readme?
A: No.


Releases:
V1.2 Third Public release
Corrected the "Zoo" puzzle list that was breaking everything after puzzle 40
Changed Deer to Fawn
Changed Raccoon to Tanuki
Fixed erroneous character on Chicken
Changed Monkey to Babboon
Updated Rainbow array on title screen
Updated version to 1.2 on title and changed the font ; Hopefully FINAL for realsies
I resisted calling the X-ray puzzle "Mr.Bones" 

V1.1 Second public release
Corrected the "DMV" puzzle list that was breaking everything after puzzle 7 (thanks to PsionicNinja at SX for letting me know)
Corrected the "Fruit Shop" puzzle list that was breaking everything after puzzle 14
Corrected the "Coastline" puzzle list that was breaking everything after puzzle 12
Corrected the "Aquarium" puzzle list that was breaking everything after puzzle 3
Renamed DMV to Travel, since it was more about things on the road and not registering cars.
Fixed a few singular/plural names
Fixed Thili Pepper/Chili Pepper typo
Fixed Toller Skating/Roller Skating typo
Fixed kipping Rope/Skipping Rope typo
Fixed BullNo1/BullNoi typo (this was more of a misremember than a typo)
Did I mention there is a cheat code?
Changed Gateball to Croquet
Changed Trump Card to Cards
Change Coffee Float to Milkshake
Changed Gong to Ring Bell
Changed F1 Stands to F1 Turn
Changed Stuffed Toy to Stuffed Dog
Changed Puppet to Pinocchio
Changed Bat & Ball to Bat & Glove
Changed Teapot to Coffee Pot
Changed light Bulb to Lightbulb
Changed Deck Chair to Beach Lounger
Changed Princess to Snow White
Changed Swimwear to Bikini
Changed Oroblanco to Tomatillio
Changed Horn to French Horn
Changed Rugby Ball to Football
Changed Peat to Fire Fighter
Changed Puppet Zoo to Frog
Changed Ropeway to Gondola
Changed Gloves to Mittens
Changed Cook to Chef
Changed Ruler to Graphing Tools
Changed Road Racers to Road Cyclist 
Changed Beach House to Beach Shack
Changed Champagne Girl to Umbrella Girl 
Changed Dice to Die (there was only 1 of them)
Changed Shoot! to Super Kick! (Soccer puzzle)
Changed Blackboard to Chalkboard (since it was green)
Changed Polygama to Milkwort
Changed Crystal Ball to Fortune Teller
Changed Synchronization to Synchronized Swimming
Changed Shortcake to Cheesecake
Changed "Ready Set Go!" to Starter Pistol
Change Red Current to Gooseberry
Changed Green Grocer to Produce Stand(even though there are mushrooms and a tomato is a fruit)
Changed Ghost to Oni
These changes were based on the picture from the solved puzzles instead of the specific Japanese
Changed version on title screen to 1.1 ; Hopefully FINAL


V1.0 Public release, final?
removed Shiro Patreon easter egg
fixed up the tutorial text
translated the instructions "land"
translated the edit mode
made the cheat code accessible with English letters, one tileset left in Japanese on PURPOSE
Let Danthrax annoy me to death (it's his super power!)

V 1.000B Shiro Patreon PGRE BETA
Everythings done except edit mode.... I think? I'm sure I made some typos.
Rhododendron is tough to spell ya know

FUN FACT!
the cheat code to unlock solutions and finish all puzzles is CSTADLER