====================Vandal Hearts======================
================The Lost Civilization==================
=======================V 1.5===========================
Genre: RPG

Source language: Japanese

Platform: Sega Saturn

Patch language: English

Author: paul_met/Pennywise

E-mail:	paul294met@gmail.com
	http://meduza-team.ucoz.net
    http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
 
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Background
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This is a complete English patch for the Sega Saturn port
of Vandal Hearts. The technical details are as follows:

- Support for VWF.
- Support for 1-byte character encoding.
- Expanded the palette of treasure chests, crates, icons
and menu frames.
- Increased the internal resolution of the game to 352x240
(original 320x224).
- Support for widescreen (you can switch on the fly from
the game menu).
- Increased video resolution up to 320x196 (original 320x144).
- Supports 4 MB expansion card to speed up loading of level maps
(almost double boost).
- Support for Gouraud shading for static lighting (glare from
the light of torches, altars and pictograms).
- The size of the background images of the loading screens
has been increased to 352x240 (original size 320x224).
- Restored the size of the rest of the background images
(size 320x240 - as in the version for PS1).

The PS1 script has been mostly ported over to this translation.
But the script has been reviewed for accuracy and edited accordingly.

The Saturn version of the game has additional maps, musical
compositions, items and spells. In addition, some graphical
effects have been improved over the PS1 version.

Please note that the game currently has emulation issues
on Mednafen that results in discolored character sprites
for certain parts of the game. These issues are not present
on the original hardware.

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Patching Instructions
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1. Copy all the patch files into a folder containing the
   original multi-track game image in the "Bin/Cue" format!
2. Launch the "START.BAT" file.
3. To make things safer, the original data track is saved
   in the same folder (with the "old" extension). You may
   further delete after successful patching.
4. All the patch files are automatically deleted at the
   end of the patching process!
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The original image should be equivalent to the one found here:
http://redump.org/disc/3866/

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Credits
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paul_met - initiator, coordinator, hacker and designer

Pennywise - testing, editing, coordinating

TheMajinZenki - translation review

CrawdKenny - translation review

aishsha - translation review, hardware testing

filler - translation review

All those who contributed into this process.
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Changes in version 1.2
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* Improved compatibility with 4 MB Extended RAM Cartridge.

Changes in version 1.3
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* Support for official 4 MB Extended RAM Cartridge.

Changes in version 1.4
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* Added the ability to skip cinematics (by clicking START)
* Added a HARD MODE (activated by pressing the L+R buttons on the title screen of the game after each restart).

Changes in version 1.5
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*Fixed some errors in the text. 

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Compiled by Pennywise. May 2021.
