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Chameleon Twist

Original game : Chameleon Twist

Platform : Nintendo 64

Language : English

Released by : Zoinkity

Release date : 26 October 2016

Status : Fully Playable

Patch version : 1.0

Downloads : 2651

ROM Information

Chameleon Twist (Japan)
Internal Name: Chameleon Twist
Game ID: NCTJ
Byteorder: Native (Big-Endian)
Internal Checksum: A4F2F521 F0EB168E
MD-5: C0EB519122D63A944A122437EC1B98EE
SHA-512: C725C585831E566037ACFA819863F4E72619264FE190D260D4F01F900B80617C59DE6D8EFE0B9DF777B709FE1CD66FAE8AF8BAFF59CE630629969F7B4200035F

Translation description

This patch shoehorns (one of) the official translations into the Japanese game. It was edited minorly to remove obvious typos, and some redundant lines were dropped in the interest of all the important dialog getting stuffed in there (Get a high score, and try to get a high score!). Where text needed to be localized the original style of "talking down to a 7 year old through a language barrier" was utilized. Resisted the urge to alter existing dialog, so yes, "time attack" remains localized to "training".

The Japanese game has a number of notable differences. There is a carrot in each world to collect, unlocking two minigames and...something else! Several rooms are completely different, the "boss rush" is more difficult, powerups appear in single player, there's two more characters, and 1P can play multiplayer against up to three COMs. There's several internal differences too, like how it doesn't bork the save commands and isn't silly about controller paks. Messy code though; honestly not certain if v1.1 fixed more bugs than it introduced--script included.

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
ZoinkityHackingFull Hacking & Translation

Reviews

AmazingKirbyfan9million2020-06-19Version 1.0

For those who wanted to have everything that was in the Japanese Version but your language of choice is English and not Japanese, you can now play the Japanese Version with this Patch, If this person were to make more, I would like to see them do a English Translation Patch for Chameleon Twist 2.