A fan translation of Aretha (アレサ, Yanoman, developed by Japan Art Media, 1990), a Game Boy role-playing game released only in Japan. Materia, raised by old Floyd in Halohalo Town, sets out to find her lost sister and the truth about the three rings and the fallen Kingdom of Aretha.
The whole game is translated: the opening, every villager and story scene, the shops, inns and cash dispensers, the battles and their messages, the item, spell, place and monster names, the menus, the save and naming screens, and the ending. The title screen and the staff credits were already in English on the cartridge. Free and non-commercial. The patch contains no game data: you apply it to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge.
1.0.0-beta
- First public release.
| File | Aretha_EN_v1.0.0-beta.bps (67,556 bytes) |
| MD5 | ef891dcaa36ca7fa71eff7e124cc47e9 |
| SHA-1 | bc51a289b024ea188442292818bb24d86762254e |
No-Intro "Aretha (Japan)".
| Original | 131,072 bytes · CRC32 1DB65649 · MD5 9c23d37d51a593e82378dad038a52ef2 · SHA-1 eab8f13d110634f4ee750ac93e4f25d91a85000f |
| Patched | 262,144 bytes · CRC32 CCC69F84 · MD5 a8a60e6669461b6ed857844d279e2954 · SHA-1 818bee1995298abe27084afb3a2e1e2a5f9849d7 |
- Check that your ROM matches the original checksums above.
- Apply the
.bpswith Flips, RomPatcher.js or beat. A BPS patcher checks the source, so if it refuses, your dump differs. - Play the patched file in an accurate emulator (Mesen, SameBoy, Gambatte) or on a flash cartridge.
- The game has not yet been played through to the end by a tester. Checked on screen: a route from power-on through the opening, the first town, its shops and a first battle. Every other scene and every battle message was shown on the patched cartridge and read back beside the original.
E-mail phil@tttships.co with the version (1.0.0-beta), where in the story, what you were doing, a screenshot, and a save state if you can.
Translated by CODEC BABEL's AI agents under the direction of the project's human lead; no other team's patches, scripts or tools were used. Original game © Yanoman 1990. This patch is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yanoman or its successors.