[PC] Megaman & Bass 2 translation project

i'm translating the only major classic megaman game never to see an english release. Megaman & Bass 2 was released for the very obscure Japanese WonderSwan handheld system. This system competed briefly with the GameBoy, and it only had four colors.

It is remarkable that Capcom released MMB2 for the WS instead of the GameBoy Color considering the game was developed in 1999. Regardless, that's what they wanted to do.

This game could easily be classed as Megaman 10, just as the original Megaman & Bass could be classed as Megaman 9 because it occurs after Megaman 8 in the timeline.

MMB2 is a very important game because it has ties to time travel and gets close to touching the X-era. To those of you familiar with the Mega Man timeline, you'll know the classic series occured between 2006-2040 and the X series occured between 2116-2210.

After MegaMan 3, Dr. Wily time traveled to the year 2047 to experiment with the technology of their time. He created a prototype megaman clone named M-Shadow, but discarded him as a failed experiment. In MMB2, M-Shadow returns from the year 2052 and attacks Earth. I'm quite sure M-Shadow can be considered a step above Bass, but still a step behind the far-superior Zero.

Anyways, considering this is a handheld game it shouldn't be too difficult to translate using a hex editor. I've partly translated the character select screen (Megaman and Bass's names) and I'll start working on the text/fonts tomorrow. Here's a screenshot to prove the project is in motion.

Once the translation is completed it will, of course, be publicly released for free.

BEFORE:
http://bb.xieke.com/files/13.png

AFTER:
http://bb.xieke.com/files/24.png

Seems like quite the endeavor. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to checking out the finished product.

Another screenshot. Ignore the cavespeak below the first paragraph, that'll be translated soon.

http://bb.xieke.com/files/SCREEN1.JPG

Hmm, looks interestin :)

GL, cant wait to see the results :P

Megaman was a great series.

dude this is tight. how far along are you??? i can't wait to finally find out what it's about playing it through in eng text. By the way, does anyone here know if a translation is needed for Rockman Strategy on the PC???

any update on this project?

No, I wouldn't advise you to get your hopes up either.

Good job