Game de Check! Koutsuu Anzen Japanese to English translation

This is a translation patch for Game de Check! Koutsuu Anzen, a traffic safety "edutainment" title from 1987 for the Sega Master System. For more information, visit:

https://www.smspower.org/Games/GameDeCheckKoutsuuAnzen-SMS

How to use it

You will need a copy of the ROM, which has these properties:

• Size: 262144 bytes
• CRC32: 9afab511
• MD5: 840ba96cf77b465d3d0d389dac7861d7
• SHA1: 72353c77efa078e88483858201f5bdf832f5c01c

And an IPS patching tool, such as Floating IPS. See here for more:

https://www.smspower.org/Hacks/HowToUseBPSAndIPSPatchFiles

Alternatively, some emulators let you load IPS files.

Credits

• Translation: RyogaMasaki

• Translation coding: Maxim

• Hacking and translation help: Bock

• Hacking help: Calindro

• Graphics help: marklincadet

Technical details

• Replaced title screens with reinterpretations using ZX7 compression
• Replaced 1bpp 16x16 dynamic font loader with 8x16 variant
• Python script dumper and re-insertion generator
• Patched graphics in several places
• Replaced some graphics with dynamic font loader
• Also patched some bugs in the original game:
  • Sometimes fails to turn screen on/off due to VBlank race
  • Mis-drawn pixel in speedometer

Source is available at:

https://github.com/smspower/gamedecheck-sms-translation/