Kid Paddle for GBA
English fan translation
English fan translation
Kid Paddle is a series of comics (not released in English) and a cartoon (that was dubbed in English) about the amusingly strange adventures of Kid, a legendary(?) gamer. There was a GBA game based on it, released only in French and Dutch, about Kid entering a contest to win a console, playing a bunch of (rather difficult) minigames. Well, I've been working on translating this for a bit now, I thought it'd be nice for people to be able to play it in English. (Honestly, it's been a dream for a long time to translate a game, I first attempted to translate this game around 10 years ago.)
While working on the translation earlier this year I decided it would be a lot better to write a tool to insert the text into the game instead of using a hex editor and manually calculating the new pointers (hey I'm new to this) and so work on that started a few months ago with the immense help of Vaporeon. Just 1.5 days ago I finished enough of the tool that it can now modify the text in the rom, so I'm beginning work on polishing the translation. I expect it'll be done late December at the earliest, but maybe not until June 2025.
Credits
Hacking & Translation - Onfy (that's me)
Tools programming - Vaporeon & Onfy
Graphic editing - @Sterophonick
Minisite for the translation: https://onfy.neocities.org/translation/kpgba
(I'd also like to release the tools next year after they're better polished. Then people will be able to translate this and other Mistic Software GBA games into other languages, with the exceptions of Superman: Countdown to Apokolips and Backyard Hockey, which use a slightly different text format.)
