Shell Monsters Story Translation

• Game Title: Kaijyu Monogatari
• Developed by Birthday. Published in 1988 by Namco. Released November 18, 1988.
• Game Format: 2 megabit (256KB) Famicom cartridge.

This is a nice RPG by Namco. It is very much like Dragon Warrior.

(cart scan added 2/8/2002)

7/12/2001

Some progress shots:

See this shot? I need help expanding the window size, to accomidate the text, and help moving the cursor positions, so it moves to the right places when the player pushed the directions.

01/28/2002

Been that long? Here's what's new:

Original size command menu.                      Expanded command menu.

2/6/2002

Thanks to eBay, added blurry cart scan.

Update: Just won it, so I'll re-scan when it comes.

2/9/2002

Well, it appears the text is quite large (at least what looks like text), as well as using the dictionary (which I thought was confined only to the battle text). That'll make inserting a DTE table difficult, unless I am able to condense a little townie dialouge down on each page ($1000 bytes) of the script. (4 pages, maybe more).

What's done:

• Inserted English font
• Found font table.
• Figured out pointer tables.
• Right now, I'm just messing with the ROM.
• In process of expanding windows/text

What needs to be done.

• Any sort of translating at all.

WHERE COULD I USE HELP?

• Add DTE.
• Translating.
• Design title.

I can insert text, and handle pointer moving if someone could accomplish the above tasks.

EXTRAS

Cartridge scan

Back side of cartridge

Size compared to an NES cart