Wrecking Crew '98 English Translation

Wrecking Crew '98

Original game : Wrecking Crew '98

Platform : Super Nintendo

Language : English

Released by : ShadowOne333

Release date : 02 December 2021

Status : Fully Playable

Patch version : 2.0

Downloads : 12278

ROM Information

Name: Mario Wrecking Crew '98 (J) (NP).smc : 2.1MB Headered ROM
CRC32: 69AA74CE
MD5: 9BF4FCDDAFAB83E98CA54631358D2BE0
SHA-1: 5019D17BD47A25DC123E2111D7BCC62C54812A65

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Name: Wrecking Crew '98 (Japan).sfc : 2.1MB Headerless ROM
CRC32: A24F85FF
MD5: 94B140BF2AA47D0A8E1663ABD4B256D6
SHA-1: 0221237F39F26C776C5488AB7C61B8C72BFBA3A9

Translation description

A Mario game, never brought over-seas, exclusive to Japan and without an english translation?!

Yes, for as hard as it is to believe, this obscure Mario title never saw the light of day in any country outside of Japan, thanks to the weird distribution method of kiosks back in '98, and thanks due to Nintendo's International Division shutting down sales of all SNES games in '97.

This neat little package includes not only one, but 2 games!
That's right, the original Wrecking Crew for the NES was ported and included alongside its sequel, Wrecking Crew '98!

Now you can enjoy the flexibility of having both games in one single ROM, now in full english text thanks to the incredible work of the RomHacking community!

The game is fully playable, from start to finish!
Finally, a long forgotten game will see the light of day overseas, thanks to hackers doing what Nintendon't!

PS: As of version 2.0, the remaining bug that made some dialogues crash has been fixed, and the Characters' names in the credits are now fully localized thanks to the help by minucce!

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
rainponcho	Hacking	De/compression and tile map tools, pointers and offsets.
DarkSamus993	Hacking	Text data pointers, text dump and text insertion tools.
minucce	Hacking	Dialogues crash fix and fully localized character names in the Credits sequence
GHANMI	Script Editing/Revision	TBL files for both Story and Tutorials, some tutorial translation and edits for both Story and Tutor
TheMajinZenki	Translation	Main Story and Tutorial text translations.
Reichu	Translation	Data management menu translation.
Jorpho	Script Editing/Revision	Pointing out missing from the main story, appearance of Bowser's image and 100% save file
Nes Boy	Script Editing/Revision	Some transcriptions and in-game shots of text.
ShadowOne333	Hacking	General hacking, script insertion and tile arrangements.

Reviews

Congratulations for continuing and finishing this excellent project!	mundodisco	2022-03-04	Version 2.0
This game reminds me the many, many hours spent with my sister playing the original Wrecking Crew game for NES... 30 years ago (or maybe more!). I wish I could have this game to enjoy with her a little more time together... Perhaps your translation cannot perform that miracle but makes me very happy! I appreciate your effort and countless hours spent with this work, this EXCELLENT, SUPERB translation work. And most important, for not having left the translation in the former version with the freeze bugs. Now this revision 2.0 is THE ONE. What else can I say? Thank you very much and congratulations!

Super translation patch right here!	Nokia3310	2022-02-19	Version 2.0
A brilliant translation patch, presented like you would expect from a legit localisation. The next console era was in full swing by the time this game appeared in Japan (Nintendo were focused on their N64 console in most other regions by then). If times were different, this is exactly what you would expect the English release from Nintendo to look like. This patch is the work of some very talented and dedicated people. It's clear that a lot of time and love went into making it. Great job and definitely recommended. On a side note, this game also includes a port of NES Wrecking Crew as a SNES game, selectable from the first menu screen. Another good reason to play this.

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