Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (English)

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==========Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom============
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Genre: Text Adventure

Source language: Japanese

Platform: NES

Patch language: English

Author: Pennywise/Eien ni Hen

E-mail: antoniusblocko@protonmail.com
		
http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
 
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About Princess Tomato
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Project History:

This project probably began around 2013 when I asked
Eien ni Hen if there were any games she'd like to translate
and so the project was born. I did a little bit of work
on the project, but the project sat for 7 years after
Eien had finished translating. I suppose the reason it
sat for so long is that I didn't feel like working on it.
Of course there were also many other projects vying for
my attention and a lack of free time, but it is what it is.
It's done now.

It actually took me a few months to finish hacking the
game. Truth to be told, I'm kinda burned out from it
and don't feel much like going into the details.
But the ROM was expanded for a huge script, commands
were originally 8 characters, but have been hacked to 9.
Most of the game's graphics were compressed, but the
game can actually load uncompressed graphics too.
I used Mesen to get memory dumps to access the decompressed
graphics and then store them somewhere else in the ROM.
Lots of other stuff done as well.

One thing I will say is that I did end up liking the
game. So much so that I'm seriously considering the
PC-88 version of the game. That seems to be the most
accessible version to hack. Maybe Eien will rejoin me
and I can get it done in less than 7 years.
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Version History
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1.0 - Initial release
1.01 - bugfix patch
1.02 - bugfix patch
1.03 - endgame bugfixes

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Translator's Comments
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The original English version of this game had a lot of
stuff changed or straight-up removed. Some of it was for
censorship reasons, but I feel like a large part of the
game's personality got lost in the original translation.

There are a LOT of puns in this game. I had to localize
most (if not all) of them. The only one that didn't quite
fit is うどの大木, a phrase meaning "huge but useless."
I eventually settled on "Ugly Tree," as in "He fell out of
the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down."

Master Takahashi: Refers to Toshiyuki Takahashi, an
executive of Hudson Soft and a Japanese celebrity.

Hachike the Bee: A combination of Hachiko (the famous Akita),
and the Hudson Soft mascot.

Phone cards: Prepaid cards for use in Japanese payphones.

Mobile Veggie Suit: This is totally a Mobile Suit Gundam
reference, and I'm sad it was removed in the original translation.

Shimenawa: These are large ropes used to ward off evil
spirits, but the one in-game is used to contain a monster
(Saladron) within the shrine-tree. I translated it as "Holy Rope."

Jizo: Jizo is a Japanese divinity who protects women, children,
and travelers. There are thousands of Jizo statues throughout
Japan, though they are most commonly found by roadsides and in graveyards.

Percy's "roses are red" poem: He originally just tells Cucumber
that the castle's walls are white, which I think is a reference
to the famous outer walls of Himeji castle.

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Patching Instructions
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Due to limitations in the IPS format and the changes I
made to the ROM, I'm only supporting BPS and xdelta formats
for this game. You can download a program to patch from here:

http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1040/
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/598/

Apply the patch to the Japanese ROM:

Salad no Kuni no Tomato Hime (J).nes

We would be highly grateful, if you find some time to 
contact us with proposals or corrections. Information
on found bugs or corrections would be highly 
appreciated.

P.S.

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Credits go to:

Pennywise - hacking

Eien ni Hen - main translation

TheMajinZenki - misc spot translations

Esperknight - script extraction

FlashPV - title screen design

Graphicus - misc graphic design

Cospefogo - english manual design

Xanathis - testing

All those who contributed into this process.

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Compiled by Pennywise. December 2021