TM Network: Live in Power Bowl (English)

=========================TM Network=======================
=====================Live in Power Bowl===================
===========================V 1.01=========================
Genre: Adventure

Source language: Japanese

Platform: Famicom

Patch language: English

Author: Pennywise

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

This project was started last year through filler's work
in translating the game. It must be said that this game
probably never would've been translated otherwise
because it's so obscure and technically challenging.

Without giving anything away, the game is basically
J-Pop meets scifi with your traditional point and click
adventure gameplay. Be warned that there are plenty of
ways to get game over in the game, but I've included
a spoiler-free walkthrough with the patch courtesy of
SnowyAria, who also happened to help finish up the
translation.

Anyhow, the game is one giant block of scripting code
mixed with text. So before I could even start hacking
it, I had to break it all down, reverse-engineer it and
then put it all back together to get the game in
English. In the course of my work, I also expanded
the main character name length to 8 characters.

Anyhow, I do think the game turned out to be pretty
neat all things considered. You get sent back in
time and the J-Pop band, TM Network helps you save
the future of humanity. An interesting concept
with some still prescient politcal undertones as well.

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Version History
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1.0 - initial release
1.01 - minor text formatting, bug fix

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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 the BPS and xdelta.
You can patch the ROM here:

https://www.romhacking.net/patch/

Apply the patch to the Japanese ROM:

TM Network - Live in Power Bowl (Japan).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

filler - main translation

SnowyAria - finished translation, text editing, testing

Ryusui - misc spot translations

Graphicus - misc graphic design

cccmar - testing

All those who contributed into this process.

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Compiled by Pennywise. June 2022