I’m Santiago Zapata, better known online as slashie, a Software Engineer and Independent Game Developer and from Medellín, Colombia.

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Category: Savage Empire SNES

  • Avatar’s dream

    I reconstructed the first portion of the kanji font Again, as Vehek pointed out, this seems to be Shift-JIS ordered. I’m hoping to find at least some leads using relative searching, not that I’m very hopeful but I have to do it

  • The Story So Far…

    So, based on what we know so far… (thanks to Vehek from romhacking.net) Font is stored in GB format (2bpp); roman characters + japanese kana begin at 0x00122480 And then comes kanji (in-game dialog is in Kanji, kana is only used for some texts) Vehek says the text doesn’t seem…

  • Start New Game!

    So, I’m teaming up with Dungy Dragon (and his wife :P) to translate the “Ultima: The Savage Empire” SNES ROM into Engrish… wish us luck, we are gonna need heaps of it! This will be a great challenge… the technical efforts are far from straightforward, but that’s the fun! traditional…