Years ago, I was on the team working on the updated translation patch for FE12. It looks like I’m not allowed to include links here, but you can find it easily on SerenesForest, it’s titled “Updated FE12 translation patch (Beta 2 released!)”
I helped do some of the ROM hacking and insertion of graphics/script updates for the mentioned “Beta 3” release. I ended up having to bail on the project after a few months due to being busy irl, but we accomplished a decent amount during that time, and it seems even more work on the script continued after I left. I’m not completely sure what happened, but the project appears to have fizzled out in the following year or so.
I was going through the old project shared drive, and realized none of this has been shared publicly before. I was able to get in touch with one of the original team members briefly, and he had no objections to me releasing the in-progress Beta 3. So, in the interest of making sure this doesn’t disappear forever, I’ve linked the work-in-progress Beta 3 project below
Keeping in mind it’s been around 6 years since I last worked on this, my memory of the project and what progress we made is hazy. From what I can tell from a quick check, it includes updates to align names with FEH (at least, what was available at the time), a bunch of graphics edits (a lot of stuff to align it with FEH and the graphics for the official FE11 localization, which the original FE12 patch was surprisingly very inconsistent with), some rewritten/retranslated dialog to clean up some rough writing (how much there is, i’m not sure), and some other misc fixes (like for one, apparently the original FE12 patch completely removed a certain “FreezeMouth” facial expression/animation from all character dialog portraits). It also includes some custom tools/scripts that were written for working with the game, probably a mixture of stuff I wrote and stuff that existed before I joined the project. And possibly more. if anyone is interested in picking this up lmk, i can probably find some more context for what all these files are from reading old private DMs.
Note: The original archive contained an unpacked ROM with all the modifications, so i’ve removed that for obvious reasons and have replaced it with an xdelta patch based on that rom that you can apply to the original JP rom (located at NDS_UNPACK UPDATED TRANSLATION/pre_beta3.xdelta inside the zip).
