How We FINALLY Translated My Pokémon Ranch's Platinum Update!

Installation Guide: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files... MPR Connect Github: https://github.com/taxicat1/mpr-conne... IT'S FINALLY REAL!!! Development on this patch began in early 2023, but was envisioned even earlier in 2020 when working on a translation patch for the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon WiiWare games. The first big hurdle of this patch was reverse engineering a custom variant of the proprietary compression format (called ASH) which is used in this game. When that was figured out, the project began development shortly after. Localizing this patch was the easy part. The hard part, by far, was getting non-Japanese copies of the game working with this patch. Not only does the game perform a series of checks to make sure it’s connected to the right version, English Platinum and Japanese Platinum are very different, and lots of small things had to be fixed. This project was struggling to devise a solution to the signature issue, and often months went by without it being worked on. Many of the people who tried to reverse engineer this were scratching their heads. Several times during the development process, we had considered just releasing the game as-is, essentially giving up on Platinum connectivity. But, we persevered, and thanks to the help of several people, we were able to get a nice solution. Thank you for all the support. After 3 and a half years of development, we are excited to finally have it finished. Thanks to ‪@LegendLinke‬ for providing some footage of his Johto shiny ranch! Follow me on Twitch for more Pokémon and variety content!   / sirtoastyt