Thanks for posting, at least it proves that romhacking still accepts new entries, and this one is massive indeed. I'll take a look later, but it requires to find the same version he mentions with the given sha32, so it might take some time. Thanks for the info anyway !
Yeah found the original bin without too much trouble, some sites have the patched bin already. The xdelta patch applies without any trouble and is very fast, the surprise is that the resulting bin file is actually smaller ! But yeah it's still a 2352 bin file.
I found a crash in raine if using all bin files for audio like here and the audio requires some conversion because the soundcard is configured for something like 48000 Hz, and these files are for 44100 Hz, it's a stupid bug, just 1 forgotten line, but it's still a crash, it's fixed in git, if somebody else has the problem I'll make another binary.
Except that yeah, high quality patch, it took forever to make, and the guy had to be incredibly motivated to spend so much time on it, respect for the work done. Like most people I had played enough with the version released 10 years ago (already !) to understand that the game was very basic and a disappointment, which was probably the reason why there was never any official translation... But still, it's an impressive work he has done here. I remembered I needed some cheats to disable the automatic fights just not to become crazy with ultra easy repetitive fights all the time, since he changed some things for the eu/us version, you might have more chance, I didn't try that.
And indeed you have some soft dipswitches now, you can access them in "neocd options", there was nothing usable there before, I doubt the choice of ps1 / saturn elements was in the original japense iso.
Great work for sure !