project-shiren-gb

Research notes from reverse-engineering 不思議のダンジョン 風来のシレンGB 〜月影村の怪物〜 (Shiren the Wanderer GB, DMG 1996) and scoping QA work for its sequel 風来のシレンGB2 砂漠の魔城 (GBC, 2001).

No ROMs or patch files are included or should ever be committed — see .gitignore. Supply your own legally-dumped ROMs.

What’s here

docs/FINDINGS-gb1.md      full GB1 decode write-up: text encoding table,
                          font location/format, script banks, control codes,
                          PyBoy-based methodology
docs/ai-landscape.md      survey of AI-assisted GB/GBC translation projects
                          on GitHub (Sept 2026)
tables/shiren_gb1.tbl     GB1 character table (romhacking .tbl format)
screenshots/              emulator captures documenting the decode work and
                          the existing English patches running

Key external projects (not vendored — clone them yourself)

• GB1 English translation (v1.12 RC1, Sept 2026): https://github.com/joey-astrologo/Shiren-GB-Monster-of-Moonlight-Village
• GB2 English translation (v0.25 ALPHA, Sept 2026): https://github.com/joey-astrologo/Shiren-GB2-Magic-Castle-of-the-Desert
• SharkSnack’s DS2 English terminology wiki (source): https://github.com/SharkSnack/shiren-ds2
• Mystery Dungeon Franchise Wiki GB2 references: https://mysterydungeonwiki.com (Magic Castle GBC: pages)
• Chinese GB2 fan translation (hqqqqtv’s team, v1.03 2024): distributed as pre-patched ROMs via Baidu Tieba 风来的西林吧 — no repo, no patch files

Status / next steps

The planned contribution is a three-way review of the GB2 English alpha: Japanese original ↔ Chinese fan translation ↔ English draft, flagging lines where the English diverges from both readings. Blocked on obtaining the Chinese v1.03 patched ROM. Playtesting of both English patches is the other open workstream.