Gyakuten Saiban English translation
逆転裁判 · Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
A backport of the official English script and graphics of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney to the original GBA Gyakuten Saiban, running on the GBA engine with a DS-style font and voices.
What's in it
All four GBA cases are playable in English with the script of the official DS release: The First Turnabout, Turnabout Sisters, Turnabout Samurai and Turnabout Goodbyes. The English text graphics from the DS version are brought over too, including the title screen, Court Record, menus, episode select, the Testimony and Cross-Examination banners and the Objection!, Hold it! and Take that! bubbles, along with signs in the backgrounds. The font is a variable-width one taken from the DS release, and the English voice clips replace the Japanese shouts. The courtroom uses the backgrounds of Gyakuten Saiban 3 instead of the first game's very bright one.
Poses, timings, name tags, effects and transitions were checked against both the Japanese GBA and the DS game so the English script plays like the original. Rise from the Ashes, the fifth case, was made for the DS and is not part of the GBA game.
How it was made
The hack is built on the pwaa1 decompilation of the game, with much of the reverse engineering and code done with Claude's help; the full source is public.
Playing it
There are patches for both GBA releases (the first one and Rev 1) and for a tagged copy of the first; pick the one that matches your own ROM, as explained on the project page. In-game saves carry over between versions.
By Acer_man, building on the pwaa1 decompilation.