DvD Translations presents:

THE GLORY OF HERACLES

Labors of the Divine Hero

Rev. B Patch Released: October 15, 2014

Rev. A Patch Released: December 23, 2011

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Patch | Translated Manual | ReadMe

Screen Shots

Game History

This turn based RPG by the now defunct Data East was originally a blatant Dragon Quest clone, but it changed dramatically before it was released. Its most unique feature is that the transition from overworld to towns is seamless as the towns are part of the overworld. NPCs can even walk outside of the towns.

This game was the start of one of DECO's largest game series. DECOs largest game series is their popular murder detective series Jinguuji Saburou (aka Jake Hunter). Some others include the arcade game BurgerTime, the RPG series Metal Max and the tetris clone Magical Drop.

Until recently, none of the games in the series were released outside of Japan. DvD started this project a long time ago, after II and III were translated, but well before he had any idea that a new game in the series was in the works. Since then, Herakles no Eikou 5 has come out on the DS, made by a new company called Paon, who is supposedly made up of former Data East employees, and published by Nintendo.

Herakles no Eikou: Tamashii no Shoumei
Released on May 22, 2008
DS Box Front Japan

A surprise to all of us, the US got its first official release of a Heracles game! It is published by NoA.

Glory of Heracles
Released on January 18, 2010
DS Box Front Japan

DvD got it for his birthday in 2010. Go out and buy it!

Name	Release Date	Console	Translation Group	Translation Date
Toujin Makyou Den: Heracles no Eikou	June 12, 1987	Famicom	DvD Translations	December 23, 2011
Heracles no Eikou II: Titan no Metsubou	December 23, 1989	Famicom	The Spoony Bard	2000
Heracles no Eikou III: Kamigami no Chinmoku	April 24, 1992	Super Famicom	DQ Translations	December 22, 2009
Heracles no Eikou: Ugokidashita Kamigami	December 27, 1992	Gameboy	HTI Stardust Cruasaders *	February 5, 2012 October 18, 2021
Heracles no Eikou IV: Kamigami-kara no Okurimono	October 21, 1994	Super Famicom	Translation Corporation	December 26, 2016
Hercules no Eikou: Tamashii no Shoumei	May 22, 2008	DS	NoA	January 18, 2010

* The gaiden (GB) was translated by two different groups. DvD did the title screen for this one.

IV was released on the Wii in Japan, probably to build up interest in the DS game.

Scans

Ad from May 20, 1987 Famicom Tsuushin Magazine (later called Famitsu) announcing the soon to be released game.
It also shows the just released first Jinguuji Saburou game Tantei Jinguuji Saburou: Shinjuku Chuuou Kouen Satsujin Jiken recently released on the FDS on April 27, 1987.
Famicom Tsuushin Ad

Box Top, Front and Back
Box Top

Project History

15.October.2014

Rev B released: Translated ROM now works on modern emulators and real hardware

27.December.2011

New ReadMe explains the difference between the '87 and '88 ROMs

87 Cart Front & Back

88 Cart Front & Back

23.December.2011

KlD finished final script check
ReadMe written
Patch and Manual released

12.November.2011

RadicalR and another beta testor quit
Beta test by Red Soul completed
Complete translation inserted into scanned manual by Red Soul
Script modified again to help with difficult areas in the game
Typos fixed, grammer & spelling issues dealt
KlD doing final script check on actual NES
We'd like to have it out before the end of the year

15.March.2011

KlD finished with GoH
Script modified to help with difficult areas in the game, typos fixed
RadicalR starts final beta test

22.February.2011

KlD finished with GoH 5 for the DS
Monster names and items modified to better match translations of GoH2, 3, and 5.
KlD started beta testing on actual NES

31.October.2010

Battle text code hacked to clean up text
Secret spell entry now has different spacing than password entry
Important missing text added back into the game (lots of other missing text left out when it was unimportant or inappropriate)
Game modified so that player can access formerly inaccessible area which contains a chararacter who gives an important hint
A few weeks ago we reached a major milestone and the alpha testing of the game is complete.
It would be ready for beta test except that we want to finish playing through the officially released Glory of Heracles (5) for the DS and GoH2 and see if there are any monsters that we want to match the translated names of. So far, all 3 games seems to have a completely different bestiary except for the Pnotons of GoH5. I'm hoping that we'll be done with this part soon cause it's such a minor thing to be holding everything back.
We originally tried to match the item names and menu translations of the GoH2 patch, but since we actually have aquired and translated the entire GoH1 manual, we see that certain things need to be translated differently.

16-18.April.2010

Epilogue scrolling text dumped, translated, expanded on screen, expanded in ROM, inserted, and tested
"Wrong Spell" text located and translated
In game secret spell entry text located and modified
This web page made
3 additional spaces were added between the words of the password to make the secret spell have spaces between all of its words
Menu expansion code modified to not only ignore the Password screen at the beginning of the game, but also the Password screen during the in game secret spell entry; the way it's done now makes more sense anyway...

13.March.2010

Fully translated script inserted, but due to the order of the Japanese language, battle text sounds weird
Pictures of all the monsters taken in order to correct the translation of their names

December.2009

First mostly translated script inserted

October.2009

ROM expanded: space for new script now 2.8 times the Japanese script space
items translated and inserted
menus translated and expanded to handle items with 8 characters
special character functions defined
issues with sound/music defined and fixed
script window increased to 18 x 5 characters

March.2009

Title screen hack complete

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