Heroine Anthem: The Elect of Wassernixie

Plenty of ADD for the kids

Heroine Anthem is a popular series of Chinese RPGs with its first part released in May of 2002. The game boasts some of the most impressive 2D graphics of any game to date with a brilliant and diverse musical soundtrack.

The story follows a young girl, Edda, who drowned at sea while trying to save a young boy during a sea serpent attack on the slave ship they were aboard. She was saved by a mermaid prince who cast a spell on her to turn her into a mermaid intending to make her his queen.

In misery, Edda fled the palace with Bedin, a lobster, who was sneaking around her quarters, to go find a sea witch who could break the spell and return her to human form. But before that could happen, a quest led her to discover something that would changer her destiny–Ragnarok is on its way and with it, the return of the Dark Ark of Noah to unleash the monsters trapped since the flood. Only the Trumpet of God, held by the mermaids, can stop it.

No child left behind.

But what about Edda’s ailing father and younger sister Liv, and her childhood friend, Hulen, all of whom are on the surface. How will Edda return to them? The first chapter of the story sees Edda on a quest from mermaid to woman.

The script for the game is a heavy 400KB of Traditional Chinese. I’ve been working at it as I study the language, but Lonely Knight and TechMaster have been gracious enough to help with translating some of the larger scripts in the game.

As of this update, the game is roughly 4 percent complete. If you read Chinese and would like to help with a few of the scripts, we could use your help. Just e-mail me and I’ll check my files and send you something none of us are working on yet.

All hacking work for the game is completed except expansion of the item structs.

If you would like to contribute fonts to the game, please download the tarball of proposed English fonts. It includes a folder of templates for your own font design.

Files

WTImage xdelta
This is an xdelta patch for the WTImage.bin file in the Images folder. It patches the graphics in that resource file to English.
hatools v1.4
This is a collection of tools I have written for working with Heroine Anthem I&II during the course of the translation. They cover most of what you would need to translate the game.
Note: As of v1.4, the tools are fully compatible with Heroine Anthem II. If you wish to work with Heroine Anthem II, you will need v1.4 or higher.
Upgrade Patch to v4.0
This is the upgrade patch for HA. It works on both Simplified and Traditional versions. This package was put out by Unistar for their Simplified Chinese release. It fixes a lot of glitches in the game, including the game not running on some newer video cards.
Undersea Labyrinth Map
A scan of the map for the incredibly difficult Undersea Labyrinth area of the game If you want a challenge, do not use this map–draw your own.
Proposed English Fonts
This is a tarball of English fonts I made for the game using the wfc<->bmp tools in the hatools tarball. The tarball also includes a folder of patterned font files if you would like to help contribute your own font ideas.
Simplified Chinese Fonts
These were the official Simplified Chinese fonts released in the mainland version of Heroine Anthem: The Elect of Wassernixie. They are compatible with all versions of Heroine Anthem I&II. If you purchased the Taiwanese version from YesAsia but only read Simplified Chinese, just copy these to your game folder and all the text will be rendered in Simplified Chinese instead of Traditional.
Traditional Chinese Fonts
These are the official Traditional Chinese fonts released in the Taiwan version of Heroine Anthem. All the stuff from the above font applies. This is just here for anyone who wants it.