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CLUSTER FILES-APPLIES-BPS · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-06-29

ROM patching translation tools

This cluster comprises utilities for retro-gaming hobbyists that apply IPS/BPS patches to ROM files, with one mobile app focused on translation patches and a desktop app using AI to translate extracted text and reinsert it as patches. The dated history before the index start consists of only 4 entries, too thin to read a shape from, so the cluster's earlier timeline is unclear. Traction among members is minimal, with activity leaders romtranslate-studio, lbk-launcher-bin, and GB Studio each at 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2015: 1MAY 2017: 1OCT 2024: 1SEP 2026: 1
JUN 2015SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 3 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01romtranslate-studio2★1 mo—Desktop app that extracts text from retro games, translates it with AI, and reinserts it as IPS/BPS translation patches.
  2. 02GB Studio0★4 moliveopen sourceDrag-and-drop game creation tool that lets users build retro handheld games without programming knowledge, exporting playable ROM files.
  3. 03UniPatcher0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile utility that applies translation and modification patches to classic console game ROM files for retro gaming hobbyists.
  4. 04Flips0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that applies IPS and BPS patch files to modify game ROM files.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.