SUPER ROBOT WARS 4
ENGLISH TRANSLATION V1.00
Copyright 2026 by Aeon Genesis
http://www.aeongenesis.net

ToC

0.  Hosting notes
1.  About Super Robot Wars 4
2.  Patch History
3.  Patch Credits and Contributors
4.  Known issues
5.  Application Instructions
6.  Patch Differences and Bonuses

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0.Hosting Notes
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Please note that romhack.ing is an authorized patch redistributor.
This patch is expressly forbidden from being hosted at romhacking.net.

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1.About Super Robot Wars 4
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Super Robot Wars 4 is the final game in the original Super Robot Wars timeline,
sort of. While Super Robot Wars F and F Final do supplant it in the official canon,
4 of course predates them. It's also the last mainline Super Robot Wars game on the
SNES, and is highly regarded amongst long-time Japanese fans. It's the first game
in the series that lets you create your own main character, the first game to feature
a karaoke mode, the first game to feature an encyclopedia of all the characters and
units featured in the game, and perhaps most importantly, the first game that lets
you pick whether to defend, evade, or counterattack for each enemy attack, rather
than relegating counter options to an automatic squad-level general strategy.

This project has been a long time coming, and has not been without difficulty. Between
an unusable initial translation pass and technical challenges around name entry, the
karaoke mode timings, the title screen animation, battle popup sprites, etc, this was
a fairly challenging game to work with end-to-end. The results however are spectacular,
and I am proud of what's been achieved here.

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2.Patch History
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August 22, 2026 - Initial v1.00 Release

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3.Patch Credits
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THE SRW4 TEAM
Gideon Zhi     - Project leader, lead romhacker, assembly work
TheMajinZenki  - Translation
Ngram Prisken  - Translation, editing
BobSchneeder45 - ASM assistance
SS4JCyberSonic - Text editing
Faye           - Text editing

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4.Known Issues
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There are no known issues.

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5.Application Instructions
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Quick source ISO Info:

CRC-32:  63883E1E
MD5-SUM: 2254B2224CE90CE08CF9F9863168865D
SHA-256: EFD72094B2727C4903924CF9296B3946B95A354F639B600E1D76D9EC6B9CA18B

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6.Patch Differences and Bonuses
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Note that roms produced by patching with ips vs xdelta will be identical. Both types of
patches are provided purely for convenience's sake; it does not matter which you use.

srw4e.ips|xdelta - This is the main translation patch. Applied on top of the JP ROM, it
produces an English version of the game.

srw4_music_persistence.ips|xdelta - This patch applies music persistence to the game so
that theme songs continue after battle sequences end like in modern SRW games. It is
intended to be applied to the Japanese version of the game, however the IPS format patch
can be applied to the English version to add music persistence in if it isn't already there.

srw4_combo.ips|xdelta - This patch applies both the main translation patch and the music
persistence patch at the same time.

srw4_mazinger_zee.ips - This is an optional patch to be applied on top of any translated
version of the ROM. It changes the Japanese Mazinger Z karaoke mode lyrics into the
official English dub version from the late '70s.

If you're unsure about which patch to use, start with srw4_combo for both the translation
and music persistence.