Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) is a visual novel-like game where you take the role of a lawyer named Phoenix Wright (Naruhodou Ryuuichi), whose job is to defend your clients in each case and prove their innocence.

The game features unexpected turnabouts of events, exaggerated animations, an amazing writing style, the iconic “Objection!”, “Hold it!”, and “Take that!” bubbles, the humor, and the fact that basically everyone hates you.

This is the original Game Boy Advance version of the game that was released only in Japan. The game later received a Nintendo DS port in 2005.

This Gyakuten Saiban translation is unique in many ways. Not only it's one of the first fan translations on its time, but it was the first one that became strong phenomenon which sweeped the entire internet. It made a lot of hackers get into ROM hacking, some of who are still active nowadays.

Whoever the translator was, he did well on delivering the Japanese text while adding original, localized humors. Those Daeteol references are also near legendary. It's still good to start from here if you're a newcomer to this series.

Gyakuten Saiban (J) (v1.0).gba
MD5: A476526ADC63D7E287D905EB7251D120
SHA-1: 15C0E3389709BB275C42E99ED25212D09E49E361
CRC32: C88F0952

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