What led to patching 20th

What led to the team's decision to patch 20th? As I recall, Puyo Nexus made a similar attempt but had to cancel it after losing all their progress due to a server crash.

We decided to patch 20th because coders joined us! Our former members Mari & Luk originally contacted us saying that they had gotten text to work via Scripted, so our translator went ahead and started translating the dialogue. In the end though, neither of them had much time to work on the programming and the process was extremely arduous, so we decided not to announce anything at first in case we never got everything to work.

Puyo Nexus did indeed make an attempt a few years ago and they did give up for the reason you mentioned. However, we got in contact with one of the main coders, who gave us what was salvaged from the original patch—we ended up using a lot of their old images and some of their tools, though we redid the translation from scratch. 

As such, we’ve credited Nexus in both the patch and on our team page. In the end though, nothing would have been truly feasible without Gecko & MyLegGuy’s original coding, which saved us from the issues with Scripted (and the accompanying issues with manual hex editing), and we owe our success to them.