America Oudan Ultra Quiz English translation
アメリカ横断ウルトラクイズ · Amerika Ōdan Urutora Kuizu · Trans America Ultra Quiz
Krokodyl's English patch for the Super Famicom game of Japan's famous travelling quiz show, with a rewritten question pool and every stage playable in English.
What's translated
The dialogue, the host's commentary and the stage screens are in English, along with all 704 true-or-false statements and 512 of the multiple-choice questions, enough to fill every round. Krokodyl finished an older, abandoned hack that had everything but the questions, then went through the quiz material by hand: questions that only work as Japanese wordplay were replaced or adapted, very local trivia was reworked, and a handful of factual errors in the original game were corrected along the way. The host's catchphrase gets an English equivalent rather than a literal rendering.
What's in the game
Ten stages follow the route of the 1992 broadcast, from the Tokyo Dome to New York, and most pair the quiz with a mini-game: a hovercraft race in Nevada, ball mazes in San Jose, a panel-shooting gallery in Key West, an envelope chase in Kentucky and even a vertical shooter over Washington. The creator's page explains every stage, how questions are picked, and the history of the TV show.
Version 1.1 fixes the last line of dialogue in Easy mode.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on Krokodyl's page. Translation and hacking by Krokodyl.