Arcana Strikes English translation
アルカナ・ストライクス
A complete English translation of Takara's Saturn card battler Arcana Strikes, with reworked text rendering and subtitled cutscenes.
What's translated
The patch turns the whole game into English: story dialogue, shops, card names and descriptions, and the battle interface. The cinematics, which were voiced in Japanese only, now get subtitles drawn by the game itself.
Under the hood
To fit English into the game, the hacking side reworked how text is stored and shown: dialogue now uses single-byte characters with dictionary compression and supports colored highlights for key terms. The game keeps using its own data cache, so no RAM expansion cartridge is needed.
Credits
Hacking by paul_met of Meduza Team, translation by aishsha with spot translations from Ryusui and TheMajinZenki, and script editing, coordination and testing by Stardust Crusaders.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disc following the instructions included with it; the download is linked from Meduza Team's announcement.