Asuka 120% Limit Over English translation
あすか120% リミットオーバー · Asuka 120% Limited Burning Fest. (base game)
Puts the fighters' names in Limit Over, the unofficial update to the Saturn's Asuka 120% Limited, into English so you can actually tell who you are picking.
What's translated
Limit Over has almost no text, and most of it is already in English. The real obstacle is the character names, which are drawn in Japanese in the menus and the battle interface, with no portraits to help. This patch redraws every name in English with a variable-width pixel font and switches several names to the more familiar Hepburn romanization. A few self-explanatory graphics, like the round start and end banners, were left as they are.
How it was made
The release post is also a short write-up of the work: finding the name tiles in the game's data with a tile editor and the Yabause emulator's debugger, then redrawing them to fit the original 72-pixel slots.
Playing it
The patch works on top of the final Saturn release of Limit Over, so you first need your own disc image of Limit Over built from the original game. It comes as a single disc-image patch or as separate patches for each changed file, with instructions in the archive.
Credits
Translation and graphics by Misty De Meo. Limit Over itself was released by the CafeBreak Project.