Barunba English translation
バルンバ
A small English patch for Namco's Japan-only PC Engine shooter, replacing the Japanese stage names with English graphics.
What's translated
Barunba is almost entirely free of text, so the only Japanese left for English players was the name shown for each area of the game. Those names are drawn as graphics rather than printed with a font, so the team redrew them in English instead of just swapping letters. Everything else plays exactly as it did on the original HuCard.
How it was made
The creators published all of their working material in the project repository: the tools used to pull the art out of the game and put it back, the translated graphics, a few technical notes and a Mednafen cheat they used to get through the stages while testing.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese HuCard, following the instructions on the creators' official page.
Dave Shadoff found and extracted the text, wrote the tools and translated it; Diogo Ribeiro made the fonts and tested the result.