Bazaru de Gozaru no Game de Gozaru English translation
バザールでござーるのゲームでござーる · Bazar de Gozarre no Game de Gozarre
An English translation of NEC's monkey-mascot puzzle game for the PC Engine CD, mostly a graphics translation that was started in 2005 and finished in 2021.
What's translated
Most of the Japanese in Bazaru de Gozaru is not plain text but signs, icons and words drawn into the graphics, so this was largely an art project: those graphics were redrawn in English, along with a new font and the shop dialogue you see when buying furniture for the monkey's house.
A long project
Dave Shadoff began the translation around 2005, writing his own tools to pull the graphics out of the game, then set it aside for many years. He picked it up again in 2021 with Diogo Ribeiro, who drew the fonts and artwork and tested the patch, and MooZ, who helped with support and testing. Version 1.0 was released in December 2021.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the notes in the project's GitHub repository. The repository also holds all the tools, the translated assets and a walkthrough, for anyone curious about how it was done.