Cardcaptor Sakura: Itsumo Sakura-chan to Issho English translation
カードキャプターさくら いつもさくらちゃんと一緒
An English patch for the real-time-clock Cardcaptor Sakura game on Game Boy Color, covering the story script, the menus, the mini games and the fortune teller.
What's translated
The whole story script the player sees, about 2,800 strings, is in English, along with the title menu, the clock screen and HUD, the extras and mini game menus (reversi, puzzle, pancakes, fortune and print), the Clow Card list, the fortune teller, the Print Play screen, episode title cards and staff credits. A proportional Latin font was added so English lines fit the speech bubbles, and the ROM was expanded to make room.
A few bits stay in Japanese: the title logo (it already carries an English subtitle), the fortune result categories, a few menu numbers and hidden debug menus.
Before you play
The author labels this a machine, AI-assisted translation rather than a human one, and asks players to report wording problems on GitHub. Because the game follows a real-time clock, events only happen at certain hours; the project page has tips for the first day. The patch also fixes an interrupt problem that could reset the game during play.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge with a patcher that supports size changes, following the instructions on the project page.
Credits
Translation and hacking by pacocyborg.