Cleopatra no Mahou English translation
クレオパトラの魔宝 · The Cursed Treasure of Cleopatra
DvD Translations' English patch for Square's 1987 disk adventure, with every line translated, restored unused text, bug fixes and a choice of three fonts.
What it is
The Cursed Treasure of Cleopatra, as DvD Translations titles it, is a menu-driven adventure: you pick commands such as Go, Look and Examine beside a picture of the current spot, search Egyptian ruins for clues and items, and fight the odd cobra or bat. It is brief and fairly easy, which makes it an approachable look at Square just before Final Fantasy.
What's in the patch
- The full script in English, squeezed onto the disk with text compression and extra disk space.
- Unused lines found in the data put back where the context fits.
- Several original bugs fixed.
- Three fonts you can switch while playing, set separately for menus and for the story text (hold Select and press Up or Down).
DvD Translations also translated the game's manual into a web page, and the project page has scans of a Japanese strategy guide.
Credits
The hacking and translation are by DvD Translations, with script editing help from aishsha and beta testing by RadicalR. The patch came out on 9 April 2018, alongside the group's TwinBee 2 release.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own Famicom Disk System image of the game as the included readme explains. Everything is on the project page, with the translated manual.