Dokapon Gaiden: Honoo no Audition English translation
ドカポン外伝 炎のオーディション · Dokapon Gaiden: Fiery Audition
Krokodyl's complete English translation of the third Dokapon game, a four-player board game with RPG fights, a story mode and plenty of jokes.
What it is
Krokodyl, who had already translated Dokapon 3-2-1 and Dokapon Oukoku IV, released version 1.0 of this patch on 30 August 2022. The in-game title becomes Dokapon Gaiden: Fiery Audition.
What's translated
The menus, the rule book explained by the minister, character creation, battles, events and the story mode (the Audition Contest, four maps played against three computer rivals with passwords in between) are all in English. Some item sprites were redrawn too: the Japanese duel card, which carries a kanji, now shows two crossed swords because the same picture is used for the brawl card.
Translation notes
The repository explains several choices, such as calling the sixth class "Sailor Senshi" as a nod to Sailor Moon, renaming the fight types (Brawl, Monster Battle, Showdown, Dragon Battle) and rewriting the Pun Dragon's two wordplay attacks as new English jokes instead of literal lines.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the project page linked below.
Credits: Krokodyl.