Dragon Quest: Delocalized

What it changes

When Dragon Quest was localized as Dragon Warrior, its script was rewritten in faux Old English and some graphics and lines were altered. This project by the Translation Quest team (Chicken Knife, nejimakipiyo, abw, Dattebayo and others) reverses that:

• a new translation of the whole script in plain modern English, following the Famicom text
• the townspeople use their front-facing Japanese sprites again, and the hero gets new frames to walk in all four directions
• lines that were toned down for the American release are restored
• bug fixes and a few careful improvements

The engine improvements of the North American version, such as the save system, are kept.

Playing it

Version 1.21 is applied to your own copy of Dragon Warrior (USA). Instructions and options are on the patch's romhacking.net page. The same team made matching Delocalized patches for the later NES games.