Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional English translation
ドラゴンクエストモンスターズ ジョーカー2 プロフェッショナル
A complete English translation of the Japan-only Professional edition of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, now including the post-game, with new synthesis recipes and optional quality-of-life tweaks.
What's translated
This project completes Ceris White's earlier patch with their support: the menus, story and now the post-game dialogue are in English, reusing the official English text where it already existed. Only a few interface button labels drawn as graphics are still in Japanese, and they are easy to work out.
What's new
Every version adds synthesis recipes for monsters that were otherwise limited to Wi-Fi events or unobtainable, moves variant suffixes to the end of monster names, and swaps monster genders for the polarity system of earlier games. An optional quality-of-life set keeps offended monsters scoutable, removes the scout penalty for owning duplicates and the opposite-polarity synthesis rule, doubles experience and halves the synthesis level requirement. There is also an optional randomiser.
Playing it
Use the team's patcher program (or the web patcher it links to) on your own copy of the Japanese cartridge and pick the options you want. The patch also handles the game's anti-piracy check so it runs on original hardware.
Credits: Ceris White (toolkit, translation), Gerb (post-game translation), Ilario and Reflex (translation), Saneezore (patcher), with many proofreaders and playtesters credited on the project page.