F-1 Dream English translation
F1ドリーム · F1 Dream
An English patch for the PC Engine version of F-1 Dream that covers the story and dialogue between races, from rival challenges to mechanic talk.
What's translated
The Japanese text of the HuCard is now in English: the opening, the challenges and bets from street-race rivals, hiring and tuning talk with mechanics, the prompts before entering a race and the descriptions of all six courses. Menus and the team and driver names were already in English on the original cartridge, so they are left alone, including the game's spoof team names. The new text is written in capitals to match the look of the existing menus.
About this patch
pacocyborg started from a machine translation and then edited it by hand so every line fits the game's narrow 24-character text windows, so a few phrases may read a little stiffly. The patch was tested in Mednafen.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese HuCard, following the instructions on pacocyborg's GitHub page.