F1 Circus English translation
F1サーカス
An English patch for the Famicom version of Nichibutsu's top-down Formula One racer F1 Circus.
What's translated
F1 Circus on the Famicom wraps its races in menus: picking a mode, a team and a driver, setting up the car and following the season standings. In the original those screens are in Japanese, which makes the management side hard to follow. This patch puts the game's text into English so the whole season can be played without guessing.
The game
The camera sits high above the circuit and scrolls quickly, so you have to learn each track's corners to keep up. Between races you can make changes to the car and follow how your driver stands in the championship.
Playing it
The patch is version 1.0. Apply it to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the romhack.ing page, where the creators are credited.