Fire Pro Wrestling: Iron Slam '96 English translation
ファイヤープロレスリング アイアンスラム'96 · Faiyā Puro Resuringu Aian Suramu '96
An English patch for the first 3D Fire Pro Wrestling, translating every menu, the circuit and belt modes and all the finishing-move names, with the wrestlers given their real-life names.
What's translated
kactusken's patch turns all 246 of the game's messages into English: match settings, wrestler select, the results screen, circuit mode, belt bets, belt history, belt naming and the memory card prompts. The names of the 71 finishing moves are translated too, and the twelve parody wrestlers use the names of the real people they are based on, such as Jushin Liger, Stan Hansen and Antonio Inoki.
Because the game writes its text into video memory once and never clears it, shorter English lines left Japanese fragments behind; the patch hooks the text routine to pad and align the new strings, and adds narrow letters for names that would not otherwise fit. The match timer units, the save name in the memory card manager, the movies and the voices remain Japanese.
Versions
The download includes a variant with the two hidden bosses selectable from the start, and the same unlock for the untouched Japanese game. Existing saves keep working. The first release is labelled a public beta, though all text is translated and the main modes have been played through. The author notes AI was used to help reverse-engineer the game's text code.
Playing it
Patch your own copy of the Japanese disc as described on the project page, then run it in a PlayStation emulator.