Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou 2 English translation
Retro Game Challenge 2 · ゲームセンターCX 有野の挑戦状2
The fan translation that finally brought the sequel to Retro Game Challenge to English speakers, covering the story, the built-in retro games, their manuals and the magazines.
What's translated
The patch puts the whole game into English: Arino's story scenes and phone calls, the challenge descriptions, and every game inside the game, including the role-playing game in the Guadia Quest series and two adventure games, along with their in-game manuals and the magazines you read for tips. Many graphics, such as the game select titles, were redrawn too. Arino's and the announcer's voice clips stay in Japanese.
Version history
The first release came out in 2014. A long run of updates followed, fixing text running past window borders, adding the English ending epilogue, renaming hundreds of RPG items, spells and enemies for consistency and reworking menus. Version 1.5.1 is the latest.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge with an xdelta patching tool, following the creators' instructions.
Credits
The translation was started in 2013 by Aaron Tokunaga-Chmielowiec, joined by a group of volunteers. The project's own website is gone; the patch is listed on its romhacking.net page.