Head Buster English translation
ヘッドバスター
Chris Covell's English translation of Head Buster, a compact robot strategy game for the Game Gear, with a translated manual and stage maps on his page.
What it is
Chris Covell started this translation in July 2005 and finished it in mid-August of the same year. He describes Head Buster as one of the few strategy games he has really enjoyed: you buy and customize robots, then move and target them on small maps where tactics and weapon choice decide the fight.
What's translated
The shop and parts menus, weapon names, battlefield commands and the rival's taunts and victory lines between stages are in English.
Extras on the page
The project page doubles as a guide: it walks through the shop, the robot parts and the first battle, and includes maps of every stage. In 2025 Chris added a transcription of the original manual with an English translation.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese Game Gear cartridge, following the readme that comes with it.
Credits: Chris Covell.