Hirake! Ponkikki English translation
ひらけ!ポンキッキ · Open! Ponkikki
An old, anonymous English translation of the Famicom kids' game Hirake! Ponkikki, kept alive as a patch in the romhack.ing archive.
About this translation
Nobody knows who made this one. It first turned up years ago as an already-translated game on a page with little more than screenshots, under the name Open! Ponkikki. The original patch was lost, so in 2007 Spikeman rebuilt it as a patch for the romhacking.net archive, and that is the version kept on romhack.ing today.
The archive itself describes it as an average job. There is very little text in the game anyway: it is a handful of simple minigames, so the patch mainly makes the menus and prompts readable for players who don't know Japanese.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the romhack.ing page.