Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling '96: Max Voltage English translation
実況パワープロレスリング'96 マックスボルテージ
A complete English patch for Konami's Japan-only Super Famicom wrestler, covering the menus, the 50-wrestler roster and move list, post-match interviews and the branching Max Voltage career story.
What's translated
kactusken's patch puts every piece of in-game text into English: menus, rules and help lines in all modes, the roster of 50 wrestlers with their 185 moves, the questions and answers of the post-match interviews, and the whole Max Voltage career mode, roughly 3,600 lines covering the story, events, the in-game magazine, transfers and every ending. Screen titles and menu graphics are redrawn, and name entry gets an English letter grid.
The original game builds all text from square Japanese characters with fixed space per line, so the patch adds a small text engine to the game's own renderer that packs English letters in pairs, letting the translation fit without moving data around.
Extras
Two bugs in the original story mode are fixed: the side you choose during a mid-career revolt is now remembered, and a reaction scene that never triggered now appears. The author also wrote an English player's guide with controls, the grapple timing system, every move set and a map of the career branches and endings.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own unheadered Japanese cartridge dump, following the steps on the project page. The translation was flagged as AI-assisted.