Kessen! Dokapon Oukoku IV: Densetsu no Yuusha-tachi English translation
決戦! ドカポン王国IV ~伝説の勇者たち~ · Kessen! Dokapon Kingdom IV: Legendary Heroes
Krokodyl's English translation of the first Dokapon game, the dice-rolling board game RPG for up to four players, with a few helpful menu icons added.
What's translated
Krokodyl's patch puts Kessen! Dokapon Kingdom IV into English: the king's announcements, battle commands and messages, menus, level-up screens and the title screen. Some names needed a creative touch: the original town names are scrambled Japanese place names that did not fit the 4-letter limit, so they were replaced with short Japanese words such as Naku, Sato and Hebi. The repository also explains several item names and other translation choices.
Quality of life
A few small additions make menus easier to read:
- items that cure an ailment show that ailment's icon
- weapons, shields and armor get a gear icon
- the delivery package from a special encounter gets its own icon
- button icons were changed so command names can be one character longer
A visual glitch where scrolling clouds overwrote two battle commands in one tower has been fixed.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge following the instructions in the creator's repository, which also has tips on the game's rules and CPU difficulty settings.