King of Colosseum II English translation
キングオブコロシアムII
kactusken's English patch for the Japan-only wrestling game King of Colosseum II translates every mode, the full roster and the menu graphics, and comes with a detailed online player's guide.
What's translated
The project covers all of the game's text, close to 17,000 entries, plus 292 menu labels and text windows that were drawn as pictures. That includes the menus and match setup, the roster's names, profiles and move lists, the Dojo trainers' lessons and dialogue, the booking mode's briefings and verdicts, the tournament mode and its shop, and the wrestler editor. Real wrestlers, promotions and titles use their official English spellings, and the text uses the game's own proportional font. Logos, ring and costume art, the movies and the spoken commentary stay in Japanese.
Extras
Besides the plain translation, the release offers a version with everything unlocked from the start, and the repository has optional 16:9 widescreen patches for PCSX2 by Arapapa. kactusken also wrote an English player's guide that explains the controls and how matches are won, with reference pages for the wrestlers and modes.
Status
The translation was made with the help of AI (Claude) and is labelled a public beta: everything is translated, but not every mode has been played through yet. Version 0.2 fixes a broken list in Edit Mode.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the instructions on the GitHub page.