Translation Famicom Disk System

Knight Move English translation

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PentarouZero's English patch for Knight Move, Alexey Pajitnov's knight-jumping puzzle game for the Famicom Disk System.

What's translated

Knight Move has little text, but what it has is in Japanese: this patch by PentarouZero turns the game's menus and on-screen messages into English, so the puzzle game can be picked up without guessing what each option does. Version 1.0 came out in 2003 and is presented as a finished translation.

The game

The idea comes straight from chess: every move follows the L-shaped jump of a knight, and the challenge is planning those jumps across the board. It is one of the lesser-known games Alexey Pajitnov designed after Tetris, and it stayed on the Japanese Disk System.

Playing it

The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese Disk System game, following the instructions that come with it. Details and the readme are on the patch's database page linked here.

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