Lord Monarch: Tokoton Sentou Densetsu English translation
ロードモナーク・とことん戦闘伝説 · Lord Monarch: Legendary Battle Royale
Nebulous Translations' complete English patch for the Mega Drive take on Lord Monarch, with its comic story mode, challenge maps and a translated manual.
What it is
This Mega Drive Lord Monarch is a real-time castle-against-castle strategy game: your soldiers spread across the map by themselves, and you decide where to build, how hard to tax and when to strike, while watching funds, terrain and wandering monsters. The story mode follows Prince Alfred of the Monarch Kingdom through chapters that each add a new rule, and a separate challenge mode collects maps from the computer releases.
What's translated
All the story dialogue, menus and map text are in English, with a variable-width font for the conversations. The team also tidied up the odd English names the original already used. A translated manual is available from the same page.
A long road
The project changed hands several times over more than a decade. Lord Oddeye and TheMajinZenki translated the script in 2016, two hackers tried and stopped, celcion rebuilt the tools and the font, and cybermind finally completed the hack. cccmar edited and proofread, Miralita edited the manual and Spolan helped test. Nebulous Translations released version 1.0 on 17 November 2020.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the readme that comes with it. Patch and manual are on the project page.