Meitantei Conan: Nerawareta Tantei English translation
名探偵コナン 狙われた探偵 · Detective Conan: The Targeted Detective
A playable-to-the-end English patch for Banpresto's Japan-only Detective Conan action game on the GBA, with a new compact font that fits twice as much text per line.
What's translated
All six cases can be played through in English: the dialogue, story cutscenes, mini games, system menus and gadget descriptions, along with redrawn graphics such as the title screen, banners and UI screens. The author describes the script as a rough first pass that still needs localizing and proofreading.
Version 1.1.0 adds a font routine that packs two narrow English letters into each of the game's original character tiles, doubling the space on each line and removing many sentences that were split across several boxes.
Still to do
The 100 riddle cards in the epilogue are translated literally, and since the originals depend on Japanese wordplay and kanji, most of them can't be solved as clues for now; the answers are entered in romaji. Long English speaker names get cut off on the nameplates, and the mini game tutorial screens are early drafts. The author welcomes help with these.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese GBA cartridge, following the steps on the project page, which also links a browser-based patcher made for it.
Credits
Translation and hacking by jjb781017-arch.
Found via github.com