Monster Guardians English translation (contrer)

What it is

contrer (micaelmaciel) built this English patch largely as an experiment with free open-weight AI models, which did most of the reverse engineering and translation work over a few days. The author then played through the full storyline, corrected the odd lines the models produced and checked that the game can be finished. Menus work and read clearly.

Known issues

The name entry keyboard still shows Japanese characters, the stage status screen doesn't display the stage number, and there are some minor graphical glitches. One crash happened during testing and couldn't be reproduced, so saving often is a good idea.

The author notes that another machine translation of the game, by minhnhattonthat, appeared a day earlier and looks more polished, and suggests trying that one too.

Playing it

Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge following the instructions on the project page.