Motteke Tamago English translation
もってけたまご
An English patch for a once-unreleased Naxat maze game that surfaced as a magazine freebie, now with its manual translated too.
What's translated
The patch puts the game's explanations, bonus scoring screens and other text into English, and redraws the graphics that carried Japanese words, such as the main-screen choices, the "press RUN" prompt and the level select. Both of the game's fonts were replaced, one of them because the original was hard to read. No game code was changed: all the edits were made directly in the data.
Extras
The creators' repository also holds an English translation of the game's manual, which wasn't released with the patch in 2002, along with notes on how the text and the compressed graphics are stored and where the 30 level maps sit for anyone wanting to make level hacks.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disc, as described on the creators' official page.
Credits: Dave Shadoff (hacking and minor translation), Forrest Richmond (main translation and the manual), NightWolve (PPF version of the patch), and Adam Pavlacka (manual layout).