Nintendo Puzzle Collection English translation
NINTENDOパズルコレクション · Nintendo Pazuru Korekushon
TriVoxel's patch puts the Dr. Mario 64 part of Nintendo's Japan-only GameCube puzzle compilation into English, menus, pause screens and graphics included.
What's translated
This project covers the Dr. Mario game on the disc. Its menus, mode descriptions, option and sound screens, the controls page and the pause and end-of-round menus now read in English. Many of these are textures rather than text, so they were dumped, redrawn and injected back into the game, with some screens rebuilt by hand. Strings were taken from the original English Nintendo 64 release where possible and shortened where space was tight. Yoshi's Cookie and Panel de Pon are not part of this work.
The author explains on the project page that much of the reverse engineering was done with the help of an AI assistant, and builds on the Dr. Mario 64 decompilation and an earlier partial translation of the collection's Panel de Pon by Kafke.
Playing it
There are two patches: one keeps the whole collection with the translated Dr. Mario, the other boots straight into Dr. Mario with the rest removed. Apply the one you want to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the instructions on the project page.
Translation by TriVoxel.