Oni IV: Kijin no Ketsuzoku English translation
Oni IV: Kishin no Ketsuzoku
Akujin's abandoned English patch for the Game Boy RPG Oni IV, with the menus, battles, shops and the first stretch of the story translated.
What's translated
The menus, battle and shop text, and the names of items, weapons and armor are in English. Technique names stay as romanized Japanese, shortened to fit the game's eight-tile limit. Of the dialogue, about 17 percent is done: the important lines for roughly the first hour and a half of play, but not most of the conversations with townspeople in that part.
The patch has a known bug: armor in shops shows a Defense value ten times higher than it really is, so a 50 means 5. The project stopped at version 0.30 and this was never fixed.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese release following the creator's instructions.
Credits
Translation and hacking by Akujin.