Paro Wars English translation
パロウォーズ
A complete English patch for Konami's Parodius-flavoured war strategy game Paro Wars, covering all eight campaigns, the menus, unit bios and the in-game graphics text.
What's translated
The patch covers the whole game: the story of all eight campaigns and their endings, the menus, the unit biographies, battle shouts and system messages. Text drawn into the graphics, such as signs, title cards, banners, nation plates and map labels, has been redrawn in English, and so has the staff roll. The title logo stays as it is, since the art already spells out the name, and voices and songs are unchanged.
How it was made
minhnhattonthat directed the project and did the translation with the help of an AI model (Claude), so the entry carries both the machine translation and AI assisted tags. A variable-width font was added so the English fits the game's text boxes. The repository also holds the script, glossary and build tools, so fixes can be sent in.
Known issues
A couple of short prompts, such as transport selection and the landmine message, were checked for width but never reached in testing. The patch was tested in an emulator with a Japanese BIOS; save states made with the Japanese game will not carry over.
Playing it
Version 1.0. Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the instructions on the GitHub page, which names the exact disc image it expects.