Pocket Zaurus: Juu Ouken no Nazo English translation

What's translated

For a platformer, Pocket Zaurus has a lot of text: character taunts, story lines, level introductions and the pop quizzes that interrupt the action. DvD Translations fitted all of it into the original cartridge space using compression, added special fonts for shouting and for boss names, and renamed the game Swords of the Ten Kings on a new title screen.

The manual matters

The original manual has a crossword puzzle for each level whose answers point to how the final boss can be beaten, so the group also offers a partly translated manual. Some of it, including the crosswords, is still unfinished, and the group asks for help completing it. Their page also covers the toys behind the game and the French Diplodo cartoon based on them.

Playing it

Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese Famicom cartridge, following the readme on the group's page.