Puzzle Boys English translation
パズルボーイズ
DvD Translations put the menus and pop-up boxes of Atlus's only Famicom Disk System game into English and fixed its save bug along the way.
What's translated
Puzzle Boys has very little text, so the work here is in the menus: the game and floor menus, mode selection, name entry for saves, and the pop-up boxes and status windows you see while solving rooms. The team based its wording on the English names Atlus itself used in the Western releases of the series, so the terms match what Kwirk players already know.
Extra fixes
The original disk has a save bug that stops it from working on some flash carts and emulators. The patch corrects it, so progress is kept properly on more setups, including a PowerPak on real hardware. A new title screen credits the team.
The game
You guide a small character through rooms full of turnstiles and sliding blocks, pushing pieces aside until the exit is clear. Puzzle Challenge runs through a tower of numbered floors, while the 1 Player and Vs. modes draw on a separate set of rooms; the two-player mode lets the stronger player take a handicap and picks how many rounds to play.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disk image following the readme from DvD Translations, which also explains the history of the series. Everything is on the team's project page.






