Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love English translation
いろづきチンクルの恋のバルーントリップ · Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip
A fan team spent five years putting Tingle's Japan-only DS adventure into English, from its dialogue to the dozens of verb buttons drawn into the interface.
What's translated
The patch covers the story, the conversations and the menus, including the large set of green action boxes you use to interact with people and objects, which had to be redrawn as graphics. Item descriptions, the companions' diary pages and the other screens on the bottom display are in English too.
Versions
The first release came out on the last day of 2017 after roughly five years of work. Version 1.1 followed a few days later, fixing typos and mistakes reported by players along with a small font issue. From 1.1 on, the patch expects a complete, correct dump of the Japanese cartridge; the download includes a small repair patch for incomplete dumps, and the readme explains it.
Playing it
Apply the patch to a copy of the game dumped from your own cartridge, as described in the team's readme. The translators note that it runs on common DS emulators and on flash carts. The project blog also links a full walkthrough of the main story and side quests.
Credits
The project was run by TingleFan, with waldrumpus among the writers and zell0s handling much of the graphics work.