Translation NES / Famicom

Sanma no Meitantei English translation

Detective Sanma · さんまの名探偵

LIPEMCO! Translations' complete English patch for Namco's Famicom comedy mystery starring Sanma Akashiya, released as Detective Sanma.

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What's translated

The whole game is in English and the patch is listed as fully playable. Most of the original script is written in Osaka-style dialect for comic effect, and the team carried that flavour into a loose, colloquial English rather than flattening it. The minigames that interrupt the investigation are covered too.

Credits

Released by LIPEMCO! Translations: Supper did the hacking and dialect editing, TheMajinZenki the main translation, cccmar editing and testing, and filler the first script dump. Version 1.0 came out on 5 September 2018.

Playing it

The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese Famicom cartridge, following the instructions included with it. The project page lists the team's credits and the release.

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