Side Pocket for WonderSwan English translation
サイドポケット · Side Pocket
An AI-made English patch for Data East's WonderSwan pool game, with an optional version that recolours the whole game in 16 colours for the WonderSwan Color.
What's translated
The opponents' lines, including the four endings, are in English with proper pool terms, and the title, menus, banners and HUD labels were redrawn. A new font puts two English letters in each character cell, so lines can be longer.
Colour version
Two patches are offered for the same Japanese cartridge: one stays black and white like the original, the other turns it into a 16-colour game for the WonderSwan Color and SwanCrystal, with a green felt, wooden rails, coloured balls and coloured portraits and dialogue scenes. Play is unchanged. A few screens, such as the Pocket Game score screen, stay monochrome.
How it was made
mariovirgili says the translation, the ROM hacking and the colouring were done entirely by AI (Claude), with a second AI check of the text, as a personal project. Not every screen was played through; the endings were checked only as data.
Playing it
Apply the patch you want to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the release page.