Slap Stick English translation
スラップスティック · Slapstick · Robotrek
A new English patch for the Japanese Super Famicom Slap Stick, the robot-building RPG known in the West as Robotrek, translated straight from the Japanese script.
What's translated
This patch gives the original Japanese release its own English script. All 2,381 entries of the script were translated from the Japanese with GPT, instead of reusing the official Robotrek text, so it reads as an alternative take on the story. Notes kept in the repository were used to keep names and recurring terms consistent.
The recent updates have mostly been about presentation: menu and status screen layouts, item and robot name widths, the diaries and letters you find, robot swapping and the battle menus have all been tidied in the last few versions.
How it was made
The script is machine translated, so expect lines that a human translator would phrase differently. brianblakely maintains the project on GitHub, with each fix shown in before-and-after screenshots in the repository, and keeps building new versions.
Playing it
Version 0.11. Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the GitHub page, which lists the exact version of the game it expects.