Star Fox 2 English translation
スターフォックス2
Aeon Genesis's 2004 translation of the cancelled Star Fox sequel's prototype, made years before Nintendo released the finished game.
The game
Star Fox 2 swaps the first game's on-rails levels for a strategy map. You pick two pilots and move them across the Lylat system to meet threats as they happen, while the clock keeps running even during missions inside battleships, on planets or against fighter squadrons. Let too much reach Corneria and the game is over. Hard and Expert modes add more planets, ships and changed layouts, and hidden General Pepper coins reward exploring.
What's translated
Aeon Genesis translated the prototype's text, from mission briefings and radio chatter to menus and the score table. The patch comes in two flavours: one that only translates, keeping the debug features, and one that also hides the unfinished and debug parts to make the game feel closer to a finished product.
Good to know
The patch was made for specific prototype builds and does not work on every version that circulated; the readme explains which. It predates Nintendo's own 2017 release of the completed game, so it is mainly of interest for seeing the prototype as it stood in 1995.