Telefang: Speed Version English translation
携帯電獣テレファング スピードバージョン · Keitai Denjū Telefang: Speed Version
The Telefang.net community's complete English translation of the Speed Version of Telefang, the result of some sixteen years of work and meant to replace the infamous bootleg.
What's translated
All of the game's text is in English: story, phone calls, Denjuu names, moves and menus. The project began around 2008 on the Tulunk Village forums as a small patch for menus and move names, then grew over well over a hundred numbered builds into a full translation, declared complete with version 159 in August 2024. The same patch exists for both the Power and Speed versions.
Recent updates
- Version 160 fixed graphical glitches during some phone calls and a few lines of dialogue.
- Version 161 adds a character encoding marker for trading, to make future translations into other languages possible.
- Version 162 (December 2025) no longer wipes a save that the game reports as corrupt, and lets you carry on with it if nothing else works.
Playing it
Apply the patch for the Speed Version to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on the project's wiki page, which also keeps the full changelog, known bugs and technical documentation. The source code is on GitHub. Credits go to the Tulunk Village / Telefang.net team, with kmeisthax, andwhyisit, obskyr, Blaziken257 and kabuto93 among the main contributors.