Tengai Makyou II: Manji Maru English translation
天外魔境II 卍MARU · Far East of Eden II: Manjimaru
An English patch for Hudson's Nintendo DS remake of Tengai Makyou II: Manji Maru, with all the dialogue, cutscene subtitles, battles, menus and artwork in English.
What's translated
The patch covers the whole game: all 11,661 lines of story and townspeople dialogue, the 189 subtitles of the cutscenes, fitted back into their layouts, the battle commands and messages, enemies, items, spells and equipment, the field menus, shops and inns, place names on the maps, the title and save screens and the staff roll. A new variable-width font was written for the English text, and the lettering in the artwork, such as name plaques, a TV advert and a wanted poster, was repainted.
Latest version
Version 1.0.1 fixes a serious bug of the first beta, where long conversations could corrupt the game's memory and cause odd poisonings, deaths or level jumps. It can't repair a save that was already damaged, so load an older save or start again, and patch the original Japanese game, not the beta.
Known issues
The whole game hasn't been played through on the patched version yet; the late game was checked against the game data. A few small menu boxes use abbreviations, and it was tested in melonDS and DeSmuME, not on a real DS. AI tools were used in making the patch, so the entry is tagged accordingly.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese DS game, following the instructions on ACR-GD's GitHub page, which lists the exact release it expects.