Tomato Adventure English translation
トマトアドベンチャー · Tomato Adobenchā
A complete English translation of AlphaDream's Game Boy Advance RPG, with a variable-width font, longer character names and every menu, line of dialogue and graphic text translated.
What's translated
Everything: the story dialogue, menus, battle messages, enemy and attack names, shops, the naming screen, the Gimica side game and its tutorial, and the graphics that carried Japanese text. Some menus were reworked to make room for English, and a variable-width font is used throughout so lines read naturally.
Extras
- Character names can be up to seven letters long instead of four.
- Version 1.1.0 doubled the speed at which dialogue text is drawn and cleaned up typos, wrapping and a few unclear lines.
- Version 1.1.1 clarified a Gimmick prompt and fixed small glitches in dialogue and on the Gimmick screen.
- Saves stay compatible with the original game.
Tools and credits
Unknown W. Brackets built the translation tools and the patch, and the repository holds all of them, so the project can serve as a base for translations into other languages. The README thanks Tomato for the original proof of concept, otakuto for an earlier set of tools, and Samda Knowe, White Reflection and El Jefe for the initial idea.
Playing it
The patch is for the Japanese release of the game. Apply it to your own copy following the instructions on the project's GitHub page, where each version is published as a release.