Virtual Pro Wrestling English translation
バーチャル・プロレスリング · Baacharu Puroresuringu
kactusken's full English patch for AKI's Japan-only 1996 wrestling game, with a choice of real or parody wrestler names and a detailed online player's guide.
What's translated
kactusken's version 1.0 puts every piece of text a player reads into English: menus, options and help boxes in all seven modes (Official Match, Seven-Bout Blaze, Exhibition, Elimination, Tournament, League and Double Title Match), match intro cards and in-ring banners, tournament, league and belt screens, Memory Card prompts, and the name tiles, profiles and move lists of all 60 wrestlers. Because the game draws its Japanese text from the console's built-in font, the patch adds its own English text routine, and the text inside graphics was redrawn by hand. Only the staff credits and purely decorative art stay in Japanese.
Four flavours
The release comes with real wrestler names or the game's own parody names, and each of these also exists in a variant that makes the eight secret wrestlers selectable from the start in the non-story modes.
Player's guide
The project also has a player's guide with the rules, every wrestler's stats and full move set, and the game's secrets.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese disc following the step-by-step instructions on the project page; it was tested in DuckStation. Start a fresh save rather than reusing one from the Japanese game.