Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling: Fight da Pon! English translation
全日本プロレス ファイトだポン! · Zen Nippon Pro Wrestling - Fight da Pon
A complete English patch for Masaya's Japan-only wrestling card game, covering the story mode, every card and all the menus, with a new variable-width font.
What's translated
kactusken's patch puts the whole game into English: the story dialogue across all six scenarios and the ending, the 42 card labels and their messages, the wrestler and villain names, the name bars, the menus, the password screen and the win and lose messages. Only the title logo, the copyright line and the staff roll are left in Japanese on purpose.
To make room for English, the cartridge image is enlarged to 16 Mbit and the fixed Japanese text is replaced with a new variable-width font. The patch also fixes two small display bugs of the original. The creator says AI helped with the translation.
Two versions
The release holds two patches that don't stack: the plain translation, and the same translation with the developers' hidden debug menu switched back on. The debug build is meant for the curious rather than for a playthrough.
Playing it
The game has no battery save and hands out passwords instead. Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge following the instructions on the project page; the creator also wrote a player's guide covering the cards, wrestlers, boards and secrets. It was tested in Mesen.