Dokapon Up Mugen No Roulette English Translation Switch

Dokapon UP! Mugen No Roulette English Translation
General
Author	Skyluker4
Type	Translations
Version	2022.03.03
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2022/03/03
Links
Download
Website

Dokapon UP! Mugen No Roulette (ドカポンUP! 夢幻のルーレット) English translation patch.

Features

• Pretty much fully translated.

Installation

This mod requires version 1.0.3 of the game, you can legally purchase the game by creating a Japanese Nintendo account and using gift cards to purchase it.

The mod itself is a LayeredFS patch and can be installed on a homebrewed Switch or on Yuzu Emulator.

On a homebrewed Switch:

• Extract the contents of the zip.
• Copy the files from inside of English Mod to sdmc:/atmosphere/contents/010048100D51A000/ (or wherever your LayeredFS is).

On Yuzu emulator:

• Once you have the game and update installed, right-click on the game to open the mod folder.
• From there, extract the zip file into the mod folder (including the folder English Mod).

Also, in theory, you should be able to do online multiplayer. But it is not tested nor this is recommended.

User guide

Yuzu Workarounds

On Yuzu, there is currently a glitch where the submenus in the main menu won't display properly. Here are the instructions on how to start a game blind:

Local Multiplayer:

• Refer to the pinned message in #dokapon-translation-efforts in the Discord server.

Story:

• Select the first menu entry.
• If this is the first time opening, there might be a tutorial menu that opens, if that is the case, press "B" once.
• Press A.
• Press A again to confirm save.

Technical Details

On the more technical side, the game is a Unity game, and in it were some files in a few asset bundles that needed to be extracted, modified, and repacked. Some of the text was in JSON, which was easy to modify. After that, it was figuring out what broke the game when translated and then not translating that. From there, it was modifying the UI, which meant modifying a large number of textures and repackaging them.

The story text turned out to be the hardest, due to difficulties in understanding how it was saved. Turns out, it used MessagePack (pretty much serialized JSON), and with that, all of the text could be modified. Finally, a bunch of scripts, custom programs, and Google Sheets make the whole translation come together. Lots of bumps along the way, but it's finally finished.

Screenshots

Media

「ドカポンUP! 夢幻のルーレット」プロモーションムービー (AQUAPLUS)

Silent Play - Dokapon UP! Mugen no Roulette English Patch (PattAnderson)

Credits

Thanks to:

• DADDY for automating/simplifying the translation process, investigating bugs, getting additional people involved, and actually motivating me to finish the translation.
• shorty_bobbert for helping create the initial proof-of-concept translation and for translating many of the images.
• Metakite1 for manually translating the images and the majority of the text assets (without her the text would be Google Translate garbage).
• nesrak1 for help writing software to edit the game files.

External links

• GBAtemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/dokapon-up-translation-release.593755/
• Discord - https://discord.gg/wP4u62PPTB