If you follow the articles on modding and translations here at wololo, you might remember that when we reported on the IA/VT osu! mod, we talked about how excited we felt about a few other translation/modding projects that we had seen were being worked on. This wasn’t one of them. GBATemp user Androu1 popped up overnight on their forums with a basic translation for the game Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition and released it for everyone else to use. According to the developer himself however, this is only a basic translation (menus and movesets):

(…) this translation was admittedly sort of experimental and made with a combination of machine translation, contextual translation and online resources. Which means, mostly, that I can’t translate the dialogues and such!

However he also adds that he is willing to extend a hand to anyone who might be interested in continuing his work and doing a full translation:

(…) the files are easy to edit, they’re mostly straight up text files. So, if anybody else wants to help take a crack at them but can’t get the files themselves, I’ll provide and test if need be!

What is Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition?

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition is an updated version of the game Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax that only came out in Japan and that SEGA seems to have no plans on bringing to the West. It adds a few new playable characters, a bunch of assist characters (even a few new cameos during special moves) and more balanced gameplay.

How-to use this patch

1. The game needs to be updated to 1.04! The translation was made using that game version!
2. Simply extract the contents of the ZIP file to ux0:/app/PCSG00758 using whichever method you prefer. Overwrite any files if need be. It’s that simple!

Download the Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition English patch

To download this patch for your Dengeki Bunko copy, simply click here to get the needed file and follow the above instructions. Developer Androu1 asks for users of this to please report any mistakes and/or typos he has made to the release thread here. If you want to contact the developer to help with the translation of story and dialogue, you should also try to get into contact with him there.

Update: Developer Red has created an automated patcher for this game. You can download it here. He has entered contact with Androu1 to try and keep his tool constantly up-to-date so that you user, in the future, only need to open his tool to update the translation of the game, should any update be made.

Enjoy everyone!