Klonoa Heroes: The Legendary Star Medal Densetsu no Star Medal) English Translation Game Boy Advance Cartridge GBA Gameboy Cart

Item: 1 gray unlabeled Game Boy Advance cartridge of Klonoa Heroes in English, with plastic case

Compatibility with Analogue Pocket may vary.

SRAM-patched: the save is maintained with a CR2032 battery.

This is a full English translation (v1.1.8) for Klonoa Heroes: Densetsu no Star Medal. All cutscene dialogue is translated, as are all villager interactions, items, menus, and shopkeeper dialogue. Players will be able to understand the game’s story up through the end, including the bonus cutscenes, with this ROM hack.

What is translated:

- Everything aside from character voices (played during visions) and the lyrics for the song "Sign of a Hero". For the former, each voice sample is accompanied by a speech bubble containing the written-out lines (which was translated).
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Localized puns:

- During one cutscene in World 2, while looking through a treasure deposit, Guntz finds a few guns that allow him to learn his first special move, Shinigami Fire. In the same cutscene, Klonoa finds another treasure that Karal says is called Chirigami (Tissue) Fire, used for blowing one's nose. Because we ended up translating Guntz's move name to Death God Fire, we had to change this pun to match; Klonoa now finds a bottle of what Karal calls Breath God Fire, a type of mouthwash.

- At one point in the Sky Temple, Klonoa's impressed that Pango has a silver medal (ranked higher than his and Guntz's medals), and asks if he can admire the pangolin. Pango responds that no admiration was necessary, making a dad-joke out of it. This pun's a bit harder to explain in English, but basically:
-- "Sonkei" = admiration
-- "Son na koto nai" = not really
-- What Pango said here is: "Sonke koto nai" (a corruption of the two phrases). Because this corruption couldn't be translated well into English, we ended up swapping it out with a different kind of dad-joke. Basically, Klonoa just says he's amazed, and Pango replies "Hi 'Amazed', I'm Pango!"

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8. Profanity Warning:

We're aware that Japanese profanity works differently from English profanity. However, in order to convey the effect of the original dialogue, and to avoid making players feel like we watered it down, we decided to use equivalent English profanity (including two instances of the F bomb, both from Guntz) in our translations, with the assumption that we're going for a Teen ESRB rating. Because of this, player's discretion is advised, especially for younger fans of the Klonoa series.

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~Klonoa Mega Chat Translation Team