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Every single bit of text in Star Allies, combed over for accuracy.
DL: https://gamebanana.com/mods/492254

Boss pause descriptions, Dream Friend descriptions, mode and world descriptions, and Dialogue especially are retranslated from scratch with extreme care.
Most Guest Star Helper descriptions and many ability descriptions are also retranslated from scratch. So now you can see the lore in pause screens in-game!

And as stated, all other text has been combed through for mistranslations and omissions and improved, edited, and/or rewritten from scratch if necessary.
This includes names of things such as stages, modes, theatre; the names and controls of attacks for every ability and Friend; system messages and tutorials; in-game tips; miscellaneous option and button labels, etc.

Unfortunately, I did not get to check over nearly as much of this mod in-game as I wish I could have, so I suspect there'll be a handful of things I'd instantly want to improve when I see them in-game, in terms of wording and/or line-breaking and spacing. But I needed to get this out.



"But why?"
Star Allies is undeniably the most poorly translated modern Kirby game. The dialogue in the story is made incredibly cheesy and hammy, the pause descriptions are riddled with mistakes and contradictions with even the basic premise of the game's events, and even the system messages incorrectly describe the game mechanics, such as claiming Kirby's classic design as a reward for completing all celebration pictures rather than for beating Soul Melter EX.

If you were wondering why even knowing all that, it's true that in the past I've told people who asked, both in general or specifically me, why there aren't any fan translation patches, that Kirby simply doesn't need them; since most of Kirby's text is contained in descriptions unconnected with the gameplay anyway, there's no need for fan translations to actually be modded into the game, when that adds very little benefit compared to just looking the translations up. Plus, Kirby's modding community is small even for Nintendo series and tiny compared to PC games, so creating a mod would not successfully spread knowledge of mistranslations.

And I do still believe that. This retranslation patch is done more so because I can rather than because there was a great need for it to exist or benefit to be derived. Though it is also the case that Star Allies, along with Planet Robobot, does have a notable body of text within gameplay with the Mages' dialogue (And similarly with Susie in PR) compared to other Kirby games, so the argument above about its unnecessity is weaker.

Now, please keep in mind, there is no objectively right answer when it comes to translation. Nor do I guarantee that there are no errors in translation that I've made myself within this mod. All text is entirely translated by my one person. I've certainly referenced other translations people have posted themselves or in places like Wikirby, as have I spoken to other Kirby translators for their thoughts and opinions throughout the years and even directly when making this. But in the end all this text is still nearly entirely my work alone, and there could be conflicting interpretations of text or opinions on how things should be handled. Do not take this mod's text as the end all be all 'correct translation' over anyone else's translation.

Now, on the other hand, rather than translation errors, I hope that there are no errors of any other kind, such as typos, poor or broken formatting, misplaced or accidentally omitted text, or inconsistent translations for repeated terms and/or sentences. If you spot any, please let me know however you wish, in the comments here, @dsgiratina on Twitter, or sacredfaerie on Discord, etc.

That's not to say you can't contact me about subjective points as well.