Itadaki Street 2 English Patch Available Now

Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iro ni is a Monopoly-like board game with a variety of boards and play mechanics unique to the series.

The series has largely stayed in Japan with only a couple iterations officially released in English speaking regions. Many fan translations have come out for various Japanese only games, but none so far that I know have translated this second game for the Super Famicom into English. Until now.

See this super helpful guide on Vizzed on what game critical texts translate to if you prefer to play the unmodified Japanese version. Also big thanks to this GitHub project from XKeeper0 that is a wealth of translation information for this game. I am sure their research was used in this project.

Full disclosure, this is a vibe-coded project. I don’t love that it is, but I wouldn’t have been able to produce this translation patch otherwise.

What This Patch Does

This patch is just a translation, it does not change any of the gameplay or balancing of the game. Right now everything needed to play through the game is translated into English. This includes menus, cards, and the tutorial. Character bios, over 200 lines of dialogue from the characters, and many other random bits of text have also been translated.

There is still a lot of dialogue that needs to be translated as well as other random text strings that don’t affect gameplay. Some small alignment and formatting issues are present and I’m sure there are some bugs to work out. I haven’t encountered any crashing or game breaking bugs in my 6 hours of playing the most recent version.

See Changelog below for more info.

Patching Info & Downloads

The patch requires Itadaki Street 2 – Neon Sign wa Barairo ni (Japan).sfc

CRC32:
95310032
MD5:
c4a1a27f58f87786d403a8d133593957
SHA-1:
e0bdf8d4e9c9d3f344686fda1e20190e3b47800d

Download version 0.13 .ips & .bps patches

Once you have the correct rom, download your preferred patch format and use your preferred patcher to apply the translation. This online patcher from romhacking.net works well!

Changelog

0.13 — First Public Version, character dialogue, batch 5

  • Translated 30 lines: dialogue IDs 15–16 for each of the 15 opponents.
  • Added comments about payday, reaching the bank and needing money.
  • Visually checked 30 dialogue renderer fixtures.

0.12 — character dialogue, batch 4

  • Translated 30 lines: dialogue IDs 11–12 for each of the 15 opponents.
  • Added reactions to celebrations, confidence and being ahead.
  • Visually checked 30 dialogue renderer fixtures.

0.11 — character dialogue, batch 3

  • Translated 45 lines: dialogue IDs 8–10 for each of the 15 opponents.
  • Added reactions to nervousness, poor performance and recovery attempts.
  • Visually checked 45 dialogue renderer fixtures.

0.10 — startup credit and dialogue batch 2

  • Preserved the original credit tiles and layout.
  • Translated 45 more opponent dialogue lines (125 dialogue entries total).
  • Preserved all previous translations.
  • Verified cold boot through the credit screen to the main menu.

0.9 — character dialogue, batch 1

  • Translated 80 lines: five for each of 16 characters.
  • Added openings, turn/dice comments and Maharaja shopping remarks.
  • Preserved all earlier translations and dialogue pointers/mood bytes.
  • Visually checked all 80 lines using large-text renderer fixtures.

0.8 — first-board properties

  • Translated 20 shops and the bank on STREET 1.
  • Recompressed the board in place (683 bytes within its 688-byte allocation).
  • Preserved all earlier translation writes and every decoded non-name byte.
  • Included name mapping and a reusable compression codec.

0.7 — area names

  • Translated 133 nine-byte area-name records in place.
  • Preserved all 634 earlier entries and their write ranges.
  • Added a complete Japanese/English area-label reference.
  • Checked the first board stock screen through normal controller input.
  • Documented the existing opponent-header wrapping issue.

0.6 — opponents and financial records

50 new entries: 15 name records, opponent grid, tutorial sample names, 15 profiles, and 18 record/table fragments. Preserves all 584 previous entries. No new relocations, pointer changes or gameplay edits.

0.5 — guided gameplay tutorial

  • Translated 74 large-text tutorial entries, from the goal of becoming rich to
    the closing lesson. Total: 584 entries.
  • Preserved all 510 previous entries and all their translated write ranges.
  • Kept all new text inside its original space. No new relocation or pointer edits.
  • Added per-entry maximum-line validation so tutorial text cannot exceed three lines.
  • Added checks that tutorial-script bytes and references remain unchanged.
  • Completed the normal tutorial sequence in Snes9x and checked all new pages.
  • Included a short companion explaining condensed tutorial labels and pad controls.

0.4 — game rules, progression and financial results

  • Added 13 large-text dialogue entries and 22 small-text entries.
  • Translated the inline stock-table AREA/VAL header (one raw-data entry).
  • Preserved all 474 manifest entries and all translated bytes from 0.3.
  • Kept rule-setting amounts, player-count field and vacant-lot indicator aligned
    with the original editable columns; preserved stock-table separator columns.
  • All new strings fit existing allocations. No additional relocation space used.
  • Added binary checks for stock-header and settings-field alignment.

0.3 — gameplay guidance

  • Added 114 entries; 474 total. Preserved all 360 previous entries and their bytes.
  • Translated auction participation and result messages; adjusted new line breaks
    to keep participation instructions and sale announcements inside their windows.
  • Added stock-price, investment, dividend and ownership guidance.
  • Translated building options, ten building-tier names, construction warnings,
    and ordinary/special-building descriptions.
  • Added remaining short trade, settings, substitute-player and statistics labels.
  • Added explicit encoding for existing border, divider and arrow glyphs.
  • Enabled checked small-text relocation. One tax-office description and two DEAL
    headings use 82 additional bytes of verified padding. Existing large-text
    relocations retain their locations. Shared script terminators are preserved.
  • Added an independently implemented BPS validation reader and portable validator.

Changes in 0.2

  • Added 255 small-font translations for chance cards, effect follow-ups, and
    shop/stock/trading prompts. The manifest now has 349 text entries, one heading,
    and 10 display-format changes, for 360 entries total.
  • Retained the 95 entries delivered in 0.1, with one earlier insufficient-cash
    message shortened to fit its window.
  • Preserved live player names, amounts, share counts, card numbers, and percentages.
  • Replaced eight Japanese up/down glyph operands with + or – and reordered two
    percentage concatenation lists. No gameplay arithmetic or branches were changed.
  • Fixed clipping in chance-card captions, the fire effect, and trade-menu labels.
  • Added safeguards against small-font punctuation slots that are not English glyphs.

The patch is cumulative and requires the original Japanese ROM. The translations
remain in the original text bank; the six relocations from 0.1 still use 234 bytes.
No ROM expansion, font replacement, or new small-text relocation was required.

Other Stuff

I want to give a big thanks to people who have worked on translation this game before I got here. ChatGpt almost undoubtedly used their work to create this.