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My favorite piece of media ever! At the very least, my favorite Anime/Manga of all time! What is your favorite memory of DGM? Favorite character? Fave OP/ED? I know it's been over 10 years since Hallow. But I'm still holding out hope we'll get something, some day! I've been a fan of all of this series since around 2008 or 09, and it means a lot to me! Long live Allen Walker!

Over 2 years ago, I sent myself on a journey to 100% the beastiary of Dragon Quest Monsters 2 SP

And after Akira Toriyama passed away, it made me want to strive even harder to complete this. Now it is done! After a ton of breaks, and waiting for a better patch, we're finished!

TL;DR We are done! Download > here < and play!

Hi everyone! We're very happy to announce a version 1.0 release of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional English Translation Project. 🎉

Joker 2 Professional (2011) was a revamp of the original Joker 2, with new monsters, new post-game content, and more. However 2 Professional was the start of a sad trend of the Monsters series never coming to the west, remaining Japanese exclusive games. All the way up to the recently released Monsters 3: The Dark Prince (2024).

As time went on, these unlocalised Monsters games were gradually translated by the fan-base, however Joker 2 Professional remained one of the final untranslated games. Partially due to it being very similar to the internationally released Joker 2, and due to technical limitations of the time.

Then Ceris White came along and released a new toolkit for bypassing these technical limitations, as well as an initial translation effort along with Ilario and Reflex. A few months later, and with the tireless efforts of several very dedicated project members, we are finally at the finish line! Please check out Ceris' patreon and buy-me-a-coffee if you want as a thank you.

A big point of feedback was requests for an xdelta patch for ease of play. And while the project is not formatted in such a way as to be compatible with xdelta patches, we have created a front end user interface Patcher for patching your game. Supporting Windows, Linux and macOS, simply download the Patcher, load your legally obtained ROM, select your options, and patch! It's a fully self contained program, not requiring external tools or programs.

Gerb, who has a long track record of participating in Dragon Quest translation projects, has graciously lent their talents to translate and localise the post-game content. Along with GemSlimee, who has led proofreading efforts.

In addition to a complete translation of all in-game content, we have also prepared some additional optional features that we hope add to the experience and increase replayability.

Joker 2 Professional began an unfortunate trend of locking cool and desirable monsters behind wi-fi events, trading from previous games, or otherwise being unobtainable. But utilising Ceris' toolkit, it is now possible to inject new synthesis recipes into the game! Darko, with assistance from Hoodinibobeenie and Anthcny have created new optional recipes for all previously unobtainable monsters.

We have adapted WireOn's Joker 2 randomiser to our project, now you can randomise your battle encounters, with optional rank and monster family filtering for bespoke runs! Along with randomisation for XP rewards, skill points, synthesis recipes, and more.

Joker 2 and 2 Professional is known to have an aggressive anti-piracy implementation that bars player progression. The existing widely used anti-piracy patch was flawed and incompatible with old-school R4 cards. Mow from the DS⁽ⁱ⁾ Mode Hacking community has come in clutch with a new AP implementation, that allows for play on official hardware and R4 cards.

This project wouldn't have made it this far without our lovely playtesters: Ilario, Reflex, Gerb, Darko, GemSlimee, Hoodinibobeenie, Mad Raigo, Matthew McConville, Nurfed, Chris, diortememirp, Nightaura, Sloppydeck, Anti-Tank Guided Missle, Ghostface, Blark. Sorry if I missed anyone.

Shoutout to GemSlimee, for making a really rad Joker 2 Professional information page, with extra links to resources such as save editors, walkthroughs, and more. They also translated the Joker 2 Professional save editor, which was previously only available in Japanese.

Thank you to 【ありんす】 (Arinsu) from pixiv for giving us permission to use their artwork for our eye-catch image. Keep in mind their profile is NSFW if you're wanting to check out their art.

In my opinion, the coolest part of the project is that is Free and Open Source! Meaning anyone is free to take the existing work and adapt it for their own purposes (but please be sure to attribute credit to Ceris White and the translation project). So far we have already seen some great offshoots, such as a French and German translation currently privately in the works, and a project to allow Japanese players to access our new synthesis recipes without the rest of the patch, by GemSlimee.

It's the wish of our lead dev Ceris and the rest of the project team that no one illegally distribute a patched ROM. Not only has the patching process been made dead-simple, any distributed patched ROM will eventually be out-of-date. Additionally, the team has made extensive efforts to ensure that the translation project is not in breach of copyright laws. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Finally, a big thank you to the Dragon Quest Translations Discord server, for hosting our collaboration efforts. If you have questions, technical issues, or wish to discuss and play alongside others, come and have a chat.

Oh and feel free to spread the word! Let's plays, livestreaming, challenge runs, online discussion etc. are of course all welcome. Be sure to link our work so people know where to get started.

Thanks everyone, and have fun! We all love Joker 2 Professional, and hope we can share that love with all of you.

"Bullseye!"

Matt is my favorite male Fire Emblem character, and second favorite in general next to Jill! I've always wanted to Cosplay an FE character, and he seemed like the best option! Looking forward to wearing this at Portcon this weekend, and several other plans in the future!

(Apologies if this is using the incorrect flair. I wasn't sure what would fill the Cosplay slot correctly. :sweat_smile: )

I was given permission to post this by the lead translator/editor of this project, Ceris! Images were provided by Reflex! I sadly was unable to get the patch working, due to Python giving me a ton of issues. But it might also be because of me using Windows. lol This is mainly to gauge interest, since they were uncertain of how many people would care about this game from a decade and a half.

Link to the Translation; https://github.com/CerisWhite/DQMJ2Pro_Translation/tree/master

Looking forward to seeing this being finished!

I've never color dyed before, and I am having trouble figuring out which colors I should use to make the right vest the appropriate color. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know. I would like to prepare this ahead of time for a Cosplay in late June. The fabric of said right vest is 95% polyester.