Retro Replay Retro Gaming History, Reviews & Emulation
Asako and Mayuko come to carry some records. There’s a stone figure in the room, and Mayuko thinks it looks almost alive. She’s right. Soon Ushio has his spear pointed at the Stone Eater, and Tora is complaining that the statue is trying to eat someone he called dibs on.
That argument is one of the scenes you can now follow in English in Ushio to Tora, Yutaka’s 1993 Super Famicom action game based on Kazuhiro Fujita’s manga. The patch covers both characters’ dialogue, from Ushio learning what the Beast Spear does to the last exchange with the yokai elder.
Before the spear comes out, you’ll see the new title logo. We drew the English letters as tiles and gave them the original logo’s red and blue colors. On the next screen, Ushio asks the spear for power, and Tora reckons he’s the only one who can do the job.
The game gives each chapter a black title card. We redrew those too, from When Ushio Met Tora to Battle with the Tono Yokai. The chapter names use larger letters, with a smaller label above them so you can read both in the brief pause before the action starts.
The dialogue boxes are only two lines tall, so we built a narrower font for the English. Asako and Mayuko still get their moment to talk before the statue moves. Choose Tora and you’ll hear his side of the argument when the Stone Eater tries to claim Ushio for dinner.
The ending puts its dialogue underneath black-and-white illustrations. Those captions use a different set of tiles, so we rebuilt that lettering for both endings. Even the little repeating logo behind the credits got an English version. You’ll see it in blue beside Ushio’s painting and in orange beside Tora’s newspaper.
Get the English patch and installation instructions. The ZIP includes the BPS patch and a readme with the checksum. Use a clean, headerless Japanese Super Famicom ROM.
