Puyo Puyo Chronicle is an action puzzle/RPG hybrid released for the 3DS in 2016.
It was developed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the “Puyo Puyo” series and features a variety of game modes along with a sprawling RPG mode.


DOWNLOAD HERE!
[UPDATE NOV. 8, 2021: PATCHER FIX FOR DLC .CIA]
[UPDATE NOV. 9, 2021: FIXED QUIZ DIALOGUE]
[UPDATE NOV. 14, 2021: FIXED CHARACTER TEXT IN LOCAL RAID BOSSES & TYPOS]
[UPDATE DEC. 18, 2021: FIXED MISSING NPC DIALOGUE & TYPOS]
[UPDATE JAN. 2, 2022: IMG FIXES & TYPOS]​

✦ABOUT THE GAME

While playing with her best friend Carbuncle, Arle comes across a mysterious book...only to be sucked into its pages?! She suspects that this is the ploy of the usual culprit — the Dark Prince, Satan — but something seems to have happened to him...?

Now known as the "Great Hero", she is tasked with resolving the strange phenomena occurring in this fairytale land in order to find her way back home. Helping her out is her newest friend Ally, an eccentric love-enthusiast who believes in the prophecy, which proclaims that the Great Hero will restore harmony to the land through love.

While Arle has had her fair share of adventures, this may turn out to be the strangest one yet!

✦JUST WHAT IS "PUYO PUYO"?

The Puyo Puyo series is a popular and addictive action-puzzle game developed by Compile and is now owned by SEGA. Originally a spin-off of the dungeon crawler Madou Monogatari, it has eclipsed its predecessor's popularity and become a well-known e-sport in Japan. The gameplay involves matching 4 "Puyo" of the same color, which leads them to pop. Setting up a configuration in which Puyo pop consecutively is known as "chaining", and deals higher damage to your opponent.

Puyo Puyo Chronicle features many different modes with different rules, as well as an extensive lesson portion that you can browse at your leisure. The main RPG mode also uses this Puyo chain mechanic to deal damage to your enemies, and even gives you simple chains to start battles (though more experienced players can turn this off in the settings). So worry not if you're a beginner, you'll be chaining in no time!

✦ABOUT THIS PATCH

This is the second fully playable and fully translated English patch from the team at Precise Museum!
This patch features a complete translation of RPG mode, single-player, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer modes.
Everything from text to graphics has been fully translated into English, and it features familiar Puyo Puyo gameplay all presented in an adorably squishy and cute 3D format!
The patch download also includes an HD texture pack that can be loaded via Citra for more accessible gameplay.
Instructions for patching and how to use the HD texture pack can be found in the full download zip's readme.

✦TEAM

HEAD TRANSLATOR: Ingu (Ko-fi)
ASSISTANT TRANSLATOR: Cove
CODING: MyLegGuy
GRAPHICS: Armando, Res, Evergreen, Courtroom, Neon, Velvetbun
PROOFREADING: Adelie, Ami, Celerity910, Circe, Corey, Cove, Courtoom, Flootena, Luna, Maya, Nico, RobotLover69, Vic
SPECIAL THANKS: AB1, Acy, Antonio231102, Beatrice, Frostie, LemonEdd, Mari, Miryx, Momochi, Pi, Pyro Jay, Roi, Saetta06, Wizzkid

Spoiler: SCREENSHOTS

 

[TamarindoJuice]

Wow at last 2 years has passed since this project was announced, great that it finally came to the light of the day! Exciting!
Thank you.

 

[GeekyGuy]

This looks so up my alley. Thank you!

 

[HowieDogDealt]

When trying to patch the DLC cia, I get this error and the 'patcheddlc.cia' file doesn't show up. Will anyone help, please?

"The system cannot find the file specified.
Could Not Find F:\cias\extra_cia_patches\newromfs
[NCCH ERROR] Failed to load ncch aes key
[RESULT] Failed to build CIA"

 

[fallenleaf]

When trying to patch the DLC cia, I get this error and the 'patcheddlc.cia' file doesn't show up. Will anyone help, please?

"The system cannot find the file specified.
Could Not Find F:\cias\extra_cia_patches\newromfs
[NCCH ERROR] Failed to load ncch aes key
[RESULT] Failed to build CIA"

the OP download link was updated. can you try the new version of the cia patcher?

if it still doesn't work, please post the full output. (probably to pastebin.net or similar.)

 

[Panzerfaust]

Damn! big fat thanks. I fuckin love Puyo Puyo. Cant wait to try it out

 

[yuyuyup]

Hi, thank you for translating, I installed the game/dlc/translation at the same time,

-The game takes a very long time to initially load, I'm guessing due to the DLC loading?

-is this game without stereoscopic 3d by default?

-The options menu totally locks up the whole system for like 30 seconds but then it loads and it's fine.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Happy to see this done! i was worried it would end up abandoned like the majority of 3ds game translations...

 

[fallenleaf]

Hi, thank you for translating, I installed the game/dlc/translation at the same time,

-The game takes a very long time to initially load, I'm guessing due to the DLC loading?

-is this game without stereoscopic 3d by default?

-The options menu totally locks up the whole system for like 30 seconds but then it loads and it's fine.

At least for me, Luma game patching has always been slow. With every game I've played.
For undub mods and such, I've always been forced to make a patched cia instead to keep the game from micro-freezes when loading voices.

1.
How long is very long?
I have the DLC installed.
The time between me pressing A on the home menu and the logo appearing is:
14 seconds with Luma game patching enabled
12.5 seconds with Luma game patching disabled

2.
Correct.
It is a 3d game, but it is not a 3d 3d game.

3.
Never heard of this one before.
For me, the options menu takes ~3 seconds to load without the patch and 4 seconds with the patch.
Your SD card may be on its last leg, as seen by the initial long load time too.
(Something is wrong with mine too, I can't really install with FBI anymore.)
Luma patching is slow, but not this slow.

 

[yuyuyup]

At least for me, Luma game patching has always been slow. With every game I've played.
For undub mods and such, I've always been forced to make a patched cia instead to keep the game from micro-freezes when loading voices.

1.
How long is very long?
I have the DLC installed.
The time between me pressing A on the home menu and the logo appearing is:
14 seconds with Luma game patching enabled
12.5 seconds with Luma game patching disabled

2.
Correct.
It is a 3d game, but it is not a 3d 3d game.

3.
Never heard of this one before.
For me, the options menu takes ~3 seconds to load without the patch and 4 seconds with the patch.
Your SD card may be on its last leg, as seen by the initial long load time too.
(Something is wrong with mine too, I can't really install with FBI anymore.)
Luma patching is slow, but not this slow.

Thanks for the response, I have been able to install other games/load just fine, 128gig/64kb cluster size/legit brand, it took an entire 1 minute 40 seconds (with and without luma patching.) Haven't had any issues that I attribute to this SD card

 

[Deleted member 323844]

DLCs must have tons of files in this game, since I got really slow installation and loading times as well.

 

[hippy dave]

Oh noice, happy to see this finished.

 

[fallenleaf]

Thanks for the response, I have been able to install other games/load just fine, 128gig/64kb cluster size/legit brand, it took an entire 1 minute 40 seconds (with and without luma patching.) Haven't had any issues that I attribute to this SD card

DLCs must have tons of files in this game, since I got really slow installation and loading times as well.

Thank you for your interest and bug report.
It was a problem* with the GNU/Linux DLC patching script.
Please try this attached updated script.

Technical details:

Spoiler

That CIA has 701 content files, most of which only contain placeholders. Giving these all to makerom on the command line generates the horrible CIA you saw. Not sure whose bug it is, but it's a problem. Simply excluding the placeholders is the fix.

edit: this has also been integrated into the OP download.
edit2: *this was later discovered to be a problem with the original CIA. and an accurate rebuild of it retained the problem.

 

[Deleted member 323844]

Thank you fallenleaf. I will try it.

Btw: I recorded some gameplay. I'm really bad at this connect-4 games, but still managed to make the first 7 quests without any issue. I assume it is a pretty easy Puyo Puyo game, at least in the first hours.



Real hardware (N3DSXL + Katsukity).

My only complain is that it has too many conversations I guess it must have been a hell to translate.

 

[dylanpotato]

THANK YOU!!! i wanted to learn japanese just to play this game now i dont have to!!!!

 

[HinaNaru Cutie]

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Puyo Puyo Chronicle is an action puzzle/RPG hybrid released for the 3DS in 2016.
It was developed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the “Puyo Puyo” series and features a variety of game modes along with a sprawling RPG mode.


DOWNLOAD HERE!
[UPDATE NOV. 8, 2021: PATCHER FIX FOR DLC .CIA]
[UPDATE NOV. 9, 2021: FIXED QUIZ DIALOGUE]​

✦ABOUT THE GAME


✦JUST WHAT IS "PUYO PUYO"?


✦ABOUT THIS PATCH


✦TEAM

Spoiler: SCREENSHOTS

OH MY GOSH I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS HYPED SINCE I GOT MY 3DS WHEN IT CAME OUT FOR MY BIRTHDAY LMAOO T U T thank you soo much ♡♡!! After waiting for so long patiently for this english translation ahh ♡♡

 

[Plasmaster09]

Absolutely freaking amazing.
Also, I wonder: Would multiplayer via Download Play still work if the other system(s) are unhacked?

 

[Reploid]

Absolutely freaking amazing.
Also, I wonder: Would multiplayer via Download Play still work if the other system(s) are unhacked?

Prolly

 

[LaronX]

This is awesome!

 

[Blauhasenpopo]

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Puyo Puyo Chronicle is an action puzzle/RPG hybrid released for the 3DS in 2016.
It was developed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the “Puyo Puyo” series and features a variety of game modes along with a sprawling RPG mode.


DOWNLOAD HERE!
[UPDATE NOV. 8, 2021: PATCHER FIX FOR DLC .CIA]
[UPDATE NOV. 9, 2021: FIXED QUIZ DIALOGUE]​

✦ABOUT THE GAME


✦JUST WHAT IS "PUYO PUYO"?


✦ABOUT THIS PATCH


✦TEAM

Spoiler: SCREENSHOTS

Many THX