I found a mention of the PR Translations website URL: - the site was obviously long gone, however the Wayback Machine had archived the site on several occasion. This hasn't lived on my hard drive for the last two decades, although I did still have my save game. So here is a mirror of the final Pokemon Gold Japanese To English Fan Translation By PR Translations version 2.8 for anyone wanting to see how dedicated fans we're previewing the game, before it was localised for other regions. This translation allowed us to experince the game almost a year and a half before it was officially released in our country (needless to say we purchased the game as soon as we could).Īnyway occasionally talk of these early Pokemon Gold / Silver fan translations randomly appears on Reddit, with most traces of these now erased from the internet after two decades. So needless to say myself, my brother and my friend had many fun weekends gradually playing though Pokemon Gold and been amazed by all these new Pokemon. The No$GMB emulator could emulate two GameBoy's on one PC, complete with link cable functionality. Despite this myself and my friend managed to find the DOS / Windows GameBoy emulator NO$GMB and a very roughly translated Pokemon Gold rom, which I'm pretty sure was an early version of this this translation by PR Translations.
Internet access was slow and limited back then, we had dialup internet, however it was charged by the minute when connected to the internet, so I was only allowed to use the internet for an hour a week on a weekend. This was like a wow mind blown moment and we just had to figure out how to do this too. I think this is part of Pokemon history for some fans, after completing Pokemon Red in the early in the year 2000 I remember a friend telling me two more Pokemon games existed in Japan, these been Gold and Silver and his friend could play them on a PC with an "Emulator".
The translation was never 100% finished with PR Translations estimating about 70% of the game been translated in the final 2.8 release, which we have for download here. What is special about this is the translation was initially released almost a year before Pokemon Gold had an official English release in any region, allowing Pokemon fans with an understanding of English to much easily play though the game. This is a fan translation of the Japanese version of Pocket Monsters Kin (Pokemon Gold) to English by PR Translations.
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