I love the weird letter spacing here. This was presumably katakana, and it's a fan translation patch that can't modify the game code, so they just had to replace the texture for each character with an image of multiple english letters

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I love the weird letter spacing here. This was presumably katakana, and it's a fan translation patch that can't modify the game code, so they just had to replace the texture for each character with an image of multiple english letters