After giving DW I a complete play through, I was mostly impressed with this translation. I found/recall only two typos. I don’t remember the first anymore as it was in a one time occurrence in dialogue. The other is a prefix of “4″ to your character name when using the Princess’s Love item. Both are forgivable. One problem I found ( possibly an emulation error, but seems more likely related to the patch) is during certain conditions I have not deciphered, upon battle victory, the game will appear to freeze. After much experimentation, I found this is related to the sound. It can be fixed by un-checking CPU sound emulation in Snes9x sound options–your game will then unfreeze. Perhaps under different emulators this does not occur at all, hence why this was missed. Or, maybe there are multiple versions of the game floating around and I patched a different version. Regardless, the translation itself is solid. So, I’d recommend it to anyone looking to replay this classic.

I’ve not yet completed DW II, but so far it is also solid. The only thing so far is at one point a line return was missed, causing a graphical error in the text during a one-time dialogue line. Unless I edit this review later, it’s a safe assumption that the DW II translation is of the same level of excellence.