The project included translating, writing, and revising about 1,000 pages of the game script in addition to extensive ROM hacking and testing to ensure that the game properly displays the translated text. The translation included minor deviations from the original, such as localization of place-names and puns. The few dramatic changes included renaming some characters and locations. For example, the character "Yokuba", loosely derived from , was renamed "Fassad", loosely derived from the French word "façade" and, incidentally, the Arabic word "fasād" (فساد, "corruption"). The ROM hacking entailed assembly-level changes to the game code to support features such as variable width fonts.