Magic Pen label fix, recipe category crash prevention, Soba Noodles rename, grammatical A-prefix pass
v2.5.1 is a hotfix release on top of v2.5. It corrects a mistranslated label entry (Magic Pen was rendered as a full sentence about practicing magic), fixes the recipe-category concatenation suffix to prevent buffer overflow crashes, renames 'Buckwheat noodles' to 'Soba Noodles' for accuracy, and adds grammatical 'A' articles to 38 recipe category names.
4 change groups in this release. A label fix, a crash-prevention suffix change, a rename, and a grammatical pass across 38 recipe category names.
msg99098.ofs entry 54 — the JP まほうのペン ('Magic Pen') had been mistranslated as 'I do believe I made a horrible mistake while practicing magic.' This entry is a label in the recipe crafting UI, not dialog. Before: 'I do believe I made a horrible mistake while practicing magic.§'. After: 'A Magical Pen§'. The entry is a recipe category name and appears in the crafting interface as a short label.
msg99098.ofs entry 4 contains the JP suffix をつくろう！ ('let's make [one]!') which the game engine concatenates with recipe category names from entries 6–61. The prior English translation 'Let's make one!§' (16 chars) was too long when combined with category names — the game's concatenation buffer has a limited capacity, and long combined strings caused crashes on real hardware. Before: 'Let's make one!§'. After: '!§'. The suffix is now a single exclamation mark, matching the minimal punctuation-only approach and giving maximum room to the category name portion. Testing confirmed the combined string works up to at least 15 characters.
msg99098.ofs entry 26 — the JP そば ('soba') was translated literally as 'Buckwheat noodles'. Soba is the standard English loanword for this dish. Before: 'Buckwheat noodles§'. After: 'Soba Noodles§'.
38 recipe category names in msg99098.ofs (entries 6–61) had bare-noun labels that read unnaturally in the crafting UI when the game displays them as 'Make [a/an] ___!'. Each was prefixed with 'A ' where grammatically appropriate. Examples: 'Cake' → 'A Cake', 'Pie' → 'A Pie', 'Stew' → 'A Stew', 'Pizza' → 'A Pizza', 'Shirt' → 'A Shirt', 'Bouquet' → 'A Bouquet', 'Tiara' → 'A Tiara', 'Burger Stk' → 'A Burger Stk'. Names where 'A' didn't fit (plurals, mass nouns) were left unchanged: Ice Cream, Curry and Rice, Ramen Noodles, Meat Dishes, Pancakes, Fried Rice, Pasta, Udon, Soba Noodles, Bread, Fried Chicken, Bottoms, Leggings, etc.
Released patch — Same patch format as v2.5: one xdelta3 patch per ROM revision; both produce the same patched ROM byte-for-byte.
v2.5.1 ships one patch per ROM revision. Both behave identically — pick the one that matches your ROM's MD5.
621937dc…ef17e71f0.tongari-boushi-en-v2.5.1-rev0.xdelta and tongari-boushi-en-v2.5.1-rev1.xdelta matching the Rev 0 / Rev 1 ROM revisions.notes/CHANGELOG_v2.5.md — full prose changelog with under-the-hood details.notes/changes/step-383-magic-pen-fix.json — Magic Pen label fix manifest.notes/changes/step-384-recipe-category-fixes.json — recipe suffix, Soba rename, and A-prefix manifest.