ROTK5 Chinese: Romance of the Three Kingdoms V in Traditional Chinese
Chinese edition, revision 0.3 (14 October 2026): a first build, not finished

The game and its Power-Up Kit in Traditional Chinese, made from the Japanese MP3 edition with the text, the font and the pictures of the Chinese DOS edition.

To install: copy the folder "ROTK5 Chinese" to a hard disk. Start "ROTK5 Chinese MP3" (the game) or "ROTK5 PUK Chinese MP3" (the Power-Up Kit). Keep the folder whole, and do not put its files into another edition's folder. Over an earlier revision: replace the whole folder (saved games are in S5DATA and PKDATA as SAVEDATA.S5: keep a copy of those two files and put them back).

What it needs: a PowerPC Macintosh with Mac OS 9.2 and QuickTime 6. The game's own text needs nothing more: the Chinese font is inside the two programs. The menus, the About box and the window's title are Chinese where Mac OS 9's language kit for Traditional Chinese is installed (the Mac OS 9 CD: Software Installers, Language Kits); without it they show as garbled letters, and the game plays all the same.

New in 0.3:
- The screen where a name is entered (New Officers, and New Items in the Power-Up Kit) picks Chinese characters by pinyin. Its 46 buttons each bring up the characters of the syllables from the one on the button (a, ba, bi ... zhao, zhuang) up to the next button's: liu is under "liu", bei under "ba", qing under "qi". A character with two readings is under both. One more button in the bottom row brings up every character by stroke count, for one whose reading you do not know. The screen no longer asks for a reading in kana.
- The small Latin letters of the game are readable: u, n, m and w came out as blocks (on those buttons and in the 0.2 labels).

Not finished in 0.3:
- The two movies are the Japanese ones.
- On a 68K Macintosh the two applications start KOEI's own Japanese 68K program, which has none of this edition. Not tested.
- The small map's caption is the Japanese one; on the victory-conditions screen two lines touch their buttons; the battle record writes a rank without its ordinal sign.
- One campaign has been played, six game months long; much of the game has not been checked on the screen. Words the two programs build from pieces may come out in the Japanese edition's wording, or, where the Japanese held kana, as blocks.

Music plays from the Music folder through QuickTime, as in the Japanese MP3 edition. Saved games are the same files as the Japanese edition's.