i'm pretty sure
this thread represents the latest stuff that's been done on that game. which is to say, not that much, besides gogs's item translations and a few graphical changes on my part. the font is really, REALLY easy to change to at least an 8-wide FWF, though.
screenshot that basically sums it up below:

i'm thinking this would be a fair bit harder than ND2, if only because of the need for double-byte encoding, plus my inability to figure out how to add spaces to those words there (ChainM, etc.).