Route Gold's title menu and SAVE screen through Strings()

MainMenu.lua's row labels (CONTINUE/NEW GAME/OPTION/EXIT GAME), its clock
box's AM/PM half, and its CONTINUE save-summary panel (PLAYER <name>/
BADGES/POKéDEX/TIME, or NO SAVE FILE) were bare literals, invisible to a
translation mod's strings registry. SaveMenu.lua's confirm/overwrite/
saving/saved prompts, its YES/NO choice, and its own copy of the same
summary panel had the same gap. Both mirror the Gen 1 port's already-
translated equivalents (src/ui/TitleState.lua, src/ui/StartMenu.lua),
which route every one of these rows through Strings().

SaveMenu's two-line prompts (module-level OVERWRITE_PROMPT/SAVING_PROMPT,
plus the dynamically-built "%s saved\nthe game." and the confirm/failed
messages) are now single Strings()-resolved strings with an embedded "\n",
matching the Gen 1 port's own single-call convention for two-line messages,
split into the two-slot table drawPanel's fixed-position Chrome.print calls
expect only at draw time -- so a translation sees one whole sentence to
reorder, not two independently-translated fragments.

Added tests/engine/gen2_main_menu_translation_test.lua and
gen2_save_menu_translation_test.lua: drive both screens' drawPanel()/
drawSavePanel() with a mod-loaded Strings catalog and check the translated
text reaches Font.draw, plus a vanilla no-mod case proving the fallback is
unchanged. Confirmed both catch the regression: reverting either file to
its pre-fix content fails the corresponding suite (7 and 15 checks
respectively).

src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ local Logger = require("src.core.Logger")
 local Music = require("src.core.Music")
 local Runtime = require("src.mods.Runtime")
 local Save = require("src.core.gen2.Save")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
 
 local MainMenu = {}
 MainMenu.__index = MainMenu
@@ -73,14 +74,14 @@ local function sameItems(_, items) return items end
 function MainMenu:buildList()
   local items = {}
   if self.hasSave then
-    items[#items + 1] = { label = "CONTINUE", value = "continue" }
+    items[#items + 1] = { label = Strings("CONTINUE"), value = "continue" }
   end
-  items[#items + 1] = { label = "NEW GAME", value = "new" }
+  items[#items + 1] = { label = Strings("NEW GAME"), value = "new" }
-  items[#items + 1] = { label = "OPTION", value = "option" }
+  items[#items + 1] = { label = Strings("OPTION"), value = "option" }
   -- Not on the cart: a cartridge is left by switching the console off, and
   -- there is no console here.  Mirrors the Gen 1 port's title menu
   -- (src/ui/TitleState.lua), which adds the same row for the same reason.
-  items[#items + 1] = { label = "EXIT GAME", value = "exit" }
+  items[#items + 1] = { label = Strings("EXIT GAME"), value = "exit" }
   -- The same hook name and the same (game, items) payload the Gen 1 title
   -- menu raises (src/ui/TitleState.lua:openMenu), so one mod's title rows
   -- serve both games; only the row shape differs, because Chrome.List reads
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ function MainMenu:drawClockBox()
   -- minutes; the AM/PM half is drawn by PrintHour itself.
   local display = hour % 12
   if display == 0 then display = 12 end
-  local half = hour < 12 and "AM" or "PM"
+  local half = Strings(hour < 12 and "AM" or "PM")
   Chrome.print(("%s:%s %s"):format(
     Chrome.number(display, 2), Chrome.number(minute, 2, true), half), 4, 16)
 end
@@ -180,15 +181,15 @@ function MainMenu:drawSavePanel()
   -- DisplaySaveInfoOnContinue: a box down the right side listing the trainer.
   Chrome.textbox(4, 0, 14, 9)
   if not summary then
-    Chrome.print("NO SAVE FILE", 5, 2)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("NO SAVE FILE"), 5, 2)
     return
   end
-  Chrome.print("PLAYER " .. summary.name, 5, 2)
+  Chrome.print(Strings("PLAYER %s", summary.name), 5, 2)
-  Chrome.print("BADGES", 5, 4)
+  Chrome.print(Strings("BADGES"), 5, 4)
   Chrome.printRight(tostring(summary.badges), 17, 4)
-  Chrome.print("POKéDEX", 5, 6)
+  Chrome.print(Strings("POKéDEX"), 5, 6)
   Chrome.printRight(tostring(summary.caught), 17, 6)
-  Chrome.print("TIME", 5, 8)
+  Chrome.print(Strings("TIME"), 5, 8)
   Chrome.printRight(("%d:%s"):format(
     summary.hours, Chrome.number(summary.minutes, 2, true)), 17, 8)
 end

src/ui/gen2/SaveMenu.lua

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 local Chrome = require("src.ui.gen2.Chrome")
 local Save = require("src.core.gen2.Save")
 local Sound = require("src.core.Sound")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
 
 local SaveMenu = {}
 SaveMenu.__index = SaveMenu
@@ -55,10 +56,43 @@ local TIME_X, TIME_Y = 13, 8
 local YESNO_X, YESNO_Y, YESNO_W, YESNO_H = 0, 7, 6, 5
 
 -- AlreadyASaveFileText (AskOverwriteSaveFile, engine/menus/save.asm:47) and
--- SavingDontTurnOffThePower's own line, shared with the PC's CHANGE BOX save.
+-- SavingDontTurnOffThePower's own line, shared with the PC's CHANGE BOX save
+-- (src/ui/gen2/PcMenu.lua:savePrompt(), which returns this two-slot table
+-- straight through to its own lines[1]/lines[2] Chrome.print calls, so the
+-- table shape here is a cross-file contract that must not change).
 local OVERWRITE_PROMPT = { "There is already a", "save file. Is it" }
 local SAVING_PROMPT = { "SAVING… DON'T TURN", "OFF THE POWER." }
 
+-- The same two prompts as a single \n-joined Strings.source() key, used only
+-- by this screen's own prompt() below (PcMenu keeps reading the untranslated
+-- table above unchanged). One key lets a translation reorder the whole
+-- sentence rather than two independently-translated fragments, and lets a
+-- cart whose own translation shows it on ONE line (German's SAVING prompt
+-- has no second line at all) say so directly -- the per-line "{RAM:...}"-
+-- style split load_engine_overrides uses elsewhere requires a non-empty
+-- override for every line, so it cannot express "this line is blank" the
+-- way an embedded "\n"-less string can.
+--
+-- Written as literals, not `table.concat(OVERWRITE_PROMPT, "\n")`: tools/
+-- modkit.py's STRINGS_CALL harvester matches a quoted string literal
+-- immediately inside Strings.source(...)/Strings(...), not an arbitrary
+-- expression, so a computed argument here would be invisible to every
+-- translator's `modkit.py translation ... --refresh` scaffold despite the
+-- runtime lookup working fine -- caught by an independent review. Keep
+-- these two byte-for-byte in sync with OVERWRITE_PROMPT/SAVING_PROMPT
+-- above (checked by tests/engine/gen2_save_menu_translation_test.lua).
+local OVERWRITE_PROMPT_SOURCE = Strings.source("There is already a\nsave file. Is it")
+local SAVING_PROMPT_SOURCE = Strings.source("SAVING… DON'T TURN\nOFF THE POWER.")
+
+-- Splits a Strings()-resolved "line one\nline two" into the two-slot table
+-- drawPanel's fixed-position Chrome.print calls expect; a translation with no
+-- "\n" at all (single-line messages like "Could not save.") lands whole on
+-- the first slot, matching the untranslated code's own { text, "" } shape.
+local function twoLines(text)
+  local first, second = text:match("^(.-)\n(.*)$")
+  return { first or text, second or "" }
+end
+
 function SaveMenu:wantsFillScale() return true end
 function SaveMenu:drawsWidescreen() return true end
 
@@ -171,18 +205,18 @@ function SaveMenu:prompt()
   if self.phase == "overwrite" then
     -- AlreadyASaveFileText when the file is this player's; AnotherSaveFileText
     -- when the ID differs.  Only the first can happen here.
-    return OVERWRITE_PROMPT
+    return twoLines(Strings(OVERWRITE_PROMPT_SOURCE))
   end
   if self.phase == "saving" then
-    return SAVING_PROMPT
+    return twoLines(Strings(SAVING_PROMPT_SOURCE))
   end
   if self.phase == "done" then
     if self.saved then
-      return { self:playerName() .. " saved", "the game." }
+      return twoLines(Strings("%s saved\nthe game.", self:playerName()))
     end
-    return { "Could not save.", "" }
+    return twoLines(Strings("Could not save."))
   end
-  return { "Would you like to", "save the game?" }
+  return twoLines(Strings("Would you like to\nsave the game?"))
 end
 
 function SaveMenu:drawPanel()
@@ -190,10 +224,10 @@ function SaveMenu:drawPanel()
   local summary = Save.summary(self.save)
   Chrome.box(PANEL_X, PANEL_Y, PANEL_W, PANEL_H)
   if summary then
-    Chrome.print("PLAYER " .. summary.name, LABEL_X, LABEL_Y)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("PLAYER %s", summary.name), LABEL_X, LABEL_Y)
-    Chrome.print("BADGES", LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 2)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("BADGES"), LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 2)
-    Chrome.print("POKéDEX", LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 4)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("POKéDEX"), LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 4)
-    Chrome.print("TIME", LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 6)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("TIME"), LABEL_X, LABEL_Y + 6)
     -- PrintNum fills its field from the left, space padded.
     Chrome.print(Chrome.number(summary.badges, 2), BADGES_X, BADGES_Y)
     Chrome.print(Chrome.number(summary.caught, 3), DEX_X, DEX_Y)
@@ -211,8 +245,8 @@ function SaveMenu:drawPanel()
 
   if self.phase == "confirm" or self.phase == "overwrite" then
     Chrome.box(YESNO_X, YESNO_Y, YESNO_W, YESNO_H)
-    Chrome.print("YES", YESNO_X + 2, YESNO_Y + 1)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("YES"), YESNO_X + 2, YESNO_Y + 1)
-    Chrome.print("NO", YESNO_X + 2, YESNO_Y + 3)
+    Chrome.print(Strings("NO"), YESNO_X + 2, YESNO_Y + 3)
     Chrome.cursor(YESNO_X + 1, YESNO_Y + (self.choice == 1 and 1 or 3))
   end
   love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)

tests/engine/gen2_main_menu_translation_test.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+-- Gold's title/main menu (src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua) drew every row label
+-- (CONTINUE/NEW GAME/OPTION/EXIT GAME), the clock box's AM/PM half, and the
+-- CONTINUE save-summary panel's labels (PLAYER <name>/BADGES/POKéDEX/TIME,
+-- or NO SAVE FILE) as bare literals, invisible to a translation mod's
+-- `strings` registry -- unlike the Gen 1 port's own title menu
+-- (src/ui/TitleState.lua/StartMenu.lua), which already routes the same rows
+-- through Strings(). Drives MainMenu:drawPanel()/:drawSavePanel() with a
+-- mod-loaded Strings catalog and checks the translated text reaches
+-- Font.draw, same technique as
+-- tests/engine/gen2_naming_screen_translation_test.lua.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+
+love = require("tests.love_stub")
+
+require("src.core.Logger").warn = function() end
+
+local drawn
+package.loaded["src.render.Font"] = {
+  draw = function(text, x, y)
+    drawn[#drawn + 1] = { text = text, x = x, y = y }
+  end,
+  drawCode = function() end,
+  drawBox = function() end,
+  width = function() return 0 end,
+}
+
+local MainMenu = require("src.ui.gen2.MainMenu")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
+
+local function drawnAt(x, y)
+  for _, d in ipairs(drawn) do
+    if d.x == x and d.y == y then return d.text end
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+-- Chrome.print multiplies tile coordinates by 8 (src/ui/gen2/Chrome.lua).
+-- List item 1 lands at (self.x, self.y) = (2, 2); the clock box's day name
+-- at (1, 14) and the hour:minute half at (4, 16); the save panel's PLAYER
+-- row at (5, 2).
+local FIRST_ITEM_X, FIRST_ITEM_Y = 2 * 8, 2 * 8
+local CLOCK_HALF_X, CLOCK_HALF_Y = 4 * 8, 16 * 8
+local PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y = 5 * 8, 2 * 8
+
+local SAVE = { player = { name = "GOLD" } }
+local CLOCK = { hour = 13, minute = 5, weekday = 1 } -- 1 PM, SUNDAY
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------- vanilla: no mod catalog
+do
+  local menu = MainMenu.new({}, { hasSave = true, save = SAVE, clock = CLOCK })
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(FIRST_ITEM_X, FIRST_ITEM_Y), "CONTINUE",
+    "the title menu's first row draws in English with no mod loaded")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(CLOCK_HALF_X, CLOCK_HALF_Y), " 1:05 PM",
+    "and the clock box's AM/PM half")
+
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawSavePanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "PLAYER GOLD",
+    "the CONTINUE save-summary panel too")
+
+  local noSaveMenu = MainMenu.new({}, { hasSave = false, save = false, clock = CLOCK })
+  drawn = {}
+  noSaveMenu:drawSavePanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "NO SAVE FILE",
+    "and its no-summary fallback")
+end
+
+-- ------------------------------------------------- a translation mod's turn
+do
+  Strings.load({
+    strings = {
+      ["CONTINUE"] = "CONTINUAR",
+      ["NEW GAME"] = "NUEVA PARTIDA",
+      ["OPTION"] = "OPCIÓN",
+      ["EXIT GAME"] = "SALIR",
+      ["PM"] = "PM_ES",
+      ["PLAYER %s"] = "JUGADOR %s",
+      ["BADGES"] = "MEDALLAS",
+      ["POKéDEX"] = "POKéDEX_ES",
+      ["TIME"] = "TIEMPO",
+      ["NO SAVE FILE"] = "SIN PARTIDA",
+    },
+  })
+
+  local menu = MainMenu.new({}, { hasSave = true, save = SAVE, clock = CLOCK })
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(FIRST_ITEM_X, FIRST_ITEM_Y), "CONTINUAR",
+    "a mod catalog reaches the title menu's first row")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(CLOCK_HALF_X, CLOCK_HALF_Y), " 1:05 PM_ES",
+    "and the clock box's AM/PM half")
+
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawSavePanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "JUGADOR GOLD",
+    "the save-summary panel's PLAYER row takes the mod's own word order")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 4 * 8), "MEDALLAS", "and BADGES")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 6 * 8), "POKéDEX_ES", "and POKéDEX")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 8 * 8), "TIEMPO", "and TIME")
+
+  local noSaveMenu = MainMenu.new({}, { hasSave = false, save = false, clock = CLOCK })
+  drawn = {}
+  noSaveMenu:drawSavePanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "SIN PARTIDA",
+    "and the no-summary fallback")
+
+  -- Module state is process-global (see tests/gen2_clock_test.lua's own
+  -- note); this suite gets its own process from tests/tier_runner.lua, but
+  -- leaving the catalog loaded past this point would still mistranslate
+  -- every check below it in this file.
+  Strings.load({})
+  T.check(not Strings.active(), "the catalog is unloaded for the checks after this one")
+end
+
+T.finish("gen2_main_menu_translation_test")

tests/engine/gen2_save_menu_translation_test.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+-- Gold's SAVE screen (src/ui/gen2/SaveMenu.lua) drew every prompt ("Would
+-- you like to save the game?", the overwrite/saving/saved messages), the
+-- YES/NO choice, and the summary panel's labels (PLAYER <name>/BADGES/
+-- POKéDEX/TIME) as bare literals, invisible to a translation mod's
+-- `strings` registry -- unlike the Gen 1 port's own SAVE screen
+-- (src/ui/StartMenu.lua), which already routes the same rows through
+-- Strings(). Drives SaveMenu:drawPanel() directly at each phase with a
+-- mod-loaded Strings catalog and checks the translated text reaches
+-- Font.draw, same technique as
+-- tests/engine/gen2_naming_screen_translation_test.lua.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+
+love = require("tests.love_stub")
+
+require("src.core.Logger").warn = function() end
+
+local drawn
+package.loaded["src.render.Font"] = {
+  draw = function(text, x, y)
+    drawn[#drawn + 1] = { text = text, x = x, y = y }
+  end,
+  drawCode = function() end,
+  drawBox = function() end,
+  width = function() return 0 end,
+}
+
+local SaveMenu = require("src.ui.gen2.SaveMenu")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
+
+local function drawnAt(x, y)
+  for _, d in ipairs(drawn) do
+    if d.x == x and d.y == y then return d.text end
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+-- Chrome.print multiplies tile coordinates by 8 (src/ui/gen2/Chrome.lua).
+-- PLAYER row at (5, 2); the two prompt lines at (1, 14)/(1, 16); YES/NO at
+-- (2, 8)/(2, 10) (YESNO_X + 2, YESNO_Y + 1 / + 3).
+local PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y = 5 * 8, 2 * 8
+local PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y = 1 * 8, 14 * 8
+local PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y = 1 * 8, 16 * 8
+local YES_X, YES_Y = 2 * 8, 8 * 8
+local NO_X, NO_Y = 2 * 8, 10 * 8
+
+local SAVE = { player = { name = "GOLD" } }
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------- vanilla: no mod catalog
+do
+  local menu = SaveMenu.new({}, { save = SAVE, existed = false })
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "PLAYER GOLD",
+    "the summary panel draws in English with no mod loaded")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "Would you like to",
+    "and the confirm prompt's first line")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "save the game?", "and its second line")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(YES_X, YES_Y), "YES", "and YES")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(NO_X, NO_Y), "NO", "and NO")
+
+  menu.phase = "overwrite"
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "There is already a", "the overwrite prompt")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "save file. Is it", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase = "saving"
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "SAVING… DON'T TURN", "the saving message")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "OFF THE POWER.", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase, menu.saved = "done", true
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "GOLD saved", "the saved message")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "the game.", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase, menu.saved = "done", false
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "Could not save.", "the failed-save message")
+end
+
+-- ------------------------------------------------- a translation mod's turn
+do
+  Strings.load({
+    strings = {
+      ["PLAYER %s"] = "JOUEUR %s",
+      ["BADGES"] = "BADGES_FR",
+      ["POKéDEX"] = "POKéDEX_FR",
+      ["TIME"] = "TEMPS",
+      ["YES"] = "OUI",
+      ["NO"] = "NON",
+      ["Would you like to\nsave the game?"] = "Voulez-vous\nsauvegarder ?",
+      ["There is already a\nsave file. Is it"] = "Un fichier existe\ndeja. Est-ce",
+      ["SAVING… DON'T TURN\nOFF THE POWER."] = "SAUVEGARDE...\nN'ETEIGNEZ PAS.",
+      ["%s saved\nthe game."] = "%s a sauvegarde\nla partie.",
+      ["Could not save."] = "Echec de sauvegarde.",
+    },
+  })
+
+  local menu = SaveMenu.new({}, { save = SAVE, existed = false })
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PANEL_PLAYER_X, PANEL_PLAYER_Y), "JOUEUR GOLD",
+    "the summary panel's PLAYER row takes the mod's own word order")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 4 * 8), "BADGES_FR", "and BADGES")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 6 * 8), "POKéDEX_FR", "and POKéDEX")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(5 * 8, 8 * 8), "TEMPS", "and TIME")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "Voulez-vous", "the confirm prompt")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "sauvegarder ?", "its second line")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(YES_X, YES_Y), "OUI", "and YES")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(NO_X, NO_Y), "NON", "and NO")
+
+  menu.phase = "overwrite"
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "Un fichier existe", "the overwrite prompt")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "deja. Est-ce", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase = "saving"
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "SAUVEGARDE...", "the saving message")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "N'ETEIGNEZ PAS.", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase, menu.saved = "done", true
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "GOLD a sauvegarde",
+    "the saved message folds the player name into the mod's own word order")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT2_X, PROMPT2_Y), "la partie.", "its second line")
+
+  menu.phase, menu.saved = "done", false
+  drawn = {}
+  menu:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT1_X, PROMPT1_Y), "Echec de sauvegarde.", "the failed-save message")
+
+  -- Module state is process-global (see tests/gen2_clock_test.lua's own
+  -- note); this suite gets its own process from tests/tier_runner.lua, but
+  -- leaving the catalog loaded past this point would still mistranslate
+  -- every check below it in this file.
+  Strings.load({})
+  T.check(not Strings.active(), "the catalog is unloaded for the checks after this one")
+end
+
+-- src/ui/gen2/PcMenu.lua:savePrompt() returns SaveMenu.OVERWRITE_PROMPT/
+-- SAVING_PROMPT straight through to its own `lines[1]`/`lines[2]`
+-- Chrome.print calls (the PC's CHANGE BOX save uses the same two prompts).
+-- Indexing a plain string with [1]/[2] returns nil, not characters, so this
+-- shape is a cross-file contract: it caught a real regression during review,
+-- where routing these through a single Strings.source()-wrapped string (to
+-- translate SaveMenu's own screen) silently turned them into non-table
+-- values and left PcMenu's overwrite/saving prompt blank.
+do
+  T.eq(type(SaveMenu.OVERWRITE_PROMPT), "table", "OVERWRITE_PROMPT stays a table for PcMenu.lua")
+  T.eq(SaveMenu.OVERWRITE_PROMPT[1], "There is already a", "and its first line stays indexable")
+  T.eq(SaveMenu.OVERWRITE_PROMPT[2], "save file. Is it", "and its second line")
+  T.eq(type(SaveMenu.SAVING_PROMPT), "table", "SAVING_PROMPT stays a table for PcMenu.lua")
+  T.eq(SaveMenu.SAVING_PROMPT[1], "SAVING… DON'T TURN", "and its first line stays indexable")
+  T.eq(SaveMenu.SAVING_PROMPT[2], "OFF THE POWER.", "and its second line")
+end
+
+T.finish("gen2_save_menu_translation_test")