Posting to confirm that the patch/translation thus far works on the Acekard 2i running Akio 1.7.1
For those (I think I saw one) asking about how to transfer your save file, just make sure that the name of your Sav and the name of the NDS patch match, and from there - in game, ensure that your Language is set to Kana (which you can change with the second to last option in the menu - first setting).
EDIT: One thing I am noticing however, is that in the description panel for each pokemon when looking at the descriptions for each attack, some are too long for the display field and don't wrap to the next line. I'm assuming this is the way that the files are written? (initially for one line)