diff --git a/py/misc.h b/py/misc.h
index 37c6caa4ae..e17616b16a 100644
--- a/py/misc.h
+++ b/py/misc.h
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ typedef union _mp_float_union_t {
 // So leave MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT in place for makeqstrdefs.py / makecompresseddata.py to find them.
 
 #else
-
 // Compression enabled and doing a regular build.
 // Map MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT to the compressed strings.
 
@@ -327,10 +326,9 @@ inline MP_ALWAYSINLINE const char *MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT(const char *msg) {
 
     return msg;
 }
-
 #endif
 
-#elif CIRCUITPY
+#elif defined(CIRCUITPY)
 #include "supervisor/shared/translate/translate.h"
 #else
 
@@ -339,6 +337,10 @@ inline MP_ALWAYSINLINE const char *MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT(const char *msg) {
 typedef const char *mp_rom_error_text_t;
 #define MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT(x) x
 
-#endif // MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION // CIRCUITPY
+#endif // MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION
+
+// Might add more types of compressed text in the future.
+// For now, forward directly to MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT.
+#define MP_ERROR_TEXT(x) (mp_rom_error_text_t)MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT(x)
 
 #endif // MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_MISC_H
diff --git a/supervisor/shared/translate/compressed_string.h b/supervisor/shared/translate/compressed_string.h
index efc2c65634..1174121068 100644
--- a/supervisor/shared/translate/compressed_string.h
+++ b/supervisor/shared/translate/compressed_string.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 typedef struct compressed_string {
     uint8_t data;
     const uint8_t tail[];
-} mp_rom_error_text_t;
+} *mp_rom_error_text_t;
 
 // Return the compressed, translated version of a source string
 // Usually, due to LTO, this is optimized into a load of a constant
diff --git a/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.h b/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.h
index 49d5b5a642..be84670776 100644
--- a/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.h
+++ b/supervisor/shared/translate/translate.h
@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@
 #include "supervisor/shared/translate/compressed_string.h"
 
 // Map MicroPython's error messages to our translations.
-#if !defined(MICROPY_ENABLE_DYNRUNTIME) || !MICROPY_ENABLE_DYNRUNTIME
-#define MP_ERROR_TEXT(x) translate(x)
-#endif
+#define MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT(x) translate(x)
 
 // translate() is a giant function with many strcmp calls. The assumption is
 // that the build process will optimize this away and replace it with the