Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Director's Cut
Shadow Hearts II · シャドウハーツII
Brings the extra content of Japan's Shadow Hearts II Director's Cut into the US release of Shadow Hearts: Covenant, translated into English, with an optional UnDub edition using the Japanese voices.
What it is
Shadow Hearts II received a Director's Cut in Japan with extras that never came West. JamieTheAnything's project grafts that additional content (including a new dungeon, extra scenes and the Director's Cut opening movie) onto the US release of Shadow Hearts: Covenant, and provides English text for it.
Two editions are offered:
- Regular: the US game with its English voices plus the Director's Cut additions
- UnDub: the same, with the Japanese voice track used in cutscenes, battles and on-map story scenes, keeping English subtitles
An option also merges both discs into a single image so the game never asks for a disc change. Recent fixes cover a softlock in the boat scene, profile and party names for the new characters, and Japanese voices on battle results.
Good to know
The author states the patcher was built with heavy help from the Claude AI model and that the new English text is AI-translated, so expect rough spots; it is still an early 0.3 release.
Playing it
The patcher needs your own disc images of both the US Shadow Hearts: Covenant and the Japanese Shadow Hearts II Director's Cut; it rebuilds the patched discs from them following the instructions in the repository. Saves from the unpatched US game carry over.