Illusion of Gaia: Retranslated
ガイア幻想紀 · Gaia Gensouki · Illusion of Time
GaiaLabs' new English translation of Illusion of Gaia from the Japanese script, bundled with restored Japanese content, quality-of-life options and fixes.
What's new
The script is a fresh translation of the Japanese original, built on the translation L Thammy worked out in a 2020 forum Let's Play and expanded by the community since. Players can choose between the names of the North American release and the original Japanese ones. The text boxes have new borders that match each character, and later updates filled in many lines that were missing from earlier versions of the patch.
Around the translation, Azarem's GaiaLabs team has steadily added improvements: a sprint button, faster loading, an equipped-item display with hot-swapping, full-heal herbs as in the Japanese version, a faster pyramid elevator, the return of the Sky Deliveryman in the late game, a preliminary New Game Plus, MSU-1 music support and fixes for bugs from the original. Backgrounds, palettes and the animated title sequence of the Japanese release are restored, and a cut item has been put back in.
Work in progress
The game can be finished with the patch, but the team does not consider the retranslated script final until version 2.0. Many of the extras are optional: GaiaLabs' online ROM generator lets you switch them on or off and always has the latest fixes.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the North American cartridge, following the instructions on the GitHub page.