Another Century's Episode 3: The Final English translation
アナザーセンチュリーズエピソード3 ザ ファイナル · A.C.E. 3
Retro Trans' English patch for the final PS2 A.C.E. game translates the menus, missions and battle chatter and adds English subtitles to the movies, through an LLM translation that was then reviewed.
What's translated
The patch puts the menus and help, the encyclopedia, unit and pilot names, abilities and support details, command lists, mission and story dialogue, battle shouts and the branching Situation Reports into English. Movies get English subtitles, including the prologue and late-game dialogue scenes, and the opening song is captioned in both romaji and English. The staff credits, the credits dialogue and the ending disclaimer are covered as well, and new HD fonts are built in.
How it was made
This is a machine translation made with large language models, then reviewed against scene context and a researched glossary of names and terms; voice-only lines were transcribed before translation. The team is still looking for proofreaders and playtesters, and a few staff-name readings and lyric lines are marked as uncertain. Version 0.9.20 fills in missed text in two of the extra missions and tidies the deployment and options screens.
Playing it
The xdelta patch is applied to your own image of the original Japanese disc, either with the group's Retro Trans patching app or by hand; the steps are on the project's GitHub page. Start the patched game fresh and load a memory card save rather than an old save state.
Project lead: pow. Playtesting: SecondarySebs, BlackHowling and QiyoShiro.