Another Century's Episode English translation
アナザーセンチュリーズエピソード
Retro Trans's English patch for the first Another Century's Episode translates the missions, briefings, menus and textures, and adds English captions to all of the story movies.
What's translated
Menus, help, unit and pilot names, mission objectives, briefings and in-mission dialogue are in English, along with the Terminology database, the interface textures and fonts, the opening news broadcast, the ending epilogue and the staff credits. The 22 story movies get English title cards and subtitles drawn during playback, the theme song has romaji karaoke and English lyrics, and the original Japanese audio is kept everywhere.
How it was made
The text started as a machine translation made with large language models, then was reviewed and edited with scene context and a researched glossary. pow led the project, and BlackHowling and QiyoShiro playtested the game through. Along the way the patch also fixes a mission that could not be finished, raises some text drawing limits and smooths movie playback.
Version 0.9.0
This update captions Relena's speech in Mission 30, applies a round of editor revisions and tidies several labels.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the instructions on the GitHub page. Boot the patched game fresh rather than from an old save state.