Battle Gear 3 English translation
バトルギア3
A texture-replacement translation for PCSX2 that puts the menus, garage and help text of Taito's mountain-pass racer Battle Gear 3 into English.
What's translated
Battle Gear 3 draws nearly all of its text as images, so instead of a classic patch this project replaces the game's textures with English versions while it runs in the PCSX2 emulator. Every offline part of the game is covered: the main menu, Main Race, Time Attack, the garage and car customisation, versus splitscreen, options and the controller layout, plus the help lines at the bottom of the screen. The lettering uses Helvetica-style fonts to match the English the game already had. The one known leftover is the track name shown at the start of Main Race battles, and the online mode, which no longer works, was not translated.
Playing it
This is version 1.0.0. Put the texture folder in PCSX2's textures folder and turn on texture replacement with one of the hardware renderers, following ludusregard's instructions on the project page. Main Race asks for a registration ID and password that originally came printed in the manual; the project page gives a working pair. The author also suggests remapping the triggers for throttle and brake on modern controllers.
Building on it
The author invites others to reuse the work, and other English releases of the game have been built on top of it.