Birdcage of Horrors English translation
Grauen no Torikago · グラウエンの鳥籠
English subtitles for all six discs of Sega's Dreamcast horror film series Birdcage of Horrors, which also now play without the old online unlock.
What's translated
Derek Pascarella's patches subtitle every one of the 407 videos on the six discs in English: the drama's chapters, the bonus clips, extra footage and interviews. The playback software's menus, logo and messages and the title screens are in English too, and each disc gets a new VMU icon.
What's new
The original discs refused to play episodes unless a save file downloaded from Sega's servers sat on the VMU. The patch removes that lock, so each chapter works on its own. Version 1.2 (October 2024) fixes typos found since the first release.
Playing it
There is one patch per disc, applied to your own disc images with Universal Dreamcast Patcher as the README explains. The result is meant for optical drive emulators and emulators; the project offers no CD-R version.
Credits: Derek Pascarella (hacking, graphics, subtitle editing); the main videos were transcribed and translated by an anonymous translator whose subtitles HaydenKow provided; T_chan transcribed and Walnut translated the interviews.