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Boku no Natsuyasumi English translation

ぼくのなつやすみ · My Summer Vacation

An English patch for the PlayStation original of Boku no Natsuyasumi, translating every conversation, the picture diary and encyclopedias, and subtitling the movies and songs.

Boku's family arriving at the uncle's house, with English dialogue under the scene
Boku's family arriving at the uncle's house, with English dialogue under the scene 1 / 6

What's translated

Jay McCarthy's patch covers every conversation across the 31 days of summer, the menus and the names of things. Images containing writing were redrawn in English: the picture diary, the insect and kite encyclopedias, the title menu, buttons, records and signs. The narrated movies, the theme song, the five endings and other voice-only lines get English subtitles, while the Japanese voices are deliberately kept. Nothing was shortened to fit.

The translation was made with the help of an AI model, and the project page explains how and why.

Playing it

Dump your own copy of the Japanese disc, check it against the checksum given with the release, and apply the xdelta patch; DuckStation users can also load a PPF version on the fly. Each release has step-by-step instructions.

Translation by Jay McCarthy.

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