Germs: Nerawareta Machi English translation
ジャーム～狙われた街～ · Jāmu: Nerawareta Machi
An AI-assisted English translation of KAJ's Japan-only first-person horror adventure, with a proper half-width font in place of the stretched full-width text of an earlier patch, plus optional twin-stick analog controls.
What's translated
Version 1.0 covers practically the whole game: the story, the dialogue, menus, item and map text and the narration. Only the memory card save title is kept in Japanese, by choice. The pictures that carry text, such as the mails and screens on the in-game computer and several menus, were redrawn in English.
This translation was made with AI. The author says so openly and adds that they then went over nearly every line by hand to keep the tone consistent.
What's new
- Half-width font. The patch adds its own narrow 8x16 font, so English no longer runs across wide Japanese character cells as it did in the earlier translation.
- Twin-stick controls. With a DualShock-type pad switched to analog mode, the left stick walks and strafes and the right stick turns and looks up or down. In the car the left stick steers, with face buttons for gas, brake and reverse. The original digital controls still work.
- Faster narration in the opening and the ending.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese PlayStation release (a bin/cue dump of the disc), following the instructions on the project page. It was tested in DuckStation; real hardware has not been tried. For the stick controls, set the controller to DualShock and press the Analog button (the mode resets when a save state is loaded).
Translation, font and control mod by hiddenblur. Instructions, notes and the translation tools are on the project's GitHub page.
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