.hack//frägment English translation
ドットハック フラグメント · .hack//fragment
The fan community's combined English translation of .hack//frägment, the Japan-only online .hack game, with the whole story translated and a patcher that builds it onto your own disc image.
What it is
Several fans had worked on separate partial translations of .hack//frägment. This project, often called tellipatch, merges them: Princess Alice's and Vi Ness's text patches, Emuz's translated graphics and PLM's work, built into one English version of the game. The story has been fully translated since version 3.6, and the 2023 version 4.0 is billed as the definitive release of this patch line.
How it's applied
The patcher, maintained by vector, takes your own unmodified Japanese disc image, unpacks it, applies the translations and rebuilds it with ImgBurn on Windows; a Linux build exists too. It is meant for an original image only, so an already modified copy will fail its checks. Back up your save before playing offline with the patched game.
Credits
Translation and hacking by PLM, Princess Alice (Telli), Emuz, Nyao, vector, Vi Ness, Xithyl_kykori and others, with thanks to 1UP, Robert Coldbird and the Netslum community, which runs the fan servers for the game.
Where to get it
The patcher, notes and help are in the tellipatch thread on the Netslum forum. Princess Alice's older standalone releases are on her GitHub page.