Heroes Phantasia English translation
ヒーローズファンタジア
A work-in-progress English patch for Heroes Phantasia, Bandai Namco's PSP crossover RPG with characters from Slayers, Darker than Black, s-CRY-ed, Blood+, Sgt. Frog and more.
What's translated
The Retro Trans team has the dialogue, the prologue, the menus, including the Brave and Equip screens, and the notices that appear when characters join translated, with a variable-width font for the English text. The project keeps researched glossaries so the names match each anime's established English terms.
Latest version
Version 0.1.62 fixes a crash after the second fight with Asuka Tachibana, when the party enters the World of Adloaz, and a similar risk in another joining notice. New build checks make sure every translated notice keeps the space the game reserves for it.
Work in progress
The team says plainly that human proofreading and full playtesting are still needed, and a number of dialogue layouts are still under review. The translation is flagged as machine translated with AI help, so the entry is tagged accordingly. Bug reports with save files are welcome on GitHub.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese UMD, following the instructions on the GitHub page, either by hand or with the team's own patching tool. Start from a normal in-game save, not an old save state, which keeps the old game data.