Kamaitachi no Yoru English translation
かまいたちの夜 · The Night of the Sickle Weasel
ButThouMust's hand-made English translation of Chunsoft's Super Famicom sound novel Kamaitachi no Yoru, a snowbound murder mystery with many endings.
What's translated
ButThouMust translated and hacked the whole game: the story text, the file and name entry screens and the menus, with a new English font and redrawn opening and ending credits (graphics by FCC and FredArtz). Only the title logo and one graphic that recreates another Chunsoft game's title screen stay in Japanese. The author states that no generative AI was used at any stage.
Why it matters
This is the first English translation of the original Super Famicom release, which has photo backgrounds, character silhouettes and details that later versions changed. The repository also holds the tools and notes used to build the patch.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese game, following the instructions in the creator's repository linked here.