Lupin III: Umi ni Kieta Hihou English translation
ルパン三世 海に消えた秘宝 · Lupin the Third: Lost Treasure Under the Sea
DOL-Translations' complete English patch for Asmik Ace's Lupin III visual novel on GameCube, with translated menus and save data and subtitles on Disc 2's video.
What's translated
All dialogue and menus are in English, along with the save data, and the video on the second disc has English subtitles burned in, so the patched game also works on real hardware. The project picks up an early translation by Peter Lemon from around 2016; Radianthero restarted it years later under DOL-Translations, and version 1.0.0 completed it in August 2024. Version 1.0.1, from May 2025, revises the first chapter, fixes typos and spacing and adds a new English title logo.
Good to know
Chapters 1 to 6 were translated by volunteers (Bingokemski, Cindi, Jebbi), while the end of chapter 6 and chapters 7 and 8 started as machine translation and were then proofread; the team hopes to have them redone by a translator. The History screen needs a Gecko code, included with the patch, to show text with spaces properly.
Playing it
The patches, one per disc, are applied to your own copies of the two Japanese discs, following the instructions in the project's GitHub repository. Programming by Radianthero and NewGBAXL; proofreading by NewGBAXL, Mashedmonk, Arhkma_Muddykipz and Muttvil.