Macross Ace Frontier English translation
マクロスエースフロンティア
Retro Trans' beta English patch for Artdink's first PSP Macross game covers the menus and mission text and adds English subtitles to the radio chatter.
What's translated
The menus, help text and system messages are in English, along with the descriptions of units, weapons and pilots, skills, titles and the sound test. Each era's opening and closing narration, the mission titles, briefings, objectives and tutorial lines are translated, as is text drawn into textures such as buttons, HUD banners and mission title cards, while the official series logos stay as they are. The in-mission radio voice, which had no text in the original, now gets English subtitles. A proportional English font with a high-resolution glyph page stays sharp when PPSSPP renders at higher resolutions.
How it was made
This is a machine translation flagged as AI-assisted and still in beta. Much of the work, including the glossary, font patch, texture redraws and subtitle system, was carried over from the team's translation of the sequel, Macross Ultimate Frontier, which runs on the same engine.
Playing it
Apply the xdelta patch to your own image of the original Japanese UMD (the v1.02 release; the PSP the Best reprint isn't supported yet), either with the Retro Trans app or by hand, following the project's GitHub page. The patched image runs in PPSSPP or on custom firmware, not on official firmware.
Translation by Retro Trans.