Macross Triangle Frontier English translation
マクロストライアングルフロンティア
A work-in-progress English patch for the third PSP Macross action game, already covering the menus, mission briefings and the whole Academy campus mode, with new subtitles for the radio chatter.
What's translated
The menus, help text, system messages and the descriptions of units, weapons, pilots and operators are in English, along with skills, titles, the shop and the records screens. Mission titles, briefings, objectives and the era narration are translated too. The Academy mode, with roughly 24,500 lines of campus events and friendship scenes, is fully covered; it keeps the Japanese honorifics. Text drawn into textures, such as menus, HUD banners and mission title cards, has been redrawn, while the official series logos stay as they are.
What's new
The in-mission radio voices had no text at all in the original game, so the patch adds English subtitles for them. A new proportional font keeps the text sharp when PPSSPP renders at higher resolutions.
How it was made
Retro Trans built this on the tools, glossary, font and subtitle system from its patches for Macross Ultimate Frontier and Macross Ace Frontier, which run on the same engine. The translation is machine-assisted.
Playing it
This is beta version 0.1.25 and work continues. The patch targets version 1.01 of the Japanese UMD; apply it to your own copy following the instructions on the project page, which also links the group's patching tool.