Macross Ultimate Frontier English translation
マクロスアルティメットフロンティア
A work-in-progress English patch for the Macross flight-combat game on the PSP that also adds subtitles for the in-mission radio voices, which the original never had.
What's translated
The menus and help text, the descriptions of units, pilots and packs, the shop and records screens, the narration that opens and closes each era, mission briefings and objectives are in English, along with text drawn into textures (the official series logos are left alone). A proportional English font was added that stays sharp at higher emulator resolutions.
What's new
The original game shows no text for the radio chatter during missions; this patch adds English subtitles for it. Version 0.7.15 also adds draft English lyrics, most with romaji, for 29 songs that play during missions.
Work in progress
This is an early, machine-translated build that still needs proofreading and playtesting: only the start of the campaign has been checked in an emulator and most missions have not been played. Voices played outside missions are not subtitled, and long subtitles advance at even steps rather than following the speech.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own dump of the Japanese UMD, following the instructions in the official repository, which also points to the group's own patching tool. The patched game runs in PPSSPP or on a PSP with custom firmware. Project lead: pow, for Retro Trans.