Maken X: Director's Cut
A new English translation of the Dreamcast Maken X made from the Japanese script, which also brings back the Japanese voices, the cut lore compendium and the content censored in the Western release.
What's new
The roughly 1,500 unique lines of dialogue were retranslated from the original Japanese, and the 150 entries of the INFO compendium, removed from the English version, are translated and back in the menu. Character, skill and place names return to the originals, many of which refer to drinks, weapons and historical figures, and the real-world locations the West renamed get their real names again. The author states that no AI was used for the translation itself, only to help reverse engineer the game's formats and write tools.
Restored content
The Japanese voice track replaces the English dub, so it matches the new script. The Japanese world map menu, the original title screen, a cutscene at one stage entrance that the West cut entirely, height and weight on status screens, the intro subtitles and some camera movement effects are back. More than a hundred textures and several models that were censored are restored, along with original stage colours and blood effects. Typos and wrong stat displays were also fixed.
Playing it
The patch is a DCP file for Universal Dreamcast Patcher and is applied to your own copy of the North American Dreamcast release, following the instructions on the GameBanana page. It was tested in emulators and on real hardware. Note that the restored content includes nudity, blood and real-world religious and political symbols.
Credits
Translation and hacking by AspenVesper (Aspen); testing by Ravioli.