Mega Man Legends English translation
ロックマンDASH 鋼の冒険心 · Rockman DASH: Hagane no Boukenshin
A patcher that turns the Japanese PSP port of Mega Man Legends into an English game, using the US PlayStation script, voices and textures from your own discs, with subtitle and widescreen HUD options.
What it does
Instead of a new translation, this project carries the official US localization over to the PSP port. The patcher reads your own copies of the American PlayStation release and the Japanese PSP release and builds an English PSP game: dialogue and menus come from the US script, the English voice acting is converted to the PSP's audio format, and textures with writing are swapped for the US ones. The PSP version's cutscene subtitles are shown in English and timed to the English voices. The few PSP-only lines were reviewed one by one.
Options
You can keep Japanese voices with English text, add the English audio, or go all the way to the Mega Man Legends title screen, icon and save name. Other toggles cover the subtitles, their language, a dark band behind them, and whether the dog can be kicked as in the Japanese release. In wide screen mode the HUD is drawn at its correct proportions, switchable in the options screen.
Playing it
The patcher runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and needs both games, following the instructions on the project page. It was tested in PPSSPP and on a PSP Go.
Credits
Patcher by AshuSP (JamesAZ0).