Mobile Suit Gundam: Climax U.C. English translation
機動戦士ガンダム クライマックスＵ．Ｃ． · Kidou Senshi Gundam: Climax U.C.
An early English patch from Retro Trans for the Japan-only Gundam action game, covering menus, briefings and the card gallery and adding subtitles to its voiced scenes.
What's translated
Version 0.8.0 is the first public release from Retro Trans, made by pow. It covers almost three thousand lines of game text (menus, help lines, mission briefings and intros, stage names, pilot histories and endings), a few hundred more strings inside the executable such as skills, factions and ranks, all 423 cards in the gallery and 178 images with Japanese writing.
Subtitles for the voices
The original game never shows its spoken lines on screen. The team transcribed more than two thousand voiced lines and the movie dialogue from the audio, translated them, and added a small routine that displays subtitles with the game's own text engine during tutorials, briefings, missions and cutscenes.
Still in Japanese: the series logos on two selection screens. The short shouts during battle are left untouched on purpose.
How it was made
The transcription used speech recognition and the translation relied on machine tools with review, so expect some rough edges. Most of the game has so far been checked with automated tests and a few spot checks in an emulator; playtesters and proofreaders are welcome.
Playing it
The patch is made for the Japanese release (SLPS-25627). Apply it to your own copy of the game following the instructions on the Retro Trans GitHub page, and start the patched game fresh instead of loading old save states.