Night Slave English translation
ナイト・スレイブ
A full English patch for Night Slave, the PC-98 mech shooter, with new tools behind it that translate both the story text and the game's graphics.
What's translated
This patch by BabaJeanmel, Valley Bell and Kirinn B covers the story dialogue, the in-mission messages and the game's graphic text such as the weapon select screen. Valley Bell and Kirinn B decrypted the executables and built tools to extract and reinsert the script and to convert the graphics, and the game now shows English text natively, so it also runs on real hardware.
An older partial translation from another group existed, but it relied on a text hack that broke play on original machines and left graphics in Japanese; this release replaces it completely.
About the game
Night Slave mixes fast side-scrolling shooting, dashing and thruster jumps in the style of the Assault Suits games with anime cutscenes and an FM soundtrack. The game is for adults.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the PC-98 game following the instructions on BabaJeanmel's project page. Translation by BabaJeanmel, hacking and tools by Valley Bell and Kirinn B.