Pandora Max Series Vol. 6: Oni Zero: Fukkatsu English translation
パンドラMAXシリーズ Vol.6 鬼零 ～復活～ · Oni Zero: Fukkatsu
A complete English patch for the sixth Pandora MAX game, with every line, menu and roughly 780 on-screen images translated, and the cross-game save requirement removed.
What's translated
The story, the menus, items, skills, enemy names and the roster of gods are all in English, along with notices, request sheets, fan letters and the prologue video, which gets subtitles. About 780 images with on-screen text were redrawn. A few debug menus and some brush calligraphy stay in Japanese, and honorifics are not used.
Other changes
The original game opens by asking for saves from five other Pandora MAX titles. The patch skips that screen and makes the five requests tied to those saves always available, adding the one item they used to give to the starting inventory. The hero is always named Shiroumaru, whatever you type at the start.
Under the hood
English needed two to three times the space the Japanese text had, so the team built a layer that stores the English compactly on the disc and expands it at the moment the game reads a line, leaving the game's own text engine untouched. The patch was played from New Game to the credits in DuckStation; real hardware hasn't been tested.
Playing it
Apply the xdelta patch to your own single-track image of the Japanese disc with the included helper, following the steps on the project's GitHub page.
Translation by redditusernameunavailable.