Play Novel: Silent Hill English translation
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An early English (and Russian) translation of the Japan-only Game Boy Advance Silent Hill text adventure, with its own open-source tools.
What it is
07151129 built a tool to take apart and rebuild the scripts of Play Novel: Silent Hill and used it to make English and Russian translations. Version 0.1, the first release, came out in January 2021 and already carries the story scenarios.
Known issues
The creator lists what is still rough in this first version: some chapter names and save-loading texts don't fit, a few fixed strings may be untranslated, there is no proofreading yet, the script's wait commands are missing and the backlog or load menu may show glitched letters.
Playing it
Apply the patch for your language to your own copy of the Japanese Game Boy Advance cartridge, following the instructions on the project's GitHub page, which also holds the source of the tools for anyone who wants to add a translation.