Prisoner English translation

What's translated

All of the game's Japanese text has been translated by hand, and the game can be played from start to finish. Chapu did the hacking, the translation, the video work and the playtesting alone; it is only the second translation patch they have released. The game is very text-heavy, so a few typos may still be hiding in corners that are hard to reach.

Known quirks

The game shrinks the console's font with its own scaling routine, and making it work with narrow English letters leaves the odd one-pixel overlap between characters. Some lines can also leave a faint copy of their first letters at the right edge of the text box. Both are cosmetic, and showing each line at once with triangle or circle avoids the second one. Graphics with Japanese text use a custom compression that has not been cracked yet, so they are unchanged.

Playing it

The release is a PPF patch for your own copy of the Japanese disc, published on its Romhack Plaza entry. The full source used to build it is in Chapu's GitHub repository, which can also patch the game directly on Linux.