Rainbow Cotton English translation
レインボーコットン
A complete English translation of Cotton's 3D Dreamcast outing, with subtitles on all 16 anime movies and redrawn stage graphics.
What's translated
Everything: in-game text, graphics and the story. The game tells its tale mostly through 16 animated movies with spoken Japanese, so the team transcribed the voices, translated them and added English subtitles to every one of them. Between stages the game shows illustrated descriptions of each region; the Japanese text was carefully removed from those images by hand and replaced with English.
The team
Derek Pascarella led the project, wrote the tools for the game's archive format and did most of the graphics. Natsume38 transcribed and translated the dialogue, Chanh Nguyen (Burntends) and Danthrax4 edited it, khikari rebuilt the region images, and Patrick "TraynoCo" Traynor subtitled the movies, with technical help from VincentNL, mrneo240 and esperknight. The same group earlier translated Sakura Wars: Columns 2.
Playing it
The patch comes in DCP format for Universal Dreamcast Patcher, which applies it to your own disc image of the Japanese release (GDI or CUE). The creators' official page has the instructions, the release notes and the source of their tools.