Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile English translation
七つの秘館 戦慄の微笑 · Nanatsu no Hikan: Senritsu no Bishou
A full English translation of Koei's cancelled-in-the-West Dreamcast horror adventure Seven Mansions, with subtitled videos, localized puzzles and VGA support.
What's translated
The whole game is in English: the script, the graphics, subtitles for the videos and for voiced lines that matter in play, the VMU screens and the memory card messages. Puzzles that depended on Japanese were reworked so they make sense to English speakers. SnowyAria translated the game and wrote the tools, Mr. Nobody did hacking plus image and video editing, and Cargodin and Blueskyrunner edited during playtesting.
Versions
Version 1.3 (December 2020) brought newly rendered videos with better audio, more reliable text highlighting, typo fixes and several visual fixes. Version 1.4 (May 2023) adds VGA support thanks to TapamN and Derek Pascarella, but runs only in VGA; for composite or S-video, use 1.3. Each comes with compressed cutscenes for burning to a disc or uncompressed ones for higher quality.
Playing it
Only the translated files are provided: you copy them into the extracted files of your own copy of the game and rebuild the disc image, following the instructions in the project's GitHub repository. It runs on original Dreamcast hardware.