Shining Ark English translation
シャイニング・アーク
A machine translation of Sega's Japan-only Shining Ark for the PSP, made with Google Translate by Gil Unx: rough, but enough to follow the story and menus.
What's translated
Gil Unx extracted the game's script and ran it through Google Translate, then inserted the result back into the game. Dialogue and the text stored in the game's data files are in English. Expect the usual quirks of machine translation: awkward phrasing, odd word choices and the occasional confusing line.
Some strings were left in Japanese. Text inside the game's main executable uses a mix of pointer layouts that the creator chose not to deal with, so a few messages and labels coming from there are still untranslated.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese PSP game, following the creator's instructions. The creator's GitHub repository holds the scripts and tools used to unpack, translate and rebuild the game's files.