Snatcher English translation
スナッチャー
The first English patch for the PC Engine CD version of Kojima's Snatcher, translating all dialogue, menus and speaker names with a new proportional font.
What's translated
All 6,753 lines of dialogue and narration are in English, together with the command menus, the Gaudi computer, the save menus and the speaker names. A new proportional font fits about 30 letters on each row, so lines read naturally instead of being squeezed into the original's wide characters. The project's translation notes list the places where the English departs from a literal reading.
Three things stay in Japanese: text that is part of the artwork, the ending credits and the puzzles where you type an answer in katakana. For those puzzles the English hints tell you what to enter.
Why this version
Until now the only way to play Snatcher in English was the Sega CD release. This patch lets you play the PC Engine original, the version the Sega CD port was based on, in English for the first time.
Playing it
The patch is made for the game files as they come on the PC Engine Mini and CoreGrafx Mini, which you dump from your own console. It checks the data track before changing anything, and you play the result in an emulator such as Mednafen with a System Card 3.0 BIOS. The steps are on the project page.
Credits
Translation and hacking by viruztt.
Found via github.com