Snatcher English translation
スナッチャー
A full English translation of the voiced 1996 PlayStation version of Kojima's cyberpunk adventure, with subtitles for the spoken lines, an English keyboard for the typed puzzles and an optional uncensored variant.
What's translated
pepa's patch covers the whole PlayStation script, all 39 scenes from New Game to the ending: conversations, Gaudi's database, menus, verbs, items and locations. Almost all of the spoken lines get subtitles drawn in the game's own dialogue box and timed to the voices, including the opening narration and newsreel. The keyboard shows Latin letters, so name searches, passwords and the videophone work in English, and the memo pages, disclaimer, credits and the intro's on-screen captions were redrawn.
Names follow the Japanese release, so they match what the actors say (Randam Hajile, Dr. Madnar). The Sega CD localisation served only as a reference for terms and tone; the PlayStation text, with its extra scenes, was translated on its own.
How it was made
The first draft was machine translated, then the script was retranslated at full length and reviewed line by line by the author, who rewrote most lines along the way. Subtitle timing came from speech recognition over the Japanese audio, checked by hand.
Versions
Two patches are offered: translation only, or with the PlayStation's greyed-out and mosaicked pictures restored from unused art on the disc. Saves work with both. The same project also covers the Saturn and PC Engine CD releases, and the author considers the Saturn one the best-looking.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own dump of the Japanese disc as explained on the project page.