Sora no Woto: Otome no Gojuusou English translation
ソ・ラ・ノ・ヲ・ト 乙女の五重奏 · Sound of the Sky: Quintet of Maidens
okaysubs's complete English patch for the Sora no Woto PSP visual novel, with subtitled intro movies and an English interface, playable on real hardware.
What's translated
All of the visual novel's dialogue, more than 16,000 lines, is in English, along with the menus and other graphics. The intro and opening movies were subtitled, and the patch makes the PSP show the English interface when the game runs. The group released the patch under the English title Sound of the Sky: Quintet of Maidens.
How it was made
okaysubs formed in 2013 with this game as its first project. Rather than relying on a text hooker, the team reverse-engineered the game's custom image, script and font formats so the translation would also run on a real PSP; translation took around eight months and editing roughly twenty more, followed by months of community testing. The group published the source code of its tools on GitHub. Version 1.0 came out on May 6, 2016.
Playing it
The patch is applied to an ISO made from your own copy of the game, using the group's patcher or the xdelta file, following the instructions on the project page. The result runs on a PSP, a PS Vita or PPSSPP; the intro video needs PSP firmware 6.20 or newer.