Star Ocean English translation
スターオーシャン
DeJap Translations' classic English patch for tri-Ace's first game, the Super Famicom Star Ocean, which pushed the console to its limits and never left Japan in that form.
What's translated
DeJap Translations put the whole game into English: the story, the dialogue in towns and in the field, the menus, items and skills, and the battle text. It was one of the best-known fan translations of its time, as the game's graphics compression chip had to be worked around before any text could be changed.
What's left
This original version leaves the opening introduction untranslated. Later fan patches in other languages, and an unfinished revised English version based on them, translate the intro and add fixes, but that revision was never finished or fully tested.
The game
Star Ocean mixes fantasy and science fiction: you start in a medieval village and end up following a starship crew through time. Battles happen in real time, and the item creation and Private Action systems that the series kept for decades started here.
Playing it
Version 1.0 is listed as fully playable. Apply the patch to your own copy of the Japanese cartridge, following the instructions on its romhacking.net page, which credits the team.