Super Hero Sakusen English translation
スーパーヒーロー作戦
A beta English patch for Banpresto's PlayStation crossover RPG Super Hero Sakusen, which teams up Gundam Wing, G Gundam, Ultraman, Kikaider and Space Sheriff heroes.
What's translated
The patch covers the full story script and event dialogue, battle conversations and menus, attack and weapon names, battle messages, the status and item screens, the options and the memory card save title. The staff roll headings and character names are translated, while staff names stay in Japanese.
Names follow the source shows and the Super Robot Wars series where possible, so fans will recognise Heero, Domon, Ingram and the rest.
How it was made
The script, the reverse engineering and the tools were produced with an AI model (Claude), with a human project lead choosing the terms and testing the builds. There hasn't been a full human proofread yet, so expect some rough lines; Japanese readers who want to help are invited to review.
Latest version
Version 0.5-beta fixes scenes where later speakers' lines were replaced by the first speaker's, repairs a handful of broken scenes, restores the timing of drawn-out shouts and translates the lines that were still missing. Since 0.4.1, English lines are no longer limited to the length of the Japanese.
What's left
Text inside the FMV videos, the title logo and the company names in the credits stay in Japanese.
Playing it
Apply the patch to the data track of your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the instructions on the GitHub page, and start a new game.