Taiko Risshiden IV English translation
太閤立志伝IV · Taikou Risshiden IV
A machine-translated English patch for Koei's Japan-only samurai career simulator on PS2. All of the text is in English, but only the opening hours have been tested in play.
What's translated
The patch puts every piece of text in the game into English: town and job dialogue, councils, duels, battles and mini games, help pages, item and card descriptions, every officer biography and the roughly 27,500 lines of story events. Names of 735 officers, castles, provinces and court titles are romanised with macrons. Menu graphics such as the title menu, tabs, facility signs and battle labels are redrawn with a new proportional English font, and new officers can be named with an English letter grid.
Before you play
The author is upfront that the whole script was translated by an AI model and not checked by a fluent Japanese speaker, so expect odd wording and inconsistent terms; corrections are welcome. It is also a beta: only the start of one career has been played, and most story events, real battles and the later game have not been seen in play yet. Some long names are shortened to fit their boxes.
Playing it
It is applied to your own copy of the Japanese disc, following the steps on the project page. The patch expects the original PlayStation 2 CD release (SLPM-62105) as a BIN/CUE image and was developed with PCSX2.
Credits
Translation and hacking by damon-daemon.
Found via github.com