The Legend of Xanadu English translation
風の伝説ザナドゥ · Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu
A full, human-made English translation of Falcom's PC Engine CD action RPG The Legend of Xanadu, with the game recompressed so the English text still fits.
What's translated
The whole game is in English: dialogue, cutscene subtitles, shops and menus. The team stresses that no AI translation or AI-written code was used. To make room for the longer text, the patching program unpacks Falcom's files, applies the changes and repacks everything with a tighter compression method.
Extras
The project's wiki has a history of the game and an English version of the manual, and the team says a translation of The Legend of Xanadu II is on the way.
Playing it
You need a Redump-style rip of your own Japanese CD. Put it in the folder the patcher expects and run it, following the instructions on the GitLab page linked here; there is a ready-made Windows patcher. The result plays on PC Engine or TurboGrafx-16 hardware, on emulators such as MesenCE and Geargrafx, and on MiSTer. Credit goes to John Brandwood and the translation team.