Tricolore Crise English translation
トリコロールクライシス · Torikorōru Kuraishisu
A full English patch for Victor Interactive's Dreamcast RPG, covering the whole story script plus redrawn menus and status screens that also work on real hardware.
What's translated
The patch covers the entire event script, more than eleven thousand unique lines spread over about fifteen thousand spots on the disc, along with the system text and the battle interface. Several image-based screens were redrawn in English inside the disc itself: the title menu, the Options screen, system message panels and the status and magic screens for the three heroes and their familiars. Because these edits live on the disc, the English interface works on a real Dreamcast as well as in emulators.
A handful of logos, splash screens and portrait name tags still show Japanese, and the name-entry grids stay Japanese on purpose since they are input tables.
How it was made
The translation was produced with closedsockets' own Dreamcast Translation Kit, an AI-friendly scripted workflow, and the release notes say it will step aside if a human translation appears. Version 1.0.2 fills in a batch of strings missed earlier and revises over a thousand lines to make names, places and terms consistent.
Playing it
The patch is applied to the data track of your own copy of the Japanese disc; follow the instructions on closedsockets' GitHub page, which offers both a BPS patch and a JSON patch with a small Windows helper.
Translation and patch by closedsockets.