Vampir: Kyuuketsuki Densetsu English translation
ヴァンピール 吸血鬼伝説 · Vampir: Vampire Legend
Retro Trans has put all the text of Artdink's Japan-only vampire action RPG into English, with a new variable-width font and redrawn English graphics.
What's translated
Version 0.6.0 is the first public release from Retro Trans, credited to binhlt0402 and contributors. Every line of text in the game is in English: the conversations with villagers in all three stages, the story scenes, the menus and status screens, memory card screens and name entry. You can now type a name of up to eight Latin letters.
What's new
- A crisp variable-width font drawn by the game's own text routine, built from a high-resolution texture so it stays sharp on upscaling emulators.
- Redrawn English graphics for the title logo, opening subtitles, a poem in the story, the menu and status buttons, the nightfall save prompt and the credits.
- Memory card saves get readable English titles.
How it was made
The team says this is a machine translation made with large language models and then edited, not the work of a fluent human translator.
Status
All the text is in, but only the opening hours (through the first town by day and night and the start of the second stage) have been checked in play. The later stages and the endings still need testers, and the team welcomes bug reports and proofreading.
Playing it
The patch is made for the Japanese release (SLPS-01932) and changes only the first track of the disc. Apply it to your own copy following the instructions on the Retro Trans GitHub page. Save states don't carry across versions; memory card saves do.