Yaku: Yuujou Dangi English translation
厄 友情談疑 · Misfortune: A Story of Suspicious Friendships
A full English translation of the cult PlayStation horror adventure Yaku: Yuujou Dangi, renamed Misfortune: A Story of Suspicious Friendships, with the script and the signs in the movies translated.
What's translated
The whole script is in English, and the signs that appear in the full-motion video scenes were edited too. The game's password system was hacked so it works with the translation. The team gave the game an English title, Misfortune: A Story of Suspicious Friendships.
How it was made
Chapu did the hacking. Every scene in the game is its own script file, which made the text easy to pull out, but the English often ran longer than the Japanese, so the disc is rebuilt instead of patched in place. The font routine was rewritten to draw two half-width letters where the game expected one Japanese character, which gives proper narrow English text. whowasphone404 translated, SuperRetroPolygons handled images and video, and both proofread and playtested, with help from Aria, PSXCraver, blamerobots and esperknight.
Latest version
Version 1.1 fixes typos and small mistakes reported by players.
Playing it
The team suggests skipping the Zapping feature and playing each character's route one after another. The GitHub repository holds the full patching code; build the English version from your own copy of the Japanese disc following its instructions.