hello all. i've been working on an english translation of Koukidou Gensou Gunparade March, the 2000 Alfa System game. if you've never played it, it's part school life sim, part tactical mech game. you're a student pilot in a war against the genjyu (or phantom beasts), and everyone in your class has a life of their own.
the current playtest build is GPM-EN60.1. it only includes lines that have been translated AND edited, so the game isn't fully playable in english yet. right now that covers the opening hours of the game, about 1,200 lines. menus are in english. the rest of the story and small talk, plus item names and descriptions, is still japanese and gets filled in as the work goes on. new builds every couple of days (possibly longer).
previous builds used placeholder text for testing purposes. the placeholder text has been stripped from the patch and that will be the standard for builds EN60+.
around 10% of the game text has been translated, edited and is live in game. the menu, the ui, and some small talk and story segments are in english.
At current pace the project will be complete in around 3-5 months.
there are some original game bugs (that are not caused by the patch), that i plan to fix once im finished. the story is not translated up to most of these segments. but logging these now so they can be avoided by players as the patch nears completion.
And if you can read Japanese or can edit English to a fluent level, id be happy to have the help!
playing as hayami, if mai's events move too fast, the kumamoto castle battle can happen before your first sortie. characters show up grey and the fight is unwinnable.
workaround: don't push mai's events until the whole platoon has joined.
if you're the unit 3 pilot with no partner (dead or just transferred) when a drop battle comes up, things break afterwards (your character turns into a "ghost") and you can't continue.
workaround: decline the brigadier general's offer to join the drop battle.
playing as hayami, the "relationships explained" event with takigawa freezes if it fires right after you change the shikon's equipment.
workaround: don't talk to takigawa after an equipment change until that event has passed.
playing as hayami, the strategy meeting screen freezes if an npc's meeting proposal passes before the whole platoon has joined.
workaround: vote those proposals down until everyone's there. if one passes, reset.
the strategy meeting screen freezes if the class president or vice-president is suspended and can't attend.
workaround: don't hold meetings while either of them is suspended, or fill their spot through a petition.
there's also a hidden mode that lets you play as any of the 22 students. it was hidden because it was never properly tested, and it is buggy.
You will need your own disc image of the japanese release, single-track bin/cue. it has to match this dump:
Size : 440,372,016 bytes
CRC32 : B867C065
MD5 : 66709F78ABFDC5A4CC40A8A47C274441
SHA-1 : 1FD53D0FCDC2D9C8FA61E5640206B78A5E0ED0ED
the patch is an xdelta. delta patcher or rom patcher js both work fine. the patch contains no game data.
if something breaks in the english sections, send me a screenshot and the build number on discord. use memory card saves, not save states - states from older builds can break.
if you'd like to help with the effort.
discord: https://discord.gg/xcyEFG4YG8
download the patch directly from github here: https://github.com/phukyes/Gunparade-March-English/releases/tag/EN60
the current playtest build is GPM-EN60.1. it only includes lines that have been translated AND edited, so the game isn't fully playable in english yet. right now that covers the opening hours of the game, about 1,200 lines. menus are in english. the rest of the story and small talk, plus item names and descriptions, is still japanese and gets filled in as the work goes on. new builds every couple of days (possibly longer).
previous builds used placeholder text for testing purposes. the placeholder text has been stripped from the patch and that will be the standard for builds EN60+.
around 10% of the game text has been translated, edited and is live in game. the menu, the ui, and some small talk and story segments are in english.
At current pace the project will be complete in around 3-5 months.
there are some original game bugs (that are not caused by the patch), that i plan to fix once im finished. the story is not translated up to most of these segments. but logging these now so they can be avoided by players as the patch nears completion.
And if you can read Japanese or can edit English to a fluent level, id be happy to have the help!
playing as hayami, if mai's events move too fast, the kumamoto castle battle can happen before your first sortie. characters show up grey and the fight is unwinnable.
workaround: don't push mai's events until the whole platoon has joined.
if you're the unit 3 pilot with no partner (dead or just transferred) when a drop battle comes up, things break afterwards (your character turns into a "ghost") and you can't continue.
workaround: decline the brigadier general's offer to join the drop battle.
playing as hayami, the "relationships explained" event with takigawa freezes if it fires right after you change the shikon's equipment.
workaround: don't talk to takigawa after an equipment change until that event has passed.
playing as hayami, the strategy meeting screen freezes if an npc's meeting proposal passes before the whole platoon has joined.
workaround: vote those proposals down until everyone's there. if one passes, reset.
the strategy meeting screen freezes if the class president or vice-president is suspended and can't attend.
workaround: don't hold meetings while either of them is suspended, or fill their spot through a petition.
there's also a hidden mode that lets you play as any of the 22 students. it was hidden because it was never properly tested, and it is buggy.
You will need your own disc image of the japanese release, single-track bin/cue. it has to match this dump:
Size : 440,372,016 bytes
CRC32 : B867C065
MD5 : 66709F78ABFDC5A4CC40A8A47C274441
SHA-1 : 1FD53D0FCDC2D9C8FA61E5640206B78A5E0ED0ED
the patch is an xdelta. delta patcher or rom patcher js both work fine. the patch contains no game data.
if something breaks in the english sections, send me a screenshot and the build number on discord. use memory card saves, not save states - states from older builds can break.
if you'd like to help with the effort.
discord: https://discord.gg/xcyEFG4YG8
download the patch directly from github here: https://github.com/phukyes/Gunparade-March-English/releases/tag/EN60
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