Translation [Release] Bakemonogatari Portable English Patch

[PhantomGhost]

Released for the PSP in 2012, Bakemonogatari Portable is a self-titled “crazy mad delusional drama” featuring a 3D world which lovingly captures the unique feel of the anime.

Whoever said talk is cheap obviously hasn’t seen this game, where words become weapons as you face off against opponents in fast-paced dialogue battles.



Relive the first season of the anime in story mode, or pit your favorite characters head-to-head in freeplay battles.

Download:
Patch Download
Usage Guide

Tool:
If you’re interested in knowing more about the hacking specifics or translating the game into another language, the source code & compiled program covering both text and image extraction/repacking can be found on Github.

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Credits:
Hacking
Illidan

Translation
Phantom

Proofreading
Haribeau

We hope you enjoy!

 

[Deleted member 578956]

Neato

 

[Gattorie]

Naisu!

I knew this game existed, but I would never have expected a translation.

 

[PhantomGhost]

It is the kind of game where you can see why they never attempted to localize it officially! It gave us a fair amount of trouble figuring out what to do with the vertical text and hardsubbed cutscenes, but we hope you'll enjoy the results

 

[wzq121]

Hello, thank you very much for your tool. We are currently making a patch for this game but have encountered difficulties. The game textures made with Photoshop cannot display the translucent effect correctly after being imported into the game. How should this problem be solved?

 

[PhantomGhost]

@wzq121 Hi! So cool to see that you're making a patch for this game

Yeah, I remember this game having a lot of issues with semi-transparent images It was mostly trial and error in Photoshop for my part. If you'd like, I can PM you my .psd files with all my settings so you can use those?

 

[wzq121]

@wzq121 Hi! So cool to see that you're making a patch for this game

Yeah, I remember this game having a lot of issues with semi-transparent images It was mostly trial and error in Photoshop for my part. If you'd like, I can PM you my .psd files with all my settings so you can use those?

That's really great, I'm very grateful. Please be sure to share a copy with me.

 

[wzq121]

Sorry, I encountered a problem. In PSD files, the vertical English texts are all upside down. When I change them to Chinese characters, the Chinese characters also end up facing downwards. How can I change the font direction to normal?

 

[PhantomGhost]

If you rotate the text 90° counterclockwise and hit the "toggle text orientation" button, you'll be able to type vertically (You will have to re-align the start of the text back to where it's supposed to be, though)

 

[wzq121]

If you rotate the text 90° counterclockwise and hit the "toggle text orientation" button, you'll be able to type vertically (You will have to re-align the start of the text back to where it's supposed to be, though)

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Oh, I see. I thought there was a setting that could change the angle of the font.