I was about to play this game after leaving it sitting around for so long when I suddenly remembered games like this tend to have menu text in their executable. It was true, so I got to work on it just so the game's easier to navigate. I was gonna write everything out in full‑width, then I tried half‑width just to see what happens and saw this game has a (only kinda ugly) font support for it. At that point, I really felt the motivation and here we are now.
That sounded cool to say, but this is just a simple menu translation. The game is very easy to navigate now, but a big chunk of details like mission and skill descriptions, as well as the dialog itself, cannot be edited because they are in a compressed VFS archive file. I hope someone else gets inspired by this awesome game and can pick up where I left off (and maybe fix my own translation, I'm sure some of my choices are off the mark). While a lot of things couldn't be edited, I did put in a bit of effort to translate the other menu stuff anyway. These can be found inside the "Extra Translations" folder in the download. You will want to read those after playing the game a bit to better understand special moves and some mid-game Challenge scenarios.
Also, the half‑width font doesn't condense well at native resolution. At least a 2x resolution in PCSX2 will improve readability of squished texts, but only if you turn off Manual Hardware Fixes in the game's Rendering properties (a recent update made a sweeping fix to all Sandlot games and it doesn't look so great here).
This patch was built off an ISO with a CRC32 of 7FC33BA7.
The data track's CRC is C7589551.
Should be compatible with real hardware, but I don't have a way to burn it back onto the PS2 myself.
Download mirror (on MediaFire, watch for ads):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lcqgz2ig6zo0ty2/T28Gou_English_Menus.7z/file
Images and main download should be in attachments:
That sounded cool to say, but this is just a simple menu translation. The game is very easy to navigate now, but a big chunk of details like mission and skill descriptions, as well as the dialog itself, cannot be edited because they are in a compressed VFS archive file. I hope someone else gets inspired by this awesome game and can pick up where I left off (and maybe fix my own translation, I'm sure some of my choices are off the mark). While a lot of things couldn't be edited, I did put in a bit of effort to translate the other menu stuff anyway. These can be found inside the "Extra Translations" folder in the download. You will want to read those after playing the game a bit to better understand special moves and some mid-game Challenge scenarios.
Also, the half‑width font doesn't condense well at native resolution. At least a 2x resolution in PCSX2 will improve readability of squished texts, but only if you turn off Manual Hardware Fixes in the game's Rendering properties (a recent update made a sweeping fix to all Sandlot games and it doesn't look so great here).
This patch was built off an ISO with a CRC32 of 7FC33BA7.
The data track's CRC is C7589551.
Should be compatible with real hardware, but I don't have a way to burn it back onto the PS2 myself.
Download mirror (on MediaFire, watch for ads):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lcqgz2ig6zo0ty2/T28Gou_English_Menus.7z/file
Images and main download should be in attachments:
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