Game Version: ------------ This is intended for use with the Steam version of Lunatic Dawn: Passage of the Book, available here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/335420 This may work with the downloadable version for sale on Artdink's webpage. I don't think it works with the old disc versions, though. Please don't pirate the game -- it's actively being sold, and Artdink and Degica are cool. What This Patch Does: -------------------- This patch translates the menus, menu graphics, and (hopefully) all in-game text into English. This does NOT circumvent any copyright protection mechanisms that may be in place. Installation: ------------ 1. Copy the contents of this zip file into the main Lunatic Dawn: Passage of the Book folder. 2. Run ld95_patcher.bat 3. That should be everything you need to do. 4. Start LD95_e.exe (Not the original LD95.exe!). You may need to use Microsft AppLocale (or something comparable). Keyboard Movement ----------------- You can use the keyboard to move in dungeons now. Arrow keys move. . (period) waits. x examines. To use this, make sure the mouse cursor is not hovering over the main dungeon window. If it's over the dungeon window, it thinks you're moving with the mouse and ignores the keyboard. AppLocale: --------- This game uses a number of Shift-JIS encoded symbols for GUI elements, which might not display correctly on English versions of Windows. To get around this, something like Microsoft AppLocale, or some alternative thereof, is necessary. AppLocale only seems to work up through Windows 8.1. You can experiment with AppLocale replacements on Windows 10, although they have been observed to cause crashes. If you can't get AppLocale to work, it wouldn't really impact the game that much anyway, though. You'll just see, for instance, question marks instead of checkboxes in a few places. For AppLocale, you would run AppLocale itself, and when prompted, select to run LD95_e.exe. Follow the wizard, and select Japanese when prompted to indicate the source language. After that, you can have AppLocale create a permanent shortcut to the game. Patch Version: ------------- Beta - Apr. 16, 2017 Pending Work: ------------ - Map graphics haven't been translated yet. These don't really contain any useful information, though. - Quest text contains some static text with quest objectives dropped in. Because I haven't encounterd a lot of the quest text in game, it's very likely that you'll run into some quest descriptions that read strangely. Please report these to me when you see them so I can fix them! - Quest descriptions, in full, are saved into save games, so any changes to them won't be reflected until that quest occurs again in your game. - Extensive testing (see below). Known Issues: ------------ - Due to the largely randomly-generated nature of this game, testing it is not straightforward. There's a lot of text and events that I have no idea how to trigger reliably. - There may be crashes and lines of text that get cut off. Save frequently! Especially before examining dead bodies or if you get the martial arts/kentoukai/tournament events. - There are some lines of text where the game is inserting spaces that shouldn't be there. - POSSIBLY FIXED: The end game stats screen has some formatting issues. - The game's Windows look sort of weird on Windows 10. Credits: ------- Artdink and Degica, for developing and publishing the game in the US respectively. Helly - Translation Elegnaim - Hacking/Editing This hack also makes extensive use of the following tools: Angus Johnson's Resource Hacker: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ Patcher: xdelta http://xdelta.org/ Additionally, a tool called Susie was used in conjunction with a plugin for extracting the game's GUI assets, although I'm not actually sure who wrote either. They were originally found here: http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~skull/luna/ Although the individual maintaining that site doesn't seem to be available for contact anymore. Reporting Bugs: -------------- For now, please report bugs/typos in the following thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/335420/discussions/0/360672383119120413/ Alternatively, send me (Elegnaim) a PM.