English Translation v0.6

EDIT: This patch is now outdated. Please refer to the v1.0 release post.

For anybody who had issues with the game not finding certain image files and generally not showing the right pictures while playing the v0.6 release, please try out v0.7. Barring any mistakes I might have made in localizing it, it should work fine even on English locale now.

(And if you do run into anymore problems with the image files, please post about it. At this point, it's likely something I missed, so if I'm informed of it, I should be able to fix it.)

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This download is a partial translation of Village of Nightmare. Pretty much every is translated at this point except the novelist (Stone), the guard captain (Erdin), the Exorcist and the final corruptions, and a couple miscellaneous scenes such Slayer and Metallica's date, as well as the developer's room. I'd originally thought to include the novelist in this update, but decided not to since I was having a harder time just concentrating on it instead of bouncing between several of the later scenes.

If you've played the v0.3 release and want to continue from your saves, just copy+paste them into the new folder. They should work fine. And on an important (for me) somewhat reiterated side note, if you spot any problems such as grammatical errors, or bits of dialogue that don't flow particularly well, I'd be happy if you could post about them so I could attempt to fix them. The format of the game does not allow me to spell check, so I can only do it manually, which generally is hit or miss.

There are a couple things to note about this translation, and if you're curious or are having problems playing, you might want to take a look.


1) On the matter of installation, there are two things you need to be aware of: The first is that you're going to need to have the RPG Maker XP RTP installed to play this no matter what. (Google it and you should be able to find a download, and any fixes to problems with the dlls involved with it.) The second is that this game isn't fully localized. You might very well need to switch your computer to Japanese locale to play it. I've fixed the image files names getting messed up thanks to someone pointing out how some compression programs screw around with unicode letters, and used 7zip for this upload, but I still couldn't get it work on my computer when it wasn't in Japanese locale even with AppLocale. So, your results may vary.

2) Somewhat related to 1, due to me not being able to find a Japanese copy of RPG Maker XP to fiddle with, I went with the English demo, (and now a full English version) which doesn't like Japanese text that much. Thus, all the untranslated text was reduced to just a bunch of squares when playing. If you want to continue playing with the Japanese text, you can download the original version and move your save files over. They should work fine.

3) On the game itself, it should be noted that the interface is extremely obtuse at times. It'd be a good idea to use a walkthrough, or you're going to face a lot of aimless, boring wandering. I've posted a still incomplete walkthrough (although it goes as far the current translation), and this guy has most stuff right too, albeit with a few spots being kind of off. (You need to talk to Chris to continue Brigitte's corruption when the time comes, and Slayer/Daiya's second scene with Metallica won't pop up until after she's done.) Either can work, however.

4) Also related to gameplay is the squirrel section. If you have problems with the area, check the sign at the beginning and take the irritant. It will remove about 90% of the annoying, more likely to run into ones.