E.X. Troopers English Translation Update v1.0.1

January 18, 2023 IcySon55 Comments 6 comments

Happy Holidays and New Year!

It’s been over a month since we released our English Patch and we are overjoyed by the overwhelmingly positive response from forums, news outlets, social media, and our users on the FTI Discord server!

Today we’re releasing a new update to the patch to iron out a few issues players have found, and to completely replace another “Hard-coded text” video from the game!

v1.0.1 Changelog

[3DS/PS3]

Fixed some minor text issues and improved some multiplayer translations.

[3DS]

Fixed a bug in an Ep 2 video where subtitles would not render properly.
Fixed a bug in an Ep 5 video where it would not play properly.

[PS3]

Added 140 new Bubtitles to Ep 2 video.
Fixed a bug in Ep 4 where some videos did not play audio loud enough.
Updated Gallery thumbnails.

Info

Visit: Projects – E.X. Troopers

Download & Installation

Visit: Downloads – E.X. Troopers

E.X. Troopers English Translation Patch

November 22, 2022 IcySon55 Comments 13 comments

This is a full English translation patch for E.X. Troopers, a spin-off game in the Lost Planet series and exclusive to Japan on PS3 and 3DS. November 22, 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of the game’s original release.

After 7 years of working on this project, we are excited to finally share our results. We have faced so many challenges while translating this game, ranging from reverse engineering the game’s files, overcoming multiple technical limitations of the game’s engine, translating over 17,000 individual Japanese lines, replacing hundreds of speech bubbles in pre-rendered videos, to releasing this patch for two completely different systems simultaneously.

We have poured so much into making this and are proud to finally release it.

Credits

Etokapa	Project Coordinator, Videos, Textures, 3DS/PS3 Playtesting, Additional Writing, Quality Control
phenomenal flea	Localization, Writing, 3DS Playtesting, Quality Control
IcySon55 (FTI)	Programming, File Reverse Engineering, File Extraction/Insertion (Kuriimu, Kukkii, Karameru), Font Generator (Kuriimu2), Patcher (Knit), Workflow Optimization, Troubleshooting

Special Thanks
onepiecefreak (FTI)	Text Engine Reverse Engineering and Support, HFS ARC Support, Programming
Neobeo (FTI)	3DS Video & Texture Reverse Engineering, Programming, 3DS Patcher Support
Anonymous Tester	PS3 Playtesting, Quality Control

Uwabami (Scarlet Study)	Additional 3DS Patching Support
rd2k3	3DS Video Encoding Research
neonmaze	Additional Localization Support
an-error	PS3 Executable Reverse Engineering, Programming
FluffyQuack	File Reverse Engineering Research (ARCTool), Programming
iiotenki	File Research, Localization Advice
Lost Planet Discord Server	Moral Support
ajiponn	Patcher Music

Info

Visit: Projects – E.X. Troopers

Download & Installation

Visit: Downloads – E.X. Troopers

METAL MAX 3 Translation Release

June 23, 2020 IcySon55 Comments 2 comments

Release

After 5 years and thousands of hours of work, Metal Dreamers is proud to present a complete, and fully playable English translation of Crea-Tech’s Metal Max 3 for the Nintendo DS.

The Metal Max series is a long-running but little-known JRPG series, at least in the west. They combine traditional JRPG gameplay with the free-form progression typical of CRPGs. The games are basically open-world, with not too much in the way of story most of the time, instead focusing on entertaining NPC dialogue and side quests, an interesting world to explore, and TANKS. Lots and lots of tanks, which you can freely customize.

You start the game dead and are soon revived by a mad scientist, but you have no memory of how you died or who you are. Soon, you meet a girl about to be shipped off to an arranged marriage that she doesn’t want. The story unfolds as you try to find out who you were, why you died, and how your fate is intertwined with that girl’s. We hope you enjoy this wacky post-apocalypse!