Friday, 4 April 2014

Custom Game Covers - Part 1

Doctor Who - The Adventure Games
Space Quest - Incinerations
The Cave
Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor

Saturday, 15 March 2014

Mortadelo and Filemon - The Sixth Sect in English!!!


Mortadelo and Filemon - The Sixth Sect is the greater game that consists of the Operation Moscow and The Scarab Of Cleopatra, plus a bit of extra gameplay that binds those two stories together in a bigger one. Although to tell you the truth it won't take you more than three hours to reach the end.

Everything that I wrote for each individual episode still applies to the complete Sixth Sect. Read the instructions included with the patch very carefully!

You can download the patch for the Sixth Sect here.

I also wrote a walkthrough, that covers the whole Sixth Sect game and the individual episodes, which you can download here.


Enjoy!

Mortadelo and Filemon - The Scarab of Cleopatra in English!!!

Mortadelo and Filemon - The Scarab Of Cleopatra (The Sixth Sect Part 2) is a Spanish adventure game released by Alcachofa Soft in 2001.

Everything that I mentioned for the Mortadelo and Filemon - Operation Moscow applies to this one too. As a standalone game is way too short and far too easy, but it's supposed to be the equivalent of reading a Francisco Ibanez comic.

This patch, like the one of Operation Moscow, is about 100MB due to the fact that I had to insert hard-coded subtitles into the various cutscenes. Therefore there will be three different patches, one for Operation Moscow, one for The Scarab of Cleopatra and one for the complete Sixth Sect.

You can download the patch for The Scarab of Cleopatra here.


Enjoy!

Mortadelo and Filemon - Operation Moscow in English!!!

Mortadelo and Filemon - Operation Moscow (The Sixth Sect Part 1) is a Spanish adventure game released by Alcachofa Soft in 2001.

In reality it's a very short and very easy adventure game that is mainly targeted at Francisco Ibanez fans and not adventure game enthusiasts.

Although it's a standalone game, it also works as episode one of the Sixth Sect dilogy with the second episode being The Scarab of Cleopatra. When both episodes are installed, an extra part is unlocked. Therefore you could say that the Sixth Sect is bigger than the sum of its parts since it continues after the second episode.

This adventure game allows two players to play together through LAN, each one of them controlling one of the two main characters, and solve the quest together!

This patch converts the Spanish retail release of the game to an English one. Obviously the spoken language will remain in Spanish, but all menus, in-game text and subtitles have been translated in English.

Take notice that you will need the original CDs, since the in-game music is encoded in the audio tracks of the multi-session game CDs.

To install the patch extract the archive to the game directory and overwrite the files as necessary. Read the instructions in ReadMe.txt carefully and rename the directory accordingly!

You can download the patch for Operation Moscow here.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Red Johnson's Chronicles - German-to-English patch

Red Johnson’s Chronicles is an adventure game developed by the French company Lexis Numérique in 2011. You take the role of a PI, named Red Johnson, as you try to solve a murder case by gathering clues, interrogating suspects and solving tough puzzles!

This small patch (only 11MB) converts the German retail release, which is DRM-free by the way, to the official 100% English release. To install it, simply extract the archive to the game directory and overwrite the files when asked.

The German retail release can be bought on the German Amazon store.

You can download the patch here.

Enjoy!

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Pilot Brothers: On the Track of the Striped Elephant in English!

Pilot Brothers 1 - On the Track of the Striped Elephant is a Russian adventure game released in 1997 and based on the famous Russian cartoon of the same name. Its gameplay is very similar to the Goblins games. 

The game doesn't have an installer or any menus and the characters say all about five lines in the whole game. Also it only plays in a window, not full screen! Since I didn't translate the text in the background pictures you can consider it a partial patch. The intro has English voice overs, taken from the android version, and all hot-spots and dialogue lines have been translated into English. 

To install it, simply copy the contents of the CD to a directory on your hard drive, copy the patch to the same directory, extract it and overwrite the files when asked.

Like most of my Russian games, I bought my copy from www.kniga.ru which is one of the very few retailers that ship video games outside the Russian Federation.

You can download the patch here.

Enjoy!

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Planetarian [PSP] in English!

Planetarian is a Japanese post-apocalyptic visual novel developed by Key in 2004 and is rated for all ages. Key defines Planetarian as a "kinetic novel", since its gameplay offers no choices or alternate endings. Instead, the player proceeds through the story solely by reading.

This patch converts the Japanese PSP version of the game to an English one. It works with all versions of the game. The translation was taken directly from the fan-translated PC version.

To install this patch unpack the archive to a directory, copy the iso of the game to the same directory, rename the iso to Planetarian.iso and then run the batch file.

Obviously you will need a PSP with custom firmware to play the game. Unfortunately it doesn't work well with the current emulators and although PPSSPP may seem fine at first, it will freeze on a video near the end...

The patch can be downloaded here.

Enjoy!