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Fan-made Fatal Frame IV translation patch incoming
megaStryke \| 9:51 PM on 06.06.2009	12 comments

Fatal Frame IV is not leaving Japan. This displeases many people. Some feel like something needs to be done. Even fewer are actually doing something.

That something is the Fatal Frame IV translation patch.

Like with the Mother 3 English translation, a team of resourceful young minds (possibly "teens with attitude") have been working away to bring Fatal Frame IV to the West. Unlike the Mother 3 translation, this doesn't require you to NOT download a game rip from some torrent site of questionable ethics. Instead, the patch requires a legally imported copy of the game, the means to play said game on your region's Wii, and an SD card.

Many of you already have the Homebrew Channel installed for, among other things, imports, so all that is really required of you is dropping a few files onto your SD card and popping it and the game into your machine. The team states that translation will occur on the fly without any extra hassle on your part. Set it and forget it!

The best part is, if the claims are true, that the patch should be finished sometime this summer! The process is far simpler than a text-heavy RPG. Let's just pray that the Nintendo legal department is as cool with this as they were with the Mother 3 translation.

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12 comments | showing # 1 to 12

pedrovay2003

OH MY GOD.

OH MY GOD.

I have no idea how to accurately portray my happiness about this...

JT706

I like that they're soliciting contributions from everyone who visits the website. A lot of these kinds of projects get stuck in limbo for months or years- here's hoping opening things up to volunteers gets this done much faster. If I knew a lick of useful Japanese, I'd download a file myself.

Monodi

Never played any ofthe games, but I am really glad the fans got a way around it.

pedrovay2003

@Monodi

If you like horror games, you have to track Fatal Frame down. They're expensive, but they're so damn good.

Zoel

I'll try to help out. This is way harder then the Puyo Puyo Sun project that I try helping before.

Solivagant

Thank GOD for translation patches. Nintendo doesn't know what it's doing regarding this game. They plan to release the Ring game here, but not this?

eternalplayer2345

I love dedicated fans!

TheCleaningGuy

Freakin' AWESOME!
Watch Nintendo send a C&D letter right when the project's almost done.

Kyousuke Nanbu

EXCELLENT.

pedrovay2003

I still can't believe this is possible with NO MODIFICATION at all. That's absolutely insane. Just out of sheer curiosity, I wonder if this would work in a Japanese Wii without the Homebrew Channel installed.

theredpepperofdoom

WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Agree with @Pedrovay2003, I am suprised this doesn't require mods.

PNo4

@TheCleaningGuy
"Watch Nintendo send a C&D letter right when the project's almost done."

Even if they do so many people already have the translations and the tools.

@pedrovay2003
"I still can't believe this is possible with NO MODIFICATION at all."

Don't believe it, because you need the ability to run homwbrew code to run this translationpatch, if you don't have that ability on you Wii, it won't work.

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