Meremanoid -- English translation
Version 1.0.0-beta  (2026-10-16)
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Original Japanese release: Xing Entertainment (developed by Shout! Design
Works), 1999, PlayStation.

ABOUT
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An English translation of Meremanoid, a PlayStation role-playing game released
only in Japan. It is set in MERE, an undersea world of women, and follows Ardin
and his companions through its cities, ruins and wars. This is a free fan
translation, made independently: no other team's patches, scripts or tools were
used. The patch contains no game data; you apply it to your own copy of the
Japanese disc.

WHAT YOU NEED
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You need your own copy of the Japanese disc as a cue sheet with its BIN tracks
(Redump set name "Meremanoid (Japan)"). The patch applies to track 1 only:

  Track 1 (MODE2/2352)  <- patch this file
  Meremanoid (Japan).bin
  Size          329,957,376 bytes
  CRC32         6AFF6B47
  MD5           8f0b4d6ab425c634887cb35c05f39267
  SHA-1         ad0d49d27e3ced60b762579191515852ca04488d

  Cue sheet: Meremanoid (Japan).cue

HOW TO PATCH
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  1. Keep the whole disc together: the cue sheet and every BIN track.
  2. Apply Meremanoid_EN_v1.0.0-beta.bps to the track 1 file, "Meremanoid
     (Japan).bin", with Flips (Floating IPS), RomPatcher.js (runs in a web
     browser) or beat. Leave the other track(s) as they are.
  3. Give the patched file the SAME name as the original track ("Meremanoid
     (Japan).bin"), in the same folder as the cue sheet, so the cue still finds
     it. Keep a backup of the original track somewhere else.
  4. Load the cue sheet in your emulator. Do not convert the patched disc to
     another format before checking that it boots.

  The patched track 1 should match:

  Size          331,347,408 bytes
  CRC32         C50F89F7
  MD5           dfae416091f523e1586c8ad5d999ed3a
  SHA-1         1cdde162bde109f4e19e85e817c5de68bb2b3994

  Patch file    Meremanoid_EN_v1.0.0-beta.bps (2,534,735 bytes)
  Patch SHA-1   07aef5b37b8196c699c3a14302d0c1dd8546c96d

STATUS
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Beta. All the game's text is translated: the story, the menus, items and their
descriptions, battles, shops and inns, the save screens and the memory card
title. The dialogue is set in a new serif typeface drawn for the game. The
painted lettering is redrawn in English (the chapter cards, the map and town
names, the world map and the battle buttons), and the attract movie has English
subtitles. What was checked on screen: a route from power-on through the
opening, the first village, the field menu and a first battle. Everything else
was checked by reading each text back from the patched disc, not by playing
through. The shops, the inns and saving, the world map and the later story have
not been watched in play by a tester yet.

KNOWN ISSUES
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  - A few small pieces of painted art keep their Japanese on purpose: the
    katakana title under the logo (the logo above it already reads Meremanoid)
    and four tiny glyphs on a cloth banner, too small to reletter without
    inventing text.
  - Nothing after the opening hours has been played through by a tester. Please
    report anything that looks wrong, with a screenshot and where you were in
    the story.

CHANGELOG
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  First public beta (2026-10-16)
    - First public release.

CREDITS
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This translation was made by CODEC BABEL's AI agents. Agents extracted the
script, translated it, rebuilt the game's text and art, and tested the patched
game in an emulator, under the direction of the project's human lead.

  Translation: CODEC BABEL agents (AI)
  Hacking: CODEC BABEL agents (AI)
  Art: CODEC BABEL agents (AI)
  Testing: CODEC BABEL agents (AI)

  Tools used:
    - Python and Pillow (the project's own patching and text tools)
    - Beetle PSX / Mednafen (emulator, testing)

LEGAL
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This is a free, non-commercial fan translation. It is not affiliated with or
endorsed by the original publisher, and the game remains theirs. The patch holds
no game data: it only works on a copy of the game you own. Do not ask for ROMs
or disc images, and do not share patched files. Sell nothing made with this
patch.

REPORTING BUGS
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E-mail bug reports to phil@tttships.co. Please include the version (1.0.0-beta),
what you were doing, a screenshot, and a save state if you can.
