A fan translation of Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank of 3 Years (機動戦艦ナデシコ The blank of 3years, Sega, 1998), a Sega Saturn adventure game released only in Japan on two discs. You read the story page by page, answer its choices and quizzes, and name your own character.
All the game's text is translated: the story on both discs, its choices and quizzes, the name entry (with an English keyboard), the menus, the save and load screens, the options screen and the staff credits. The story text is set in the game's own lettering, spaced for English. The lettering drawn into the pictures is redrawn in English (the title cards, the signs, the name plates, the options buttons and the loading screen). The opening song has English subtitles, and so do the spoken lines the game plays with no text on screen. Free and non-commercial. The patches contain no game data: you apply each to your own copy of the matching Japanese disc.
1.0.2-beta
- Disc 1: the title screen's trailer no longer flickers to a stray picture when a subtitle line changes.
- Disc 2 is unchanged; its 1.0.0-beta patch is included again.
1.0.1-beta
- Disc 1: skipping the opening movie quickly no longer leaves the game stuck in the music before the title screen on some emulators.
- Disc 1: the trailer the title screen plays when left alone now has English subtitles.
- Disc 2 is unchanged; its 1.0.0-beta patch is included again.
1.0.0-beta
- First public beta: the whole game in English on both discs, with English subtitles for the opening song and for the spoken lines that have no text on screen.
Each disc has its own patch. They are not interchangeable.
| Disc 1 | MartianSuccessorNadesico_EN_v1.0.2-beta_disc1.bps (14,059,492 bytes) |
| Disc 1 MD5 | c129d172b2778b7d1e31c64242880b75 |
| Disc 1 SHA-1 | 84673852caa36424c7415034c26abba7d299f712 |
| Disc 2 | MartianSuccessorNadesico_EN_v1.0.2-beta_disc2.bps (14,017,747 bytes) |
| Disc 2 MD5 | 0cd030f4cb1709944fbb7567a0275525 |
| Disc 2 SHA-1 | 815dedadd9fa7f3f8af2187accbb8a0fb5f6ec40 |
Redump "Kidou Senkan Nadesico - The Blank of 3 Years (Japan) (Disc 1)" and "(Disc 2)", each with two tracks. Each patch applies to Track 1 only.
| Disc 1 Track 1 | 521,407,824 bytes · CRC32 E485CCF5 · SHA-1 a2a179b023c80c7539b26068458681141c13c686 |
| Disc 1 patched Track 1 | 523,235,328 bytes · CRC32 470EA5D8 · SHA-1 716d5f12def23b32257cc1749f33d569de68e687 |
| Disc 2 Track 1 | 523,383,504 bytes · CRC32 6D050ECA · SHA-1 449a71cd345355b406f0b36f7de17159114174fd |
| Disc 2 patched Track 1 | 525,542,640 bytes · CRC32 8E963A5E · SHA-1 147cda9d2c360d8e80d3e74babc585c4e6f55967 |
| Track 2 (audio, unchanged) | Disc 1: 16,372,272 bytes · SHA-1 7303e080f3c1aa3becd69949350d34dcae3d4147 Disc 2: 13,895,616 bytes · SHA-1 214955931e3025232a25611c1a36a4ed0182b2d1 |
- Use your own dump of each disc as
.bin/.cue(two tracks each) matching the checksums above. - Apply each
.bpsto Track 1 of its own disc with Flips, RomPatcher.js or beat. A BPS patcher checks the source, so if it refuses, your dump differs. - Give each patched file the same name as the original Track 1, next to its
.cueand Track 2, so the.cuestill finds it. - Load disc 1's
.cuein Mednafen / Beetle Saturn, or play on hardware. Disc 2 continues from the save disc 1 makes when it asks for the disc change.
- Short reactions (laughs, gasps, sighs and one-word interjections) are spoken in Japanese without subtitles, on purpose: 61 on disc 1 and 36 on disc 2.
- The opening song is subtitled when the movie plays on disc 1; disc 2's copy of the movie plays without subtitles.
- Some lettering drawn into the pictures is kept as drawn, on purpose: brush lettering on shop curtains, lanterns and emblems that the picture already explains, the Gekiganger III trading cards and poster, and background lettering too small to read on screen.
- The bonus skit on each disc's music track plays only in a CD player, never in the game, and is not subtitled.
- Checked on screen: a route from power-on through the opening movie, the prologue, the name entry, the first story scenes and the first choice, saving and loading, the options screen and the change to disc 2. Every story page was also opened one by one on the patched discs and every text window measured, and every subtitle was checked on screen. Nothing after the first hours of each disc has been played through by a tester.
E-mail phil@tttships.co with the version (1.0.2-beta), which disc, what you were doing, a screenshot, and a save state if you can.
Translated by CODEC BABEL's AI agents under the direction of the project's human lead; no other team's patches, scripts or tools were used. Original game © Sega 1998. This patch is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.