So I've been looking into Evangelion Another Cases PSP, for some reason nobody has translated it!
So I thought, well I'm a computer whizz, why don't I have a go?

Well I've learned how to actually mod the game pretty well, Is it perfect? Of course not! Does it work and actually look okay? Yes it does! But with how much this game has in it, It's gonna take a VERY long time to translate everything. I've already done some work on the title screen and made some new tools that can edit the games files pretty fast.

So using my immense unemployment I'll try translate everything as well as I can! I'm just surprised nobody has done this before.

I think you could try looking into the existing project here thread/1393/Game-Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-2-Another-Cases/

Maybe you could help out there, as you can see it's slowly progressing.

I've literally been waiting years for this, good luck!

Okay for everyone wondering I should be able to translate this, It's just going to take a while

Good news everyone, I shall be able to completely translate most of the game, and it should be done sometime in 2026, I'll have plenty of time because I'm unemployed now, so maybe I'll set up a donation system so I don't starve to death before I finish.





I've managed to figure out how to translate the text inside the Eboot itself which is much better than using the CwCheat method that was originally being used to handle this text, It's way less janky and everything can be contained in the iso rather than a bunch of different files, but it does have some minor downsides:

Some text has to be shortened so it doesn't overwrite other text.

Probably won't work on a PSP (I don't own a PSP so I have no way of testing) but it works on PPSSP fine

This won't be a complete 1 to 1 translation, Think of it more of the original American dub of the show but for the game as I've changed some things for 1 of 3 reasons:

It doesn't fit (Eboot is fussy with this especially)
There's Nuance in the Japanese text that just doesn't exist in English so I've had to try adapt it
It's funnier (I'm allowed a little fun, you try translating 2000 text documents, only on minor things, nothing that's gonna change the story greatly or ruin anything)





But yeah, So This alongside writing and illustrating the Evangelion inspired Graphic novel I'm making will be my MAIN projects going into 2026 and hopefully the ISO shall be up for download sometime early/mid next year.



Hey 20 years late but better than never! As you can see it's not perfect yet, but it's getting better each day.

I'll keep posting updates here

Happy new year! Wishing you the best on your translation project. Unfortunately I'm from the bizarre country called Great Britain so unfortunately Imgur links are forbidded to my precious eyes. You'll get all my moral support.

RadPazul wrote:I've managed to figure out how to translate the text inside the Eboot itself which is much better than using the CwCheat method that was originally being used to handle this text,

The CWCheat method isn't actually hacky. It's just skipping the step of writing a custom PSP plugin atm.

If you look at the code:
https://github.com/rezual/nge_2_re/blob ... t_codes.py

# This script takes in the ./translations/*.json files
# and generates CWCheat format codes.
#
# The cheat codes generated by this script create hooks
# that hijack the memmove, strlen, and other functions.
#
# They instead call a look up table translation function
# that takes a target string address and overwrites the
# a0/a1/a2 register with the translated string's address
# if it detects an address that has a translated pair

So if the game is like print("<Japanese text>"), the code there hijacks the print() function and has it do a remapping to the English text.
So there's no issue of not being able to replace shorter text with longer text, because the Japanese short text is used almost like a hash into a dictionary

RadPazul wrote:Okay for everyone wondering I should be able to translate this, It's just going to take a while

Good news everyone, I shall be able to completely translate most of the game, and it should be done sometime in 2026, I'll have plenty of time because I'm unemployed now, so maybe I'll set up a donation system so I don't starve to death before I finish.





I've managed to figure out how to translate the text inside the Eboot itself which is much better than using the CwCheat method that was originally being used to handle this text, It's way less janky and everything can be contained in the iso rather than a bunch of different files, but it does have some minor downsides:

Some text has to be shortened so it doesn't overwrite other text.

Probably won't work on a PSP (I don't own a PSP so I have no way of testing) but it works on PPSSP fine

This won't be a complete 1 to 1 translation, Think of it more of the original American dub of the show but for the game as I've changed some things for 1 of 3 reasons:

It doesn't fit (Eboot is fussy with this especially)
There's Nuance in the Japanese text that just doesn't exist in English so I've had to try adapt it
It's funnier (I'm allowed a little fun, you try translating 2000 text documents, only on minor things, nothing that's gonna change the story greatly or ruin anything)





But yeah, So This alongside writing and illustrating the Evangelion inspired Graphic novel I'm making will be my MAIN projects going into 2026 and hopefully the ISO shall be up for download sometime early/mid next year.



Hey 20 years late but better than never! As you can see it's not perfect yet, but it's getting better each day.

I'll keep posting updates here

How's the translation work going? Do you have a GitHub account for this mod where we can see your updates? And is there any way we can throw money at you to "encourage" you? : P

Okay UPDATE! I am renaming this project to differentiate it from deeRez's version or any other translations

It will now be Called: EVA PSP: 20th Year (Another Cases)



As for financial support my Ko-fi is https://ko-fi.com/purgeautomazero it would really help because I'm currently unemployed still.

Current Mini-Showcase video: https://youtu.be/ESmnckBmo_k?si=puRSY7LyGQv94Msl

As for My comic/Graphic novel You can read it here: https://topwebcomics.com/sample/29135

Can't wait to see where this goes and hope we see it to fruition. You can always open source it if it becomes too much.

In the meantime, there's an interesting on-screen, offline, ocr driven translation tool for the ps2 version.

YouTube - Using an Onscreen Translator to play "Evangelions 2" for ps2 - by naivaz
https://youtu.be/Q6lOybS6UpU?si=JczO68NJ9iAQnTLG

bquenin's GitHub repository for the interpreter/translator used in the video
https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter

Edit:
PSP version https://youtu.be/c2klC2zllQE?si=7cGgCPT0x7LZcztH

I uploaded some of the scripts I use to speed up my workflow

Palette.py - Alters the image palette into something the game likes (OBSOLETE)

Palette2.py - Alters the image palette into something the game likes

HarHar.py - Packs an image into a Har with one tool, instead of using 4 diffrent programs step-by-step

HarZar.py - Same thing but for Zpt files

TEXTnuke.py coverts all IMtext Jsons into Bin files at once.

you can download them here: https://github.com/DarrenTheMoonGod/NGE_PSP_Better/

Any idea of when the project might be finished? I.E November?

Also will this be released as multiple scripts like the current versions or will it be an xdelta file?

There is an AI translation for this game. I appreciate the effort, but it's really, really bad. It's playable, which is great, but the more you play, the more you have the feeling this game deserves a proper translation, because it's a dream for any Eva fan.

May I ask if the translation is still in development?