Directory

Most of the game scripts that have pages on the site and are able to be read in-browser are listed in the sidebar, with the full list in the table below. If you would rather just download the dumps as text files for personal use, everything that's available can be grabbed from the Downloads page.

Content status

This table tracks what games are available here and what will hopefully make it here in the future. "Uploaded" are games that already have sections on the site and can be read in your browser. "Dumped" are games that I have the text for and just need to arrange into CSVs and/or make pages for on the site, and they may have downloads available in the meantime. "Need help to dump" are games that I've tried to extract text from and failed to get something complete or clean enough to be useful. "Wishlist" are games that I own in Japanese and would love to get dumps for, but don't know where to start or am unable to do myself.

If you happen to have any insight into dumping the text from any of the games listed here, or if you have data of your own that you'd like to share with other learners, please contact me!

Japanese Title English Title System Language Status
アリス マッドネス リターンズ Alice: Madness Returns PC EN→JP Uploaded!
くまうた Bear Song PS2 JP only Uploaded!
... and need help to finish

Missing lyric text.

LYRICS.XPF contains a "dict.xpf" file according to its header, which very likely contains the DIC files that are used to generate song lyrics, but the tool I'm using spits out a 0-byte file when trying to decompress it.

ビホルダー Beholder PC EN→JP Uploaded!
ボムラッシュ・サイバーファンク Bomb Rush Cyberfunk PC EN→JP Uploaded!
ブリー Bully PC EN→JP Uploaded!
ファイナルファンタジーVII リメイク Final Fantasy VII Remake PC JP→EN Uploaded!
グランディア2 Grandia II PC JP→EN Uploaded!
はーとふる彼氏 Hatoful Boyfriend PC JP→EN Uploaded!
ウィッシュルーム 天使の記憶 Hotel Dusk: Room 215 DS JP→EN Uploaded!
ライフ イズ ストレンジ Life Is Strange PC EN→JP Uploaded!
モンキーアイランド1、2、6 Monkey Island 1, 2, & 6 PC EN→JP Uploaded!
ナイト・イン・ザ・ウッズ Night in the Woods PC EN→JP Uploaded!
暴れん坊プリンセス Rowdy Princess PS2 JP only Uploaded!
... and need help to finish

Missing optional dialogue & system text.

The main story dialogues are all encoded in Shift-JIS in the PG folder, but I couldn't find the rest of the dialogue or system text anywhere.

シェンムーI&II Shenmue I & II PC JP→EN Uploaded!
サモンナイト1、2 Summon Night 1 & 2 DS JP only Uploaded!
すばらしきこのせかい The World Ends With You DS JP→EN Uploaded!
新すばらしきこのせかい NEO: The World Ends With You Switch JP→EN Uploaded!
チャイルド オブ ライト Child of Light PC EN→JP Dumped
ドレッジ Dredge PC EN→JP Dumped
アースロック Earthlock PC EN→JP Dumped (Download!)
リーサルリーグ ブレイズ Lethal League Blaze PC EN→JP Dumped (Download!)
プーペガールDS1、2 poupéegirl DS 1 & 2 DS JP only Dumped
To the Moon To the Moon PC EN→JP Dumped
トランジスター Transistor PC EN→JP Dumped (Download!)
グランディア エクストリーム Grandia Xtreme PS2 JP→EN
Need help to dump

Need to decompress & complete TBL.

Game text is in the MDT files and Grandia 2's TBL matches most of the characters already. However, the files seem to be using some variation of LZSS compression that doesn't work with my current decompression tools, so I can't get an accurate dump.

moon moon PS1 JP only
Need help to dump

Need to identify text blocks.

Game text is uncompressed Shift-JIS but is spread randomly throughout the data on the disc. I can dump the whole disc to get the text, but I can’t reliably separate it from the millions of lines of code interspersed with it.

セイクリッドブレイズ Sacred Blaze PS2 JP only
Need help to dump

Missing story dialogues.

00, 01, & 02.DAT contain a lot of Shift-JIS sections that mostly look like system text, tutorials, and in-battle dialogue lines, but I can't find any text from the main dialogues.

サクラ大戦 Sakura Wars PS2 JP only
Need help to dump

Missing non-voiced dialogue lines.

All of the voiced dialogue is written out in Shift-JIS in the LIP files, but the rest of the lines are collected somewhere else (SMX files?) and probably are compressed and/or need a TBL to read, so I haven't been able to find them.

すみれの空 Sumire PC JP→EN
Need help to dump

Missing "flowerDialogue (ja-JP).txt".

Asset Ripper extracts a "flowerDialogue (en-US).txt" file with a significant amount of English dialogue in it, but there appears to be no Japanese version of the file.

テネレッツァ Tenerezza PC JP only
Need help to dump

Need to re-arrange random lists of words into real dialogue.

Shift-JIS encoded script files can be unpacked with QuickBMS, but out of ~700, only about 10% contain dialogue or system text that's readable as-is. The rest simply contain an out-of-order dump of every individual character & word that appears in each scene, which presumably all get re-arranged into the on-screen dialogue using directions in the file, but that's beyond my ability to sort out.

龍が如く0 Yakuza 0 PC JP→EN
Need help to dump

Need list of files containing text.

PAR archives can be unpacked with QuickBMS, but there are hundreds of them, and the game text is spread between multiple files and folders, possibly also within further nested archives. I have already found lots of MSG and localization files, but I have no idea how complete my dump is without a breakdown of which PARs contain what text.

バイオショック Bioshock PC EN→JP Wishlist
グランディア Grandia Switch JP→EN Wishlist
アイロン・デンジャー Iron Danger PC EN→JP Wishlist
神業 Kamiwaza PS2 JP only Wishlist
名探偵ジェニー・ルクルー Jenny LeClue - Detectivú PC EN→JP Wishlist
魔剣爻 Maken Shao PS2 JP→EN Wishlist
ぼくのなつやすみ My Summer Vacation PS1 JP only Wishlist
ペルソナ2 Persona 2 PS1 JP→EN? Wishlist
マール王国の人形姫 Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure PS1 JP→EN Wishlist
ストレイ Stray PC EN→JP Wishlist
幻想水滸伝 Suikoden PS1 JP→EN Wishlist
サモンナイト3、4 Summon Night 3 & 4 PS2 JP only Wishlist
ときめきメモリアル Girl's Side Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side PS2 JP only Wishlist
ヴィーナス&ブレイブス Venus & Braves PS2 JP only Wishlist
極限脱出 Zero Escape PC JP→EN Wishlist