A couple of us will be on the Sega Saturn Shiro podcast later in January where we'll talk about the project.
I've documented a little bit of what went into hacking and patching this game which you can find in the link below. You can also find some of the early discussions that happened amongst the translators discussing honorifics, style, etc.. Eventually we had moved over to discord but I plan to write up document for all the tech stuff in the following weeks. If anyone in the community wants, they can take all this work and port it to a different platform or even create a patch for a different language.
The movie subtitle work was done by trekkiesunite118 (who's also working on the Saturn Grandia patch). He took the movies from the pc version, which were at double the resolution of the Saturn game and also not compressed to hell like the Saturn ones, and added subtitles to those, he then converted them back to the Saturn cpk format using some tools that only ran on a Mac running a really old OS from the 90s.
All of the movies were packed into one large file in the game, so the trick was that the new file sizes couldn't be larger than the original files or else a bunch of other work would have to be done to find and fix headers indicating the location of each movie. In the end they look great. He did a fantastic job.
