Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace PSP - English Translation

Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace
General
Author	Spazzery
Type	Translations
Version	0.5
License	N/A
Last Updated	2024/04/23
Links
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This is an English translation patch for Steins;Gate - My Darling’s Embrace on the PSP, brought to you by Spazzery.

Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace is one of Spazzery's favorite games. Since there is a way to play Steins;Gate on PSP in English, Spazzery thought it would be fantastic to have the enjoyable spin-off also available in English. This provides another way to experience the game! This was one of Spazzery's objectives in bringing this patch. It could be particularly beneficial for people who only have a PSP or an old Android phone to play the S;G games.

Despite the limitations of the patch, the game can be fully experienced - the story is completely readable! Spazzery hopes others will enjoy it as much as he do!

Note: If you need a guide, check out this guide for the game: https://www.kirikiribasara.com/2020/12/09/steinsgate-my-darlings-embrace-100-guide/.

Translation Progress

• The story is fully translated!
• All the images in game are translated!
• The button prompts in menus are translated, as well as other system graphics! (Thank you so much Hoodedtissue for reverse engineering and writing me a tool to unpack/repack the P2T archive, which the other tool failed to do on one specific file)
• The TIPS are translated!
• All the mails are translated!
• All the videos are translated, too!

How to patch the game

Game information
Japanese title	STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん
Aliases	Steins;Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Darling
English title	Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace
ROM information
ROM format	ISO
Serial	ULJM-06040
CRC-32	64a5777f

• Download the patch zip and have your base ROM ready. The ISO I used to create the patch: Steins_Gate_Hiyoku_Renri_no_Darling_JPN_PSP-PLAYASiA_ENGLISH.iso.
• Extract the patch zip file with Winrar or 7zip. Then open xdeltaUI.exe and choose the Apply Patch tab.
• For Patch, select MDE_PSP_English_Patch_v0.5.xdelta from the extracted zip file.
• For Source File, select your base ROM, and finally for Output File, choose a name for the patched ISO.
• Finally click the "Patch" button and wait for your patched ISO to be generated.

Cool hack to save space: unpack the game files in UMDGEN and then just repack in UMDGEN again. It will repack in a more efficient way, which saves around 90MB for no downsides.

Media

Is Steins Gate My Darling's Embrace Worth It? - Video Game Review (Lytane Variety Show)

Screenshots

Known Issues

• The button prompts for back and confirm are mixed up! When the game says X is Confirm and O is Back, it's the opposite - in actuality, X is Back and O is confirm (the default Japanese layout). They're mixed up because I took the assets from the S;G PSP English patch. I'll redo all of them if I find a way to get the EBOOT fully translated.
• In the end of Kurisu's route, the text glitches for about 6 lines. In the middle of Luka's route, the text glitches twice, first time for 4 lines, second time eating up around 20 lines. I really did try for hours to find a fix for them, but unfortunately I didn't find a feasible way to do so without having to sacrifice other text. Seems like a memory issue with how the text is stored.
• The phone texts. The mails themselves ARE translated, but not the phone system texts themselves. However, since before this, you've very likely played the original Steins;Gate either on PSP or on some other platform, the untranslated phone menu hopefully isn't a big problem to you. If you do know how to hack the EBOOT with variable width strings, please contact me here or on Discord (username Spazzery).
• The System texts. Again, if you've played the PSP version beforehand, you can probably guess what a system message is trying to tell you.

More minor issues

• The backlog is often messed up (text is scrambled). However, what's neat is you can go back in time in the backlog. So use that feature, as it's exclusive to the PSP.
• Sometimes the text glitches and seemingly gets stuck. You can get unstuck by quickly pressing the start button and then the triangle or R button quickly after that.
• Sometimes rarely used names aren't inside the nametag. Let me know if you find such bugs!

Changelog

v0.5

• First Release.

Special Thanks

• Hoodedtissue, for reverse engineering and writing me a tool for the P2T archive!
• Maki, for the video files. They helped me with the Vita version too, so thank you very much again!
• HazelLoyance for making the original PSP English patch, I was able to reuse some of your assets. I also really appreciated your handy "Used tools" list on your github.
• PPSSPP creators for making the easy to use PSP emulator

External links

• Gbatemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-steins-gate-my-darlings-embrace-psp-english-patch.654632/