Valkyria Chronicles 3 - English ReTranslation release

[PSPLiker]

- not mine, just stunbled upon this from Reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/valkyria/s/xVW9H1zu7Z

Also wishing if somebody could please repackage this into a ready made applied patch ISO format for PSP, thanks!
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Valkyria Chronicles 3 - English ReTranslation release​

Link to patcher: https://github.com/akorov/VC3ReTranslation/releases/latest
Instructions readme.

This is a new translation of VC3 Extra Edition I've been working on since summer 2025. It features a complete script retranslation from source, finally translated DLCs, tons of error fixes and even some new textures.

The translation itself is pretty much entirely by me alone. I guess I should note in 2026 that this is a "manual" translation, not AIsloption. Hacking tools were provided by Russian fan TL team, saving a ton of time and effort. LouffeVC helped a lot with UI/UX testing and various suggestions.

A changelist for your perusal follows.

Script retranslation/editing - in short, a complete redo:

• Main story
• Fragments
• E2 on-disk DLC
• Battle event texts
• Encyclopedia (previously untranslated)
• Newspapers (previously untranslated)
• Dossier files
• Non-E2 off-disk DLC (previously untranslated)

UI:

• Fixed various errors (think infamous Fr/Rr Def, out of bounds items and such)
• Improved various game terminology across all UIs and menus
• Improved Seal descriptions' style and consistency
• Updated some accessory names
• Added untranslated weapons (both on-disk and DLC)
• Added untranslated map objects (gates, containers)
• Added Blueprints (weapon plans in VC2) in BP-... format
• Fixed Carisa's shop name weirdness, bottom line sub-texts and out of bounds cases
• Changed various menus/settings/misc wording

Missions:

• Mission and event names on march maps (chapters, fragments etc)
• Added Mission Details screen texts for E2 on-disk DLCs, Fragments, Post-Game missions
• Some mission objectives reworded
• Various mission descriptions rewritten
• Control the Port - fixed the missing Ace bug. For this, all Aces had to be retranslated with vanilla Japanese file as a base and will not match "V2" translation and/or fandom wiki. Refer to provided spreadsheet of Ace locations if needed.

Mission UI clarity/QoL edits that are not strictly translation:

• Multiple [Victory]/[Limit] conditions on March Map UI are listed separately.
• Decoy Supplies (Carisa's Maxim Fragment mission) now lists missing from original game Margit Detachment only restriction.
• Evaluation Exercise 2 (postgame shop mission) now lists missing from original game No Tank restriction.
• [Strategic Effect] conditions now point to respective related mission by name instead of generic wording.

Tutorials:

• Fixed out of bounds issues
• Many tutorials rewritten for improved terminology consistency
• Colored text is now used instead of most "quoted" terms
• Usage of x-o buttons in tutorial text conforms to what you would see on western psp/emulator.

Orders:

• Descriptions cleaned up (no more full-width japanese C P and such, descriptions match different UIs)
• Sneak Attack renamed to traditional Attack Weak Spot
• Added untranslated Lydia's/Gusurg's orders
• Changed Dahau's Recall to Reinforcement

Potentials:

• Description proofreading
• Some names retranslated/fixed
• Description wording for Battle Potentials now matches between Unit Details and Master Table
• Margit's Lost potential will correctly list actual in-game effect of Accuracy/vsPersonnel Down rather than Accuracy/Evasion Down (original JP description is incorrect).

New textures:

• Map of Gallia - added Story/Fragment/DLC, removed kanji for Chapter and Fragment on the hover name row
• Opening scene for main chapters and fragments - English sub-titles match chapter titles, replaced japanese for "Fragment"
• Base Camp -> Bulletin Board - replaced japanese in BB page titles
• Deployment UI - replaced japanese for Area Effect
• Combat - readability improvements for Command and Action mode, such as Kill/Shots/Aim, Ally/Enemy/Camp/Reserve, AreaMax texts
• Boss intro cutscenes' nameplates are now in English

Textures that were NOT translated/edited:

• Onomaetopia textures, such as all gun sounds (boom/bang/whoosh etc) are in japanese
• Tutorial images are in japanese
• World map, march maps etc have not been corrected w.r.t. original's errors (e.g. Tilka -> Tiluca and such)

... I was not even going to do this. I wanted to do my usual thing, digging around gameplay editing to see what I can do, but after starting to clean up poor UI elements of the old patch, I figured I might as well go all the way. This turned out to be a fun new thing to try. Translating between two non-native languages is hard, not that I ever thought otherwise. I also had to learn how to do texture edits, and PSP has some annoying restrictions in various places.

There are probably errors and typos somewhere still, especially encyclopedia/newspapers part. Let me know here or in valkyria discord channel if you find any. Enjoy!

UPD 24.02 - there will definitely be an update within this week, as I've already accumulated quite a few errors worth fixing.

UPD 27.02 - release updated with support for patching 5CB6...27D2 iso and some fixes.

 

[RageBurner]

This is already in the repository. Thanks, though.

 

[PSPLiker]

Ok, I just checked the repo, the patch made by Akorov for version 1.0.6 has already been applied by Spike, how silly of me.

 

[zerodayhx]

we love actual translations round these parts