Christmas is in a week and we have fitting anouncements for such occasion.
If you’re a fan of Key have always wished you could play your visual novels while you’re away from your computer, then stick around, because this article is for you! patr0805 wrote on the Fuwanovel Forums that he is working on an english patch for the PSP version of Little Busters using the translated scripts from the PC version. He said that he had been working on the project for a couple months now by himself and does not intend to drop it. We wish we had known about it sooner but it’s still a great early Christmas announcement for Little Busters fans.
For Little Busters! Ecstasy on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Little Busters! English translated demo released!' Ok so a little insight on how this game and the patch is made: First off this game comes in two discs. The first disc is the Installation disc, and the second disc is the game disc. In order to translate the game the patch had to be applied to save data generated by the Installation Disc.
According to patr0805, the patch is fully compatible with physical copies of the game. Not only that, but since the Converted Edition actually needs installing when you play on a PSP, the patch will simply affect the installed files, not the UMD itself. This is great news for users who are afraid of having to hack into a game or simply don’t want to mess with one.
As you may know, the Converted Edition of Little Busters is the same in content as the Memorial Edition (ME) of the PC version which includes the Sasami, Kanade and Saya routes. These will be excluded from the first patch, effectively reverting the game back to the normal version of Little Busters much like the current Ecstasy (EX) patch. The reason being the still untranslated scripts for the ME version as patr0805 is not a translator himself. Fear not, there will be a full translation once the ME scripts are translated and a second patch will be made so you can enjoy the extra routes on your PSP as well.
Currently the entire common route plus Komari’s route have been patched in since the project’s genesis on October 31st. How long will it take until the full patch is out? We can only wait to find out, but since this is not a direct translation but rather an overwriting of the PSP scripts with the already translated scripts, and with so much progress in just a couple of months I would say early next year we might have the game translated and a patch ready to be installed, if things keeps going steadily as they are now.
For any Little Busters fan this is great news. And since there is such a big lack of PSP visual novels that are fan translated, Little Busters might just be the one that changes this mindset. I hope this information gets you more excited for Winter as it might be before this Winter is over that we get an english patch for the game.
You can follow updates and patch progress on patr0805’s wordpress.
One of our forum members, Takafumi, has toiled for a few months working on a mod for Little Busters! which adds sprites for the character Mutsumi Suginami into the game, and it is finally available for download! For those who’ve read Little Busters! but can’t immediately recall her character, she was featured briefly in numerous routes as the girl who had an unrequited crush on Riki. Her design was established in the Little Busters! anime adaptation, which Takafumi based his sprites off of, crafting them all by himself. If you’ve been around since the early days of Kazamatsuri, you might know that there’s a small fandom surrounding her on the forums, with lots of us wishing she had more screentime, or even suggesting that there should’ve been a Suginami route. By the hard work of Takafumi, the tiny niche of Suginami fans around the world are a small step closer to her than ever before. With this, who knows, perhaps a Suginami fan route may even be possible someday…
https://forum.kazamatsuri.org/t/little-busters-suginami-mutsumi-mod/823
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You can view more details and download the mod in Takafumi’s forum topic linked above. We definitely recommend keeping an eye on his work, as he has plans for future Key mods, including one that adds the Bokura no Asa sound drama to the Little Busters! VN, and one which updates Kanon with new sprites. You can find Takafumi on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/Taka_Sakagami
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A massive thank you to Takafumi for doing all the work to make this possible. Three cheers for the secret best girl!