The King of Fighters: Kyo English Translation

About this project

The King of Fighters: Kyo is a Japan-only PlayStation adventure with branching dialogue and turn-based fights. This public English alpha includes draft story dialogue, choices, battle text, and optional English captions for selected battle lines, move callouts, and speech outside the dialogue boxes. The original Japanese voices play from the disc.

Some story paths still need playtesting for clarity, and some Japanese remains in artwork and speech. Please report it in the announcement comments. Include the scene, choices, and a screenshot if possible.

Apply the XDelta patch to the clean Track 1 BIN of the Japanese SLPM-86095 release. Keep the original CUE and the other three tracks together.

The King of Fighters Kyo: Kyo speaks to Iori in English during the opening scene in the rain.

The PlayStation title screen of The King of Fighters: Kyo.

Kyo dodges as Shingo charges power in a turn-based fight. — Kyo dodges while Shingo charges power in The King of Fighters: Kyo.

Mai and Chizuru stand in front of a shrine with an English dialogue box. — Mai and Chizuru talk outside a shrine in The King of Fighters: Kyo.

Takuma stands in front of English-lettered dojo scrolls. — Takuma stands between the translated dojo scrolls in The King of Fighters: Kyo.

Yuki stands outside school as the Date and Stay options appear. — Yuki asks Kyo to go out, and the player can choose whether to stay or go on a date in The King of Fighters: Kyo.

The King of Fighters Kyo (Japan), SLPM-86095. Apply to the clean Track 1 BIN, raw 2352-byte sectors. Keep the original CUE and Tracks 2 through 4. Clean ROM CRC32: B29E47DA Clean ROM SHA-256: ba29acb1eae1caf1c1c9b7565d90916dbe1f3fd0006cbbd13d8e7df4da999fb1

Readme & instructions

README.txt

THE KING OF FIGHTERS: KYO English fan translation alpha v0.1 This is an early public playtest of the Japan-only PlayStation game. The patch translates recognized story text, choices, battle menus, and roster names. Some routes have not been reviewed in play.

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THE KING OF FIGHTERS: KYO
English fan translation alpha v0.1

This is an early public playtest of the Japan-only PlayStation game.
The patch translates recognized story text, choices, battle menus,
and roster names. Some routes have not been reviewed in play.
Some artwork and battle speech still need English coverage.

INSTALLATION

1. Make a separate copy of your original Japanese SLPM-86095 disc
   dump. Keep the CUE and all four BIN tracks together.
2. Use xdelta3 to apply Kyo-English-Playtest.xdelta to the clean
   Track 1 BIN (raw Mode 2, 2352 bytes per sector). Write the result
   to a new file.
3. In your separate copy, give the patched BIN the original Track 1
   filename so the CUE points to it. Keep Tracks 2 through 4 with
   their original names and open the CUE in your emulator.

Tested in BizHawk 2.11 with Nymashock. The original Japanese voices
play from the disc. To enable optional battle and audio-only
captions in BizHawk, open Tools > Lua Console and load
subtitles/kyo_subtitles.lua. Keep its three TSV files beside it.

Clean Track 1 SHA-256
ba29acb1eae1caf1c1c9b7565d90916dbe1f3fd0006cbbd13d8e7df4da999fb1

Patched Track 1 SHA-256
55195de2966a5b02b942207dcec8b815deb0f24b58ec28380e06bf9b5a0bfd76

REPORTING ISSUES

Use the comments on the Retro Replay alpha announcement. Please
include the scene, the choices you made to get there, what went
wrong, and a screenshot if you have one. For a crash or freeze,
include your emulator and version.

English patch and subtitle overlay by Retro Replay.
Original game published by SNK. This ZIP contains a patch,
instructions, and subtitle files.

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