Retro Replay Retro Gaming History, Reviews & Emulation
A passenger ship crashes by an apartment building, and 50 aliens scatter. You arrive with a camera, but the passengers are invisible. In UFO: A Day in the Life, you choose a room and an hour, watch the residents go about their day, and take a picture when something seems off. Back aboard the UFO, Mother examines the photo to see who you caught.
Love-de-Lic built the search around a full day in the apartment. A ringing phone or a resident reacting to an empty corner can be the clue you need. The humans have their own stories, too, and returning to the same room a few hours later can change what you thought you saw.
ASCII released the original PlayStation game in Japan in 1999. It never received a U.S. PS1 release. Hamster later brought it to modern systems through Console Archives, where the game itself is still in Japanese. Hamster’s Console Archives release notes
Retro Replay’s English Alpha 0.2 covers menus, written dialogue, passenger reports, and credits. English subtitles for supported clips of the original Japanese audio are now built into the patched game. Apply the patch and boot the disc to use them. No subtitle script is needed.
This is an early alpha. We checked the opening, several photo reports, and the ending and Budget Mode unlock from a prepared checkpoint. Several paths and optional scenes still need a full playthrough to check whether the translation is clear in context. Some speech and room artwork also remain under review.
Get the English alpha patch and installation instructions. Apply the XDelta to your own clean Japanese PlayStation disc image, serial SLPS-02032.
If you find a line that reads strangely, Japanese text we missed, a subtitle out of sync, or a scene that breaks, please post in the Translations forum. Include your patch version, emulator or hardware, the room and in-game time if you know them, and a screenshot if you can. Reports from routes we haven't covered are especially helpful.
