Laws in translation: Playable, English Wright demo

by Kyle Orland { Apr 4th 2007 at 4:52PM }

English-speaking fans of the Phoenix Wright series got a bit of bad news when they heard the Japanese version of the upcoming fourth installment would not feature native English-language support, as previous releases have. Capcom added insult to injury with a tantalizing web demo of the game that is similarly Japanese-only. Oh, how those foreigners love to taunt us and our lack of multilingual skills!

Fear not, though -- a band of intrepid Wright fans over at court-records.net have taken the case, translating the demo bit by bit and posting the results for the English-speaking world to play. The translation only goes a few minutes deep so far, but you can follow along with the progress on the project blog. This is probably as close as most of us will get to enjoying more Wright until the likely localization is released months from now, so enjoy it while it lasts.

[Via DSFanboy]

Tags: 4, demo, english, fan translation, FanTranslation, four, gyakuten saiban, GyakutenSaiban, japanese, phoenix wright, PhoenixWright, translation

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BarnRats @ Apr 4th 2007 4:58PM

So the moral of the story to developers is, don't pay someone to translate your stuff when someone else will do it for free. lol

Joshua @ Apr 4th 2007 4:59PM

Try years from now. We still have to get GS3.

Vincent S. @ Apr 4th 2007 5:03PM

*Groan* at headline for this article

LuigiHann @ Apr 4th 2007 5:05PM

I think we'll be waiting more than "months" for this particular game, given that:
A. The game in question is the 4th in the series
B. The 3rd in the series hasn't even been officially announced in the US, but Capcom has stated that the 3rd would be released here before the 4th.
C. Both the first and second games in the series were released first on GBA in Japan, then on DS in Japan, then on DS in America. The third game has not been released on the DS in Japan, only GBA, and no official plans exist for such a port.

So I'm guessing we'll be waiting "months" for Ace Attorney 3, and "Way More Months" for Ace Attorney 4. :(