[Technical] (JP>ENG) Brightis Fan Translation (PSX)

[tank120]

Hi, I've been working on this project since May and had been posting on the original RHDN forum asking for help on this.

You can read that original thread here: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=39349.0

Essentially, the goal is to translate Brighits, a PSX game made by Shade/Quintet into English & make it possible to be translated into other languages if desired.
We have someone agreed to properly translate it to English who is a native Japanese speaker.

The project has been making good progress, but at the time of writing: I've been recently laid off from my day job, & would appreciate others contributing to the project while I look for a new job and potentially move.

A Github for the project can be found here: https://github.com/Dickdebonair/Brightis-fan-translation
- The text that has been dumped & the pointers we've found are in the "Brightis Pointers & WIP translations" excel sheet.
- What's left to do on the project is in the readme, and as issues on the repo

 

[tank120]

Keeping this thread as sort of a running log of updates: (while also welcoming contributions)

Since last time we've:

• Broken out & rearranged all the knowledge we have so far into the wiki proper!

• Properly dumped and decompressed the OVR.BIN & ONMOVR.BIN files! (Use the "BrightistFiler" tool in the GitHub) & added them to the Spreadsheet at the root of the repo

• Learned more about how the Overlays function (the types used in game, their RAM addresses, and how the game displays different text in cutscenes & menus)

• Human Translated 95% of ONMOVR.BIN & collected most of it's pointers

• closed TWO issues on the GitHub page, regarding decompression & dumping the above files correctly!

We still need to work on reinserting the text to the file, a place I can use help with. And locking down the other functions such as font width, but we are making good progress & still could use your help!

Big thanks to our recent contributor on the GitHub, Onepiecefreak, for leading the charge on the above so we can keep moving!

 

[tank120]

Hi all, it's been quite a while!

Essentially a lot has happened. The notable things are:

• All of the text in game has been translated by hand!
• We've been able to reinsert some of the text successfully
• We got a working DEBUG MODE .asm patch for the game which enables testing of just about everything!

However, there are a number of pointers for text in major cutscenes (as well as some for menus and other techniques) that I haven't been able to find. Along with a number of strange breaks that seem to occur when testing these patches. They've grown to the point that my limited knowledge of Ghidra and PCSX-Redux have begun to fail me, and I no longer can make any real progress alone.

I'm once again asking for assistance. I made a (multiple) write ups on the GitHub wiki but the latest announcement explaining a bit more on what's needed, where our tooling is, and how to help is here.

 

[tank120]

Hi all, it's been quite a while!

Essentially a lot has happened. The notable things are:

• All of the text in game has been translated by hand!
• We've been able to reinsert some of the text successfully
• We got a working DEBUG MODE .asm patch for the game which enables testing of just about everything!

However, there are a number of pointers for text in major cutscenes (as well as some for menus and other techniques) that I haven't been able to find. Along with a number of strange breaks that seem to occur when testing these patches. They've grown to the point that my limited knowledge of Ghidra and PCSX-Redux have begun to fail me, and I no longer can make any real progress alone.

I'm once again asking for assistance. I made a (multiple) write ups on the GitHub wiki but the latest announcement explaining a bit more on what's needed, where our tooling is, and how to help is here.

 

[LuxDeluxe]

Hello there, just wanted to let you know im trying to restart your Brightis translation project with a donation/bounty incentive

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Thread '[Translation] Request to finish Brightis english fan translation'

May 4, 2026

I'd like to discuss creating a pool of money (bounty) that would go towards finishing the fan translation english patch for the PS1 game Brightis

Previous thread on project

Link to Reddit post from 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/1feihq3/looking_for_hackers_brightis_jpeng_fan

Link to their github

https://github.com/Dickdebonair/Brightis-fan-translation

The project was disbanded and it appears to have been due to difficulty of the patch, general lack of interest, and the...

• LuxDeluxe
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• Forum: Help Wanted & Support