Raiders Sphere 3rd Translation Project aims to fully translate Rectangle’s 2006 flight shooting game Raiders Sphere 3rd into English, as well as provide a foundation for other RSE3 games (e.g. EFFY, Fatal Employee Training, and Witch of Triplecanopy) to receive translations without requiring much technical work.
Translations for system text and weapon/vehicle names and descriptions are sourced from Google Translate and DeepL, then edited with sanity checking against their functional meaning and their translations in the Project Sekai’s Raiders Sphere 4th English release. Translations for briefing and mission dialogue are also sourced from Google Translate and DeepL, albeit with heavy editing for contextual meaning, tone, clarity, and formatting.
While I cannot guarantee the exact accuracy of these translations, I am at least reasonably confident that they retain the original intent and provide a worthy way to experience the game and story. (If you want to do it better yourself, the readme includes details on how, along with info about server hosting and mission editing!)
The patch is known to throw a false positive with some antiviruses. If you’re having issues with the regular download, try the Antivirus Compatibility version. This uses a slightly older version of the executable that doesn’t seem to get flagged; it’s functionally identical, but has some minor bugs and may be missing a few editor/multiplayer translations.
Most of the files you're about to download need to be applied to your game. Here is a list of utilities that allow you to do this:
- Online Patcher: Marc Roblero's online patcher. Works with many different file types.
- Floating IPS: NWell-known patcher for applying IPS and BPS files.
- Delta Patcher: Used to apply xDelta files.
- More Patchers
On most files, you can also press “Patch It”, to apply the patch without downloading the file.
