Edit: And here they are, all three games.
Katsugeki Kidan 3 english
Katsugeki Kidan 2 english
Katsugeki Kidan 1 englishAll 3 patches have been moved to my site. (Those earlier links are no longer valid.)
I took a quick look at Katsugeki Kidan 3 just now because, hey, a hacking challenge and Momiji? How could I resist? So, whatever, I figure the other games probably do something similar but... All text appears to be stored as PNG images in the data_b folder. You're looking for "msg_01a.png", "msg_01b.png", so forth.
"But Ethan! Those images are b0rken! MSPaint won't let me open them!
"
Never fear! There's an encryption on this sucker and I know how to get past it. But it's bloody complicated and took the better part of 5 seconds to crack, so I apologize in advance for the technical mumbo-jumbo and hyper-complex explanation to follow.
1- Get out your trusty hex editor.
2- Open the file.
3- BLOOD SACRIFICE TO THE SQUID GOD!!! @_@
4- Here's the tough part: remove the first byte at the start of the file (a 'Z').
5- Save the changes. This part is important or all your work will be in vain.
6- Open the image.
Seriously, why even bother? ;P At least XOR the file with something...
So here's what those images look like.
Linkified, since it's kind of big.I can't read moon-runes. So I can't translate this gibberish. But at this point it should be a trivial matter to translate. Anyone up for it?
Edit: Woah. Just found a kick-ass
japanese OCR thingie that does pretty awesome work on the game's files. I may gave this a whack, but if anyone can read japanese it'd go way easier than my copy-pasting characters into a kanji dictionary.
Probably gonna take months otherwise...