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Translating Black/Matrix
alys - Oct 27, 2024
  alys Oct 27, 2024
Recently in the SegaXtreme discord I've been talking with people about the possibility of getting this game translated, and despite this being the first time I've tried to do anything of the sort, I'm going to attempt to go through with it. I'm mainly making this thread as to better document this game and to post updates when I eventually have them. As of now there's not much of anything to show on my part, however, I'm hoping that will change in the future. So far I've had major help (mainly from Knight0fDragon and Megaflan) when it comes to understanding how to go about this and how to approach this project, any additional help is greatly appreciated and as I've already said, updates will be posted as they're made. If anyone happens to be interested in helping please let me know, as I've said I'm new to this but I'm dedicated and I'm determined to get it done.

 Knight0fDragon Jan 7, 2025

Notes from the conversation on discord. Too long to post on the forum.

 Malenko Jan 11, 2025
I used your notes as a basis to explain some stuff to Alys via PM and they have a place to start now. This doc of yours was a huge help too:
Black Matrix Sector notes...


With the font I think anywhere theres that round icon, you skip, like this:

  alys Jan 12, 2025
yeah I'm going to work on this in the coming days, thank you again for all your help

 Hikaru Zatara Feb 16, 2025
Hello, by accident I saw that you decided to translate the Black Matrix game when I decided to look if anyone wanted to translate the game. I am writing just to let you know that someone translated the main story of the game (they only translated it and put the translated text as subtitles on Youtube, the rom of the game as such does not have a translation of the menu or the story) and I thought that the document could be useful to you.

Could you also give me a link to the Discord channel where you are carrying out the translation? I would like to be aware of the progress if you created a specific channel for that

 alys Feb 16, 2025

Hikaru Zatara said:

yes, i have seen this. as of now i'm using it as the main basis for the project until i have more progress and can hopefully get some help from others more proficient in japanese than myself. i've gotten permission from the original uploader on youtube to use his work although he said he won't be translating the rest of the game, which is fair.

I dont have a specific discord for this as i have been unable to make much progress,things in my personal life suddenly got a bit busy, the discord that was referred to earlier was the translation patches channel in the segaxtreme discord, i believe the link to which is posted somewhere on this site.

things seem to be clearing up in my life and im making an effort to actually get this underway - as i have stated here before im very inexperienced but im determined and will do my best to at least push this forward as much as i can, this game deserves to be played by more people.

ill post updates when they happen, hopefully sooner rather than later.

 Malenko Feb 16, 2025

Malenko said:

I just realized I massively fucked up the hex counting in that picture, sorry
should be 9 A B C D E F 10 11 etc

 alys Feb 28, 2025

Alright, I've been having some issues lately and in order to stay organized I decided to create a document to go over what I know, what I don't know, and what I need to work on regarding this. I'll be keeping this updated as I work on the project while posting to the thread to go over new developments. I made sure to link my resources in order to keep all of this information in one place.

 Reddha Jul 8, 2025

alys said:

This game looks really cool and I've never played it. Wishing you luck on the translation!

 kitchen34 Jul 17, 2025
"Good evening, did you find the right compressor? Because apparently, it’s not a standard CMP.

 vbt Jul 17, 2025

kitchen34 said:

there was a cmp compressor provided by sega for the saturn

 benclaff Jul 18, 2025
By "standard CMP", do you mean compatible with MrConan's lib ?

  Knight0fDragon Jul 18, 2025
What are we even talking about here? The CMP files are not compressed.

 kitchen34 Jul 18, 2025
"It's possible, I saw CMP at the beginning of each DAT file, but indeed, it's possible that the data is not 100% compressed.

 Knight0fDragon Jul 18, 2025

kitchen34 said:


If you look at the notes, I already had this conversation with somebody else. Just because CMP is in the header, does not mean it is compressed.

 Colin DuBord Jul 20, 2025
How’s the Project Coming? Is there Estimated Date yet? My fiancé and I are very excited to play this game.

 Ainus64 Aug 9, 2025
Recently I play this game in Saturn and using my phone to try to translate with Google translate, the Story is very interesting and I love see this game translated to english.