sailracer6@yahoo.com (Drinian) wrote in
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> And now, I will manage to keep this post on topic, by explaining a
> little about the translations for Girlfriend of Steel 1. My
> understanding is that the Chinese translations for the PC version of
> this game were kept in a textfile, and that by editing that file a
> translation into any language could be made. Thus, if you could get
> the much-easier-to-find Chinese version, all one would have to do is
> replace that textfile, which is probably no more than 50kb. Now, is
> someone interested in posting the English translation textfile
> somewhere on the Web?
> 
The game was translated off the original Japanese version, and text 
messages were actually bitmaps (except the menus, which were text in the 
script files). And yes, it's possible to replace some files (text 
bitmaps, script and main executable) to get English translated game.
It would be about a meg or two I think... so if you're REALLY interested, 
I guess I could make a "patch".