Initial D Special Stage English mod by alexvgz.

Hope you enjoy the mod, took me forever to make this due to how slow and tedious using the export/import tools were, plus, you know... translation isn't fun.

Credit to: 
root670 for his Initial D tools. 

PockyWitch for fixing an error in the tool related to the alpha channel not scaling properly when importing the texture. 
Thanks to this fix the mod works on ps2 hardware now instead of being emulator only.

Fujiwara Tofu Shop (youtube channel) for his story mode mission translation.
I was too lazy to translate all 31 missions myself.

JDR99 for testing the mod and being picky about my edits while pointing out all my misspellings and texture errors.



How to install:

Due to legal reasons, I can't post my iso with the translation.
So instead you get a patch for the iso.

Please don't repost the finish iso, just send people to my discord in case there's ever an update or fix for an issue with my mod. I don't like people having my outdated work with misspellings and errors.
Considering this is now above version 1.0 you can see I wasn't exaggerating.
https://discord.gg/gmhBCwP

You will need an original iso copy of the game.

Then open xdelta ui to patch the translation to your iso.

Apparently there are 3 version of initial D special stage I have seen so far.
v1.0
v1.01
v2.0 (playstation best titles)

Choose the version that matches your iso.
If you don't know which version you have try all of them and see which one works.
The tool will tell you if the patch worked or if it was invalid.

If none of them worked try to get a new iso, or contact me and I will help you get it to run by using an alternative method.

Patching the iso is pretty simple, just follow what the tool wants you to select and make sure the last option (output file) you write down .iso at the end of your file name.

As a added note, when the program asks you for the "source file" it obviously means the untranslated special stage iso you have, otherwise what exacly are you gonna be patching? 
Come on guys... I thought it was self explanatory. 
At least try to think for a minute or 2 as to why I told you to have a special stage iso in the first place...

And you're done! Now you have an iso with english text.

If you find any misspellings in my mod please tell me and I will fix them when I get the chance.



Please note that this isn't a full translation due to the game texture limitations and tool having issues importing and exporting some images.
Some stuff had to be worked around or simply left untranslated.

If you see a weird design choice in the translation, that wasn't my choice, that's how much the game let me draw the texture. Trust me, I don't like how it looks either, but nothing I can do.
So I either had to squeeze the text or have a huge gap in the middle of a word or between words. Not my choice, but that's the best I could do.
Importing transparency is broken, hence why result screen is lacking the transparent background and the other trasparent texture were left untouched.

Arcade mode and Story mode can't be translations.
Story mode is mostly audio, so I can't add subtitles to it.
Best someone could do is put dub audio as a translation.
On the bright side story missions are translated, so that's better than nothing.

As for Arcade mode (and some parts of Story mode), seems like the text is very limited, so even if I edit it I won't have enough space for the romaji names or full english sentences unless someone figures out how to increase the text lenght. (And avoid crashing when testing.)


3/7/21  v1.2 - Fixed a translation error in settings option that was swapped, added an S to legend of the streets and translation in replay/record description.
3/5/21  v1.2 - Missed a few texture when reimporting them with the updated tool. Now all the textures should work on console.
3/4/21  v1.1 - Mod works on ps2 hardware now.
2/23/21 v1.0 - Initial release.
