TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:24 pm

Jozerick

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I've made a patch for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Steam version) that adds the missing DLC: Escapade #0 for GAA1, and the two mini-cases for GAA2. Here you can see a few pictures from the mini-cases, Japanese version.

I've translated Escapade #0 myself (with help from Rubia Ryu), but the mini-cases are untranslated. I initially asked for help here to finish the patch, but I couldn't find a translator so I'll just release what I have. I'm not going to work on this any more (unless there is some big problem), but if you can both localize the text and edit the files, feel free to translate the mini-cases and release a new patch if you want.

Download links:
For the worldwide version of TGAAC (the one with only English text)
For the Japanese version of TGAAC (with both English and Japanese text)
Please read the readme.txt file inside for more information.

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Re: Help wanted for a TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:43 pm

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Is this for the 3ds version?

Re: Help wanted for a TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:21 pm

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Honey Pie wrote:

Is this for the 3ds version?

I don't quite understand your question – I clearly wrote in the first sentence that it was for the Steam version. Unless you meant "from" rather than "for"? This DLC was originally made for the 3DS versions, but it was not included in Chronicles (unlike the other escapades), so I ported it myself.

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Wed Dec 14, 2022 8:52 pm

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Jozerick wrote:

Honey Pie wrote:

Is this for the 3ds version?

I don't quite understand your question – I clearly wrote in the first sentence that it was for the Steam version. Unless you meant "from" rather than "for"? This DLC was originally made for the 3DS versions, but it was not included in Chronicles (unlike the other escapades), so I ported it myself.

Sorry, I misread.

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:28 pm

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Alright, I couldn't find a translator (or voice actor), so I just released the untranslated patch. I've edited the first post and added download links. Enjoy :)

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Sat Feb 11, 2023 6:30 am

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Thanks for your hard work on preserving Ace Attorney culture!

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:25 am

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I made a account here to say that I'm so happy this exists!!! I played the escapade and had a lot of fun with it, and am seriously hoping that soon you can continue translating the rest which I'd be excited to see! Unfortunately I won't be much help with translating and such, but if you haven't yet you could try posting this in the ace attorney reddit or perhaps twitter, since it's a lot more active there and more helping hands! I'm mostly saying this since I only stumbled across this after deciding to dig through this forum on a whim, and wouldn't have found it otherwise...

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:31 pm

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emsterchu wrote:

I made a account here to say that I'm so happy this exists!!! I played the escapade and had a lot of fun with it, and am seriously hoping that soon you can continue translating the rest which I'd be excited to see! Unfortunately I won't be much help with translating and such, but if you haven't yet you could try posting this in the ace attorney reddit or perhaps twitter, since it's a lot more active there and more helping hands! I'm mostly saying this since I only stumbled across this after deciding to dig through this forum on a whim, and wouldn't have found it otherwise...

Hello, thanks for your comment!
Unfortunately I'm not planning to translate the mini-cases. They are more difficult to translate than escapade #0 and I'm not skilled enough for that, among other reasons. At this point I'm not willing to do further work on this patch, but I don't mind if other people do.
I know this place is kind of dead so my patch didn't have much exposure, but I'm not on reddit or twitter and I didn't want to create an account just for that. But feel free to talk about it if you want.

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:32 pm

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Jozerick wrote:

Unfortunately I'm not planning to translate the mini-cases. They are more difficult to translate than escapade #0 and I'm not skilled enough for that, among other reasons. At this point I'm not willing to do further work on this patch, but I don't mind if other people do.

A Japanese-to-English translation of the two mini-cases you're talking about already exists. So the work is largely already done. It would just be a matter of coding that text to display in your mod.

This person did the translation. https://hikari-kaitou.tumblr.com The script is not publicly available but they were happy to send me a copy of the translated script when I asked in private message. I bet they would do the same for you!

And if you do combine efforts with Hikari-Kaitou like this, just think of how many more English-speakers would be able to experience this Japan-only content! I mean, I found this thread myself when I used a search engine to find a way to get the Japan-only DLC. I imagine I'm not alone.

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Fri Oct 03, 2025 6:46 pm

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Well, as I mentioned, I don't feel like working on this patch again (plus I don't have a tumblr account). If anyone else is willing to edit the script files to translate them, they're free to do so.

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:19 pm

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Ah that's a shame. I will be able to connect you with the translation, yes, but I won't be able to edit the script files. So close, just need that final connecting step.

Re: TGAAC mod that adds the DLC cases

Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:14 pm

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Funny, I hadn't thought about this in almost a year and suddenly decided to check back on this thread on the off chance that there would be an update. I should mention that someone named Shankey is already working on inserting the public English translation of the first case that was released a long time ago, you can find his progress on his YouTube channel of the same name.

Anyway, I happen to have some knowledge of TGAAC script editing after working on a rough Spanish translation, and I think I could be up to the task of inserting a translated English script of the second DLC into the game. Besides the control code stuff, it's as easy as changing text in an editor so I could also make a quick guide on how to do it if you or anyone else wants to help out.

I'd be very interested to hear back regardless, as I've been a fan of the games since 2020 and have never heard of a translation for the second DLC case. Would be awesome to finally have them translated and accessible for every English speaking AA fan!

Edit: There's actually already an excellent guide on how the text editing works with the Kuriimu programs, what I can contribute is a working download link for the specific versions required and also some details on which files contain what.