Hideo Kojima’s legendary SciFi adventure game. Originally released on the PC-98, then ported to the 3D0, the Saturn and the Playstation.

This game very much feels like a spiritual successor to Snatcher. It’s a pretty much a Visual Novel with some interactivity and a few shooting sequences. Most of the game is spent on following the dialogues and cutscenes (all fully voiced) and questioning witnesses. To spice things up there are some puzzles/minigames like defusing a bomb or figuring out the access code for a computer.

The story of the game centers around the former “Policenaut” (a police astronaut) Jonathan Ingram who has to uncover a series of murders in mankind’s first permanent space colony Beyond.

At long last, the Policenauts English Translation Patch is released. This is Hideo Kojima’s follow-up to Snatcher, and his most famous officially un-translated game.

This hack features:

1. Complete 100% English translation of all Japanese graphics and text to English. There is not one character of Japanese left in the game - including opening and ending credits.

2. Fixes to graphical glitches in the original game.

3. Fixes to a crash bug in the original game.

Emulation notes:

Unfortunately, no emulator does Policenauts with 100% accuracy. In fact, as of version 1.13, there is content in Poliecnauts that pSX absolutely cannot reach. To that end, while playing on hardware is the best issue-free way to play it (we have confirmed it works on PS1, PS2, and PSP), for emulation we recommend:

ePSXe 1.7 with either the e}i{ Video Plugin or the P.E.Op.S. Soft GPU Plugin 1.17. Emulation issues you will encounter:

- When the game prompts you to switch to Disc 2, doing so will crash the game soon after. There is a save prompt at the end of Disc 1 - you can use this to save your game. When you load that saved game on Disc 2, you can continue normally. You will miss absolutely no content.

- The end credits/staff roll is done very strangely, and has the following side effect: it hard crashes all versions of pSX. With ePSXe and the P.E.Op.S plugin, they won’t scroll correctly, but they will display. The e}i{ plugin will display them normally. All content before and after functions normally otherwise. Please also note this was an emulator issue that occurred in the original and is not a function of the patch.

So, enjoy!

Note: There is a scrolling text intro that plays if you let the game sit at the title screen after the intro FMV has played. This was removed in the translated version due to being: “completely redundant and contains spoilers”.