Idolmaster (X360) appears to be translated?

[RetroProf]

I thought I'd made a topic on this, yet searching brings up nothing. I also don't think my topic was deleted, since I had no warnings. Clearly I never made a topic. Is this... THE MANDELA EFFECT?

Anyway...

The user "zzzzzzzzz" on YouTube extracted the text, translated it, then stuck the files back in his JTAG console and uploaded videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrtktZGLDB0

There's quite a few of these videos.

Googling brings up zero info though. A reddit thread on a different installments, some comments on a forum about the PSP version, etc. But nothing on the original Xbox 360 version, apart from these videos.

Was there a website?

Has anyone actually played this - is it real?

I have an Aurora modded X360 and it's been very easy to patch games, add trainers, or even hacks (the DOAX2 nude patch is real - though pointless). Basically once installed you can see all the raw files and then just replace files as needed.

However, I've seen no news on X360 fan-translations. This is the only one I am aware of, but the only source is some YT vids. And the YouTuber doesn't reply to messages.

Anyone have any info?

[kendotlibero]

the project was never finished and nothing ever came out from this project
I would love to finally play this series, but I think too much time passed and too few people care about im@s anymore to translate such a text heavy game

[Cris1997XX]

the project was never finished and nothing ever came out from this project
I would love to finally play this series, but I think too much time passed and too few people care about im@s anymore to translate such a text heavy game

The SP games for PSP are receiving fan translations, same thing for Starlit Season and One For All. I assume people are just not interested in playing a difficult to find Xbox 360 game from 2006, since there are much better versions                                                     

[kendotlibero]

the transaltion of the psp games is incomplete and it's dated 2012, when im@s was actually relevant
the new steam game only has a proof of concept as for now, while it was actually a surprise the OFA translation project but I'll wait for the DLCs to actually play it

[RetroProf]

the project was never finished and nothing ever came out from this project
I would love to finally play this series, but I think too much time passed and too few people care about im@s anymore to translate such a text heavy game

Thanks. That's a shame, because the Youtube videos look pretty extensive.

I just wish the translator/hacker had put their files online, unfinished or not, so people with modded systems could test them out.

I've never played an Idolmaster game, but I like management sims (still holding out for a fan translation of "The Conveni" on X360). And if I'm going to play such a game, I'd rather the X360 than the PSP versions.

Anyway, thank you all for the info. Maybe someday in the future the partial translation will surface.

[Cris1997XX]

In this case, you're better off waiting for the One For All and Starlit Season translations. They're much better games in multiple ways -Unless you're nostalgic-, and the cast of idols is bigger
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In this case, you're better off waiting for the One For All and Starlit Season translations. They're much better games in multiple ways -Unless you're nostalgic-, and the cast of idols is bigger