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Serial Experiments Lain (PSX) – fully translated and playable!

In true fashion that Lain herself would approve of, no less: exclusively via the Wired.

https://3d.laingame.net/#/game

This effort is nothing short of astonishing. The team remade the game from the ground up, then hardcoded subs to translate what was thought to be an untranslatable game due to the biblical scope of what’s an exclusively voice acted experience.

Serial Experiments Lain was developed concurrently with the series, and designed to be its own thing, though you could probably make a case to tie it into the show, if you wanted.

It’s not so much a game as it is an A/V experience. You explore diary entries, listen to interviews between Lain and her psychologist, and spiral further down the rabbit hole until you learn the truth: both literally and figuratively.

If you’re even a cursory fan of the series, or a hardcore obsessee like yours truly, it is a must-play.

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Great work! Thank you very much

I actually didn’t work on this at all, but it’s the sort of thing I would have pounced on.

Will there be a download/offline version?

I believe there already is.

Where can I find such a version?

Hi, i know a lot of people already asked for this, but can you give me the discord of the translation of Persona 2? i would like to follow the project

https://discord.gg/SuQkErQF

How goes the Shadowrun translation?

Stagnant at present.

Can I get a discord invite? all the others I find are invalid. Thanks for your hard work!

The one in the About section shouldn’t expire.

Ahh I see now, sorry, I’m new to this website obviously, didn’t see the “about” up there… I honestly don’t know how lmao.

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Unlike the anime, the game drew little attention from the public following its initial release.[2] Criticized for its (lack of) gameplay, as well as for its "clunky" interface, interminable dialogues, absence of music and very long loading times,[2] it was nonetheless remarked for its (at the time) remarkable CG graphics, and its beautiful backgrounds.[2] In 2008, an English fan translation project of the game's script began, eventually being released as a PDF in 2014.[6] By 2021, a renewed wave of interest in game had formed, coinciding with the release of lainTSX, an unofficial web browser-based port of the English version of the game, utilizing webGL.[7][8] A review of the browser version for The Michigan Daily described it as "raw and realistic in how it showcases mental health, but also overflowing with empathy for the matter, something a lot of representation misses".[9] The game has been cited as a precursor to later titles such as Her Story and What Remains of Edith Finch.[10]

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The project was titled lainTSX and was in work since July 2020. The team opted for a Webgl implementation of the game instead of hacking the PS1 game. This decision made the translation, especially the integration of the subtitles easier, and gave the opportunity to smooth the gameplay and the animation using a better framerate and overall timing.

While waiting on my copy of Despera to come in the mail, I have decided to pick up the serial experiments lain OFFICIAL GUIDE that accompanied the PlayStation game. For now, it will not be a scanlation.

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Serial Experiments Lain PSX Translation Released

• Thread starter Despera
• Start date Jul 20, 2014
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• Jul 20, 2014

cj_iwakura said: As I've said, the Lain PSX game is an odd duck. It's not even really a game at all. It's a simulator. You navigate a Lain avatar through a cyclical interface to access her journals, voice recordings, and assorted clips of her interacting with society. It gets VERY repetitive, but there is a ton of content if you have the patience and time to unlock it all. As seen, her avatar is very playful and light-hearted, kind of like her original form before Wired-Lain takes over. I don't know who did the anime scenes, but judging from the wildly different style, probably not Nakamura. There are moments very reminiscent of the show's aesthetics, though. The diaries are mostly Lain talking about anything from classmates to her parents. Is it meant to be the same Lain we know, or an alternate reality? Either way, if you love Lain and want another dose of her strange world, it's certainly worth a look. Click to expand...

Close the world, open the next. I've always wanted to try this out. This is great news.  

CorySchmitz

Junior member.

Nice. Gonna check this out for sure.  

Oh awesome, I've been wanting to play this for a while.  

Canis lupus

The creators themselves did not call it a game, but "Psycho-Stretch-Ware",[12] and it has been described as being a kind of graphic novel: the gameplay is limited to unlocking pieces of information, and then reading/viewing/listening to them, with little or no puzzle needed to unlock.[39] Lain distances itself even more from classical games by the random order in which information is collected. The aim of the authors was to let the player get the feeling that there are myriads of informations that he would have to sort through, and that he would have to do with less than what exists to understand.[12] As with the anime, the creative team's main goal was to let the player "feel" Lain, and "to understand her problems, and to love her". Click to expand...

Neat. Shame about the price of the disc, though. £120 at best, near £200 at worst.  

Very excited. I dabbled with the raw version, and it's one strange game. It's sort of like Snatcher if you spent the whole game messing with the crime lab CPU.  

Lumpy Onion

It's a PDF though. Was expecting an actual patch.  

GrumpyAlien said: It's a PDF though. Was expecting an actual patch. Click to expand...

Oh, this would explain your username, Despera. I never realized before now.  

SatoAilDarko

God is real just popped into my head. In a few years I'll hopefully pick up a copy when I have the expendable income.  

I wonder if this game is what the Hate series drew its inspiration from. Ideas are super similar.  

Squishy3 said: I wonder if this game is what the Hate series drew its inspiration from. Ideas are super similar. Click to expand...

Isn't that game like... super hyper expensive? (like 300+$?)  

Fularu said: Isn't that game like... super hyper expensive? (like 300+$?) Click to expand...

Click to expand...

ZombiePlatypus

Goddamn Lain looks jarringly off in the anime screencap you posted OP. Like almost like a cheap doujin. Normally it'd be a huge detractor, but in this case it kinda adds to Lain's mindfuck "nothing is sacred" vibe.  

Many fine folks have dedicated time and money to make the translation possible. Unfortunately this project's lofty ambition to integrate the translation back into the game will not be realized. With the translation text release, The Serial Experiments Lain PSX Game Translation Project will be closing its doors. By the end of 2014, this website may be no more. But if more fine folks would like to pick up where this project left off, let us know! It will probably take mature, self-motivated individuals with time, assertiveness, and good communication skills. Click to expand...

RangerBAD said: Oh, this would explain your username, Despera. I never realized before now. Click to expand...

Would it be possible to read the translation while playing the game? The translation is clearly numbered, does the game use the same enumeration?  

Palypso said: Would it be possible to read the translation while playing the game? The translation is clearly numbered, does the game use the same enumeration? Click to expand...

gngf123 said: Neat. Shame about the price of the disc, though. £120 at best, near £200 at worst. Click to expand...

Fourth Storm

Damn, this is a blast from the past. Lain was a pretty trippy anime. I'd be interested, but I fear finding a copy of this one legally will not be worth the hassle.  

li bur said: Damn there goes my hopes of paying this game. Any chance of youtube/twitch LP? Click to expand...

( ≖‿≖)

cj_iwakura said: It's extremely rare, even in Japan. Someone posted an image of it at a shop where it was tagged with a 20k+ yen price tag. I was close! Click to expand...

Present day, present time. HaHaHaHaHaHa! I've been meaning to check it out for a long time, maybe now is the time.  

CheesecakeRecipe

Stormy grey.

• Jul 21, 2014

This is super awesome. One of my favorites back in the day. Congrats to the team for their release!  

I am not Max

great series  

HyperZone<3

damn, holy crap, whoa. this is significant. I mean, wow man. Golly.  

• Jul 22, 2014

Since I have the game, I'll see what I can do to make up a video or something, maybe with annotations of the translation. I never got too far into it. You have access to all the archives from the get-go, but a lot of it is inaccessible.  

Great series, horrible game. A let's play won't even do people much good, since the story isn't even told in order and the "anime" parts are less than 10 minutes.  

I see this anime recommended a lot for those who liked Evangelion. Obviously sans the Mecha side does that hold true usually?  

Can't seem to get Fraps working. By the by, SEL only works with ePSXe. I never got it to work with pSX. And as for Evangelion/Lain... yeah, wildly different. Lain is a lot more psychological, and has little to no action.  

cj_iwakura said: Can't seem to get Fraps working. By the by, SEL only works with ePSXe. I never got it to work with pSX. And as for Evangelion/Lain... yeah, wildly different. Lain is a lot more psychological, and has little to no action . Click to expand...

Sorry Cyberians, this isn't happening unless anyone knows another emulator that supports it. Silver Case, sure. SEL, nope, unless I recorded videos the ugly way.  

cj_iwakura said: Sorry Cyberians, this isn't happening unless anyone knows another emulator that supports it. Silver Case, sure. SEL, nope, unless I recorded videos the ugly way. Click to expand...

Jawmuncher said: I see this anime recommended a lot for those who liked Evangelion. Obviously sans the Mecha side does that hold true usually? Click to expand...

LordBaztion

Remember they day animax was made avaliable in Perú, Serial Experiment Lain was in its last week of transmision, the following week it was replaced by Vandread or something like that. Since then I have wanted to watch it and this thread just serve me as reminder. OT: cool.  

Jawmuncher said: Sounds good to me then. That aspect of Evangelion is what I enjoyed the most. Click to expand...

Dreamgazer said: Lain is often compared to Evangelion since the two series began to gain recognition in the US around the time frame. That said, Lain doesn't go into much self-explanation like Evangelion does. You will most likely have to look into some of the terminology used in the show and read some of the director interviews to better appreciate it. Click to expand...

cj_iwakura said: Sadly, those interviews are now post-mortem. Click to expand...

super-famicom

Whoa, this is pretty cool. I really enjoyed the anime. Here's the theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PkAQcuZOw  

Murder. She Wrote

First Thought: There was a lain game?! Awesome. Second Thought: Oh wait, I hated that anime.  

super-famicom said: Whoa, this is pretty cool. I really enjoyed the anime. Here's the theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PkAQcuZOw Click to expand...

opticalmace

Whoa, there was a Lain game? Had no idea. I still have the dvd boxset of the show somewhere.  

Oh wow, I always wanted to play this.  

I met the artist and producer at Otakon way back in the day. Got a bunch of stuff signed. Such an awesome anime.  

The Most Dangerous Yes Man

Murder said: First Thought: There was a lain game?! Awesome. Second Thought: Oh wait, I hated that anime. Click to expand...

Evil Monkey DTT

I have literally wanted to play this game for years. Holy shit this is a moment of pure joy!  

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[eng] serial experiments lain – psx game [part one].

I started writing an “analysis” that one day I’ll complete and will be subsequently translated in English by Idreim, our lovely collaborator. I also wrote a review about the anime, already translated, that you can find here . We can say we worked hard to pay serial experiments lain , a series which irreversibly transformed my life, a worthy homage. What I present you today is an article about the first part of game dedicated to the dear Lain Iwakura, because yes, a videogame exists. It was published for Playstation in November 1998, it’s divided in two CDs and since I’ve completed the first one, I can only briefly talk about it before I can go back to the full game experience in the future and talk about the, alas spoilering, last part.

I’ll start talking about the game mechanics instead of the plot. It’s basically a visual novel, narrated through the use of a collection of files which will make possible recreate the story of Lain and of every character close to her. If you are expecting something similar to the anime, you are misguided: the TV series was born to sponsor the game and not the other way around. The initial project involved only a game. The two Lains of these alternative universes are, indeed, the same person, but they were put into different contexts and situations that will lead them to live drastically different and totally disconnected experiences. But the main themes remain the same; there is a heavy criticism towards the Japanese society of the time, where everything that really mattered was being ordinary, where there was no space for a private life which had to be hidden like a secret never to be revealed, because if it was found out, you were finished. Japan has a society that focuses heavily on the collective, not the individual. On efficiency, not on people’s well being. Being different, weak and vulnerable in a similar world means being on the losing side in the battle for life. We will often hear Lain asking herself: is there something wrong with her? Why? Why can’t she just be ordinary? And even when she starts feeling ordinary, why she continues to feel alone and without friends? Less dreamlike than its anime counterpart, but more gritty and centered on the different point of views, this story, told through dialogues, images and videos will make you take a big dive into the psyche of Lain but also of the other co-protagonist, Yonera Touko, her psychiatrist. The latter will offer the authors a good chance to talk of that side of Japan that it’s still heavily misogynistic and conservative, since she’s a young woman in her late twenties who is still not married and studied abroad, something that’s frowned upon by her superiors, who will do anything to make her feel uncomfortable. At the same time, she will try to help Lain, bur perhaps it will be the little girl who will help her, opening her eyes to the darkest and sick side of this world.

Summing things up: Lain is a 11-12 years old girl who suffers from visual and auditory hallucinations. She is very insecure, especially about her physical appearance . She’s very smart and self-taught, she likes keeping herself informed and shows a serious behavior. It’s safe to assume she feels lonely. She’s under treatment and a young psychiatrist, Yonera Touko (27 years old), who has just come back from a study stay in America, is taking care of her. Touko is hasty, naive and fundamentally a good person, and people at work mistreat her. They side-eye her because she is a young woman who went to study abroad … and this speaks volumes about Japanese chauvinism . She also has a crush on a certain Takeshi, who doesn’t seem to be interested in her. Lain is revealed to be a difficult patient and she make things very hard for Touko. Despite everything, I have difficulties sympathizing with the doctor, even if I feel deeply sorry for her. With Lain it’s different, because I find myself going through really dark times. Everything feels very weird and heavy and I feel more connected to her than ever, especially for the way she reacts and lives with her peers, from whom she’s more and more isolated, and she deludes herself.

This first CD, composed of 22 levels that must be explored from the more superficial (lv1) to the deepest one (lv22) is, as I said before, a collection of files, recordings, phrases and videos. Following the prearranged order, it will be possible to learn, bit by bit, the whole story. The game, available only in Japanese, it’s a bit hard to play, but there is a website where you can find everything translated in English, thus making possible to live the complete game experience , even if the hidden files will be available right away:   LAIN GAME .

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A browser-based implementation of the Serial Experiments Lain PSX game using react-three-fiber with the aim to provide multi-language support and make it more accessible.

The original PSX game was released in Japan, back in 1998. The game never got a proper english adaptation, which resulted in all non-Japanese speaking players either having to play through the game while simultaneously reading through the translation, or simply not playing the game at all and only reading it.

The goal of this project is to provide a better experience for those willing to play the game, and the way to do so is by implementing a subtitle system, which has the capability to support multiple languages.

Building locally

Building locally is currently not possible. This is because the repository lacks static assets ripped from the game due to it being copyrighted content. The plan is to write an extraction script (currently located inside scripts/extract ), where the user who owns the game provides the disc binaries themselves, and the script automates the static file extraction. This script is still WIP.

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__tests__/ - Jest tests.

• components/canvas/ - TSX components used in the actual 3D environment (sprites, meshes, etc.).
• components/dom/ - TSX components used for the website pages.
• core/ - State management. Contextual (scene/state influenced) processors, mutation handler, event templates.
• hooks/ - Custom hooks for React.
• json/ - Reverse-engineered JSON data the game uses for a variety of tasks (node positions, font texture atlas definitions, etc.).
• pages/ - Pages for the website (index, notes, guide, options, etc.).
• shaders/ - Fragment/Vertex shaders.
• styles/ - CSS.
• types/ - Type definitions.
• utils/ - Utilities/helper functions used to boostrap functionalities (node finding algorithm, name selection handlers, etc.).
• store.ts - Zustand store used for managing global state.
• extract/ - WIP extraction script to automate the local building process of the game.
• Finish writing the extraction script
• Improve/complete the translation

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If you have any ideas/suggestions/found an issue or want to help us with the translation or anything else, please make an issue .

Tools used during development

• jPSXdec - PlayStation 1 audio/video converter.
• three.js - JavaScript 3D renderer.
• react-three-fiber - three.js wrapper for React.
• zustand - State management library for React.
• react-spring - Animation library.
• drei - Utilities for react-three-fiber.
• three-plain-animator - Sprite animation library.

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PSX serial experiments lain english subtitles or translation

• Thread starter rygD
• Start date Jul 16, 2014

Nihilistic Mystic

• Jul 16, 2014

comradekingu

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• Jul 20, 2014

Picture doesnt work. See if there any similar other projects that have figured out the game-technical bit and consult those people.  

Thanks.  Stupid picture.  Maybe I will get another one.  Or not.  Depends on if I remember. Sad thing is I don't even want it dubbed, I just want subtitles, which I think would be easier if I am only playing on an emulator.  I think the project I linked had all/most of the transcripts, and as long as there is some way to identify what goes with what I can use that until I figure out how to get it all self-contained.  

Still fresh, damnit!

Are the published transcripts used against FMV or against cut scenes? If the former, you don't have to worry so much about file space, just how to edit the video, but if the latter and you're replacing Japanese text with English you've got all the general problems people have when doing this for 16-bit titles.  

Levi said: Are the published transcripts used against FMV or against cut scenes? If the former, you don't have to worry so much about file space, just how to edit the video, but if the latter and you're replacing Japanese text with English you've got all the general problems people have when doing this for 16-bit titles. Click to expand...

• Jul 22, 2014

Okay, not speaking more than a couple words of Japanese, that confused the hell out of me, but I see why you found my question confusing. No idea what's going on with all those icons at the start, but I assume the audio track is assisting you. That's the main thing that'd need to be re-recorded. I assume all the text over the video is from the video author. Hopefully that should be relatively straightforward to do if you have the voice talent. I'd assume long samples like that won't be embedded in the executable like in-engine animations and subtitles for cut-scenes would be, and the other bits look like pre-recorded FMV which likewise will probably be stored under some sort of filesystem on the disc.  

• Jul 23, 2014

Levi said: Okay, not speaking more than a couple words of Japanese, that confused the hell out of me, but I see why you found my question confusing. No idea what's going on with all those icons at the start, but I assume the audio track is assisting you. That's the main thing that'd need to be re-recorded. Click to expand...

Levi said: I assume all the text over the video is from the video author. Click to expand...

Levi said: I'd assume long samples like that won't be embedded in the executable like in-engine animations and subtitles for cut-scenes would be, and the other bits look like pre-recorded FMV which likewise will probably be stored under some sort of filesystem on the disc. Click to expand...

Wikipedia said: 'It was...made to be a "network simulator" in which the player would navigate to explore Lain's story. The creators themselves did not call it a game, but "Psycho-Stretch-Ware", and it has been described as being a kind of graphic novel: the gameplay is limited to unlocking pieces of information, and then reading/viewing/listening to them, with little or no puzzle needed to unlock. Lain distances itself even more from classical games by the random order in which information is collected. The aim of the authors was to let the player get the feeling that there are myriads of informations that he would have to sort through, and that he would have to do with less than what exists to understand. As with the anime, the creative team's main goal was to let the player "feel" Lain, and "to understand her problems, and to love her".' Click to expand...

• Jul 24, 2014

Subtitles for that audio would actually be harder from a coding point of view (but there's much less new art to master, so that's clearly easier).  You'd need to disassemble the game code and hack in a new layer of graphics to make the subtitles.  I dare say it'd be easier to actually hack the subtitles into the emulator, such that it could watch the game code accessing the audio snippets and overlay the subtites in a timely fashion while the game plays out, but either way it's not easy.  

This may be why the people who were working on it decided not to continue.  If I do this it will have to be at some point in the not too near future.  I need to do some more research, and I may need to find someone who can help with additional translation. I think I will probably go the emulator route unless I find that it will be easier to add them in the game.  I do prefer using the original hardware when I can, so I will have to take another look at it when I know a little more about what will be required for each method, and then make the decision.  I may even go with your original suggestion of creating new audio, but the problem I see with that is losing the original feel and tone.  If I do something like that I may as well just piece everything together outside of the game and just make it into a video, but I lose half of the experience that way.  Would it be easier to learn Japanese? I really appreciate your input.  

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The PSX GPU normally can't overlay anything on top of FMVs as it can't draw in 24bpp mode, it just displays data that's copied from MDEC (video decoder). The video material would have to be decoded to some video editor friendly format, subtitles placed and then reencoded back to PSX format. Some workarounds are possible though, as the data from video decoder is copied to main RAM first, the CPU can modify it before sending to GPU. You can't do wonders with 33MHz CPU though, but depending on how much of it is used by the game, it might be possible. MDEC can also decode to 15bits, in that case the GPU could draw stuff on top of video, but that 15bpp mode is rarely used by games for FMVs. I think Ghost In the Shell might be doing something like this (haven't checked though). In both later cases you'd need to find some free RAM and VRAM for font data and some extra code, which may or may not be a problem, depending on how the game is using those resources. Edit: looked at the third video and it seems to be already overlaying the spinning cube thing, so it should be 15bpp and GPU way could probably be used. There is an emulator called Xebra which can display full VRAM contents, you can check if there is free space for fonts with that.  

I don't see the FMVs as being a big problem, since as you say you can just rip them, edit them, transcode them to fit and drop them back in, and I'd guess with this gen of game FMVs are in the minority.  The audio that's overlaid as you navigate what look like conversation trees looks trickier, and those bits near the start of the first video with the girl and the icons - I guess that could all be staged FMV (think DVD menus) but I can't tell from a mere youtube video.  If not, adding subtitles to that? Sheesh!  

Levi said: The audio that's overlaid as you navigate what look like conversation trees looks trickier Click to expand...

Levi said: start of the first video with the girl and the icons Click to expand...

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I've seen this series a few months ago and never knew there was some "game", but it seems to be even worse than the Neon Genesis Evangelion games.  

Maybe.  As I said, this game doesn't try to be a game as much as a way to tell another story.  

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