It's a collection of three STEINS;GATE visual novels that initially released on Nintendo Switch on March 19th, 2019 in Japan. It contains:
- STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace
- STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
- STEINS;GATE 0
As previously mentioned, this collection received no localization, despite all three games being individually localized. STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace and STEINS;GATE 0 even received digital Switch ports in English on December 10th, 2019! So I thought I'd release the full package in English myself. Which means that STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram on Switch and in English, is now a thing!
To install this patch, you need a Nintendo Switch with custom firmware. You can find more information on that here: https://switch.homebrew.guide/
You also need a copy of the game, which you can either acquire physically or digitally: https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000015243.html
Once you have all of that set up, let us see what this patch does:
- It replaces videos by their English counterparts from either the Switch or PC English releases.
- Provided they exist, it hardsubs videos using the subtitles from the Committee of Zero patches (plural, as some STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace videos are from the original STEINS;GATE).
- It replaces in-game images and menu assets with their English counterparts.
- For STEINS;GATE 0, it also includes the patched images.
- It replaces the scripts with their English counterparts.
- For STEINS;GATE 0, it also includes the patched scripts, with honorifics included, for consistency with the STEINS;GATE ELITE copy you might already have on your Switch and the other two games of the collection.
- It translates the system messages that are exclusive to this version of the game.
Note: It is preferable to not have existing saves, as the size of the STEINS;GATE 0 RINE message boxes are cached in the savefile.
First, download the latest release here (it's 4.5GB!). Plug the micro SD card you used to put custom firmware on your Switch into your PC, or use a File Transfer Program of your liking paired with one of the Homebrew tools, and then drag and drop the atmosphere folder in the archive containing the patch on your micro SD root. And that's it!
- Some of the RaiNet summaries in STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace do not display properly: this is because of the page size being too small in the Japanese version, can't do much about it, however, do know that they are the exact same as in the original STEINS;GATE.
- Feel free to report them in the comments of this reddit thread.
- Whenever the Committee of Zero gets around doing patches for STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace and STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram, this patch will, of course, receive updates that will include those fixes.