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Subterranean Animism English Patch v1.00

Tada~

It’s taken us… actually not all that long to get here, but we’ve completed the English patch for Subterranean Animism! Click on the image above to download the file, then install away! Read on for a few patch notes.

NOTE: The patch has been updated to 1.00a; if you’ve had issues with the game locking up with a black screen on startup, download the latest version of the patch and reinstall. This update also fixes a translation error in Ending No. 03.

NOTE 2: The MoF patch has also been updated with the same black screen fix; if you’re having the same issue with it, redownload the patch from the original post or from here.

Thanks go out to bofh, Mr_Alert, Halbarad, Mefidex, SirAlex, Ars, and more for all the hard work they’ve put in to make this possible.

Notes:

- Spellcard names in the player data screen will appear as mojibake until the card has been played once on the English patched version of the game, then should appear normally.

- You may want to back up your scoreth11.dat file before installing the patch, in case you encounter any problems. Please remember that due to a bug in the game, SA re-locks the Extra stage for a character if an Easy difficulty run is completed with them. Simply completing the game again on Normal or higher should reopen it.

- Please report any bugs in a comment to this post or in the MotK topic here.

Comments

  1. February 25th, 2009 | 10:48 pm

    Awesome work guys, really awesome!!! This has been a good day ^^
    First ufo danmaku and now this

  2. Anonamousey
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:10 pm

    Love yas… I was expecting this in months.Keep the good news coming

  3. Betty
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:12 pm

    wat

    Already?

  4. Garlyle
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:16 pm

    Wow. That was… fast. Really fast. Considering Mountain of Faith was only just translated. I… damn.

    Today is an awesome day to be a Touhou fan.

    QUICK. SOMEONE RELEASE A PATCH FOR PHANTASMAGORIA OF FLOWER VIEW.

  5. pixelbob
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:37 pm

    gee sure is english patch around here

  6. kkcwkoh
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:50 pm

    Woah…That was really fast o_O
    I hadn’t expect a patch on SA that quickly (still attached to MoF Patch xP )

  7. Patoyo
    February 25th, 2009 | 11:51 pm

    yep, that was quick. Two great things happen today

  8. Wordspoken
    February 26th, 2009 | 12:04 am

    Somebody pinch me for this is not april yet… *awesome*

  9. anon
    February 26th, 2009 | 12:52 am

    Any chance of a fix for us folks the patches won’t work for? (The whole executable locking up immediately after being launched thing)

  10. Mr_Alert
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:15 am

    The issue has been found, so fixes for both patches should be coming very soon.

  11. anon
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:18 am

    Thanks man, glad to hear it. (What was it?)

  12. ranzou3
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:20 am

    very quick. But thanks to the translator.
    Now we want POFV patches.

  13. Mr_Alert
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:29 am

    Well, if you don’t mind technical details, it was hanging on broadcasting a MW_FONTCHANGE message, which is required when installing public font resources to notify all the running programs that the font list has changed, but not really required for the private font resource loaded by the patch for the custom font. Normally, and on most systems, it finishes doing that almost instantaneously, but on some systems (I suspect it’s due to some other program misbehaving), it ends up waiting indefinitely.

  14. anon
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:49 am

    Hmm, probably is the result of something else acting up, bug doesn’t seem to widespread. No idea what though. Thanks again for the fix though (and for the response.)

  15. Immac
    February 26th, 2009 | 2:27 am

    Ok, wait WTH? EXtremely Awesome taht was fast :<

  16. Techeese
    February 26th, 2009 | 3:58 am

    just dropping by to say Thanks

  17. Nameless Fairy LOL
    February 26th, 2009 | 5:11 am

    YAY!!!

    Now give us the UFO patch as quickly!

    BEFORE IT IS EVEN RELEASED! LOL!

  18. LunaYakumo
    February 26th, 2009 | 6:12 am

    What the speed…
    I wonder if we could share about the SpellCard name editing techniques?
    Our forum is also doing some localization on touhou projects,
    but got stuck on decoding the ecl files…

  19. Nome
    February 26th, 2009 | 8:17 am

    WHY ARE YOU SO
    FAST

  20. A
    February 26th, 2009 | 9:24 am

    yyeeessssssss so fast!

  21. February 26th, 2009 | 9:40 am

    What a day! Amazingly fast job, guys! Thanks! Now I’ll be playing SA all day!

  22. February 26th, 2009 | 10:38 am

    I love you.

    Going to play this like crazy after I finish work.

  23. February 26th, 2009 | 11:01 am

    Well, the patch team has been working on SA at the same time they worked on MoF plus the hacking was pretty much identical as MoF from what I’ve heard. So yeah, that’s the reason why it looks so fast. It’s not like they picked up SA right after the MoF patch was done. That’s just crazy~

    Good job, guys. I’ll see you around later.

  24. joe
    February 26th, 2009 | 11:46 am

    good work guys. Time to get it now.

  25. Nanashi
    February 26th, 2009 | 12:01 pm

    This is awesome, guys. Thank you very much.

  26. phm
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:14 pm

    Well I don’t know, it just doesn’t work in my pc (nor the MOF patch does). I use Windows Vista 64bit. When I try to load the game, it hangs and shows a black screen. Does anyone know how to fix this? :S

  27. free
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:18 pm

    @phm: try running in window mode

  28. anon
    February 26th, 2009 | 1:57 pm

    phm, there’s a fix for this in the works. Read some of the other posts.

  29. February 26th, 2009 | 2:06 pm

    THANK YOU!

  30. EZMode
    February 26th, 2009 | 3:22 pm

    PoFV patch where?

  31. Arcenio
    February 26th, 2009 | 7:26 pm

    Aargh, first a Patchcon and MoF patch. Then the announcement of Touhou 12, and now an english patch for SA???

    You guys just made my day.

  32. anon
    February 26th, 2009 | 8:32 pm

    Thanks for the fix, I’ll go enjoy the patch now.

  33. grgspunk
    February 27th, 2009 | 12:15 am

    Daaaaaaymn… Gone are the days where it takes a whole year to release a patch for each consecutive game…

    Excellent work!

  34. mystic square fan
    February 27th, 2009 | 5:21 pm

    MYSTIC SQUARE WHEN

  35. hiroi_raind
    February 27th, 2009 | 7:34 pm

    awesomeness…
    thx a lot for your hard work guys!!

  36. DiabloTerrorGF
    February 27th, 2009 | 8:22 pm

    I second Mystic Square when?

  37. NO FLIPPIN WAY
    February 28th, 2009 | 7:02 am

    What’s next on the translation list; SWR? :->

  38. zilverblitz
    February 28th, 2009 | 8:39 pm

    @ NO FLIPPIN: we need to vote the SWR on the Poll for the next ENG patch :D

  39. Leviathean
    March 2nd, 2009 | 12:05 am

    This is such awesome news. You guys are the greatest!
    You have my everlasting thanks.

  40. NO FLIPPIN WAY
    March 2nd, 2009 | 9:00 am

    Well I already casted my vote, all I can do is wait for the next TH TL release.

  41. atsutane
    March 8th, 2009 | 8:35 am

    Very fast release, good job^^.

    I noticed something while the setup of the patch. All of my replay are the same, I lose in the final stage, but, I clear the stage…
    It’s very frustrating >_<

    Well, I hope the next patch will be for Scarlet Weather Rhapsodie^^

  42. jbrennan
    March 9th, 2009 | 11:28 pm

    So, uh, am I the only one who can’t install this? It gives me errors, like so:

    Subterranean Animism English Patch v1.0a for v1.00a (full)

    Translation: Touhou Wiki (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/), Solamarle
    Editing: Mefidex, SirAlex
    MSG/ECL/EXE patching, patch installer: Mr_Alert
    custom_e.exe bugfix: mauve, bofh
    Image editing, fonts: Halbarad
    DAT packer, ANM patcher:
    Original PoFV MSG dumper: S” (Simon Elen)
    Beta Testing: SirAlex, bofh, Ars, Halbarad, Mefidex

    Patching external files…
    Error patching file(s):
    custom.exe
    th11.exe
    Patching DAT file…
    Error opening source DAT file.
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.

  43. jbrennan
    March 9th, 2009 | 11:30 pm

    I should add that I moved the patch file to the correct folder and had it extract there. Do I just need to find a different SA version? I had to install the one I got using Daemon, if that makes a difference.

  44. March 14th, 2009 | 11:45 pm

    thanks a lot

  45. Chiaki
    May 9th, 2009 | 7:02 pm

    Patching external files…
    Error patching file(s):
    custom.exe
    th11.exe
    Patching DAT file…
    Error opening source DAT file.
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.

    I think i got the same problem as jbrennan :|

  46. Renzo
    May 10th, 2009 | 2:28 am

    The English patch makes the last stage can’t be played… [ it's always crash ]

    [ And I can't play the original without crashing at last stage either...] ( i’ve tried to change the applocales into japanese, also try uninstall and reinstall but it doesn’t help … :( ]

    Subterranean Animism English Patch v1.0 for v1.00a (full)

    Translation: Touhou Wiki (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/), Solamarle
    Editing: Mefidex, SirAlex
    MSG/ECL/EXE patching, patch installer: Mr_Alert
    custom_e.exe bugfix: mauve, bofh
    Image editing, fonts: Halbarad
    DAT packer, ANM patcher:
    Original PoFV MSG dumper: S” (Simon Elen)
    Beta Testing: SirAlex, bofh, Ars, Halbarad, Mefidex

    Patching external files…
    Patching DAT file…
    Error patching file(s) in th11.dat:
    stgenm06.anm
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    1 file(s) affected.

    And ERror : Error patching / extracting file(s).

    1 file affected

    I wonder if it’s only me ? or sumbody else experience like this too ?
    Anyone helps ? :(

  47. Noskire
    May 20th, 2009 | 10:11 am

    seriously some of us are having difficult using this patch. can someone that made the patch work please let us know how you did it because this game won’t be translated if the patch doesn’t work, thereby making this patch a failure of the most epic proportion and a waste of time for those of us who didn’t get it to work.

  48. Anonymous
    May 25th, 2009 | 6:47 am

    Attention to people who can’t get it to work!! If you’re going to patch the game, make sure you save the file to the folder where all of the game data is kept, and then execute the patch. Granted, this probably isn’t why you are having problems, but just in case you are as moronic as me . . .

  49. Some Anon TH Fan
    June 1st, 2009 | 4:18 pm

    The play area does not show up correctly and the the actual display of the play area covers only over half the width and slightly less height than the play area box, while the rest of the box shows the normal play area display but is mostly obscured by the smaller play area image overlapping, and the overlapping image flickers. and to make things worse, the frame rate is horrible and has heavy lag…(the timer for spellcards count down 1/3 of the normal timer rate…).

  50. Noskire
    August 17th, 2009 | 12:14 am

    anonymous said: “Attention to people who can’t get it to work!! If you’re going to patch the game, make sure you save the file to the folder where all of the game data is kept, and then execute the patch. Granted, this probably isn’t why you are having problems, but just in case you are as moronic as me . . .” sorry but fail. we all know the patch needs to be in the same folder as the game data it’s patching. i even tried to use app locale crap and it still wont work

  51. Bob
    August 20th, 2009 | 3:59 am

    Subterranean Animism English Patch v1.0a for v1.00a (full)

    Translation: Touhou Wiki (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/), Solamarle
    Editing: Mefidex, SirAlex
    MSG/ECL/EXE patching, patch installer: Mr_Alert
    custom_e.exe bugfix: mauve, bofh
    Image editing, fonts: Halbarad
    DAT packer, ANM patcher:
    Original PoFV MSG dumper: S” (Simon Elen)
    Beta Testing: SirAlex, bofh, Ars, Halbarad, Mefidex

    Patching external files…
    Error patching file(s):
    custom.exe
    th11.exe
    Patching DAT file…
    Error opening source DAT file.
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.

    And here I was getting my hopes up and such… Sigh…

    Any kind of solution would be highly apreciated.

    (also: XP SP3, 10ghz quad AMD phenom, 2gigs of ram, 256mb ati videocard (don’t ask… but these games don’t exactly require much graphics-wise))

  52. Itachihro
    August 23rd, 2009 | 9:08 am

    @Bob: this has nothing to do with your pc. it means that there’s a file either missing or corrupt, reinstalling touhou would probably fix that.

    Very nice patch, now i finally know that the dialogues are about ^^

  53. patch fail :(
    October 28th, 2009 | 8:03 pm

    Patch doesn’t work for me :(

  54. I CANT PUT MY ARMS DOWN!!!!!!!
    November 18th, 2009 | 5:30 am

    how do i patch it???

  55. World
    January 8th, 2010 | 10:16 pm

    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.

    I can see that several other people are having this problem and I didn’t find a single answer on the internet apart from “Try reinstalling” or “Are you sure you’re patching the right folder”

    I just downloaded the whole thing from Gensokyo and deleted my old folder (Because there doesn’t seem to be updates for this one like there are for some other games), and I still got the same error.

    Please someone help, I would enjoy being able to play SA in english

  56. Ryzathe
    February 5th, 2010 | 12:26 am

    If you’re having the “Error: Error patching/extracting file(s). 3 file(s) affected.” error that says that your custom.exe and th11.exe are missing (the error people have previously posted having with the frog image), it’s possible that you are making the same mistake I was. My dl of the game came in a folder labled “Touhou11 – Subterranean Animism (With English Patch 1.00a)”. Inside that folder was the patch and another folder titled “Touhou 11 Subterranean Animism”, which, of course, held the game. Turns out, to solve the problem I was having you need to move the patch into the second folder (labeled “Touhou 11 Subterranean Animism”) with the th11.exe file and then try to patch. Note: It doesn’t matter that you can browse and select the folder with the th11.exe file in the patch application itself, if the two files are not in the exact same folder, you will get the missing files error that I did.

    Perhaps this was a really obvious solution to some people, but I don’t have a lot of technological expertise so I typically assume that everything’s where it needs to be when I download something. Still, I felt really stupid when I realized that was all I had to fix the error. >>; Anyways, hopefully this will help someone like me.

  57. MikailCaboose
    February 8th, 2010 | 4:16 pm

    If anyone has problems after the patch has installed with the game blacking out after being opened, if you take the font file and manually copy/move it into the windows font folder, it will force install it and it will then work. Hope this helps anyone :)

  58. Desparately wants to play SA and UFO
    February 20th, 2010 | 6:50 am

    Hey Some Anon TH Fan i think i got the same problem as you have…
    Severe slowing down of the game even with 1/3 frameskip.
    I got the latest DirectX, i got a 3 GHz pentium 4 and 1.43GB ram cpu and a VIA/S3G graphic card.
    Can anyone please tell me how do i get SA and UFO running at normal graphics and framerate?

  59. JamMan
    March 6th, 2010 | 6:16 pm

    When I attempt to play the game, an error box shows up saying: “This application has failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.” I’ve already tried reinstalling it, but I have come across the same message. Help…?

  60. dankuro
    April 14th, 2010 | 1:08 pm

    I have a problem with this game:
    i use a spanish keyboard and when I play the game the controls dont response, its like I am pressing up and left and holding them help me!

  61. Desperate to play SA
    June 18th, 2010 | 9:35 pm

    I installed the font file, yet the game always stops working when I view the Music Room or text dialog. Can someone help?

  62. LOLSPARK
    September 26th, 2010 | 10:23 am

    Subterranean Animism English Patch v1.0a for v1.00a (full)

    Translation: Touhou Wiki (http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/), Solamarle
    Editing: Mefidex, SirAlex
    MSG/ECL/EXE patching, patch installer: Mr_Alert
    custom_e.exe bugfix: mauve, bofh
    Image editing, fonts: Halbarad
    DAT packer, ANM patcher:
    Original PoFV MSG dumper: S” (Simon Elen)
    Beta Testing: SirAlex, bofh, Ars, Halbarad, Mefidex

    Patching external files…
    Error patching the following file(s):
    custom.exe (missing)
    th11.exe (missing)
    Patching DAT file…
    Error opening source DAT file.
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.
    I got the problem too…

  63. LOLSPARK
    October 11th, 2010 | 3:00 am

    Nobody’s answering me does that mean nobody wants to tell me or your just ignoring it yukari

  64. LOLSPARK
    October 11th, 2010 | 4:17 am

    before that ERROR happened I think the ready box or whatever thingy was BLANK yeah it was BLANK so is it suppose to be full or is that what happened to everyone even the persons that can install this game

  65. MateusDC
    January 20th, 2011 | 7:21 pm

    I finally applied the English patch just to discover my joystick does not work on this game. In all other Touhou games it works just fine. How come???

  66. Koumakyou
    February 6th, 2011 | 10:59 pm

    Um… I’m having a hard time downloading patches and getting them to work… could anyone help me?

  67. :3
    September 11th, 2011 | 10:45 pm

    how can i stop this?

    Patching external files…
    Error patching the following file(s):
    custom.exe (missing)
    th11.exe (missing)
    Patching DAT file…
    Error opening source DAT file.
    Extracting files…
    . -.
    ‘- ‘- ._…_ ___
    OH /_’.m,::–,- .-’ ,,,, ‘.
    .’`. ,. ”. /”"”"”"”" “”** |
    NO! ‘-,//-” /’-./ ‘;’ ‘-.
    . /./.,O../ /_,’,,’,_______ ‘.
    -’-’ |`-::::’;”‘-________,,,,..-” |
    ‘. .’
    ‘-.._ .-’
    / ‘.___
    –.;;;.-….—.’ | | _ | | ‘;–’–
    —-”"”"”"”"–”-;;’-_,’_–”"‘–”"””’-..|;;;’.”"”"
    “”"”"—– .–…_
    Error: Error patching/extracting file(s).
    3 file(s) affected.

  68. November 14th, 2011 | 3:13 am

    Hello,
    i also faced the error again and again.. the solution explained here is also very helpful.. .. thanks for sharing information about errors..

  69. Smash641
    December 18th, 2011 | 2:56 pm

    My computer won’t download the patch, it always gets interrupted.

  70. nano
    December 29th, 2011 | 3:19 pm

    hiii! ^-^

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