Thanks to the Keitai community and Vector Translations, they have preserved Xenosaga Pied Piper.
The partially lost phone game released in 2004. For the longest time, the only way to play the game was from 桂樹 's playthrough and Chaoslace’s translation on Zarathustra. Now, not only was the playthrough translated by @ValakTurtle , but he found a group who specializes in Keitai phone preservation to eventually dump Pied Piper and have it be playable on an emulator.
Here is what Valak posted in the description and pinned comment:
*After many years of tirelessly searching for Xenosaga Pied Piper, the day has finally come where it has been preserved for everyone to experience. This is truly a monumental moment for Xeno Series fans as it was the only missing game in the series.
You can download the game here*
With setup instructions for the emulatorhere
*Firstly, I cannot express enough gratitude to the Keitai Wiki Discord Server enough for the many months of hard work and dedication they’ve put towards preserving this game. I’d especially like to thank MemoryHunter for starting the whole Keitai preservation movement, xyz for being the lead reverse engineer for the phone that had the game (he seriously did some wizardry to dump it), LNRC for keeping us constantly informed about the status of the project and chip dumping several phones to help us better understand the phone’s hardware, cuebus for also assisting in the chip dumping of phones, RockmanCosmo for being a pillar of the Keitai community, and everyone else who contributed to our cause. I’m also eternally grateful for the anonymous donor who was willing to dump the game for us.
As for what comes next, I’ve already begun working on a full translation patch for the game as a member of Vector Translations & Preservation, alongside the romhackers in the Keitai Wiki’s server (shoutouts to Yuvi). A finalized version of my script, originally used in the captioned version of 桂樹’s let’s play of the game, is serving as a basis with improvements being made to it. The patch is expected to take at least a few months to ensure the highest possible quality.
In the meantime, I highly encourage your to chek out Cyclone Fox’s remake of Pied Piper , which is nearing completion. It is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious and impressive fangames the Xeno Series community has ever seen thanks to the hard work of CycloneFox and their team.
To keep up with progress on the translation patch, we will soon be creating social media pages and a YouTube channel for future Vector Translations & Preservation announcements. We also have multiple other Xeno projects in the works, with many talented members of the community working on them. The goal I have personally set for us is to one day have every single piece of MonolithSoft-related content fully translated into English (and hopefully more languages!), but that naturally is quite a far way off.
That’s all for now! Thank you for taking the time to watch and read this announcement. I’ve been dying to share it with everyone and hope you’re just as excited as I am. I hope to have more updates soon.*
I can’t wait to play this when I get home from work today. I will be recording a gameplay video. I especially cannot wait to hear what the game sounds like.