After opening the Gate of Steiner and the Gate of Zero, the Gate of Phenogram is finally unlocked!

At last, we’ve reached the world line where all may experience this anthology in the manner that was intended.

As Phenogram runs on a very similar build to the original STEINS;GATE, many of the technical features this patch provides are shared with it. On the language side, meanwhile, we addressed a whole heaping helping of typos and grammatical issues, and we took special care to ensure references, callbacks, and inter-series continuity were maintained.

Now, without further ado, a Tutturu and El Psy Kongroo to you♪

Download link and instructions are ↓ below.

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Screenshots

Typography - before
Typography - before
Typography - after
Typography - after
Subtitles
Subtitles
Translated CGs
Translated CGs

Features

Here’s the full list of improvements. Each can be turned on and off individually, if you like.

Script fixes

A full translation check of the game has been completed, fixing mistranslations, grammatical issues, minor typos, and wording issues, as well as an extensive number of inconsistencies with text formatting.

Translated CGs

Translated a number of CGs and BGs, as well as fixed some terminology and typesetting errors present in other images.

Better typography

Adds word wrapping to phone text and displays story text in a nicer font.

High-quality FMV music

For openings and endings, plays high-quality BGM tracks instead of the included low-quality audio tracks.

Karaoke subtitles

Adds styled karaoke subtitles to openings and endings.

Guides

Installation instructions

  1. ↓ Download the installer. You want SGLBPPatch-v<version>-Setup.zip, not the source code.
  2. Extract the archive somewhere on your hard drive, not in your game directory.
  3. Go to the newly created SGLBPPatch-v<version>-Setup folder and run SGLBPPatch-Installer.exe. Warning: Has sound.
  • If the installer quits with an error about MSVCP140_1.dll, install Visual C++ Redistributable (32-bit version, vc_redist.x86.exe - regardless of your system) and try again.
  1. After you click Finish and the installer closes, you can delete the SGLBPPatch-v<version>-Setup folder.

Troubleshooting

If you’re having a problem not covered here, please ask us on Discord about it.

Note: The game requires the latest DirectX 9.0c redistributable (having a higher version of DirectX installed is not sufficient). If the game fails to run for you, install DirectX 9. (Steam should take care of this for you, but we’re leaving it here just in case.)

Game/launcher fails to start from Steam

You can try starting the launcher from the desktop/start menu shortcut (if you created one during the installation) or by directly running LauncherC0.exe from the game directory (right click STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram in your Steam library, Properties → Local Files → Browse Local Files…). Make sure you’re logged into Steam, though.

Phantom inputs make the game impossible to control (menu selections automatically go up)

On some systems, the game detects false controller inputs (mostly on Linux, but we’ve heard this from Windows users as well).

In the launcher, click More Settings if you haven’t already, go to the Controller tab, select a different controller if you get multiple options, or just disable controller input altogether by unchecking Enable.

Game shows an error about mgs::Audio::CPlayer::InitializeXaudio()

XAudio2 error

Install DirectX 9.0c and try again.

Installer shows an error about MSVCP140_1.dll

MSVCP140.dll error

Install Visual C++ Redistributable (32-bit version, vc_redist.x86.exe - regardless of your system) and try again.

Installer shows an error about api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

UCRT error

Update Windows. You may need to install the Visual C++ Redistributable again afterwards (file above) - use “Repair” when prompted.

Credits

  • Image editing: Choccy, Bloody, Enorovan, Rile_Zugo, LkProd
  • Hacking: JoseJL, Dextinfire, Enorovan, SomeAnon, daxxy, MrComputerRevo
  • QC: Dextinfire, Llednar
  • Translation: Enorovan, fl4t_is_justice
  • Subtitles: zahj, Enorovan
  • Subtitles editing: Kumin
  • Video editing: Rile_Zugo

Special thanks to grechnik for contributing to our open-source repository!

This project includes a number of third-party components. See this page for attribution.

See our other patches