Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut – Translation Guide

Translation Guide of Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut

Disclaimer

This document is copyright (c) Robert Allen Rusk (RARusk) 2017.

Introduction

In 2010 a budget game called Deadly Premonition was released for the Xbox 360 in America. Since its release it has been considered one of the great cult games of the previous console generation and maybe of all time, mainly because of its connection to one of the great cult television shows of all time, Twin Peaks. But, until 2013 when The Director’s Cut was released, the only way to play this game on the PlayStation 3 in America was to import the Japanese version called Red Seeds Profile. Even though 98% of all of the text is in Japanese one can still play it without too much trouble.

However, there are some things that may cause some problems. The main one are two specific Side-Quests. In the game there are fifty Side-Quests that you can do for additional items and Trophies. Two of them, [Medical Studies] and [Greenvale Trivia], are quiz based and all of the text are in Japanese. Although you can guess your way through it will take multiple attempts to identify enough of the possible answers to successfully complete these Side-Quests. This guide is meant to make that task much easier. This guide also goes over the [Radio] List to make it easier to know where you’re going.

It should be noted that in the Japanese text there is a Y-shaped character that is used that is also not currently supported in Unicode. That character is represented with a Ⓨ.

The [Radio] and [Radio List]

One of the most, if not the most, important item to get in the game is the [Radio]. It often takes a long time to travel from one side of Greenvale to the other by car. The [Radio] will allow you to instantly warp from place to place when used and can be acquired early in the game. The [Radio] is earned by doing the Side-Quests [Lost Arnold] and [Nameless Flower]. For the first one you need to give George his missing dumbbell and for the second you need to give him the [Flower With No Name], an item that you can only obtain when it rains. When you have the [Radio] then you will then quickly be transported to wherever you selected when you use it. The car that you are currently using will also go with you. If you wish to use a different car then enter and exit it before using the [Radio].

You will need to visit a place first before it will appear on the [Radio] List. You can either go inside when it is open or look through a window when it is closed to put the place on the List. In addition, you don’t need to have the [Radio] in order to add places to the List. You can build the List prior to acquiring it and all the places you have visited will show up when you get the [Radio] and use it. The more places you visit in your initial run-through of a chapter, especially early on in the game, the more places you can warp to and improve travel. Although you can add places during a Chapter Replay they are not saved so this is why you need to add them the first time you go through a Chapter.

There are a total of twenty four places that can be added to the [Radio] List. Nineteen of them can be added as early as Chapter 2 and the remaining five can be added at certain points during the game. Below is the complete [Radio] List for both Deadly Premonition (English) and Red Seeds Profile (Japanese).

Deadly Premonition
[Becky’s House]⼁
[Muses Gallery]⼁
[Harry’s Mansion]⼁
[Greenvale Sheriff’s Department]⼁
[Thomas’ House]⼁
[Galaxy of Terror]⼁
[Greenvale General Hospital]⼁
[Great Deer Yard Hotel]⼁

Red Seeds Profile
『ベッキー宅』
『ムーサ・ギャラりー』
『ハりー邸』
『グりーンベイル保安官亊務所』
『トーマス宅』
『ギャラクシー・オブ・テラー』
『グりーンベイル総合病院』
『グレート・ディアー・ヤード・ホテル』

[G.V. Community Center (Mercury Theater)]⼁

[Milk Barn]⼁

[SWERY 65′]⼁

[A&G Diner]⼁

[Greenvale Forest Park]⼁

[Anna’s House]⼁

[Keith’s House]⼁

[Richard’s House]⼁

『G.V.集会所 (マーキュりー劇場)』

『ミルクバーン』

『SWERY 65’』

『A&Gダイナー』

『グりーンベイル森林公園』

『アンナ宅』

『キース宅』

『りチャード宅』

[Quint’s House]⼁

[Panda Bear]⼁

[George’s House]⼁

[Emily’s House]⼁

[Nick’s House]⼁

[The Tree of Anna]⼁

[Heaven & Hell Gas Station]⼁

[Lysander’s Junkyard]⼁

『クイント宅』

『パンダ・ベアー』

『ジョージ宅』

『エミリー宅』

『ニック宅』

『アンナの木』

『天国Ⓨ地獄ステーション』

『ライサンダー亊務所』

[Medical Studies] Side-Quest

In Chapter 4 you open up this Side-Quest that takes place within [Greenvale General Hospital]. You talk to the Nurse named Fiona who sits behind the front desk. She will ask you medical related questions and you need to correctly answer three in a row to pass. There are a total of sixteen questions that can be randomly selected. The question is only shown on the screen for a few seconds but you have no time limit to answer it. Thus you can take your time and scan the answers to find the one you need to answer the question. Each of the questions are listed in the following format:

Question	The question in English for Deadly Premonition.
Answer	The answer in English for Deadly Premonition.
Japanese (#x)	The answer in Japanese for Red Seeds Profile. The #x refers to either answer #1, #2, or #3.

This format will also apply to the next chapter. As for the questions themselves:

Question	20% of the atmosphere is oxygen. What % do we use when breathing?
Answer	Roughly 17%
Japanese (#2)	約17％

Question	What is the correct way to treat an emergency burn?…………….
Answer	Cool with water on top of clothing.
Japanese (#2)	衣服の上から 水で冷やす

Question	What is the difference between encephalitis and encephalopathy?……..
Answer	Inflammation and pathogens in the brain.
Japanese (#2)	脳内に対して病原体や炎症の有無

Question	Which part of the heart does the blood enter first?………………..
Answer	Right atrium.
Japanese (#1)	右心房

Question	Which of the following has anything to do with a generic drug?…………..
Answer	A patent has expired.
Japanese (#3)	特許満了後 新薬Ⓨ同等成分で作られた薬

Question	Who wrote the medical text “Anatomische Tabellen”?……………
Answer	Kulmus.
Japanese (#2)	クルムス

Question	What kind of medical treatment means “I will please” in Latin?……………
Answer	Placebo.
Japanese (#1)	プラセボ

Question	Where does the “O” blood type take its name from?……………..
Answer	O means zero A and B antigens.
Japanese (#3)	A抗原もB抗原も特たないゼロ=Oから

Question	Which of the following are contrasting taxonomic kingdoms?……………..
Answer	Eukaryote and Prokaryote.
Japanese (#3)	真核生物Ⓨ原核生物

Question	What is the medical definition of “shock”?……………………………
Answer	Blood stops circulating to the organs.
Japanese (#1)	血液が循環不良Ⓨなり 臓器が機能不全に

Question	How many milk teeth are there altogether?………………………………………
Answer	20.
Japanese (#3)	20本

Question	A bump on the head. What is inside of it?…………………………….
Answer	Blood and lymph fluid.
Japanese (#2)	血液やリンパ液

Question	Which part of the cell is the cytoplasm?……………………………………………
Answer	The interior excluding the nucleus.
Japanese (#3)	細胞膜で覆われた内部で核以外の部分

Question	What are antibiotics?
Answer	Drugs that stop bacteria from growing.
Japanese (#2)	2種の微生物中 ー方の発育を阻害する物質………………………….

Question	What is the medical term for aspirin?……………………………………………….
Answer	Acetyl-Salicylic Acid.
Japanese (#2)	アセチルサリチル酸

Question	Where does DNA exist within the cell?………………………………..
Answer	The nucleus.
Japanese (#1)	核

Greenvale Trivia] Side-Quest

In Chapter 26 you open up this Side-Quest within [Harry’s Mansion] near the end of the game. You talk to Harry Stewart who can be found at various places inside his house. He will ask you questions about what happened in the game and, just like with [Medical Studies], you need to get three correct answers in a row to successfully complete the Side-Quest. There are a total of twenty one questions that can be randomly selected.

Question	Wesley’s gun shop, Panda Bear, is open during which of the following hours?.
Answer	20:00 – 6:00.
Japanese (#3)	20:00 – 6:00.⼁

Question	Richard’s son Quint. What is his favorite pastime?…….
Answer	Tinkering his bike.
Japanese (#3)	バイクいじり

Question	What did York consider a big problem after Emily visited him in the hotel?……..
Answer	Emily had been thinking about Zach.
Japanese (#2)	エミリーがザックを気にしていたこⓎ

Question	Which of the following was Anna Graham’s dream?…..
Answer	To become a model in the city.
Japanese (#2)	都会に出てモデルになる

Question	What makes the owner of the gasoline stand, Jack the Raging Bull talk?……….
Answer	Benjamin Franklin.
Japanese (#3)	ベンジャミン・フランクリン

Question	In the beginning, why was Diane out of town?…………
Answer	Was at an auction.
Japanese (#2)	オークションに行っていた

Question	What is the most important thing to Keith Ingram, after his family?………………..
Answer	Grecotch.
Japanese (#1)	伝説のギター グレコッチ

Question	What are the names of George’s dumbbells?……………
Answer	Arnold and Sylvester.
Japanese (#1)	アーノルドⓎシルベスター

Question	Which of the following does Dr. Ushah Johnson like to eat most?…………………
Answer	Potato chips.
Japanese (#2)	ポテトチップス

Question	What was written on the Velvet Falls cup?………………..
Answer	The big fish are biting at Velvet Falls!
Japanese (#3)	素晴らしい獲物を釣り上げよう!

Question	Sigourney always carries around a certain item. What is it?…………………………
Answer	A pot.
Japanese (#1)	鍋

Question	What was the first thing Carol Ames said?………………
Answer	Anna was an airhead.
Japanese (#2)	アンナはバカよ

Question	The keeper of the woods Jim Green. Who is he the father of?………………………
Answer	Lilly Ingram.
Japanese (#2)	リリィ・イングラム

Question	What type of dog did Forrest Kaysen own?……………..
Answer	Dalmatian.
Japanese (#1)	ダルメシアン

Question	Who had lunch at the hotel with Polly when it was raining?………………………….
Answer	Forrest Kaysen.
Japanese (#3)	フォレスト・ケイスン

Question	What did Thomas call Emily’s cooking?……………………
Answer	Amazon frontier cooking.
Japanese (#2)	アマゾンの秘境料理

Question	In Diane’s art gallery, most of the paintings are of what?………………………………
Answer	Trees.
Japanese (#2)	木の絵画

Question	Who does the cooking, Nick or Olivia?……………………
Answer	Nick.
Japanese (#1)	ニック

Question	What did [X] attack York with?………………………………………………………………….
Answer	Scissors.
Japanese (#2)	ハサミ

Question	Where was [X] killed?…………………………………………….
Answer	In the bathroom.
Japanese (#3)	バスルーム

Question	Sheriff’s assistant Thomas also worked at which of the following locations?…..
Answer	Carol’s “Galaxy of Terror”.
Japanese (#1)	キャロルの『ギャラクシー・オブ・テラー』

Conclusion

And this concludes this small, but hopefully, very useful guide for the Deadly Premonition / Red Seeds Profile gaming community. Personally I would rather keep this information within my main text based guide but problems with various web browsers has forced me to seek alternate solutions. Thankfully site has come up with a way to get around this particular problem with their Formatted FAQ page system which allows foreign characters to be presented with few problems.Conclusion

A special thanks to ascii-table.com for displaying all foreign characters so I can find the ones needed for this document. Also thanks goes to the Welcome to Greenvale website (http://shshatteredmemories.com/greenvale) for most of the questions and answers. If you have anything to contribute, spot errors, questions, suggestions, please email me at rarusk[at]netzero[dot]com.

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