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The masterpost contains scans of various official books, unofficial translations of texts, software rips, and more.

Some items appear on multiple pages.

Background image is from HELIOGENOMS A•D by Denki Akiba.

Type "new" to see recent additions to the archives. Some other search suggestions: Art, Spanish (or Español), Heterosexual Ky Kiske, my creature, wiki. Documents are usually in Japanese unless listed otherwise.

LAST UPDATED: 2025 Mar. 13

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RADGUY'S ARCHIVE

This is stuff scanned, translated, or compiled by just Sol Radguy.

ABOUT THE MASTERPOST

This masterpost is maintained and coded by one person: Sol Radguy. It's built upon over two decades of Guilty Gear fan efforts.

The first iteration of any sort of "archive" was by Edward Chang, Roni, Bungiefan, Calico, and several others through the (now defunct and very broken) Gear Project fansite and forums. For the longest time, the only available English translations were the ones by Chang, and they were the foundation for several translations into other languages. You can still find his original English translations and some of the Spanish ones based on them by Aegis High (webmaster of Mexico-based fansite, Ride The Lightning) in this masterpost.

Around the release of Overture (2006), a lot of this initial community got frustrated with the direction Guilty Gear was heading and moved on to other things. Any fansites that were not fortunate enough to make it into web archives like Wayback Machine are now lost forever. With the main heart of the Guilty Gear archival community gone and the rise in popularity of fighting games outside of Japan, a wave of new fansites began to fill the vacuum left behind; though few of these were focused exclusively on Guilty Gear, and even fewer on its lore or art. Gamecombos.com preserved some of the gameplay discussion from the Gear Project forums (and from its ashes later rose the iconic Dustloop with its own forums) and The Fighters Generation collected what little official art there was online for Guilty Gear in the early 2000s. The largest portion of the current masterpost from this era, however, came from the Russia-based fansite, GuiltyGear.ru. Without their efforts a lot would have been lost.

From this period to about 2014 (Xrd Sign), there were few new scans, translations, lore analyses, or other archival works done by the community. The gameplay side of Guilty Gear flourished, but the lore side did not. However, the first iteration of the Guilty Gear Wiki (via Wikia) appeared during this time (2008). It was plagued by well-meaning misinformation, but it was the most easily accessible source for Guilty Gear lore and media information, even though it couldn't host the book scans or unofficial translations.

With Xrd Sign's release, there was, at last, a new group of fans eager to pick up the pieces of the archives and add to it. GuiltyGear.ru was (and still is) an invaluable resource for the oldest of those pieces. Volcanic Fighter (aka Nincopyjasb) and a handful of people that assisted/worked alongside him did the largest amount of new English and Spanish translations the Guilty Gear community had seen since Edward Chang and the Gear Project group in the early 2000s. A significant amount of this masterpost comes from Volcanic.

Then in 2021, after Strive's release, I got into Guilty Gear. It surprised me how few book scans and translations there were, though I had a hard time knowing where to look for them. My first scans and translations were for Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 and its commentary by Daisuke Ishiwatari. After this I translated the Guilty Gear Begin lightnovel. Word of the Begin translation spread and Volcanic reached out to me, sharing his personal archives and inviting me to the Lore Rev Discord server.

It bothered me that the archives were relegated to Discord, an ephemeral platform impossible to make backups of. The first version of this masterpost was as a brief Tumblr pinned post, then its own longer post, before it became too long and I moved it to Neocities. By then a whole new group of fans had rallied together to scan media, preserve interviews, backup official websites, and make transcriptions of texts. The masterpost had gotten so long it made the Neocities editor lag! I then remade it as its current form with a search bar. In 2024 we successfully forked the Guilty Gear Wiki from the Fandom-hosted one (previously Wikia) and relaunched it on the wiki.gg platform.

I suppose, if this masterpost has taught me anything, it's that the smallest contributions to something will mean the world to at least one person. If not immediately, then some day in the future. I have lost track of how many things myself or someone else have found and rehosted — either for this masterpost or for the wiki — that only survived because it meant enough to someone for them to want to repost it somewhere else. Various fanworks or translations copied and pasted to LiveJournal or Geocities, archived in Wayback Machine, from 20 years ago that ended up being the only copy left online.

If you've ever wanted to contribute to this project (or the wiki, or other completely unrelated projects) and aren't sure how: make copies of things and don't host it all in one spot.

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