Finally caved in.
1) Main download worked (game opens, auto-translates, can select MC). How I wish things were this simple and the whole process stopped here like 90% of other games. Imagine also offering a pre-patched alternative with a date and/or version number for context, nah couldn't ever happen.
2) Extracting patch breaks the game, when selecting MC portrait the screen's just black.
3) Translation file is confusing, and not just because the game was already translated without it. CSV folder is self-explanatory, not so much the .txt file (randomly copy/paste it everywhere I guess, as there's no info about it). Not that this matters, since I can't go beyond step 2 anyway.
Once again I can't understate how much even a single crumb of information would be useful in the OP, even if the Info spoiler is lazily left empty, please at least link to the patch+translation posts ITT rather than linking directly to out-of-context downloads, as there's no way of knowing how recent OP's downloads are (translation's .txt filename being the only clue in all this) or if there are other co-dependencies once/if I delve into other updates & Mods mentioned throughout the thread. Worse still, searching for "patch" and "translation" leads to literally 10 pages of results, rending simple troubleshooting useless. An entire fifth of the thread is related to such discussion at this point.
I just wanted to start the game up brehs, even if a few months behind, it can't be this hard to compile the complete A->B->C info in a single new post and link to it for future reference (even if OP's a ghost ITT, although he seems to be active enough tbf).
Sorry for the complaining but I'm sure I speak for some sort of silent majority that is just as frustrated downloading nearly 6GB trying (&failing) to update & play this, but doesn't comment before giving up and leaving this behind.