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Credits

Much of what is here exists because fans did the work long before this site: translating, transcribing, scanning and keeping old pages alive.

The game's words

English subtitles for the game files: lainass archived by the laingame.net community. Subtitle timing: mutronics, lelenium, Lorenzo, elliotcraft79, Nichts, Mikix, shemishtameshel, espilya, Yokuba, oo, Shuji, TheOneBuns, claire, Eternofímero, Cal and Cena.

They are based on the English translation by the psx.lain.pl archived team (2008 to 2014). Translating and transcribing: Keigo, otakufish, arc, Jossos, Najica, qhojcy, shirafor, nikeko, neverb, yama462, thykka, utakata, Hikari, phm, MrVacBob and liccflii. Administration: phm and m35. Editing: MercuryTW, farhan, m35, exileblue and zinmirai. Technical: stalker-kun, toruvinn, m35 and MercuryTW. Project savior: Dmitry. In their words: "This is a FREE translation for fans, by fans. Intended for personal or private use only."

Japanese transcript: RadioYamashita and Dylan Del Castillo Dunn Meynell, published with lainvtt archived and lainTSX.

The game's data

The map is the PlayStation game's own code, recovered by the Lain PSX decompilation archived, running in the browser with the game's art, fonts and animation. The file list comes from the disc's node table; the links between files and media come from lainTSX archived by ad044 and contributors. The audio and video of the files were extracted from the original discs.

Research and scans

The archive leans on lain.wiki archived, Lawrence Eng's misceLAINeous archived pages (the oldest Lain archive on the web), tachibana.blog archived, Chiaki J. Konaka's own lain pages archived, the uploaders who put magazines, discs and booklets on the Internet Archive archived, Anime News Network's encyclopedia and Wikipedia in English and Japanese. Each entry lists its own sources, and each mirrored scan says who made it.

This site

The lainarchive logo is drawn in the style of the game's "lif" boot logo, with its globe and letters. Everything written here is the archive's own; facts it could not confirm carry a ?. See Contribute to add to it.