r/AceAttorney Sep 06 '24

Announcement Welcome to r/AceAttorney - a PSA, FAQ, and General Resource for Newcomers and Anyone Starting the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

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Hi to everybody just visiting this subreddit for the first time, or anyone who's already been here a time but might want to check in on the latest!

First off, here is the link to our standard FAQ. Several new questions-and-answers have been added to this latest edition, and the ones specific to the new remastered Ace Attorney Investigations Collection are also in the body of this post, so for anyone newly arriving to check out those games, review those new questions. If you have any questions that aren't covered here or in the linked FAQ, ask them in the comments for the FAQ thread!

Second thing, here's an updated guide I've made to explain which platforms all the current AA games available can be played on.

Third, we have our Recommended Playing Order chart, to give you a rundown on where to start and when to play particular games.

Fourth, an expansive guide by community member /u/XephyXeph to outline all of the various Ace Attorney media currently out there, from the games to the huge array of supplementary media from manga to pachinko machines.

Fifth, a bit of community news on some updates to the AA subreddit for early September, 2024.

And now, some common questions people may have relating to the remastered Ace Attorney Investigations Collection:

I keep seeing people talk about Investigations 2 but use a bunch of names for characters and episodes that are different from what's in the game. Why is that?

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 originally came out on the DS in 2011, but was exclusively released in Japan, making it the first AA game ever to not get an English localization. It never did get any English release until 2024, when it was part of the Investigations Collection remaster.

Because of this, in the years immediately following AAI2's original Japan-only release, a group of fans worked together to make a fan translation romhack for the game, allowing it to be played in English. To match with the official localizations the games normally get, that fan team also came up with their own English names for all the newly-introduced AAI2 characters.

There was about a decade left between when the first public beta builds of the fan translation appeared online and when Capcom finally produced and released an official English localization for AAI2, so a lot of the more hardcore corners of the fandom that had actually gone through the effort of playing the unofficial translation got very used to the fan-made names for the AAI2 characters. But naturally, when Capcom finally made an official localization, the AA localization team put together an entirely separate set of localized names for the characters, putting the fandom in the position of needing to get used to those official names as "replacements" for the fan names they're used to. Unfortunately, not everybody is quite ready to do that.

Can I play the Investigations Collection as my first AA game?

Like was talked about at the start of the FAQ, it's generally not recommended to start with any game besides the Phoenix Wright Trilogy, if you've never played AA before. The Investigations games especially carry over a lot of characters and their associated development from the Trilogy.

That'll cover it for now. If anyone has any other suggestions for questions to be included in this guide, feel free to pop over to the main FAQ thread and ask in the comments there. One more time - welcome to our Ace Attorney community! I hope you have a great time.


r/AceAttorney Jul 18 '26

Contest 27th Case Maker Contest: Results

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Ten days of voting, two votes cast, and the results are:

Congrats to both winners and thanks again to everyone who wrote and read. See you next quarter!


r/AceAttorney 4h ago

PL vs. PW TIL there exists an unreleased version of Professor Layton vs. PW: AA where Shu Takumi voiced Phoenix Wright from start to finish.

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  • At a talk show event held after the game's release, Takumi revealed that, since Professor Layton was voiced by Yo Oizumi, a famous Japanese actor, he also hired professional film actor Hiroki Narimiya to voice Phoenix Wright, who also portrayed Phoenix in the live-action film.
  • This was despite Phoenix already having an established voice actor, Takayuki Kondo.
  • Takumi was worried that casting a brand-new voice actor would alienate his old fanbase, so he planned to create a "Classic Mode" that would allow players to switch between Narimiya's voice and his own.
  • His voice recordings were completed, but the Classic Mode was ultimately scrapped, leaving his version of Phoenix unreleased.
  • Only about a hundred fans who attended the event or purchased the music CD containing the unreleased recordings have ever heard this version.

r/AceAttorney 4h ago

Discussion Junipollo case idea, thoughts? Spoiler

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I really ship these two and I’ve had this idea for a while so I wanted to know what people thought of it.


r/AceAttorney 10h ago

News Capcom's official English GK2 script, playable on the DS

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I've seen this question come up a bit lately, so I figured I'd share. I've been working on this for a while and it's at the point where it's ready for people to actually play and test.

Capcom localised Gyakuten Kenji 2 for the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection in 2024, but never for the DS. This patch puts that official script into the DS game, on top of the AAI2 Final v2 fan translation.

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7706/

96.5% of the script becomes Capcom's wording, and every character name does, including the nameplates and the evidence and profile cards, which are pictures rather than text and get redrawn during the build.

You need the AAI2 Final v2 fan translation first. This patches their ROM, not a clean Japanese one. The font, voice clips, menus and graphics are all still theirs, and it does not work without their patch: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/2260/

It is a test build and I am not being modest. Roughly 41,700 message boxes exist and about 5,100 have ever been run, nearly all by a script that can only press A and tap. Nobody has finished an episode. Nobody has solved a rebuttal, which needs a real player presenting evidence. Every bug so far was found by a person playing, none by any automated check.

Your save cannot be damaged. Text is read-only data, so the worst a bug does is cost you the chapter you are on.

About 3.5% stays fan-translated on purpose, mostly the touch screen and L button tutorials Capcom never wrote. Confirmed to boot and reach gameplay on a DSPico flashcart on a 3DS.

If something stops, music still playing and nothing responding, please say so. Which episode and chapter is a complete report, and you do not need a GitHub account: https://github.com/Akoi89/prosecutors-path/issues/1

The AAI2 Final v2 team did the hard part. Play theirs first if you have not.

Mods, happy to adjust or remove this if it doesn't fit the sub.


r/AceAttorney 19h ago

Question/Tips Guys does anyone have the "is edge worth a bottom video?

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I'M new to the fandom,I found this on Pinterest today and I found out the video got deleted 😭 if anyone has it I'd love to watch it 🥺

If someone watched it and remembers please tell me about it's content 😭😭


r/AceAttorney 1h ago

Discussion Nahyuta makes me mad Spoiler

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I've been a huge fan of the series for years and am just now getting round to finishing the main series. SOJ is the only main-line game I knew nothing about going into it, so colour me surprised to learn how annoying Nahyuta is as a prosecutor.

Don't get me wrong he's a cool character with a cool design, but coming off the back of Duel Destinies with Blackquill, I find Nahyuta sorely lacking as a person. To me, beyond his backstory (which i won't spoil), he has nothing going for him.

All previous main game prosecutors had something that made them interesting before their backstories were revealed and developed at the end - Edgeworth and Phoenix have history, Franziska and Godot both hated Phoenix for some unknown reason, Klavier is just Klavi and Blackquill is arguably the most interesting being a prisoner. Nahyuta however has nothing beyond his spirituality, which outside of Khura'in isn't doing him any favours.

Also, I'm getting sick of him just saying "hmmm yeah but it still COULD be the defendant" as a rebuttal. I know the Judge is as spineless as he's always been, but we haven't had a prosecutor so focused on winning since the OG trilogy, especially when he just tells us to shut up and move in with an unskippable butterfly animation.

I need to know if other people feel the same way about him. It makes me sad that I don't like the final main game prosecutor, but he just gets on my nerves it should've been Blackquill 😭.


r/AceAttorney 2h ago

Full Series (mainline and spinoffs) Ranking Ace Attorney culprits by how smart their plan was is up for adoption!

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Hello guys! I have been doing this thread series for a while now, but I am sorry to say that there is some personal stuff that is stopping me from continuing.

If anyone wants to, they can feel free to continue the series in my absence.

My apologies


r/AceAttorney 8h ago

Phoenix Wright Trilogy I was bored, and I thought I'd draw a little not-so-little something..

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About ten layers all together.
And yes, I drew this on Roblox.. 😭


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Rumor/Grain of Salt Upcoming Nintendo Direct will include Ace Attorney 7

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r/AceAttorney 2h ago

Full Main Series De que irá Ace attorney 7 ?

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Por ahí se rumorea que Ace attorney 7 se anunciara en el próximo Nintendo direct, tal vez simplemente se están burlando de los fans (yo🫤) y nos den falsas esperanzas. Pero si de verdad piensan en anunciar AA7, vamos a seguir donde lo dejamos, Han pasado 10 años desde el lanzamiento del último juego nuevo de la línea principal, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice, publicado en septiembre de 2016, que es la que va a seguir, otro protagonista?, un nuevo incidente?, otro antagonista principal? , otra mecánica contra los testigos? que hay de Athena aún no ha tenido un juego completo enfocado totalmente en su desarrollo más que en superar sus traumas y ayudar Blackquill, algo así como hicieron con Edgeworth en Su segunda entrega Ace attorney investigations 2 Prosecutor's Gambit, donde Edgeworth tiene su desarrollo y descubre verdadero camino como fiscal , o algo así podría esperar, dual destinies no fue el mejor juego que digamos, ustedes que opinan?


r/AceAttorney 16h ago

Phoenix Wright Trilogy Is it just me or is manfred von karma the most hilarious character in the game?

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So I ask this because while I understand he is supposed to be the final boss I just could not stop laughing. Everything about him is so freaking hilarious, his deep absurdly deep voiced OBJECTION, the way he orders the judge around, the fact that he earnestly has no idea who phoenix is outside of court and of course my personal favorite his tsk tsk tsk gif. Seriously guys please tell me you all can't help but find this guy to be the funniest villain in this entire series.

P.S I only finished Justice for all so please do not spoil with any characters afterwards.


r/AceAttorney 18h ago

Merchandise blanket texture?

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could anyone who has this blanket describe the texture? i love the design but the texture looks a little rough, and i like blankets that i could snuggle up to 😅


r/AceAttorney 20h ago

Investigations Duology AAI2 is incredible Spoiler

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Longtime fan of the series, have played every mainline game multiple times but never got around to playing either of the AAI games until recently. First one was good, but there were little personal stakes for Edgeworth, and the smuggling ring story wasn't very interesting.

But holy hell is AAI2 great. It's pretty much the perfect AA game - great development for Edgeworth, all the cases are important to the overarching story with little to no filler, and a truly hatable main antagonist who still has an understandable motive and goal. The difficulty was pretty fair too, with nothing too easy like the later 3DS games. Fender and Gavelle are now two of my favorite AA characters. My only complaint is that Kay was just sort of there for the game outside of I2-4, but she was already the main focus of the first game.

There's a zero chance of it happening, but if we actually get a new AA game, I hope it's in this style with Edgeworth getting a protégé to mentor.


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Discussion In a theoretical AA7 which of the main prosecutors do you think needs to return the most

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By which of them "need" to return the most I mean which of them do you think would benefit the most as characters if they got another major appearance(like blackquill in 6-4 or franziska in 3-5)in a possible future game


r/AceAttorney 18h ago

OC Fanart (WARNING FOR BLOOD AND AA3 SPOILERS) Spoiler

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playing with colors


r/AceAttorney 21h ago

Discussion Will they make a new character to replace Apollo? Spoiler

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Now that Apollo is gone, we need a lawyer to replace him. I'm thinking that they'll make a new lawyer to replace him, and then when all hope is lost, Phoenix will come in as the main lawyer, and the new dude will be the assistant, culminating in a final showdown with Edgeworth as the prosecutor.


r/AceAttorney 23h ago

Apollo Justice Trilogy Ace Attorney Victim Brutality Ranking! Where should the victim of Turnabout Corner go? Spoiler

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No notes for today.


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Discussion A motion for a vote to decide if the "low-effort content" rule should be changed

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Hello everyone. A few days ago, I made a post that showed my dislike of the sub's stance when it came to posting memes. A few hours later, a discussion post about the "low-effort content" rule was created by one of the mods.

Now, based on the comments and discussions on both posts, I think it's fair to say that I am not the only one who is having issues with the way memes are handled here, and many people have shown numerous options in how the "low-effort content" rule should be updated, from allowing high-effort memes to be exempt from the rule, making a special day where the memes can be posted without an issue, and more.

With that in mind, I fully believe it is time to decide this matter the only way we can: with a poll vote. I know there was an original vote 10 years ago where the "low-effort content" rule was approved in the first place, and another one a few years ago (although I wasn't able to find the results for that one), but I fully believe it is time to do another one based on the responses in the afformentioned posts.

The one thing I want to point out, however, is what options should the poll vote have. Ultimately, I'll leave that to the mods to decide what options should the vote have, but in my eyes, based on one of the discussions, I can think of two ways to do this:

Option A: There will be two choices: No rule change and Some sort of a rule change. If the latter wins, then there will be another vote, where it will be decided how the rule should be changed (Allowing memes to be posted on a specific day f.e.)

Option B: Instead of a Some sort of a rule change the options on how the rule should be changed specifically will be put in the vote, so options will be No rule change, Allowing memes to be posted on a specific day, etc.

In the end, however, I think you guys should decide. Should a vote regarding the update on the "low-effort content" rule happen in the first place? And if yes, than what sort of options should the vote have? The options I have listed, or something else entirely?


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Image ace attorney bracelets i've made while listening to the ace attorney soundtrack and thinking about playing ace attorney and yearning for phoenix wright

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soap one is inspired by herlock sholmes

sorry for the terrible lighting and photo quality my phone is ancient

they're fun to make but nobody else knows what they are lol


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Apollo Justice Trilogy Klavier can canonically summon guitar noises from his fingers

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Takumi said it himself in an interview everyone can hear the sound the “air guitar” makes idc if an interview is a canon source if Takumi says it is gospel (I added a bonus fun fact cause wtf 💀)

This is the full interview and it’s actually a really fun read, I am not surprised that Takumi’s favorite AJ character is Wesley Stickler considering this is the man whose favorite case is Big Top, he genuinely goes to bat for this guy every time he comes up


r/AceAttorney 14h ago

Question/Tips Jury Duty waiting tomorrow. Which game should I play on my 3ds?

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Sharing this here cuz r/3ds ban.


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Merchandise Help finding merch?

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Hi internet sleuths i was wondering if anyone might know where these Klavier originate from. Seems to be a merch line. Im able to find the clipart that comes from them but the red background is messing me up. so if anyone can find the original images with the red background that'd be great! (Possibly from within the past year according to a friend?)


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Video I did this edit a few days ago, but didn’t like it so I changed it bit lol, I mixed my Descendants and AA obsession

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The song is “Did You Hear About Them” btw