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[Moogie]

A couple of years ago I began making an extensive effort to translate a PSX game that had never had an English release or fan-patch made online. After rediscovering my notes, I'm increasingly interested in trying my hand at making my own patch, but I have no idea where to start.

Are there any resources or tools people use for this sort of thing, or is it all brute force hex-editing of ISOs?

Thanks for any tips. :]

[Blank Expression]

Rip the game off the CD, apply a patch, create a new ISO with the proper headers.

If it's a Latin-character language to another Latin-character language it's often not too difficult, but if it's Japanese to a Latin language, there's often a need to patch code and provide new art assets to be able to display textual changes (which are often longer than Japanese texts and will run out of the dialog boxes, etc.).

[Sabin Stargem]

I would recommend starting with the Romhacking.net website.  That place has a large community and all kinds of resources dedicated to hacking videogames.  If you can actually translate and localize the text yourself and with some quality, then you might be able to team up with a hacker.

[Tilla]

It all really depends on the game of course, every game uses different solutions for storing text. Definitely get in contact with people who've done this sort of thing before.