Fate/Stay Night

This page is for the original 2004 release. For the episodic, reworked version, see Fate/stay night (Realta Nua).

Fate
Subseries of Nasuverse
Fate/Stay Night	2004
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia	2005
Fate/Stay Night (Realta Nua)	2011
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star	2017
Fate/Extella: Link	2019
Fate/Samurai Remnant	2023

Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

Fate/stay night is an adult visual novel developed by Type-Moon.

The game is the first installment of the Fate series of the Nasuverse. It was originally released in Japan on January 30, 2004 with its First Print Limited Edition release, followed by a standard edition that was released on March 26 the same year. The game later received subsequent re-releases on PlayStation 2, PC, Vita, iOS, and Android as Fate/stay night (Réalta Nua), which removed the adult content from the original game, thus changing some story scenes to reflect on these changes, but featured new content that was exclusive to the PlayStation 2 version until its 2011 PC version. The original 2004 game was re-released along with its sequel, Fate/hollow ataraxia, as part of the Fate/stay night＋hollow ataraxia Set for the series' 10th anniversary in 2014 and was reprinted in 2019.

Despite this game not being released outside of Japan, a fan-made English patch by visual novel translation group mirror moon is available.

General information

Official developer website (Japanese)

Visual Novel Database article

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		2004 prints were released on 3 CDs, the 2006 reprint was released on a single DVD and the 2019 reprint was available only as a DMM.com key. See Run without disc.

A trial version is available from the developer's website.

Essential improvements

Run without disc

An official "NoCD" executable for the 2004 release can downloaded from the developer's website here^{[Note 1]}. This executable is not needed when installing mirror moon's English patch which removes the disc check for the CD and DVD releases.

English patch

mirror moon's English patch also has the option to port over the fully-voiced dialogue from the PlayStation 2 Réalta Nua version into the original 2004 game, provided the user has the PlayStation 2 disc.

How to install the English patch^[1]

Download the English patch by mirror moon here.
Run the installer, then follow its instructions. If you wish to install the voice-overs, the installer will ask to insert the PlayStation 2 Réalta Nua disc, whether it is inserted into your disc drive or a disc image using a CD drive emulator.

Note

Installing the voice-overs from PlayStation 2 Réalta Nua disc the into the PC version will take a long time to install than translating the game into English without it.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savedata^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savedata^{[Note 2]}

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		800x600 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Main, BGM, SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Fan translated by mirror moon; see English patch.
Italian				An Italian fan translation by Riffour is available here. Both SFW and NSFW versions are available.
Japanese				See English patch on how to install voice-overs with the English translation.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5, 7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Uncensor Mod

The sex scenes are censored in the original Fate/stay night. Thorny Rose Studios has created a mod designed to work with mirror moon's English translation patch that removes the mosaic censorship of the game's sex scenes.

This mod includes a folder containing a comparison of the censored and decensored versions of game's sex scenes, however, some scene in comparisons contain spoilers, so view them at your own discretion.

How to install the Uncensor Mod^[2]

Download the Uncensor Mod for the original 2004 Fate/stay night here.
Extract the contents of the FSNUncModv*.zip file to its own folder to a convenient location on your computer, copy the patchX.xp3 file into <path-to-game>.
Right-click patchX.xp3 and rename it by changing the X in the Uncensor Mod's file name to a number higher than any other patch*.xp3 file. Example: If there's a patch1.xp3, patch2.xp3, and patch3.xp3 file already in the game's installation folder, then the X in Uncensor Mod's file name should be changed to patch4.xp3.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM)	98/ME: 128 MB 2000: 192 MB XP: 256 MB	98/ME: 256 MB 2000: 384 MB XP: 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.7 GB
Video card (GPU)	Display supporting 800x600 resolution and 65535 colors. DirectX 5.0 compatible	DirectX 7.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectSound-compatible sound card with PCM playback support.

Notes

↑ If the link results in a 404 error, remove the s from https://. This is due to quirks with some web browsers, such as Google Chrome.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-10-25
I have used this patch previously years ago before knowing about the Réalta Nua version on PC. This patch also removes the disc check in the DVD reprints, and the patch also recognized the disc image of the PlayStation 2 Réalta Nua version mounted with WinCDEmu.
↑ Told in the Uncensor Mod's readme file.

[Note-1] If the link results in a 404 error, remove the s from https://. This is due to quirks with some web browsers, such as Google Chrome.

[gamedir-3] 2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[2] Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-10-25
I have used this patch previously years ago before knowing about the Réalta Nua version on PC. This patch also removes the disc check in the DVD reprints, and the patch also recognized the disc image of the PlayStation 2 Réalta Nua version mounted with WinCDEmu.

[Uncensor_Mod-4] Told in the Uncensor Mod's readme file.

[Note 1]

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[Note 2]

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Developers

	Type-Moon
Engines
	KiriKiri
Release dates
Windows	January 30, 2004
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	Visual novel
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Adult, Contemporary, Supernatural
Series	Fate, Nasuverse