Translations of wapanese games

[e-mailio estevez]

ZIll O'll Infinite, one of the games that has forever been dismissed as never getting translated (unless maybe Koei did a modern port and gave it an official translation) has had a full translation relased. It's an RPG with branching paths, freeform character customization, and multiple endings, to the point it may just be a full on western RPG made in Japan instead of a jRPG.

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/1284/

Oh man. I've actually really been wanting to play this. Might be the first JRPG I start in awhile.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Surprised nobody mentioned this. Welcome House, a PSX/SAT comedic adventure game played like a survival horror game, got a translation recently. A machine translation. What's interesting is that this is this translation was made by an AI:

Best video I could find, I'm afraid. From what I've read, its supposed to be a good game, though I haven't played it yet, since my Japanese isn't great. I'm more intrigued by how it seems the game got a working translation so quickly.

Also, one of the ChoroQ games got translated. If you don't know, its supposed to be this weird series of Japanese racing/RPG games. I don't know how this game compares to the N64 title or the PS2-era stuff.

 

[Duraframe300]

Undub/Re-Translation for Clock Tower 2 released

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7591/

 

[flyingjohn]

Somebody has started translating wachenroder, a interesting saturn srpg. The leaked patch breaks after the second fight so don't even bother.
Unfortunately the patch author is a faggot who hates piracy and who will terminate the project if he believes most people are pirating the game instead of actually owning the game.

And some good news, tactics ogre for the saturn has been translated:
http://meduza-team.ucoz.net/news/pe...re_let_us_cling_together_saturn/2023-02-27-43

 

[Grauken]

Unfortunately the patch author is a faggot who hates piracy and who will terminate the project if he believes most people are pirating the game instead of actually owning the game.

 

[flyingjohn]

Unfortunately the patch author is a faggot who hates piracy and who will terminate the project if he believes most people are pirating the game instead of actually owning the game.

I quote:
"The constant fear of being associated with piracy"
Said person has no understanding that nobody in the corporate world even knows or gives a fuck about a random German sounding, Japanese Saturn only srpg.

 

[Puukko]

That's some good consoomer conditioning right there.

 

[lightbane]

Top kek. The current state of modding. If the author is that insane, you might as well expect some changes to the script if the author feels it fitting to do so. In before he uses "they" pronouns.
Also, how will "they" check whether or not a game that is near-impossible to acquire legally is being pirated?

 

[spekkio]

tactics ogre for the saturn has been translated:
http://meduza-team.ucoz.net/news/pe...re_let_us_cling_together_saturn/2023-02-27-43

Tested, works and looks great ("widescreen" when compared to the Snes version, no constant loading which PS1 version is infamous for):

Disabled VO tough, due to LQ actors.

SAT version could be the ultimate one, since both PSP remake and newshit Reborn remake are retarded sperg bullshit.

 

[spekkio]

^
Also, I've pirated the game, hope the devs starve to death thanks to that.

As long as they're still alive, OFC.

 

[Derringer]

^
Also, I've pirated the game, hope the devs starve to death thanks to that.

As long as the're still alive, OFC.

Alive works both ways with the dev company (which is probably dead or employees completely replaced) or the employees straight up dying since the game is over 2 decades old.

 

[abnaxus]

Windows translation of Desire has been ported to PC98 version

 

[Puukko]

Yeah I'm a prestigious VN connoisseur, how did you guess?

 

[spekkio]

BROs, two interesting things from Romhacking.net:

• Front Mission 1 (Snes) addendum by mziab for the 2001 translation by F.H.
• Vandal Hearts 2 (Ps1) Take Turns Hack by paul_met, which replaces the one-of-its-own "simultaneous turns" system with the classic "consecutive turns" system.

 

[abnaxus]

“The Sword of Kumdor” (クムドールの剣) is a touch-typing RPG for the NEC PC‑98, created by Michiaki Tsubaki in 1991. You play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters by typing spells — but you lose all your keyboard keys and your QWERTY skills in a crash landing. Can you recover your talents and save the world??

The game has a surreal atmosphere, quirky dialogue, and a distinctive visual style. Japanese fansites call it “my favorite childhood RPG” and “an underrated masterpiece.” I think it deserves more recognition, so I translated the game to English.

Kumdor has the strangest control scheme ever. Outside of combat and spell-casting, only the F, J, and Space keys are used, so as to keep even a novice typist's hands in the home row position at all times. F walks forward and Space turns you 90° clockwise. You get used to it, sorta.

https://foldr.moe/kumdor

 

[flyingjohn]

Oyayi hunter mahjong got translated:
https://cdromance.com/3do-iso/oyaji-hunter-mahjong-english-patched/

Why should you care?

 

[Dramart]

Rent a hero for the sega dreamcast translated to english
https://cdromance.com/dc-iso/rent-a-hero-no-1-japan/

 

[distant]

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Bah! 4 years ago.

 

[kaisergeddon]

I'm surprised we haven't seen Illusion City and Surging Aura translations by now.

 

[Duraframe300]

I think around 1 1/2 years ago I posted in here about Load Worth's new Ace Combat 3 translation that replaces the current unfinished one.

It's here now:

https://loadwordteam.com/projects/ace-combat-3-electrosphere-a-complete-fan-translation/

 

[680x0]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1000games/hack-and-slash-rpg-quester-english-translation/

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Bah! 4 years ago.

TBQH the MegaCD version of Illusion City sucks and is not worth translating. MSX/PC-98 versions, on the other hand...

I'm surprised we haven't seen Illusion City and Surging Aura translations by now.

Illusion City is definitely doable on the technical side since the text is not compressed or encrypted.

 

[kaisergeddon]

Bah! 4 years ago.

TBQH the MegaCD version of Illusion City sucks and is not worth translating. MSX/PC-98 versions, on the other hand...

I'm surprised we haven't seen Illusion City and Surging Aura translations by now.

Illusion City is definitely doable on the technical side since the text is not compressed or encrypted.

Huh, that's interesting, definitely low-hanging fruit for anyone willing to pick it up. I'm assuming this applies to the PC-98 version, which is the one I'd really like to play too. I read before that Surging Aura was built on the PSIV engine, which has been disassembled six ways to Sunday, and that makes me think it may not be so hard to tackle either.

 

[kaisergeddon]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1000games/hack-and-slash-rpg-quester-english-translation/

This looks incredible, and it's nice to see the kickstarter succeeded too. Definitely something I'm interested in. Wishlisted.