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Post by Ex on Jan 11, 2018 10:37:44 GMT -5
I figured I'd make a thread for dropping news concerning when notable English fan translations release. - Today's bit of news: Game name: Asuncia: Staff of Healing Released on: PlayStation Release year: 1997 Developer: E.O. Imagination Publisher: Xing Entertainment Translated into English by: John Osborne About the game: "An odd sort of RPG, with a simple storyline. Its strategic elements involve fighting your way through a series of randomly generated maps. You earn a score by protecting towns, defeating dungeons, defeating monsters in specific combinations and such. By playing through the Story Mode, you unlock characters and levels for the quick battle mode." (RHDN) Patch location: www.romhacking.net/translations/3393/John Osborne is one of my favorite fan translators. Among other things, he translated the original King's Field into English.
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Post by Ex on Jan 11, 2018 11:15:03 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Feb 15, 2018 11:03:04 GMT -5
Game name: City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle Released on: Famicom Release year: 1987 Developer: Compile Publisher: Toho Translated into English by: filler About the game: "City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle is an action adventure game by Compile for the Nintendo Famicom. It uses characters from the high school baseball manga “Touch”, by Mitsuru Adachi. The goal of the game is to save 10 puppies scattered throughout a town filled with aggressive creatures and objects. You do this by collecting various items, and fighting against various enemies and bosses." (RHDN) Patch location: www.romhacking.net/translations/3440/
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Feb 15, 2018 12:57:48 GMT -5
Cool thread. City Adventure Touch has been on my wishlist for the longest time (I'll likely get it soon, I've been on a big Famicom kick) but I'll check out those other two now as well. I suppose I can mention a fairly recent one. Xak: The Art of Visual Stage, an amazing Micro Cabin ARPG, received a complete SNES English translation last year. Courtesy of the great Dynamic-Designs. Anyone at all interested in retro ARPGs needs to try this one. www.romhacking.net/translations/3170/
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Post by Ex on Feb 15, 2018 13:36:57 GMT -5
Thanks. The idea here is to post new (forum relevant) translations as they are released, to help folks keep up with decent stuff. I suppose I can mention a fairly recent one. Xak: The Art of Visual StageAnd on the other hand, if members such as yourself want to chime in with translations they believe are noteworthy (no matter how old), by all means please do so.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Feb 17, 2018 17:22:15 GMT -5
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Post by toei on Feb 17, 2018 18:21:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Zero is a game I'm really looking forward to playing. I've been curious about that series for a long time, and even though 2 & 4 seemed like the most interesting, when I have some time I'll definitely play Zero. The creator of that series wrote a manga with art from Ryoichi Ikegami called Samurai Crusaders, it was published in North America many years ago (by Viz I think). It has a descendant of samurai traveling around the western world, hanging out with a perpetually-drunk Ernest Hemingway and Picasso and actually fighting villains with them. It was pretty cool. Apparently Tengai Makyou has the same kind of cultural humor going on, plus it was the biggest RPG series on the PC Engine CD AND it continued on the Saturn, so that makes it all the more interesting.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Feb 17, 2018 23:08:06 GMT -5
Hard to believe the first game was released in 1989! It is quite the series, with Neo Geo and GBA installments tossed into the mix as well. Not to mention the various ports that followed.
Zero is quite fun, with beautiful graphics and a real-time clock. Still cheap, I would assume. I picked it up a few years ago for like $1.50.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 18, 2018 0:44:40 GMT -5
It's gotten slightly more expensive as of late; I'm sure that's because of the patch. I'll snag a copy here pretty soon, though.
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Post by toei on Feb 18, 2018 11:24:58 GMT -5
Hard to believe the first game was released in 1989! It is quite the series, with Neo Geo and GBA installments tossed into the mix as well. Not to mention the various ports that followed. Zero is quite fun, with beautiful graphics and a real-time clock. Still cheap, I would assume. I picked it up a few years ago for like $1.50. The GBA game you're referring to is Oriental Blue, right? I gave it a quick shot when the fan translation was released but seemed big and confusing and everyone seemed to be saying it didn't have the humor and personality of the main series. Have you played it? I'd be open to giving it more of a chance if someone told me it was worth it.
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