/vr/ - Retro Games

Brandish, man.

Brandish master race reporting on.

Hi /vr/,

I'm the very same anon who bought Brandish 2 (PC-98), VT and 4 from Rakuten and promised one month (or so) ago on a /vr/ thread that would dump and upload Brandish 4 on the internets. Just got the games two days ago, and I'm here to fulfill the promise I made to all my Brandish bros.

Here a MediaFire link to download Brandish 4: https://www.mediafire.com/?fzo10f2yhfei7mp
Just extract the .rar file and mount the disk image (in .mdx format) with Daemon Tools. No password or code needed in order to run the game.

This game is nearly impossible to download from the internet, and Falcom doesn't sell it on their store anymore, so I guess it's A-OK to do this, for preservation reasons.

Some computers might have problems in order to run the game, which will result in the game looking like total shit and with graphical errors (like this: http://i.imgur.com/vh6uclm.png).). In order to fix this (or to play it in window mode), download a program to force the game into a window. I recommend to use D3D Windower (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fyNeMZMqA)) and run the game at 640x480.

As it takes up very little space, I also dumped and included the disk image of Brandish VT, which Brandish 4 is a enhanced port of. It's a PC-98 game, but the manual says it works on Windows 95 too. Mount it with Daemon Tools (too) and run the installer.

There's currently no English translation for the game, but here's a link to a Brandish 4 translation project web page: http://www.scribesslate.com/brandish4/default.html
The project is currently stopped, since there's no one to provide a translation (more info about that here: http://www.scribesslate.com/brandish4/information.html)), but there's a patch available in that same web page to download that translates around a 5% of the game, which is still better than nothing.

Oh well, enjoy it, I guess.