/vr/ - Retro Games

Sakura Taisen
Far East of Eden rpgs
Princess Crown

>>1673984
It didn't get a translation because DBZ only got big in america many years later.

In France it was already popular starting from DB with the 80s... I still have the french intro song stuck in my head. Then again France imported a shit load of anime, like Candy Candy and that one soccer show (not captain tsubasa but that italian/japanese co-production).

Super Butoden 2 is actually my favorite DBZ game of all time.

The game was officially released in france and I think in spain, this was because DB/DBZ was really popular in Europe during the early 90s, they got the manga published there and all.

Curiously enough, Super Butoden 2 was going to have an english release in america. Ban Dai was working on a localization, and I've seen screenshots of that version myself, they were published on a club nintendo magazine from south america. Game's title was simply "Dragon Ball" (no Z), and they changed the names of some characters, I believe Broly was renamed Tara.

Anyway, since Dragon Ball wasn't popular in the US back in the mid 90s, Ban Dai decided to cancel the release.

And.. doing a quick google search I found the scans of the magazine I was talking about.

>>1673997

>>1674000

>>1673991
Horse shit, DBZ was popular for MANY years before the first game finally came over. I specifically remember reading articles with people bitching to developers over that in game magazines.

>>1673989
>Far East of Eden rpgs

Soon.

>>1674018

The only people that cared about DBZ in the US were anime fans. Dragon Ball got some proto dubs in the US, the very first one was in thelate 80s, by Harmony Gold (the guys who did "robotech" by bastardizing 3 different animes), in that early dub, Goku was called Zero. In South America we got a spanish dub based on that english dub in the early 90s. Then in the mid 90s, latin america got all of Dragon Ball with a proper dub worked from scratch.
Back in US, I think Funimation dubbed a few of the DBZ films, I think the first 3, and only released them on video... I seem to remember they also dubbed the first DBZ episodes and released on VHS, but yeah, it didn't really worked outside of the otaku circles. They even released some trading cards, I have some of them (pic related).
DBZ only got really popular in the US in the early 2000s, with Toonami.
In the rest of the world, Dragon Ball and DBZ was already huge since the 80s and 90s.

>>1674018
>Horse shit, DBZ was popular for MANY years before the first game finally came over.

It started getting popular from the mid to late 90s (I think). Butouden 2 was released in 92 or 93.

Once DBZ started getting popular, the games started getting localized as well. I think the first they released in english was one of the Playstation 1 fighting games? Either Ultimate Battle 22 or the DBGT one?

>>1674053

Dragon Ball Final Bout

>>1674079
Yeah, Final Bout was the first release in 1997, then Bandai thought it would be an awesome idea to con fans into buying the worst game in the franchise almost a decade after its release with Ultimate Battle 22 released stateside in 200-fucking-3.

And I bought it.

AFTER I already imported it.

>>1673984
I modded my psx in like 5th grade to play this gmae

>>1673984
the french translation is awful tough

>Broly = Tara
>Zangya = Aki
>Bojack = Kujila

>take a trip to Mexico with dad in 1997/8
>buy a bootleg 10-in-1 cart from a shady dealer (think it cost the equivalent of $100 US)
>it has DBZ Super Butouden 2
>such awesome
>friend and I figured all the controls out on our own

>>1673991
We got Captain Tsubasa too
And don't forget Saint Seya. Almost all videogames about Saint Seya were released in France

Had this game. Cool stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g1KHb-Nzmk

Ganbare Goemon 2 and 3 NEED a translation. Those games are fantastic

>>1674315
>think it cost the equivalent of $100 US
>in fucking Mexico

You got scammed and gave that guy about a year's income.

>>1674332
It was 500 Pesos.

>>1674313
I think they didn't knew their names

>>1674340

that's around $40 usd

>>1674347
>"Je suis Enfer, le champion de la Terre !"

ils ont du confier la traduction à des types connaissaient rien et qui en avaient rien à foutre, et du coup ont tout traduit à l'arrache.

Op here. I'm from Brazil. DBZ was very popular in Latin America as it was in Europe back then. My point is: even now, it looks like nobody is interested in translating this game.
DBZ Super Butouden 2 seems to suffer the same fate of Ganbare Goemon series (2,3 and 4 on the SNES): we will never have the english version of these games.

>>1674591
The thing is, unlike goemon the dbz fighters all play like shit.

Pra que você precisa de tradução pra jogar um jogo de luta, OP?

>>1674603
What are you what

Super Butoden 2 and Hyper Dimension are great games.

>>1674605
I recall seeing one of these games being played at my rental store. Is this the one that told the cell saga? With some rpg elements and storyline branching paths you could chose, vn style?

I thought this was slow and clunky as sin, the most interesting aspect was how the screen would split when you had two characters far away from each other.

>>1673984
>ITT: Games that beg a translation.

Echo Night 2. Somebody has been "working on it" for like, what, 5 or 6 years now? Come on man.

>>1674628
Yes, that's the one.

>I thought this was slow and clunky as sin

It is, but there's a turbo code that literally makes the game actually good. Don't ask me why they made it a secret and not the default, but that's how it igoes.

Guys help me out. I had a Famiclone with a cartridge with a cover exactly like OP's pic. It was a NES clone and I remember playing this game on it for a while.
Was it just a bootleg NES port? Boutouden is a SNES game, isn't it?

>>1673991
>(not captain tsubasa but that italian/japanese co-production).

MAH NIGGA, in most of Latin America it was called "GOL"; I would kill to rewatch it again

>>1674648

Was it a fighting game? In which once you fought all chars it just showed a picture as the ending and you had to reset?

>>1674292
ffuuuuck

that was my shit

the "cutscenes" were cool as hell as a kid

>>1674603

Big Goemon fan here.

Super Butoden 2 might as well be one of my favorite 2D fighting games ever, along with Fatal Fury Special and Street Fighter Alpha 3/ SF III 3rd strike.
It's really good and has unique mechanics. The split screen was a really good idea for a DBZ fighting game. It started in Super Butoden 1, but SB2 perfected pretty much everything.
Hyper Dimension is good, but it's more like a mediocre (read: not bad, just mediocre) 2D fighting game with nothing interesting going on other than it has a DBZ character roster.

>>1674604

It has an interactive story mode.
The first half of the game is the Cell Game and it's just like on the manga, where Gohan finished Cell after Goku dies.
The second half of the game is an original story made for this game, featuring Boujack and Zangya from the 9th movie, and Broly.

>>1673991
>and that one soccer show (not captain tsubasa but that italian/japanese co-production).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUcV_L33Tl4

>>1674348
In 1998?

>>1674648

It's just a bootleg chinese version, it was never released officially. Yes the original Super Butoden 2 was for Super Famicom.

>>1674651
I don't remember, I know I didn't like the game at all despite being a huge DBZ fan at the time. Everything was non-responsive, but I remember the intro image of that dude looking at the sky. I remember how every battle scene used to be the same shade of blue or green.
It was probably just a shitty bootleg port or something. I think I might still have the cart. It was blue.

>>1674690

Yeah, play the original Super Butoden 2, that Famiclone bootleg is really bad akin to the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 8 bit bootlegs.

>>1674689
>>1674698
Thanks bros, you're both my niggas.

>>1674036
Don't forget the half hearted attempt to bring DBZ to the US in the mid-90's. Its like they would play 5 new episodes then replay them for 3 months before putting out new ones.

>>1673997
>>1674000
>>1674004
>tfw Club Nintendo will never be good again

Thread:
The early JoJo games, I think one of them has a fan translation but I don't remember which one

Boku no natsuyasumi
I yearn to play that game

>>1674706

same guy in both posts there, but you're welcome and also my nigga

>>1674036

Ocean dubbed Dragon Ball for US, but after the 53 episodes (67 uncut) and 3 movies it stopped also due to being unpopular on the WB network Kids WB block. It came back in 1998 on CN/Toonami and they replayed the first 53 episodes over and over and due to popularity Funimation picked it back up and dubbed it here in Texas themselves.

Around 2005 or 2006 I believe they dubbed the first 67 uncut since they didn't do it before (on Toonami/CN) and it is on their DVDs and other sets. It got popular once Funimation picked it up in late 1999/2000 like you said.

Funi even released a 'Rock the Dragon' set which is pretty much the first 53 episodes and 3 movies that Ocean dubbed.

Ocean dub sucks primairly because they edited the shit out of it.

Just like in the 80s and early 90s with Dragon Ball too with the other dubbing groups.

I remember it always being on Namek and then suddenly new voices and the story actually was progressing again. So odd to me at the time.

>>1674735
>Ocean dub

The entire dub was FUNimation's from beginning to end. Ocean's only a group of voice actors who were hired when FUNimation was getting funding from Saban. When Saban bailed on FUNi, they literally had no money and were forced to hire new actors off the streets of Texas to impersonate the original cast. The old dub had to be edited down because it was in syndication, where any blood and references to death is a big no-no (This is also why Kai had to be severely edited in syndication compared to the lax nature of Nicktoons). The movies that FUNimation and Pioneer dubbed with the Ocean cast were entirely uncut (And had the original music to boot).

>>1674036
Here's a fun fact: Robotech started life as just a Macross dub (they even got as far as releasing a VHS tape of the first couple eps), but that had to changed when it turned out they needed 60-something episodes for syndication, which Macross's 36 episodes didn't cover. This led to them licensing two other anime series, Southern Cross and Mospeada, to use as "sequels" to Macross. This is really noticeable if you watch Robotech and its base series back to back, as the first third of Robotech is pretty much dubbed Macross + name changes while the other two anime's stories were altered to fit Macross's story.

>>1674720
The Super Famicom game got a fan translation a while ago, that might be what you're thinking of. Heritage got an official translation, the PS2 Vento game was supposed to get localized but didn't and still has no translation of any sort, and the PS2 Phantom Blood game sucks so no one gives a shit.

>>1674313
>the french translation is awful tough

Not always. Demon Lord Piccolo was translated to Sans-Coeur (Heartless) Satan. The younger one was then called Petit-Coeur (Small-heart) Satan. It kind of made more sense in the context that they were counterparts to God.

>>1674751
>The Super Famicom game got a fan translation a while ago
Yeah, that one was the one I was thinking of, thanks!

>Heritage got an official translation
I know, that's how I discovered Jojo

>the PS2 Phantom Blood game sucks so no one gives a shit
But it's so damn hilarious

Could you faggots talking about anime fuck off to /a/ already?

>>1674735
I knew I remembered DB being on long before DBZ hit the airwaves here.
>>1674749
>. Ocean's only a group of voice actors who were hired when FUNimation was getting funding from Saban
Actually it's a dubbing studio in Canada, they did a bunch of anime like the dub for Inuyasha.

>>1674754
Note that I mean the French translation of Dragonball in general.

The French translation of Super Butouden 2 was apparently COMPLETE NONSENSE. Like if they just put it through a machine translator.

>>1674754

>Sans-Coeur Satan

that's just hilarious... Piccolo remained "Satan" later on? What happened to Mr. Satan?

In latin america, Piccolo Daimaou was named Pikoro (writen like that) Daimaku... never knew why they changed Daimaou to Daimaku... but I think Daimaku sounds more badass.

>>1674735
Wait so the first 53 episodes they aired were Dragon Ball or DBZ? And what year was this exactly?

For some reason reading how different people around the world experienced DB/DBZ is interesting.

>mfw we got Dragon Ball Z uncensored on cartoon network at 4pm in spanish with a decent translation when I was a kid.

I pity the fools that had to watch it all watered down.

I don't know if they still play it. I think they only show Kai at like 3 am now so I assume that's censored up the ass most likely.


Fuck I want to watch Dragon Ball Z again. Shit was powerful ;_;

is there anywhere I can download the episodes in japanese and properly subtitled?

>>1673984
Because DBZ is for faggots?

>>1674767
>/a/
>talking about Dragonball, much less translations of Dragonball

>>1674780
Are you from latin-america? We can only pray for Tooncast to air it eventually after they end with classic Dragon Ball

>>1674780
In the US we had the Spanish dub on Telemundo around the same time the dub was in syndication in the mid-to-late 90s. Despite not understanding a word of it, I watched it a ton just to see the show uncensored and with the actual music. I also remember watching the Trunks episodes before they had ever been dubbed.

>>1674780
Probably nyaa
Shit's been officially translated for ages man.

>>1674793
>Are you from latin-america?

Yeah. I dont know how different regular Dragon Ball was though. I didnt find it that interesting as a kid. I liked dem explosions mayne.

>>1674771
Ocean doing any actual legwork with production is very rare, though. Inuyasha, for instance was Viz and, as usual, Ocean provided the voice acting.

>>1674803
I hope you have at least watched it once

>>1674813
I watched some episodes... I'm very sorry.

might actually watch that instead of Z now since I'm not that familiar with it.

>>1674780
We're still getting Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z uncesored here on open signal tv

I've watched like 1 month ago frieza tasting Krilin's blood when he horned it. Shit is cash.

>>1674819
You will love it, it's the exact opposite of every single current mainstream anime

>you will never train delivering milk with your best bud

>>1674821
THAT THRILL
THAT BSO
THAT ANIMATION

that's what I'm talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaHnRXM10QM

>>1674827
>that music

FUCK now that's some fitting shit

>>1674827
>those screams

god damn

>>1674827
>>1674839
does anyone know what the song at the beginning is called?

>>1674863
It's an original score from DBZ, it's in the Original Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWMT83_rkd0&list=PL451F4D5DC5E6B052&index=16

>>1674842
Eduardo Garza might be a disgusting weeb IRL, but damn he's one good VA

>>1674880


I liked Krilin better with the girl who also voiced Sailor Mercury/Lisa Simpson. I think she also voiced adult Milk/chichi. But yeah adult Krilin wasn't bad either.

Any latin america bros remember the N64/Gameboy Color TV ads with Piccolo's VA?

>>1674891
You're mixing her with someone else, she never voiced Lisa Simpson

http://es.doblaje.wikia.com/wiki/Rossy_Aguirre

But yeah, I liked her a lot too, but the voice change was necessary.

>>1674907

For some reason I thought they were the same... but yeah, Rossy Aguirre. she's a qt
I think her voice even suited adult Krilin too, I believe she voiced Krilin during the first chapters of DBZ, I think the change was made around Namek.

By the way I could never stand Oolong's new voice, that one that sounded raspy and annoying... his original voice was much better.

On topic: I wish someone would translate Getter Love for N64.

>>1674754
I was talking about the game's translation

Legend of the Galactic Heroes NES

english patch when?

>>1674780
>>mfw we got Dragon Ball Z uncensored on cartoon network at 4pm in spanish with a decent translation when I was a kid.

And we got it years before in syndication, on Canal 5.

>The first episodes before Tao Pai Pai were actually censored and based on the Harmony gold dub, but with the japanese names, afterwards we got it from japan.
>We actually got another dub before with the HG names but failed.

>>1674779
>What happened to Mr. Satan?
Hercule

>>1674949

LOL, so that's the origin of Hercule in the US dub?

>>1674953
stop triggering my nostalgia anon, it hurts

>>1674957

Is that from an sticker album?

>>1674978
I have many of these when I was a child. Sadly, I lost them all when I moved to another house ;n;

>>1674779
>that's just hilarious... Piccolo remained "Satan" later on? What happened to Mr. Satan?

He was the antithesis of God so it sort of made sense to name him the antichrist and not a flute. It was a coincidence that they then had a character called Mr. Satan introduced, like 4 years later.

Heartless Satan just sounded way more badass anyway.

Also, are those the French cards? I have like half a thousand of them still. I wonder how much they would fetch on ebay. For one of the Cardass generations I have a full set (all normal cards, all prisms, all hidden prisms - twice, including their original versions, and the gold card too).

>>1674784
>Because DBZ is for faggots?

Hey, you are right, we should talk about Digimon instead.

>>1674995

I know how that feel. I still have the 5 albums I had when I was a kid, but I was missing the very first collection which is the one I'm posting, and it was my favorite.
Luckily years ago I found someone selling the album with the complete set of stickers on it, for real cheap, I know it's silly to say this but it's one of my most treasured possesions as long as nostalgia items go. Not only because I feel nostalgic about it, but also because I love this particular collection much better than the other ones that came after, which were by a different company.
But yeah, I've lost many albums from my childhood. Flipping through these is one of the most heavy nostalgia experiences for me.

>>1675026

No, it was from a sticker/pog collection from Argentina

>>1674863

It doesn't have a name, most Kikuchi tracks only have a designation. That track is M424, which is an unreleased track that was intended for Dragon Ball Movie 2 but wasn't used there but was reused in the main series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHuRxn1fv8

>>1674873

That is a different track, M424EXT, that was released on the 5 disc soundtrack, in the track labelled "Majinjou no Nemuri Hime". This one is a full vocal version of M424 and was actually used in Dragon Ball Movie 2.

>>1675042
shit's boss as fuck

whoever made every Dragon Ball sound effect and music is my hero.

>>1675042
DB Movie 2 has one of the best scores of the entire series. It's a crime the vast majority of it was never released. Or that FUNimation's 5.1 masters don't seperate the music from everything like their other DVDs do.

>>1674735
The ocean dubs, those are classics in good and bad ways. I love their movie dubs much more than the FUNI for the 1st three. But being Mexican I remember back in the early 2000's that Telemundo released the Mexican dub of DBZ in the afternoon. I remember going to Mexico and Canel 5 had GT and it was ok. Ahh the memories. Funi's is good too I guess.

>>1675136

Indeed it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT0ODz_To-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HTlDeYmLA4

>>1675151

I like those ones that have the Makafushigi Adventure motif in them

The first two DBZ movies had a couple of tracks with that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7myLPqwXdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_EOBDzOPY

>>1674687
In 1998 the dollar was 10 pesos approximately.

I remember going to Tucson and buying 19.99 dollars games with 200 pesos.

So it was 50 dollars.

>>1674915
does the game have a lot of text?

>>1673991
>>1674686
>>1674651
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4261 Here you go my niggas

>>1674827
>Are they still on Namek?

>>1678090

it's a mix of party game and dating sim, so yeah.

>>1673997
>Ban Dai

>>1680681
>萬代

>>1674942
I think there's also an SNES version of that game as well.

There is good news on another front for LoGH fans. Someone has started translating the original novels. We'll see if they have the fortitude to see it through.

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5989

Lagrange Point

>>1682283
It's been almost 7 years since the last update on that project.

>>1682345
The problem with LP is the fact that the game's memory is much too small for all of the text. Japanese is already a highly compact language, and Konami had to run a compression algorithm to compress all the text. Essentially, the only way to make this work in English is if the ROM was hacked to have more than 512KB of program data, and if there was a custom VRC7 that could address the expanded data.

>>1682379
ROM expansion has been done many, many times for other translations and ROM hacks. I think the main hacker just hasn't had time to work on it.

>>1674827
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHuRxn1fv8
> Vegeta's new voice.

Shit on a stick, his old voice was much better.
I remember an interview to his old voice actor and the guy began improvising some lines as his Vegeta and Sakuragi Hanamichi roles.
Shit was cash and impossible to not laugh when you hear Vegeta talking about basketball and Hanamichi talking about Kakarotto.

Freezer's old VA was better as well.

>>1680618
SPANISH OLDFAG DETECTED.
I love you man.

>>1673984

It wasn't that good to begin with, shooting huge beams is fun for a while but close combat is supbar

>>1680618

>>1683352

Close combat is good too, you've got throws, meteor attacks and close-range energy blasts. Anyway, the game is about balancing both close-rang ean long-range attacks. It's a pretty fun and unique fighting game especially if you play with someone who also knows how to play well. Also, using the cheat to enable the Turbo speed makes the game even better.

>>1673989
>Sakura Taisen
Mah nigga. They really need to make an HD collection of the first four Sakura Taisen games, which I'd buy the crap out of, considering how much I love Sakura Taisen 3.

>>1683562
Didn't know it has a turbo mode. I love this game, but damn, sometimes it feels slow as hell.

>>1683119
>tfw I'm french

>>1673991
ItaliAnon here.
Every child of the 80s in Italy is a weeb at heart. We all watched Japanese cartoons as kids because there's little to no tradition of Italian animation and American cartoons outside of Warner, Disney and HB were generally bad back then. And even if the cartoon /was/ Disney or Warner or HB, there was no guarantee it'd be good. Most of them were bad, too. Or, at the very least, unpopular in Italy.

The Japanese cartoons were almost always good and were all very, very popular. Dash Kappei was only ever aired in Japan and Italy, IIRC. Same with Kabutsu-kun.
We're all fucking weebs in Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCI7QFcq8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YxUC7N6grc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE5r42GumOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP75aZvWVdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikgFjluRUvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHnfX1RmZX8
I hear the Saturn game is pretty good also released on the PS1? I might import it when I buy more Saturn games. Also some nostalgic tracks.

>>1687429
>I hear the Saturn game is pretty good also released on the PS1? I might import it when I buy more Saturn games.

There's 2 DBZ game on saturn, Legends and Shin Butoden.
Legends was also released on PS1, but the Saturn version runs better.
Shin Butoden is exclusive to Saturn and is IMO one of the best 2D DBZ fighting games ever made along with Super Butoden 2.
It uses the sprites from Ultimate Battle 22 from PS1, but it's a totally different game, UB22 is a really dull fighting game, whereas Shin Butoden plays just like the other Super Butoden games and has a great roster, definitely reccommended.

>>1687623
shin butouden also has turbo cheats although the fastest one is too crazy haha

>>1687623
oh yeah the mr. satan mode kicks ass too never bet against goku haha.

>>1687134
Italy may have no tradition in animation, but Italian comic is pretty good.

Downloaded every episode of Dragon Ball because of this thread since I didn't watch it all as a kid.

I'm on 14. This shis is lewd as fuck god damn.

>>1687853

>>1687853

>>1687134
Yeah Yatterman was super popular in Italy, as was Hokuto no Ken. Europe, Middle East, and South America all got a shitload of anime in the 70s and 80s, even before the big anime boom in the 2000s

>>1674036
>DBZ only got really popular in the US in the early 2000s, with Toonami.
Fucking this.
I hate it when people call DBZ "a 90s show" when talking about nostalgia for old American pop culture. The FUNimation cast didn't even take over until 1999, and DBZ ended up taking off around late '99 to early 2000. It peaked from 2000 to 2005-ish (when they aired those Uncut episodes at 10:30PM on Cartoon Network), at least that's how I remembered it.

>>1683359
>three DBZ fight scenes on VHS.jpg

>>1687850
This is true. Italy is the only country to have added more to the Disney "Duck Universe" (Ducktales and stuff) than the US has, mostly in the form of comics. God, I must have had literally hundreds of Duck Universe comics in the 90s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Duck_universe_characters
Notice how many are Italian additions to the franchise? It's ridiculous.

On the more serious side of comics, Diabolik is very, very good as is Dylan Dog but both yielded absolutely horrendous live-action films. Simply ghastly how bad they were even though the books were wonderful.

And on the satirical, Sturmtruppen is an amazingly poignant comic book.