/vr/ - Retro Games

Aeon Genesis has stated they're working on it, but that was years ago.

>>7394923
>expecting anything from gideon
It's dead, Jim.

Only games I still care about left to be translated are Growlanser and Rance X

I just want more translations of horror games, the main ones I am waiting for are Germs and Tokyo Twilight Busters.

Racing Lagoon but I know its 99% not happening.

>>7394815
This. And I ant it now

>>7395021
Twilight Syndrome never

>>7395523
I'd say it is more likely than many other PS1 games. It is a more well-known and the script was already partly translated by some guy on YouTube.
There is still so much weird stuff on the PS1 like Dark Tales: From the Lost Soul, Witch of Salzburg and Iblard.
At least we got Mizzurna Falls.

Never.
Fucking.
Ever.

>>7396098
Play the Wii version to make sense of it and then come back to this one for the atmosphere.
Also, the original game was coming to the Switch in Japan, right? Maybe there is a very slight chance of the localization of that?

Kowloon's Gate

>>7394815
wachenroder, shadows of the tusk, super tempo, and hybrid front . yes, i'm greedy as fuck considering we got rent a hero and all those badass goemon games not too long ago

>>7396090
dude this looks fucking sick

>>7397193
It is, anon. You play as an old dwarf who buffs himself with a beer drinking button, digging comfy tunnels and beating up mummies.

Would be nice.

>>7397179
>shadows of the tusk

isnt that game mostly in English anyway?

>>7397556
it isn't enough to be able to just wade through the gameplay, there is an entire world of dialogue and lore that remains entirely in moonrune, there's a reason why people want these games translated. just playing them and letting all of the culture and substance fall by the wayside is well.. hollow. if i was gonna learn japanese i would have done it 15 years ago.

>>7394815
basically every SRW game that hasn't already gotten a translation(or has one in development like GC), especially the Alpha series, Z1, and W

>>7394930
Is he the one who pitched a fit over Shin Megami Tensei fans?

>>7394815
Tokimeki on SNES. They will have to decompile the Rom to translate it.

>>7394989
Based.
Every Nushi Tsuri release.

>>7394815

>>7396090
Wanted to post this

>>7394923
>Aeon Genesis
At this point you should just assume any project with this group attached to it is FUBAR and work on it yourself.

>>7397651
Tokimeki in general is a programming nightmare and probably has the most 'cancelled' fan translations ever, whoever next takes it up may be better off remaking the games from scratch on a custom engine.

>>7398069
Definitely up there.

It’s not fair

>>7394815
The game only supports full-width characters and most of the text is in the executable.
So annoying.

>>7394815
I guess it's this for now.

>>7399502
yeah mang, game boy medabots deserves a translation. i'm just not sure which one kek

>>7399521
Medarot 1 has been translated. There's an ongoing project to translate Medarot 3, but it has just started.

>>7398770
I would be happy with tjust a simple script translation like Giftipia

>>7399548
>http://www.romhacking.net/translations/5792/
well shit, awesome

I run into this while watching the PS2 Virtual Game Library video and I loved the art style and the combat looks unique. But it seems to have absolutely zero following, I doubt it will ever be done.
Venus & Braves seems to be kind of a spiritual sucessor and it has a story translation on GameFAQs, so it is something at least.

>>7397547
This game and Densetsu no Stafy 2 and 3 are the titles I want translated the most. I also wouldn’t mind if someone also translated the first few Bomberman Land games.

>>7394815
No question!

>>7394815

Community Pom. Looks interesting. Zelda top down game in the Link to the Past style.

The buddy animals seem taken from Crusader of Centy.

>>7394815

>>7394815
Japanese is not that difficult

>>7397306
I thought this did get translated or at the very least a partial one.
>>7394815

>>7395573
>mizzurna falls
Isn’t it broken? I tried playing it and it crashed every 5 min

It’s chinese but i want to try this old game called xuan yuan sword 2

>>7400312
>xuan yuan
this sounds exactly like the made up shit people say when pretending to talk chinese lol

everyone says is mediocre/bad, but I really like the aesthetic.

aforementioned Twilight Syndrome... all those PS1 horror games we never got, Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, Reikoku: Kizoku Ikeda's Psychics Laboratory and Enigma. that PS1 Fist of the North Star game would be cool as well.

>>7400612
As far as untranslated PS1 horror games go, there's also this one GeGeGe no Kitaro (completely different from the 2D platformer that came out a few years later):
https://youtu.be/aL_QmEdjedg

>>7400673
Devilman is another licensed anime horror game that looks decent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLPTpI9MVaQ

Vampir Kyuuketsuki Densetsu is another PS1 horror-themed game that looks cool. From what I read about it, there is a day-night cycle and during the day you gain the trust of people around town to lure them when night falls to suck their blood.
I have never put money into internet fan-project stuff, but if there was a group of people interested in translating PS1 horror games I would help them in any way I can.

>>7400234
This. I would pay to have this translated.

>>7394815
you should've just learned japanese.

>>7395021
>germs
it'd be one thing if it were fun to play, but the interest of literally everything that game has to offer is completely offset by what a slog it is.

>>7394815
In 2010 I wanted Moon, Lack of Love, Segagaga, Metal Slader Glory, Kowloon's Gate, Mizzurna Falls, and Moonlight Syndrome translated.
About half of those have been translated at this point, so I guess we'll see the rest in the next ten years

Princess crown

>>7400234
I would chip in $100 on the translation right now.

>>7399637
Looks extremely based

>>7394815
had to double take when I saw Endonesia on /vr/, that game is fucking cool. some guy from the love-de-lic discord made a wiki for it that provides just enough info than you can kind of stumble your way through it. I played moon like that with the gamefaq back in the day, and it's certainly better than nothing.

https://endonesia.fandom.com/wiki/Endonesia_Wiki

Nemuru Mayu is sorta kinda playable with Retroarch's AI translation but the story is confusing even in Japanese, so a lot of it just goes right over your head. Pretty fun though.

>>7394815
Super Adventure Rockman
The PS1 YU-GI-OH games.

The English translation is coming along smoothly according to the translator but Holy fuck it's been going on for years now. When will it ever come out

linda3, i love tatsuyuki tanaka and own a couple of artbooks from him and i've heard the game itself is pretty unique and fun, there was a translation project a few years back but i haven't seen anything about it since

>>7401139
>love-de-lic discord
there's a discord dedicated to kenichi nishi games? weird

Baroque*
SRW Alpha series
Rival School 1&2 story modes
Langrisser V
Growlanser*
Venus and Blades*
*translation alredy exist, we just need a patch

>>7401364
These games have a reasonable following. And I'd say that actually Yoshiro Kimura is more often seen as the center figure to "love-de-lic" games, especially now with Onion Games.

>>7394815
I'll look through these to see how much I can do with the limited time I have. Main issue is that I can't reverse engineer for shit so I can never really make a patch but I can get almost the entire script just by playing the game. If these aren't extremely long I can probably finish one or two of them. >>7398069
never heard of this one, kind of sad honestly. It's hard for me to know what hasn't been freed of nihongonese because it can be kind if hard to find things like this unless it was kind of popular like moon. Also everyone is getting ripped the fuck off since Monster Rancher 1 and 2 are on the Japanese eshop but of course at shitty Japanese prices.

>>7401337
isn't this one more of a VN? If so that's why, think of it like translating ace attorney 1 on the ds. First case isn't so bad then you start hitting longer cases and its mostly just text. I know this feel when I originally tried Daigyakuten years ago and it was when it started taking a really long time and I ended up literally having no time to myself is when I stopped. Thankfully that was just something I wanted to see if I could do at the time just for myself and someone else happened to do the full game.

I really want to see this one translated.

>>7396178
I believe Baroque Original will be translated. It's also the Saturn version of the game and not some shitty unity port.

>>7401579
It's a turn based RPG with rock paper scissors combat. The only thing that's close to VNs are the dialog. CCC is a really great game that was never brought to the West, but Fate Extra (the first PSP Fate game) was brought to the West

>>7401616
I know about extra which is why I knew about this but I don't know that much about it. How much dialogue is there? Is it like Extella levels? If so thats more doable than I first thought.

>>7400234
what is different/special about this version of shadowrun?

>>7401795
its a completely different game

>>7395573
>At least we got Mizzurna Falls
But no actual playable patch yet. Fingers crossed they actually release it next month as they predicted so far

>>7402213
The spanish patch is playable though, isnt it?

the fact that they're stuck solely because of the FMVs makes it frustrating

>>7400724
FWIW, my friend and I have been playing through Devilman together and the flow is understandable. If you watch the old OVA, you should have a decent idea what's going on. I've onlyseen Devilman Crybaby and I can follow the general plot. It's not the best game, but it's been fun with my bud.

>>7400183
second this, I wish it would get a translation already.

>>7400224
came here to post this. this game is so cool

>>7394989
Never ever

>>7399637
This is doable.

>>7400183
This would require an incredible amount of reverse engineering to implement a variable width font and change the dialogue boxes from vertical to horizontal. It's baby-tier Japanese though, so just spend some months learning and you'll be able to play it.

>>7402823
>incredible amount of reverse engineering to implement a variable width font and change the dialogue boxes from vertical to horizontal
>incredible amount of reverse engineering
>incredible amount
really though? I mean yeah i get it but i refuse to believe it's that complex, just some nigger rigging with the code, it's all GPU Render Rectangle Commands anyway

Iirc there's a fan translation in the works for the PSP version, but still. Would love to play this one on OG hardware.

I've been living under a rock too, how's the Princess Crown translation coming along?

>>7401645
Never played Extella because I heard that game wasn't great. It doesn't have that much dialog. At least Extra is getting an official remake but CCC will most likely be left behind since it's "too lewd" today
https://www.dualshockers.com/fate-extra-ccc-remake-kazuya-niinou-type-moon-studio-bb/amp/

>>7397084
>Kowloon's Gate
What are the chances this gets done with the VR spinoff?

>>7400948
>Moonlight Syndrome
Suda's teased a Moonlight Syndrome specific event next month, so a translation might be on the way

>>7395021
>>7402430
Seconding Germs

>>7402823
This game looks really cool, are you planning to do the entire thing?

>>7399645
This.

Also Dr. Slump

As someone who knows Japanese, I'd be willing to translate that river king game, endonesia, drihoo, dragon half, summer holiday, and summer molmorth. I am currently a Neet as well, so translation should be fast. If anyone can do the hacking for any of these games, let me know.

My romhacking account is landsknecht.

>>7394815
Either pic related or Far East of Eden II

>>7404114
VR spinoff isn't the same script at all. There's an active translation on romhacking.net

>>7404783
What platform?

>>7405252
PC-88.
https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/rune-worth-kokui-no-kikoushi-nec-pc-8801-opna
Soundtrack is great.

What is the best solution for automated translation?
I tried the RetroArch AI service with Ztranslate, but it is pretty shitty, I found just using the Google Translate phone app to be faster and more reliable.

>>7405337
Psychic City is my PC-88 translation pipe dream.
I was trying to compile a list of games about people with psychic powers once and I think this is the first RPG to use this premise.

>>7405504
Also to note, the first RPG developed by Squaresoft, Genesis: Beyond The Revelation, came out a year later and its setting seems to be a complete ripoff of this one.
This one is translated at least.

>>7405504
Definitely gonna look into this one - do you have that list available anywhere, anon?

>>7402430
looks ambitious in a good way

>>7397084
It apparently exists, its just lost media

>>7407417
It's crazy to me what they were able to pull off on the PS1 with this game. It's essentially a FPS Grand Theft Auto in a fully polygonal 3D city and its surrounding countryside without any NPCs and cars on the streets. No two buildings look the same. There are usable computers, phone booths, trains, bus stations, restaurants, hotels, shops and hospitals you can enter and a lot of meele weapons and firearms to use - some of them alien. Story wise it's somewhere between X-Files and Body Snatchers with some Lovecraft thrown into the mix and a bit of body horror on top for good measure. You can even look around freely while driving around in your car. The driving has a pretty steep learning curve to it though as the car gets easily stuck on the curbstones. I would say it's biggest fault is with the enemy design or rather their behavior as much of it feels rather samey when you're fighting - a simple sidestep will get you out of harms way 90% of the time.

>>7407423
How so, all that was shown was just an English language announcement trailer? Is there proof it even got beyond the licensing stage?

>>7407848
https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Kowloon%27s_Gate_(English_Version)

>>7407885
>In the YouTube comments of the same video, one user suggests he had read that as little as 20 to 30 copies were translated into English. The validity of the user's claims however are up in the air.
So your source is some rando on YouTube? Retarded, it wouldn't even be feasible for a publisher to only manufacture 20-30 copies.

>>7407201
I lost it the one I was making, but I remember that I got this stuff in particular from the Giant Bomb "concept" list for psychic abilities.
https://www.giantbomb.com/psychic-abilities/3015-411/games/
Many of the games here don't match what I was looking for and from what I remember, it missed some obvious stuff like ESP Ra. De, but the last couple of enters are really interesting old stuff.

>>7394815
Not my most wanted but there are some chocobo games without a translation. I think literally the only think FF related without any. One got recently translated though.

>>7398069
Hey there, Thors. Loved your last video

>>7401594
I think this one has a FAQ with all the scenes translated; the poster of it explained how he had a Japanese girlfriend and they bonded over having her explain this game's plot to him or some shit.

>>7404114
>Suda's teased a Moonlight Syndrome specific event next month
I think you're reading news from last year, which is when the event was planned, but it was cancelled bc COVID. Last April, though, he said he had no plans of localizing or even rereleasing it because he's not sure if the content of the game would be acceptable by modern audiences.

>>7411975
Oh fuck sake. What was the event gonna be then, just a commemoration of the original release? That's a shame.

>>7394815
Snatcher for PC-Engine CD.

BUMP of LIFE

>>7394815
pic related
>>7397635
>SRW
For god's sake mate, there are already translations of at least 500 of those atrocious low effort bandai fan service games
>>7405471
lol

>>7394815

I'd like to see a translation for the Famicom adventure game Marusa no Onna. It's based on the movie of the same name, also known as A Taxing Woman.

https://youtu.be/Ci2GadhLHzk

>>7397084
>>7407423
>>7407848
>>7407885
>>7407993
>source: an anonymous post on 2chan

>>7413373
Yeah, I have serious doubts about any actual official English translation for Kowloon's Gate kicking around and its silly that anyone would cite hearsay like that as a source.

I mean, I could understanding thinking it might be true. It's weird that they'd put an English preview for a game on a demo disc if there was no plans for a translation, but that doesn't mean that there's a full translation kicking around somewhere.

saved

I'm unironically learning Japanese so I can play this game (and it's sequel). If I get to n3 or n2 level of fluency I'm told I'll be able to play games in their native language, once I have all the game-specific vocab down.

>>7414618
N3? No. N2? Yeah, maybe.

>>7414618
>I'm told I'll be able to play games in their native language, once I have all the game-specific vocab down.
You've got that backwards. You play those games to get the vocabulary.

>>7414624
Either way it will be worth it
https://youtu.be/p7SpOoYfYoo
>>7414631
I am sure I will learn some real world vocab from playing the game but I'm bound to come across video-game specific terminology that won't be useful outside of potentially other video games.

>Giftpia has been translated in it's entirety for years now
>But as a written script hosted on a website
>And not patched into the game itself

Can someone explain to me why changing text in a GameCube game is a supposedly Herculean task? I never understood that. Is it really that much of a complicated mess just to go into the files and change the fonts?

>>7394815

>Not using the time you have during quarantine to learn Japanese so you can translate games yourself

>>7414947
I think replacing the font would actually be optional since it still has all the full-width characters available (they overwrote the half-width English characters with Hiragana to... save space I guess?).
The script files are a fucking mess though, so that's probably why.

>>7415306
Still have one semester to go. I can't focus unless I physically have to go to class/work.

>>7410132
How did these not get localized? I'm not into anime generally but I thought Death Note was amazing(at least the first 35-50% of it). Isn't it one of the more/most popular anime?

>>7394923
>Dicenics
I always wanted to play L. Ron Hubbard's games too, Anon.

Thanks /v/

I entered this thread with about 100 bucks more but I'm closing off with 4 new untranslated ps1 games to play

>>7416294
Which ones are they?

>>7415524
Onion Games should do a Kickstarter to buy back the rights to Giftpia and rerelease on Steam as an HD remaster translated by that guy who did the Moon translation recently last summer.

Probably a pipe dream considering what a deep web obscure poorfag studio collective they are (And probably always will be), but its nice to think about otherwise.

>>7416327
Brightis because amazing atmosphere
Book of Atmosphere because the cover alone it worth it
Dark Tales has a kind of Killer 7 feeling, seems intriguing
DevilMan because fan of the manga

I have a friend fluent enough in japanese who has similar taste and we can go through these, slowly

Germs is also interesting but has a LSD-tier price, guess I'll pirate it one day

>>7416345
Brightis is a good game. I finished it and had a lot of fun. You won't be disappointed.

I guess Germs is pretty rare, huh? I did enjoy it but I haven't finished yet. I'm pretty far into it though. How much does it go for?

>>7416434
There's just one copy on ebay, and it goes for 800$/700€

>>7416452
Christ

>>7394815
Westone's Action RPG for the PC Engine - Blood Gear. Top down view in the explory/npc talky bits and side scrolling mech action in the battles. Music by Wonderboy/Monster World composer Shinichi Sakamoto. Neat little game. Although the japanese in it isn't terribly difficult and i can more or less read it, it'd be nice to see it in English so others could play it.

The PS1 has so many interesting looking JP-only games.
This looks like a mixed bag, people say it is obtuse and tedious, but the presentation is top notch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5oJqqD2X4

>>7398715
There's a mostly translated rom on cdromance!

>>7394815
If only so SRW can get some more exposure cause I'm sure the majority of people who are interested in this franchise are like me and learnt their way via brute forcing the menus until they memorized every single command like a fucking autist.

>>7404393
No one?

>>7418853
Get in touch with the romhacking community if you want to contribute. Why ask here?

>>7418853
Translation projects that start out on 4chan never go anywhere. Someone always just bails without giving as much as a word only to never be heard of ever again and you will be left standing in the rain like an idiot. It happens every time.

>>7400673
Holy shit I want this so bad, I love gggnk games but I haven't seen this one.

>>7394815
This will never happen anytime soon, but I'm still hopeful. Bonus points if the translators add the American balance changes as a hard mode.

>>7404393
>>7418853
The hard part is usually finding a romhacker desu.

>>7418853
I can take a look at Dragon Half once I get off work in about an hour to see how complex it is. Otherwise I know off a stalled project looking for a translator that might interest you, depending on how proficient you are.

>>7419204
Poked around it and it's above my skill level to hack so no go.

>>7394815
the only classic atelier game with no time limits

>>7398770
is this a VN?

>>7399637
Looks right up my alley.

>>7404393
>>7418853
Ask around on GBAtemp. They're always looking for translators.

Tokimemi Memorial 1 and 2, I want to play these so fucking bad. I'm trying to learn Japanese through duolingo even

>>7396098
Somebody linked this site in another thread. https://nervetower.neocities.org/

>>7420049
Oh me too, I play the puzle game alot.

>>7420049
You should try playing and study the vocab you learn there to help learn the language.

RahXephon ps2

>>7394815

>>7420049
these are never-ever due to technical reasons

>>7394815
I want someone to translate all four .hack games, just so I can finally understand what the fuck everyone is saying in the exclusive parody mode.

>>7421767
>I want someone to translate all four .hack games, just so I can finally understand what the fuck everyone is saying in the exclusive parody mode.
i think there are youtube subs for sure
>>7421575
>these are never-ever due to technical reasons
why?

I just want wachenroder

>>7420921
Segagaga?

>>7425232
ye

>>7402515
it's been complete for over 2 years now

the pc engine community is small yet autistic

クイズ なないろドリームス 虹色町の奇跡 SS

>>7422895
>why?
for years I've been reading the same thing: spaghetti-code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p8HXvshrvA
I love weird job simulation games and this looks comfy

>>7425936
>Cooking mama if it were made for PS1 and if it the food maker were male.

>>7425342
>spaghetti code therefore impossible.
The Build Engine and Dark Engine are both game dev Engines well-known for being difficult to work with in many ways overall. Yet, Still, with enough perseverance, people were able to make mods for games that made use of each of said Engines.

Rival Schools 1, Evolution 2 and Project Justice

>>7428125
those engines both have their sources publicly accessible you retard

>Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
>Tales of Eternia
>Tales of Destiny DC
>Tales of Hearts DS
>that one Puyo game with Gundam 79 characters
Im aware two of these already have translations but theyre not very good

>2021
>Project Naga still hasnt updated to the Heroes names

>>7428276
Was the official translation to Evolution 2 that much worse than the first game, or did they cut a lot of content for the US release?

>>7423035
based wachenchad

Imagine spending the time waiting for a translation actually learning the language.

We need to go deeper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cThQiboG-Y

>>7416884
True, but so much of it is left unfinished. Sidequests, menus, etc. the team left it a mess because of drama or something. Zero development now

>>7428125
>with enough perseverance
thanks for confirming I was talking to a brainlet
bye

>>7413328
lol how the fuck did this movie get a game
great movie too

>>7420921
this is one i've been wanting to play ever since i found it in the snesorama forums in 05 or something, has there even been a translation project for it?

>>7431467
>perseverance bad
Yeah no.

>>7431714
there's this https://segagagaostp.blogspot.com/
but they haven't had an update since april 2020

No one posted this yet? It had a translation to Spanish in the works. The blog hasn't been update in a while, but the dude working on it posted on romhacking in sept 2020 saying he was still working on it and a beta would be out soon, so who knows.
http://www.nanakaze.com/

>>7431328
>the team left it a mess because of drama or something
evry
tiem

>>7431813
If you have so much perseverance, why don't you learn Japanese?

>>7394930
Don't have time, mah wife ,mah kids,mah job!
learn to do it yourself, don´t ask for updates!