/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8379475
I haven't been keeping tabs on it lately, but the SMT: Devil Summoner project is something I've been interested in. It's wild to me that the game hasn't been playable in English for all this time.

i thought i wanted Segagaga but i watched a subtitled playthrough and it actually looks kinda boring.
still playing through Racing Lagoon on and off, i probably would have said that in an older thread.
idk it's been a pretty good couple of years for fan translations (besides the ol' goemon kerfluffle) i can't think of a lot of untranslated shit i want

>>8379475
Tokimeki Memorial. Every couple of years someone talks about translating it but immediately gets stuck at the spaghetti code.

Growlanser 1 (PSP)
Growlanser 6 (translation is done but it's not fully implemented)
Zill O'll Infinite (same as above)
Busin 0 (sequel to Wizardry TOTFL)
SMT Devil Summoner (PSP)
SMT Nine
Ronde
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (PSP)
Giten Megami Tensei
Hungry Ghosts (King's Field/Shadow Tower clone)
Baroque (Saturn)
Torneko 3 (PS2)
Dragon Quest Shounen Yangus

Waiting on the Famicom version of Megami Tensei II, which is complete and just pending the manual translation. Can't wait to play through it.

>>8379475
Slime MoriMori GBA
Young Yangus Mystery Dungeon

>>8379475

Sakura Taisen II-III-IV (and that strange NDS game)
Tokimeki Memorial
Slayers PC98
That Orange Road game for PC88
Doukyuusei / Kakyuusei
KOF: Kyo (Yes, there is the Spanish translation)

Many 90's eroge.

Give me brandish 3 or give me death

>>8379475
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3. It will never be finished.

>>8379556
Did you play the SNES version?

Did Segagaga ever get a fan translation?
That one looks awesome

>>8379475
shigesato itoi's no. 1 bass fishing

>>8379475
None. I'm learning japanese. 2+ years in and counting. Fan translations have gotten really bad over the last few years. Lunatics are putting pressure on translators to scrub out "problematic" language, really weird fads are starting to creep in, like purposely doing bad translations to make them "in the style" of a 1990s official translation, complete with mistakes and censorship etc.
And there's those "relocalizations" where someone who doesn't know a single word of japanese just re-writes the script to sound cooler with modern pop culture references.
What a complete waste of time.
>>8379682
Nup

>>8379475
I'm still sad there's no fan translation for Klonoa Heroes

>>8379815
All the dedicated ones have moved on. Mato, Gideon, Tom, all had real lives now. Fucking byuu died. Aeon Genesis, DeJap, and other groups have all come and go. But even back then there were tranny faggots like wildbill who inserted his tranny garbage propaganda into translations. It will always be a plague.

>>8379815
Fan translators are doing this now? Any examples?

>>8379826
The motivation for translators to finish Klonoa Heroes only resulted in a half patch.
Interest died down once the furfags at Untamed Heart Forums translated the story to write their KlonoaxGuntz fanfictions.
However, someone made a full blown text and image editor/replacer in Klonoa Heroes fairly recently, so it's only a matter of time before some other fan translation group actually finishes the job and translates the whole thing.
https://github.com/RayCarrot/KlonoaHeroesPatcher

>>8379475
I wish someone translated the PSX ports of SMT1, 2 and if...

>>8379869
I hate furfags so god damn much, I just want my wahoo action rpg

None since the scene is pozzed.

>>8379526
>Growlanser 1 (PSP)
>Growlanser 6 (translation is done but it's not fully implemented)
these but also langrisser 3 and 5

I'd like to see Alundra given a translation more accurate to the original script.
Working Designs did their usual thing to the game

>>8379516
>Tokimeki Memorial
Based. We will get it one day, Toki bro.

>>8379612
>Slayers PC98
Also fucking based. Is there any word of someone picking this up ever?

just learn japanese lol

>>8379475
Breath of Fire to go along with the great Breath of Fire 2 fan translation that's out.
Shin Megami Tensei 1 and 2 because rhe Aeon Genesis translations are terrible.
The rest of the SNES Goemon games that didn't get translated because the hacker got hate on twitter over using the word tranny on the second game.
All the Dragon Quest games on SNES also need translations.
And the most needed of all is Xenogears but no one will ever do it because it's way above most fan translators capabilities.

linda3 is all i want, although i think they're doing the slightly more censored psx version which is a bit lame but i guess it's probably easier to do than the saturn one
i've had tanaka's cannabis works artbooks for years and have wanted to play linda3 ever since seeing the concept art in the first book

>>8379516
I'm doing a machine translation of a similar dating sim that will never, ever get a real translation because it's both niche as fuck and the text has the same issue as Segagaga that makes it unhackable without completely rewriting most of the game. Overlay translations are the future for dating sims, just because they bypass how shitty the coding is on most of them.

>>8379516
You could just learn enough Japanese to play it. I did. Played through it for the first time last month.

>>8380183
Which version?

>>8380198
Playstation.

boku no natsuyasumi

>>8379475
Me Cvimad Moval.

>>8379475
Honestly I think I'm getting past the point of waiting on others to translate shit for me and I'm looking to just take the plunge and learn the language already
Even with the occasional new translation popping up every couple of months, I don't want to get over reliant on them and the more anticipated stuff seems to take literal years to get done. A lot of what I want to play is too niche for other people to really give a shit about anyway, lots of NEC PC games and WonderSwan stuff
You also have the obnoxious Twitter-obsessed progressivist faglords who are actively involved with J-to-E translations with all sorts of Japanese media now who can't help themselves with either censoring content to better suit their personal values or punch up dialogue for the sake of it. That was frankly the last straw for me
https://twitter.com/BepDelta/status/1463695446665310209

Megaman 64.

>>8379984
oh shit totally forgot about them
i did not like 1 or 2 but 4 was fucking fantastic it's a shame 5 is not translated yet

>>8380140
>Shin Megami Tensei 1
the GBA version is translated, they inserted the official IOS version script into it

>>8380140
>because rhe Aeon Genesis translations are terrible.
How so? I heard some of the group's translations had glitches
>All the Dragon Quest games on SNES also need translations.
All of them are translated, although VI is buggy
>And the most needed of all is Xenogears but no one will ever do it because it's way above most fan translators capabilities.
Fucking lol

>>8380140
>>8380561
By early 2000's standards, AE's SMT translations are actually alright. They introduce really bad bugs though and it made Gideon seethe when someone fixed them.

>>8380492
It seems like the frequency of people inserting their own bullshit into translations isn't as high as it seems, but at the same time it would suck to stumble into a bad translation and not know it. Anyone really into games wouldn't be making the wrong decision to learn Japanese, especially if they also like manga or anime.

If you do start learning slant, it's a good idea to watch some footage of a game on youtube to get an idea of how hard its vocabulary is first. Stuff you would expect to be easy like Dragon Quest or FF can turn out hard, honestly it's kinda random.

>>8380567
But Gideon is a faggot thought. Why would anyone care about his coping and seething?

>>8380183
You're missing the point.

>>8379834
>Fucking byuu died

>>8379475
I was chomping at the bit for this one. I played through Mother 3 without being able to read a goddamn bit of it as soon as the ROM was dumped, only needing a guide a couple times.

>>8380645
Did it live up to expectations?

>>8380648
Yes, both the game and the patch were fantastic. I wish there were things to realistically look forward to anymore.

>>8380641
Based and redpilled

>>8379475
Maybe some day

>>8380085
Yeah too bad the only people go give a fuck about the Stalker-verse, are here on /vr/

>>8380591
What point am I missing?

Mouryou Senki Madara 2
Traverse Starlight and Prairie
Verne World
Growlanser (PSP)
Zill O'll Infinite (I'd prefer the PSP "plus" version though)
Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijo
Khamrai
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuuchou
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Gehouchou
Tokimeki Memorial (PS1 or Saturn)
Twilight Syndrome Special

And a proper retranslation of Suikoden II, I know there are patches to fix the numerous bugs, but nothing about the shoddy ass translation

>>8380872
There's a "proofreading" style patch. No retranslation, but all the basic shit you'd expect like grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. squared away.

>>8380702
They announced something on the forums recently about it

>>8380883
Where's this?

>Wachenroder never ever
>Black/Matrix never ever
>Black/Matrix 2 never ever
>Black/Matrix Zero never ever
>Langrisser 3 never ever
>Langrisser 5 never ever
>Langrisser Millennium never ever
>Langrisser WonderSwan never ever
>Growlanser 1 never ever
>mainline Summon Night never ever
>Summon Night Ex-Thesis never ever
>Summon Night Gran-These never ever
>Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3 never ever
>Little Princess never ever
>Angel's Present never ever
>Princess Crown never ever
>SMT NINE never ever
>SMT Devil Summoner never ever
>Giten Megami Tensei never ever
>Ronde never ever
>Persona 2 Eternal Punishment PSP never ever
>SMT Card Summoner never ever
>Sakura Wars 2 never ever
>Sakura Wars 3 never ever
>Sakura Wars 4 never ever
>Sakura Wars Dramatic Dungeon never ever
>Soukaigi never ever
>Legend of Heroes 2 never ever
>Legend of Xanadu never ever
>Wild Card never ever
>Rinne never ever
>Brandish 3 never ever
>Brandish 4 never ever
>Milandra never ever
>Metal Max 4 never ever
>Metal Saga: Season of Steel never ever
>Rocket Slime 1 never ever
>Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional never ever
>Young Yangus Mystery Dungeon never ever
>Shiren the Wanderer 4 never ever
>Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden never ever
>Shiren the Wanderer GB never ever
>Shiren the Wanderer DS2 never ever
>Dungeon Travelers 2-2 never ever
>Magic School Lunar never ever
>Samurai Shodown RPG never ever
>Slayers Royal never ever
>Slayers Royal 2 never ever
>Tales of Rebirth never ever
>Tales of Destiny 2 never ever
>Tales of Innocence Vita never ever
>Tales Narikiri Dungeon never ever
>Arc the Lad WonderSwan never ever
>Ogre Battle Gaiden never ever
>Linda Cube never ever
>Far East of Eden never ever
>Far East of Eden 2 never ever
>Far East of Eden 3 never ever
>Fūun Kabukiden never ever
>Far East of Eden 4th Apocalypse never ever
>El Dorado Gate never ever
>Segagaga never ever
>Soldnerschild never ever
>Sword World SFC never ever
>Shadowrun Sega CD never ever
>Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes never ever

>>8381183
Dont be so pessimistic, Im sure that given time some of those will get fantranslations.

>BOF2 posts gone
Mods, can you not be turbofaggots?
>>8379834
>Fucking byuu died.
Nope

Far East of Eden franchise

Actually just anything made by Oji Hiroi

>>8381323
oh shit so he's alive? I'll be patiently looking for patch 1.3 for his bahamut lagoon.

>>8380492
Right is better

>>8380547
I know. It's a just a shame they did it for the gba and nothing more. In the ideal world, you first do the patch for the original version and then port it to the other releases.
>>8380561
AFAIK all the most of the DQ translation are bad through. And yes VI is fucked.
>>8380567
It's more than that. Apparently there's even more intentional mistakes. For SMT1, the translator made the Law/Chaos hero (can't remember which) sound worse/wronger on purpose so people would choose the other.

>>8380567
I've seen this said about this Gideon guy before but never with details. What exactly did he do in response to people fixing his stuff?

Did they ever get around to translating front mission 2 in a way where you don't have to keep referring to a text file all the time?

>>8379475
I haven't been interested in fantranslation in years. They are almost universally horribly written. And considering even things like Suda's most obscure adventure games have solid professional translations these days, there is more than enough great stuff to play across the last fifty years of game design to ever bother with anything that still hasn't been translated from Japanese.

>>8381532
Anon, I....

>>8379475
Growlanser 1 PS
Baroque PS or Saturn
SRW Alpha PS
Langrisser V PS or Saturn
Kwoloon's Gate

>>8380085
the amount of missable stuff in this game is retarded especially for a exploration zelda-clone. what the fuck were they thinking and dont get me started on the rng based casino.

>>8380891
2 years ago the game was "99% translated, trust me bro" and we still have nothing.
It's dead, Jim

Remember when Legend of Xanadu 1+2 was "almost done" other than them wanting to do a fucking fan dub 10 years ago or something?

>>8379475
Why yes, BRIGHTIS of course

>>8382663
i 'memba.

>>8381493
No but kiwitards would love for you to believe otherwise.

>>8380140
>The rest of the SNES Goemon games that didn't get translated because the hacker got hate on twitter over using the word tranny on the second game.
Two things. One, all five snes goemon games have been translated. Two, it was the translation of the third game that caused all that drama, not the second. Check your facts, idiot.

>>8381086
I'd also like to know.

>>8381518
How? It adds so much unneeded crap that It doesn't feel like a conversation anymore. Do you not mind this one either? In the dub they say loser, but for those who prefer the jap voices we get this crap.

>>8383284
Well she says doutei (virgin) in Japanese, so it's not entirely inaccurate. Should've just said virgin in the subs though.

Little Princess :(

>>8383449
Damn, I did not know that Desert Eagle was THAT fucking huge.

>>8380539
I can understand 1, but how did you not enjoy 2? It's literally the fan favorite along with Der Langrisser

>>8383449
i dont know who these girls are but i want to loving inseminate the woman at the top

>>8379840

>>8384151
We live in dangerous times, even shitty old games are getting social engineering shoved into them.

Dis

I want to see london seirei tanteidan so badly but it's never gonna happen
The Devil Summoner translation started almost exactly a year ago by now

>>8379475
no hopes with the translation being good, specially from the modern mother fanbase.

>>8380492
>remastered localization
so fucking reddit

>>8384151
This is why I didn't buy it, not even worth playing for free, the cancer is too much.

>>8385010
can you not just get the japanese one? i don't think the switch has region locking unlike the 3ds and before

>>8384151
Game?

>>8380561
Theres game breaking bugs at certain points. The worst one made the Law path unwinnable, where for some reason you would always say ‘no’ to a plot important NPC and you’d be stuck and wouldn’t be able to continue. Worst part is that it happens at the cathedral area like 85% of the way through the game

>>8384151
Is the script different from the original TWEWY? Haven't played either one, but if so, that's even worse.

>this steaming piece of jank will never get translated ever
The horror. The horror

>>8385028
Neo TWETY

What chances are there for really old games that are neither remastered nor ported anywhere else to have a translation?

Literally any Medarot game

>>8379475
I really enjoyed the translation for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (GB) that just came out, so I'd love it if we got more in the future, like a translation for its sequel, and for the 4th one aswell. Well, maybe one day, normally I wouldn't get my hopes up, but ever since we got the translation for the original, which I though would never happen, my hopes have been getting up a bit.

>>8379475
Sakura wars 2-4, if anything just 3. But at this point I've started learning Jap.

>>8379834
It's weird how people can have the discipline to learn Japanese fluently but simultaneously not enough discipline to avoid autogynephilia

>>8384501
>>8385049
Saturn has quite a few games like this really

>>8379475
What’s wrong with the current translation?

Martian Successor Nadesico: Blank of the Three Years.

I just want this whole story.

>>8379475
I was waiting for the more accurate retranslation of Super Mario RPG, but it apparently wasn't actually happening.

>>8380561
>Goemon
Currently all translated on SNES, the buggy game is 3 and a fan patch exists on /vr/ archives as v3.1 that's superior to the RHDN version. acediez is collaborating with Tom on Shin Sedai PS1. The main games still untranslated are the Sugoroku N64 one (very nsfw), DS (one of the best), Oedo Daikaiten (has proof of concept), and Hoshizora Dynamites GBC (actually good).
>Xenogears
Got a French fan translation that retranslated the censored/mistranslated English lines

>>8380167
>Linda Cube
Development hell, they're doing Planet Laika first but actually going somewhere. Don't get your hopes up for it or Tengai Makyou IV (also worked on by another ESL at segaxtreme, at least 10% progress)

>>8380208
>boku no natsuyasumi
Technically impressive spanish fan project underway that reprogrammed the vertical text in the entire user interface. Saw some English screenshots but i don't remember whether that's for 1 PS1 or 4 PSP, or how committed the translators are.

>>8380492
>Yakuza 3
I hate those faggots so fucking much because they got the retranslation greenlit in the first place because they were shitting on the previous localization's cuts, censorship, and continuity errors... Only for it to turn out they introduced even more cuts of their own, on purpose rather than budget cuts. If any localizer deserves to be mocked the most, it's them.

>>8381527
Sometimes interfered with their approval on romhacking databases, requested their removal, or some games he "claimed" (as many as 40 at one time, the list staying mostly the same for a decade) not to be translated or discussed without his permission. Those "rules" were gradually eroded, then became unenforceable after the stunt he pulled with SMT:if (said it's almost ready but he won't release it until "the SMT fanbase apologizes to him", then released a bunch of small Super Robot Taisen platformers translators because "the SRT fanbase behaves themselves better". As many as 4 if projects popped up in response.)

>>8380561
The DQIII on SNES translation currently has at least two game breaking bugs as well.

>>8380872
>Traverse Starlight and Prairie
DeJap/Yonin had this but it got stuck in translation purgatory alongside Arabian Nights SNES and Far East of Eden Zero. Some still get the impression it's still worked on while it's far from it.
>Verne World
Tom was interested, but that was before the Goemon harrassment campain by ResetEra. He's not as receptive to fan requests anymore, I fear. The game is a bit shit though, no?
>Zill O'll Infinite
Tom and Mugi are working on it.
>Tokimeki Memorial (PS1 or Saturn)
DDS is only familiar with the SNES so it's unlikely unless another translator subjects himself to it. Tom is against translations achieved by scripting languages rather than romhacking so it's unlikely to happen that way either unless it's another translator and romhacker.
>Tokyo something
all of that and no Tokyo Twilight Busters for the PC-98. I weep... Someone please translate that gem.

>>8381183
>Wachenroder
Has complete English translation on gamefaqs, romhackers are interested but no one actually did it.
>Black/Matrix
Maybe if the cancelled DreamCast English version leaks like Goemon PS2? One can dream. It's overhyped trash though. Dragon Shadow Spell PS2 ftw.
>Summon Night
DS translation was pretty close to happening. They're focusing on finishing Hajimari no Ishi now... slowly. It has a proper VWF now.
>Princess Crown
soon
>Persona 2 Eternal Punishment PSP
Learn Japanese
>Legend of Xanadu
Might be out if they get over that dub thing
>Metal Max 4
You're really not keeping up, are you?
>Rocket Slime 1
Not that Japanese heavy, and fairly easy to romhack if a translation existed.
>Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional
Didn't some partial patch have some of this?
>Shiren the Wanderer GB2
That might be the next one
>Magic School Lunar
Worked on, but one of the translators is cancerous and joined the Goemon harassment against Tom (who translated the GameGear version) and bragged he would censor it unlike what Tom did. A bad look all around.

>>8381183
>Tales of Rebirth
>Tales of Destiny 2
Active, but by many concurrent teams, one of which is LuminaTales, a newly founded team with zero releases that's shilled on reddit and gaming sites as the "best" team. It turns out it has a lot of people from GeoFront and ResetEra and they have a habit of "claiming" popular games, mucking with their translations, and using the projects as status symbols. Most damningly, they try to attack existing teams, try to drive them into retirement then use their work (text translations, patches) without permission or credit after spending their time shilling against it and even attacking players discussing it. They're toxic harassers.
I wouldn't support their work and would support the other team for both of these instances.
>Tales of Innocence Vita
DS patch is out, and an in progress Vita patch too is out with weekly partial beta releases.

>Arc the Lad WonderSwan
Active...
>Far East of Eden never ever
In programming limbo for the PC-Engine version, that and an English Xbox 360 version exists and might be leaked similar to what happened with Goemon PS2 (same company after all)
>Far East of Eden 2 never ever
Tom was interested. Would have been the obvious choice to start with.
>Far East of Eden 4th Apocalypse never ever
Active, multiple groups (3+), but complicated circumstances and low chances. Not that hard to translate really, it supports English natively.

>>8381341
>Actually just anything made by Oji Hiroi
I hoped 13 Sentinels would make people give more attention to Oreshika 1 (either PS1 or PSP) or Gunparade March but that was asking for too much.

>>8381520
A lot of the flaws commonly cited in Tactics Ogre SNES were actually introduced by the English fan-translation. Itself a shoddy script port from Atlus' PS1 version. DQ6 is a tragedy, game deserves better. Its DS remaster didn't give it justice.

>>8384862
>london seirei tanteidan
someone once edited it
>>8386829
badly
>>8387472
spanish team might port their bugfixes

>>8381183
>Tales of Destiny 2 never ever
>Tales of Innocence Vita never ever

these are being worked on iirc

>>8387457
Does the fan patch for Goemon 3 have the tranny line or not? I know the originally released Tom translation had it in but does the bug fix patch also remove it, cause I know they replaced the patch on romhacking with a censored one

>>8387541
RHDN stopped approving future DDS updates to his patches unless he would release a patch that censors the line, so a version 3.0 was made that included the toned down "newhalf" version and the original "tranny" version, alongside some layout changes to prevent a game breaking glitch present in the original game in stage 4 (ironically near the tranny npc in question)

RHDN had him release a version numbered 4.0 that removes most of the readme and which is the 3.0 "newhalf" version alone. They then approved that alongside a bugfix for Goemon 2 that was held up for no real reason as their coercion card.

3.0 turned out to be broken. Some discussion of this happened on the RHDN forums, but not so surprisingly the mods and "new members" so eager to give Goemon 3 an "update" no longer wanted any updates or technical discussion of any kind about that game, and would close topics and later ban top contributors, only changing their tone after people started bypassing RHDN entirely as their distribution medium. RHDN started accepting third party uploads of persona non grata translators with weird caveats such as not crediting some of them, because they were too high profile to ignore, despite getting told by some of those translators they don't like their stuff there.

DDS commented about 3.0 and gave a list of bytes to change to fix the problem, anons on /vr/ found more stuff to fix, and then worked on a version dubbed the 3.1 version. Guess which fork was used. This makes it effectively the best version of the translation, in more ways than one. That bug fix couldn't have been made in any other way.

>>8387607
>3.0 turned out to be broken
What was broken about it?

>>8387615
Collision errors, platforms failing to spawn and preventing progress

>>8387607
I see. Got my patch off a YouTube comment ahah. Haven’t played it yet though, so I’ll have to dig up the /vr/ fix. Is the original first release of the patch, which I’m assuming is the one I’ve got, totally fine glitchwise or was it just the tranny removing update that inexplicably bricked the game

>>8387607
RHDN’s autism knows no bounds. It’s so annoying that they drove Tom out of translating. The man was basically the king of translations and was helping with patches of nearly every game imaginable, and then he gets banned and shamed for… doing an accurate translation. Just goes to show that Goemon is indeed too based for most people to handle

>>8387607
Honestly it’s all pretty ironic that by kicking up a fuss and forcing Tom to change “tranny” to “newhalf”, they completely changed the tone of the scene; and for the worse! The original gag is that the character is a crossdresser. A transvestite, nothing more. Transexuals in the west shitting themselves because they think everything is a personal attack and demanding it be changed, funnily enough, actually made the scene more offensive. What a blessed game

>>8379526
>Baroque
God, me too. But the PS1 version so I can emulate it on my craptop.

>>8387632
Tom is still active. The hiatus was temporary (half a year, even then...) and most of the projects he dropped are now back.

But the Far East of Eden games might be out of question now, their content is something else.

>>8379475

Thanks for the recommendation thread EOPs

>>8387486
>>Princess Crown
>soon
How soon?

>>8387986
A dozen more thank you posts by freshly made accounts on RHDN should do it

>>8379475
None, translations are often terrible. I guess there's a few that are ok but very often when I hear that a fan translation is super accurate or whatever I'll try it out and find stuff tha's wrong.
Sweet Home on the Famicom is pretty funny. Both translations are so bad that you can't even finish the game without a guide. I had no problems finishing it in Japanese without a guide.

>>8380570
>Anyone really into games wouldn't be making the wrong decision to learn Japanese, especially if they also like manga or anime.
Hell I moved to Japan because I'm really into games...

>>8387457

Linda Cubed/Planet Laika guy here.
Basically all the balls for Linda and Planet Laika are in Esper's court, and he's been working on and off and is extremely close on the text. I also post updates to stuff on Twitter. I'd been busy all autumn helping someone with an irl medical issue, but on the off-side, I've been organizing a Kowloon's Gate group via Discord, just need more hackers but otherwise all the groundwork for the translation itself is pretty done.

In all, I'm interested in working with more hackers on any of these things if at least to help lighten Esper's load since he helps a fuckton of people as-is. 99.9999999% of people who offer their help with projects are English testers/proofreaders, so we have a lot on standby, but just no technical work getting done.

I also have a draft for the PSP version of TMA4 (which has two extra areas, but rewriting it to code is a bitch because you have to manually add code for what I think is every individual mouth flap back into the freaking game.

Also, I thought RetroTom was posting pictures of Tokimeki updates on Twitter. He deletes things very quickly off his own page, but I think DDS or whoever posted to their twitter as well.

>>8388217
>PCSX
Isn't the Saturn version the definitive version?

Who are the best translators? Aeon Genesis? DeJap? Byuu? Dynamic Designs? RPGe? DQ?

>>8388265
There are no best teams
The best translations are done by passion projects, like the upcoming bulk slash translation

>>8387607
>>8387632
Why didn't they just make a new website instead of relying on that fucking faggoty rhdn? Make a blog or some shit, like what byuu did.

>>8388272
Could’ve just as easily left it on twitter

>>8388237

Hacking the PSX version with Esper (who is a veteran on that console in particular) has already proven uphill enough, so even touching Saturn wasn't in our to-do list, so if someone else wants to take that on as a cosmetic project for his or herself, that's fine.

I compared full Saturn and PSX scripts side by side when translating and there might be two or three dialogue differences. And they're more like different iterations of the same offense.

The game doesn't say anything worth having a Goemon Manifesto over to begin with, and I don't censor. So i.e. there's one guy who admits to first having sex with much older women when he was under-aged. Between the saturn and the playstation versions, the only difference in the story is who hits on him. (In one, it's an old neighbor lady, in another, it's a friend's mom, but they don't change the guy's original age when he's telling the story to the player or anything.)

The fade-to-black/implied sex scenes all play out the same in each, and the animal abuse/gore/rape allegories are also written 1;1.

I'm not recalling the lines 500% accurately off the top of my head, but that's really the extent of it. Besides that, you're literally just looking at some minute sprite differences. If you want the REALLY unique bits like the giving birth scene, go play the PC version.


Also, if it helps, the Saturn version has piss fmv audio quality, if anyone here's a stickler for that sorta thing. You sound all right, but it's shocking how many muhcensor-bros on other boards worry about us not prioritizing this port. Mark this the last time I answer this one for free.


>>8387884
The info is pretty public knowledge on Twitter, but GriffithVII and Obskyr are working on BokuNatsu PSP. Griffith seems chill on Twitter, but I don't interact with Obskyr so I don't keep tabs on where that one's actually at. You'll have to follow them to check that out.

>>8388286
That too, but twitter is usually a tranny den as well so I doubt that it'll be "safe" there.
I never understood the reliance of some romhacker to websites such as rhdn or pkmncom, if the hack is good, it will be recognized and posted somewhere else and be discussed, there's no need to be shackled to one website.

>>8388303
I think it’s more the ease of access
If I want a translation that’s usually the first port of call, but as always, people get too big for their britches

>>8388309
I'd argue that having a separate site from rhdn is easier to access since you won't have to sift through other bullshit and inane hacks to access that one hack that you want to see.
Documentation would also be easily accessed that way since you can dedicate an entire web page for it too. Look at Ultima for FFIV, it has its own website, and rhdn just leeches from it every time a new update comes up.

>>8379475
Akazukin Chacha for SNES goddammit. it's the first thing i ever emulated too. there was some work on it, but they just dropped it

>>8388323
It’s not about that, it’s about having one place to go to for translations
It was a good site, unfortunately someone in charge obviously has issues with power

>>8388416
It looks cute. Tell me more about it and I might translate it (I'm bilingual)
Why was it the first game you emulated? Did you just grab it randomly or is there a story behind this?

>>8388438
it's based on an anime i saw in high school. it takes place in magic-based world where pretty much every character is a wizard. it's mostly a comedy, but there are action elements since Chacha (the mc) can transform into a magical girl to fight off evil villains sent by a mysterious evil guy. the one i saw was dubbed in English, but by Filipino actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q04EkSErGFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCObCCc6UMs
the game itself is a traditional top-down RPG but all the battles are boss fights that only spawn near the end of a chapter, while most of the gameplay consists of talking to npc's, doing fetch quests and solving a puzzle. Furthest ive gotten into the game was pushing these frog people into specific puddles for a puzzle, which iirc is into the 4th chapter.

>>8379475
i don't pay too much attention to the translation scene but fucking tomato adventure finally got a translation hack released, so really anything's possible at this point
where the fuck is kowloon's gate though...

>>8388535


>>8388217

Also Card Hero and Koto Battle.

>>8381183
>>Princess Crown never ever
with like 10 years in the making and still no positive news at all I really feel you.

>>Tales of Destiny 2 never ever
>>Tales of Innocence Vita never ever
almost finished.
innocence r is exactly at 99% and I suspect they are holding it hostage for a christmas day release.

>>Tales Narikiri Dungeon never ever
in the to-do list of the same group as destiny dc/2 and innocence r.

>>8388771
I just hope someone translates the original tales narikiri dungeon for gameboy color, I'd like to play it there.

>>8379475
I want Crysis in Finnish

>>8388217
>TM4
Wonderful news... Please consider preparing a script variant for the Saturn version. It's one of the worse cases of content not surviving the Saturn/PlayStation conversion (not even the final boss sequence is intact, either visually or textually) but the PSP version has some fun mechanics.

A Chinese PSP translation came out, and they might've figured out the limitations with the EBOOT and compressed files. Using their files isn't a bad idea at all. Both that and the Saturn version support ASCII text (see pic related).
Graphics are still unknown.

>Kwolong Gate
Funnily enough I remember a PS1 romhacking tutorial from ages ago (partially lost on the web archive) that details how to mod the game's programming from its JP status to one that relatively plays well with the translation, and it did use Kwolong Gate specifically (safe to say that particular project was abandoned, but the tutorial itself would be useful...)

- Code/Memory: Ensure an English font is loaded if the game uses the system font
- Code/Display: Change the font's xadvance from 12/16 to 6/8 pixels (monospace, but bearable)
- Code/Memory: Change character reads from double byte to single byte, to fit in more English text
- Asset/GFX: Change the font graphics to the ASCII-EU set, scrub the rest and use it as memory to host translation-related code/dictionary
- Code/Memory+Display: Adjust (2) to allow for proportional fonts (reading from a width table)
- Code/Memory: Adjust (3) to allow for text compression, dictionary was good enough for SNES scripts, LZ is more involved

I think if more romhackers got (3) right (or a different way to put in all of the English text) and didn't bother with the proportional font (just changing the character spacing should be enough) more English translations for PS1/Saturn/DS could be out at a similar rate as Spanish patches.

Couldn't find a discord link for it. You can prepare a public channel and invalidate the invite later from the discord settings.

To those asking about Metal Max 4, the team going through the mainline games just got done with 2's remake and will release it sometime soon this month. Don't expect any spinoffs. Don't skip Metal Saga PS2 either, it's a mainline game renamed that way because of trademark issues, and the actual MM3.
It's a shame that the first MM games brought to the West were those that had a more linear quest, in that regard MM4 is one of the last "authentic" games in the series.

Don't bother with the original SNES version of 2, it's shit (play 1R SNES instead) and its translation in development hell.

>>8388678
This isn't the actual last Quintet game btw, though it IS the last one under their name. That would be Soul Eater Monotone Princess for the Wii which got a fan translation a few weeks ago. (Some WiiWare game released after that + Actraiser VC, but they were done much earlier while the team for Soul Eater had to physically relocate to another developer's building mid-development).

I think it's overrated, though it looks really similar to Terranigma (the sprites, the text animations, everything). It is straightforward to romhack and translate if interest is there. They finally implemented proportional text for their very last 2D RPG too!

>>8388272
After that, a lot of translators did learn to do that (or dedicated discord servers)
Here's the one for DDS: https://www.translated.games/home
I wish he'd find the time to add his older works too. It's one hell of a hall of fame.

>>8387486
>Traverse
Not surprised about it's "purgatory" status. Seems like one of those games that'll eventually come out translated with little fanfare by some unknown group/person. Not really holding my breath at this point though.
>Verne World
Shame about Tom, but I don't blame him for just doing what he wants, and yeah, it's a bit shit, but I like it, hell I'm probably the only person the world that really cares if it gets translated or not
>Zill
Glad to hear it
>Tokyo something
Hey it's a good series, it even got a decent anime adaptation, one that I was hoping would raise awareness of the games in the west, but no such luck. Tokyo Twilight Busters is a cool game though, and one I'm genuinely surprised hasn't gotten a translation.

Thanks for the info

>>8388678
>kotobattle
stumbling through that with the translation guide was sure an experience. it needs a rom patch desperately to be accessed by normies.

>>8389014
Good. rhdn is not a fucking safehaven for shit like those. one autistic retard can ruin the entire website.

>>8389184
It's already ruined and compromised.
Literal sex offenders used to moderate the website, and some of the woke mod team (including trans and lesbian ones) are using these skeletons as blackmail to get their way, and yes some of them don't even do or like romhacking and do it for the power trip.
The top two contributors were chased out and the third one is wave, the spanish machine translation spammer, because of whom they froze approval of new languages and severely limited how many new submissions can be done by any member to cope with the spam. Someday enough will be enough and not even him will be left lol. Don't you need an account to download anything there, too? That had to do with donations drying up (gee i wonder why)

Brace yourself for the inevitable moment it goes offline. Someone backed it up as far as 2015.

>>8388416
I swear that a lot of autists really like this franchise

>>8388962
Didn't MM2R leak already?

>>8388962
>Don't bother with the original SNES version of 2, it's shit (play 1R SNES instead)
Wow, that's a real shit take double whammy right there. The 1&2 originals are the absolute peak of the series.

>>8380492
The original translation wasn't great either. Stuff like renaming Morning Glory or Kazama's name being renamed to Fuma.
My main problem with the relocalization isn't being overly verbose like in your image, it's cutting stuff like pic related

Even someone who doesn't know Japanese can tell the line was changed.

>>8379475
Well, I would like to see games such as
>Macross 2036
>PC engine CD Snatcher
>DQ 4 for PS1
>Assault Suits Leynos 2
>Super Adventure Rockman
>Rockboard for Famicom
>Radiant Silvergun for the Saturn
>Puyo Puyo Tsu for N64 and Saturn
>Segagaga for Dreamcast
Get translated.

>>8389463
>Radiant Silvergun for the Saturn
Just play the XBLA version

>>8389412
The remakes are objectively better. The original developers were still involved in the remakes and implemented a lot of cut content in 2 (for example the final boss has a third phase).
2 on SNES is one of the ugliest looking JRPG I played (even the font spacing is unbearable) even though the concept is solid. The DS remake really did it justice with a decent budget and beautiful pixel art that blends well with the low poly 3D.

The Kai remakes on GBA... let's pretend those don't exist. They're somehow uglier than the originals.

>>8389351
That's a playtesting beta version. It's missing a bunch of graphics and bugfixes. Hold out for the actual release. I took part in a few of those betatesting things (including this one, inb4 shill) and I don't know why the end user would subject himself willingly to that. You're meant to use cheat codes to clear those and see (and report) bugs that are unacceptable for a normal enjoyable playthrough. i'd understand leaking betas of clearly cancelled projects (like Archaic Sealed Heat or Moon PS1) but this one is literally days from release. At least the team is taking it well.

>>8388017
>Hell I moved to Japan because I'm really into games...
That's not crazy honestly. I wish you could say the same about the US but our industry just keeps getting shittier, it's sad

All the Koei simulations that never got translated, I've honestly considered comissioning a group of people to at least translate the later Uncharted Waters games. At least Taiko Risshiden V got a translation, even if it does require a Chinese copy to get it to work

>>8389725
But didn't the Uncharted Waters games get worse after New Horizons? New Horizons is the peak of the series, isn't it?

>>8389732
I've honestly never read that, but it wouldn't surprise me. I would still want to play them even if New Horizons is better. The Japanese, and especially Koei, always did simulation games in such an interesting style. Most of my want to play them probably comes from it being the forbidden fruit of my favorite series/company. I mean Koei had so many simulation games that are barely even documented on the english internet

>>8379516
That guy's video inspired me to learn japanese. Though I've only saw the video recently so I've been learning it for like a week, lol. Though I've taken a japanese course some years ago so I remember all basic grammar and it's not that hard.

>>8379478
FPBP, came to say this. It infuriates me that Atlus literally had a localized US version of the PSP remaster but Sony didn't let them release it because "there isn't any new content" as if the entire fucking game wasn't new content since we never got the Saturn version

>>8382705
Nobody is even working on that.

>>8390989
It'd be awesome if some disgruntled Atlus employee or ex-employee leaked the iso.

>>8389231
hope it dies

>>8388771
These new translators for Tales games are not playing around. If they keep us this pace, they will translate everything within the next five years.

>>8388771
Nice, been wanting to play Innocence R. I bought Hearts R at release and was hoping it'd lead to that being translated too but I guess they weren't happy with the sales.

>>8389231
>literal sex offenders used to moderate the website
[CITATION NEEDED]!
By how much was rhdn's original moderation team run by real sex offenders.

>>8379475
Kiki Kaikai 1 and 2 for SNES. Given how the official US releases tried to blot out the Japanese stuff (changing the Yokai to just Goblins), I've been wondering what else got mangled in localization. At the very least, I'm sure there are those who would rather have the heroes be called Sayo-chan and Manuke instead of Pocky and Rocky.

>>8380167
>i've had tanaka's cannabis works artbooks for years and have wanted to play linda3 ever since seeing the concept art in the first book
I will not rest until the day I see Linda^3 translated

>>8379526
>Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (PSP)
waiting for it is the true eternal punishment

>>8392278
None confirmed that I know of. The only things anyone can really go off of is some of the things said by Aerdan/Kiyoshi Aman who was later kicked from the Discord, came back and just stopped showing up due to not wanting to be associated with the site for not being woke enough, making suggestions that they should do more woke "news" articles at least once a week. The second is Zynk Oxhyde, who was merely taken off the mod team for saying something about "SJWs" over an LGBT-oriented hack he took down for "political reasons", but he still contributes content. He has a Twitter dedicated to a cringey obsession with Roll and tends to retweet SFW, "UOOOOOOOHHH" pics of her every other day.
Things spiraled downhill a bit since the RHDN purge of the "offensive" hacks from baddesthacks in 2016, where Aerdan, Zynk & the rest of them were in agreement to remove the hacks like Little Remo - The Child Abuser, which was one that got removed from both sites in the process.
The only proven sex offender on the registry I remember was one of PokeCommunity's old admins:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=406400
There was a pastebin with his dox in /vp/.

>>8379475
Waiting for the Rent-a-Hero Dreamcast English translation. It’s currently in progress. Not sure when it’ll drop.

>>8389231
They've changed their ways, the forums are now condemning retards who cry about old translations having such "problems" since they were accurate to what was said. The goemon will be the last autism retardatio there.

>>8395038
>https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=23436.msg411849#msg411849

>>8395054
>
opinion safely discarded.

>>8395193
exactly, look at the replies in the next page.

>>8380167
>linda
I came here to mention this. Shit I don't know, Love & Destroy maybe?

>>8385049
unironically i enjoyed it better than the latest SMT game with that blue haired tranny
the only thing bad about Ronde is the horrible graphics even by Saturn standards it's the reason why r*dditors being the graphic whores they are started the ''Ronde is the worst game ever'' meme