/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10477805]

ITT: retro games that deserve translation

[Anonymous No.10477814]

Segagaga
Kururin GC
Metal Slader Glory SNES

[Anonymous No.10477816]

>>10477814
damn, I love kururin for gba

[Anonymous No.10477818]

[Anonymous No.10477885]

BUMP

[Anonymous No.10477903]

[Anonymous No.10477913]

[Anonymous No.10477921]

>>10477903
I find cute games to be untranslateable, the cuteness is always lost and turned into cringeness.

[Anonymous No.10478173]

>>10477913
looks cool

[Anonymous No.10479769]

Aeon genesis will never complete this.

[Anonymous No.10479772]

>>10479769

[Anonymous No.10479878]

>>10479769
The stupid exclusive rights to translate certain games these trannylators have is what slowed down games being translated. If people hadn't been bullied out of the scene every game would probably be translated by now.

[Anonymous No.10479917]

>>10477805
Oh cool, I didn’t know they made a game about OP

[Anonymous No.10479935]

>>10477805
None.
If they were good, they'd have been translated officially.

[Anonymous No.10479945]

Famicom Jump II. The first game got translated recently, so I can only hope that there's a translation currently in the works.

[Anonymous No.10479953]

>>10477805
I miss Climax...

[Anonymous No.10479959]

>>10479935
You're missing out.

[Anonymous No.10479998]

Untranslated ps1:

Angel Blade: Neo Tokyo Guardians
Armored Trooper Votoms: Steel Force (Spine)
Armored Trooper Votoms: Woodo Kummen
Assault Suits Valken 2
Baroque Syndrome
Bastard!! Utsuronaru Kamigami no Utsuwa
Bealphareth
Black/Matrix Cross +
Black/Matrix 00
Blue Breaker
Boundary Gate: Daughter of Kingdom
CosmoWarrior Zero
Crime Crackers 1&2
Dragon Drive Tactics Break
Dragon Knight IV
Eithea
Farland Story Yottsu no Fuuin
Favorite Dear 1
Favorite Dear 2: Junpaku no Yogensha
Favorite Dear 3: Enkan no Monogatari
Feda 2
Fox Junction
Gaia Master: Kamigami no Board Game
Gate Keepers
Growlanser 1
Jake Hunter: Unfinished Report
Jake Hunter: End of the Dream
Jake Hunter: While The Light Remains
Khamrai
Lagnacure
Lagnacure Legend
Langrisser 5
Linda Cube
Ling Rise
London Spirit Detective Team
Lunar Wing
Mark of the Mermaid (Ningyo no Rakuin)
Meremanoid
Meru Purana
Mystic Arc
Next King: Koi no Sennen Oukoku
Oni Zero: Fukkatsu
PAL: Shinken Densetsu
Rakugaki Showtime
Robin Lloyd
Ruroni Kenshin 10 Braves
Seirei Shoukan: Princess of Darkness
Shin Megami Tensei 2
Silent Mobius
Slayers Royals 1&2
Space Battleship Yamato: Haruka naru Hoshi Iscandar
Space Battleship Yamato: Eiyuu no Kiseki
Story of Galaxy Express 999
Super Robot Wars Neo (Shin SRW)
Super Robot Wars Alpha 1
The Firemen 2
Volfoss
Wild Arms 2 (needs retranslation)
Wonder Trek
Yuuyami Doori Tankentai

[Anonymous No.10480024]

Uh...any of the Hokuto no Ken RPGs?

[Anonymous No.10480029]

All games deserve to stay in their native language, untouched and unsullied by lesser "cultures" ruining them with their lens of interpretation.

Anyone who disagrees with me doesn't deserve to play the games in the first place.

[Anonymous No.10480039]

>>10477805
Metal Max 2 (SNES)
Koto Battle (GBC)
Card Hero (GBC)
Ganbare Goemon: Dynamites Arawaru (GBC)
Goemon's Great Adventure (JP, largely because of the removed intro)
Dual Orb 1
Rest of the Legendary Starfy series (GBA/DS)
YuYu Hakusho series on SNES (4 games)
YuYu Hakusho graphic adventure (GEN/MD)
DBZ Super Butoden & Buyu Retsuden (SNES/GEN-MD)
Tetra's Trackers (GCN)

[Anonymous No.10480041]

>10480029
Retard.

[Anonymous No.10480043]

What happened to that Legend of the River King 2 SNES translation some /vr/ anons started a few years ago?

[Anonymous No.10480071]

A nice pipe dream is to learn Japanese someday, so I wouldn't need to rely on translators. I have a huge respect for them (or at least those who do a really good job) for making games accessible for more people, but it would be so nice to just play a game without having to rely on them and worry that they will add their own BS to the mix.

Also, some games never get translated. P2 EP PSP is a good example. The translation was being worked on for 10 years, but someone dropped their own version out of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.10480207]

>>10479878
100% agree, there was goemon 2 translation going on for many years on gamefaqs, suddenly a guy appears and releases the third one too. Original translator gets butthurt,there should be a time limit for these things .

[Anonymous No.10480370]

>>10477805
What it need an SA-1 edition

[Anonymous No.10480398]

>>10477805
Moonlight Syndrome
Far of East Eden II
Tales of Destiny 2

[Anonymous No.10481027]

>>10480398
>Tales of Destiny 2
Didn't that get a western release.

[Anonymous No.10481052]

>>10479998
add:
Brightis
First Queen 4
Germs
Love & Destroy
Nemuru Mayu
Shake Kids

[Anonymous No.10481473]

>>10481027
Tales of Eternia JP = Tales of Destiny II US
Tales of Destiny 2 JP = null US

[Anonymous No.10481486]

>>10480029
video games is far from high culture

[Anonymous No.10481662]

>>10477805
>PSX
Ryuuki Denshou (also pc98)
Langrisser 5
Growlanser
>Saturn
Langrisser 3
Lunar 3
<Dreamcast
Martian Successor Nadesico

[Anonymous No.10481672]

>>10477805
The original Devil Summoner. There's a script out there and some people play while looking at the script which doesn't sound too bad if there's no alternative. But there's no Romhack

[Anonymous No.10482251]

>>10480207
>>10480207
>Original translator gets butthurt
Who gives a fuck? It's not like he can sue.

[Anonymous No.10482258]

>>10479953
I too miss Climax. You know the President was a douche who only wanted to do the vehicle related games. That's why they did a split and both companies died. If they would have stayed together I would have loved if they would have been bought by Konami and could have lived another 5 years.

Be neat for them to make next-gen Geomon and bring Stalkers to the PSP.

SADLY
Japense OLD MEN will always curse the world with this stupidity.

[Anonymous No.10483353]

>>10482251
Why would that matter at all?

[Anonymous No.10483375]

>>10482258
fuck you rolling a dodge truck is better than this cartoon shit

[Anonymous No.10483383]

>>10483375
Your big fat ass is about to get rolled

[Anonymous No.10483384]

>>10477903
Love Mana's game.

[Anonymous No.10483392]

>>10479998
you forgot Kurumi Miracle, Rung Rung, and Doki Doki Poyacchio.

[Anonymous No.10483413]

>>10479998
oh and also you forgot the Summon Night games

[Anonymous No.10483820]

>>10479998
>Silent Mobius
I liked the manga a lot and would really like to see this get done

[Anonymous No.10483843]

>>10477903
>>10483384
Is this game actually good?
I've been thinking about buying it.

I've heard some people reference Deishuu Kaiki's philosophy on a fake having greater value than the original when discussing Gokinjo Boukentai as a rip-off of Earthbound which is better than Earthbound, but at the same time I've also hear it requires knowledge of the manga series to really appreciate and that is knowledge which I do not possess.

[Anonymous No.10483849]

>>10477805
How long has Lady Stalker been in the works? I don't want to complain since the only person working on it has no obligation to slave away for anyone else's benefit, but it's a shame that so many cookie cutter JRPGs got complete translations while this one hasn't yet.

[Anonymous No.10483889]

>>10480071
There was nearly nothing left to be translated for that patch. It's the official English Atlus script of the PS1 version with some editing to keep consistent lore terms with the rest of the series and a translated script for the additional content that was already done by an entirely different group beforehand.
cj_iwakura had been sitting on the project and stringing people along to stroke his ego when the guy who actually did the programming just got fed up, did his own script editing and released it. cj_iwakura then had the gall to infer to his sycophants that this patch was "stolen work" so they tried to go after the guy.

[Anonymous No.10484970]

>>10483413
Those suck

[Anonymous No.10484978]

>>10483392
No i didn't. Im not a pedo

[Anonymous No.10484983]

Princess Crown never ever.

[Anonymous No.10484997]

>>10481052
Also needs Blade Arts: Tasogare no Miyako R'lyeh

[Anonymous No.10485114]

>>10483843
its pretty good with an unconventional exp system.

[Anonymous No.10485135]

GS Mikami for the SNES is a solid platformer and looks damn nice and faithful to the show. It should also he easy to translate because the only text is in some small cutscenes before and after stages.

[Anonymous No.10485170]

cyber doll for saturn and illusion city for...well its on multiple platforms im not sure which someone would do. msx has partial translation iirc. most attractive is mega cd.

[Anonymous No.10485686]

>>10483843
It's great. Didn't even know there was a manga.

[Anonymous No.10485690]

>>10484978
But you are a faggot.

[Anonymous No.10485693]

>>10484970
Shit taste

[Anonymous No.10485856]

>>10477805
If they deserve it, then wouldn't you learn Japanese for them?

[Anonymous No.10485868]

>>10477913
Lovely sprite work, digging the rhino with a cannon

[Anonymous No.10485919]

>>10485114
>>10485686
Okay, I'm fairly convinced now.
I actually saw it boxed once for 30,000 yen.
I really wish I'd bought it, but in a strange twist of fate I also found another game I was looking for that day at half price and didn't feel like two exorbitant expenditures in one day.
I regret not buying it that day, but maybe fortune will smile on me again.

[Anonymous No.10485926]

>>10480398
>Moonlight Syndrome
for sure. there's a youtube playthrough with english annotations but I want to play it for myself. I also really want to play the ps2 version of Flower Sun & Rain. I'm not sure how accurate the ds version is but it looks like shit so I won't play it.

[Anonymous No.10485975]

>>10477805
Rather AI translation at this rate.

[Anonymous No.10485978]

>>10477805
Do hacks count?

[Anonymous No.10485994]

>>10477805
This is LITERALLY the only Brandish game untranslated, it's also the most popular one too.

[Anonymous No.10485996]

>>10477805
I don't see why not.

[Anonymous No.10485998]

>>10485856
>number 1 localizer™ argument

[Anonymous No.10486003]

>>10481672
they should just translate the PSP version
also kinda sucks this is rotting in nip only hell but Faglus has to shit out Persona clones like Soulless Hackers 2, Metaphor, and TMS

[Anonymous No.10486005]

>>10479953
Rest in peace

[Anonymous No.10486012]

>>10479998
The VOTOMS game for the PS1 looks rough, but the one for the PS2 set during the Uodoo arc looks solid, more so considering it's a licensed game.

[Anonymous No.10486061]

>why yes, I'm still not translated. Despite my script being 100% complete.

[Anonymous No.10486070]

>>10480029
thoughts too should stay in their original non-linguistic form. they’re only spoiled by translation into verbal expression. you should delete your post for hypocrisy and cease talking for consistency.

[Anonymous No.10486207]

>>10480029
>>10486070
You fags should be pushing for AI translations then.
What are you're waiting for?

>>10481486
>high culture
kek

[Anonymous No.10486390]

None. Look, the lesser known your gay hobby is, the better.

[Anonymous No.10486392]

>>10486012
VOTOMS PSX is all audio and has mission briefings in text. It's not bad, but it's extremely difficult. It's like a far more condensed thinking man's AC.

[Anonymous No.10486439]

>>10485994
The guys who did Brandish 2 PC-98 are working on it.

[Anonymous No.10486528]

>>10485994
I really wish the PSP version of Brandish did better. I'd love to see the later games get the same treatment.

[Anonymous No.10487082]

>>10486439
Link?
Im interested

[Anonymous No.10487105]

>>10485996
I would pay any professional translator to get a good translation out for this.

[Anonymous No.10487112]

[Anonymous No.10487140]

I still want Princess Crown to be translated

[Anonymous No.10487246]

>>10485170
Been waiting on Cyber Doll for a long time. With how active the Saturn scene is it might not be much longer.

[Anonymous No.10487337]

[Anonymous No.10487601]

>>10485919
just emulate it

[Anonymous No.10487621]

>>10484983
>>10487140
It's not that good of a game. The music is terrible, it's very grindy and repetitive, and there are a lot of sections where you have no idea what the fuck you're supposed to be doing.
However, the combat is decent and Gradriel a super cute. Proserpina is cute too I guess.

[Anonymous No.10487901]

>>10485978
what's that?

[Anonymous No.10487996]

>>10487082
They've put a translation of the intro:
https://youtu.be/-TPs0eFnYDg?si=2p1Yeysh3RkOTiGE

[Anonymous No.10488196]

>>10487601
Sorry anon, I'm not really into that type of thing...

[Anonymous No.10488237]

Supposedly Geo is doing Falcom's Dinosaur which is something I've wanted to see but I've seen fuck for actual updates. So I feel like this is gonna be one of those things that gets worked on for years with no real progress that they just claimed to do for attention.

[Anonymous No.10488248]

>>10487996
holy moly

more text on a single screen than marvel CGI credits sequence

[Anonymous No.10488884]

>>10483820
Sailor Moon before Sailor Moon

[Anonymous No.10488905]

saturn version of suikoden so i can play the extra content

[Anonymous No.10488969]

>>10488884

[Anonymous No.10488992]

Genghis Khan IV, the last game in Koei's Genghis Khan series and many others from Koei's varied strategy games list stuck in Japan.

[Anonymous No.10489268]

>>10484983
This is the one that keeps on giving.

Someone complained that with their thread on RHDN being locked, that we would never see the end of this saga.

But as predicted, it simply put a stop to that long con, oh I'm sorry, fan-translation project.

[Anonymous No.10491178]

>>10488992
Good lord I think I just SOVLed in my pants from looking at videos of this

[Anonymous No.10491197]

>>10481672
Same with Front Mission 2. Sucks.

[Anonymous No.10492039]

are any of these not fucking RPGs or adventure games?

[Anonymous No.10492065]

>>10491197
People have been through this before, me included.

With the patch that's available, you CAN play it. The missions themselves are in English. It's the interstitials that require reading a text file.

Yes, it sucks that a mecha game like that didn't get picked up after the original team was forced to give up, but it IS playable.

I finished it last year; do not short-change yourself if you feel like trying it out.

[Anonymous No.10492076]

>>10480398
>Far of East Eden II

damn, can't believe ziria just got translated

[Anonymous No.10492347]

>>10477805
>ITT: retro games that deserve translation
Corpse Party for PC-98.
We have a fan remake in English that's quite accurate, but isn't the same, many of the graphics are changed, it's called Corpse Party - Rebuilt- and it's great, but I wish we could play the original in English.

[Anonymous No.10493313]

>>10492039
why would it matter if a game has a translation unless it's text heavy?

[Anonymous No.10493480]

>>10491197
IIRC they basically gave up on a full translation patch for the game because FM2 is notoriously poorly programmed and when they were trying to patch in the script they found out the game was basically running on hopes and dreams and anything they tampered with broke the game.

[Anonymous No.10493484]

>>10486528
Same, the original Brandish POV makes me dissoriented but the angled view of the PSP remake suited me just fine.

[Anonymous No.10493538]

>>10477805
Even if they're not all great, text adventure games would probably be the most deserving, given that they're effectively unplayable without knowledge of Japanese. Not only that, since a lot of their value is based on the quality of the writing, they'd benefit from a more professionally nuanced translation as opposed to some games which could get be with touched up machine translations.

[Anonymous No.10494906]

>>10485856
Japanese is a fucking pain to learn, I'm old and have little time to learn this stuff that I'll only use for my hobby, also as we get older learning stuff gets more and more difficult, I should've learned this stuff as a kid when I was a hardcore weaboo with tons more free time than I have nowadays...

[Anonymous No.10496462]

What are the best Hanna-Barbera licensed titles besides the usual Taito suspects? When it comes to retro (1979-1999)

[Anonymous No.10496473]

>>10477805
Shadowrun for Sega CD. I have no idea if it's good or not but i'm surprised it's not translated, cause of the popularity of the franchise.

[Anonymous No.10496541]

>>10487112
I enjoyed the exploration, hated the battles.

[Anonymous No.10496567]

There are a bunch of untranslated Famicom RPGs I'd love to see, but this one, being made by Square and looking like a qualiy tile, takes the "why hasn't this been done yet" cake

[Anonymous No.10496738]

How come this game has never been translated on the SNES? It's been hailed as one of the big sound novels, but noone's even tried to insert the English text from the IOS release into it.

[Anonymous No.10496761]

>>10496738
There's also the N64 sequel

[Anonymous No.10497043]

>>10477805
Is real-time AI translation at a point worth revisiting now? Last I tried it, it was laggy, weird, generally shitty to use but there was a glimmer of something worth using there.

[Anonymous No.10497453]

>>10493484
Felt a bit smoother and having the extra Dela mode was a nice extra

[Anonymous No.10498863]

>>10496462
DAMN!
Wilma and Betty look like THAT?

[Anonymous No.10498889]

>>10497043
Depends, are you talking about OCR translation or text hooks?

[Anonymous No.10498895]

Translating something just means you're too stupid to understand it in the first place.

[Anonymous No.10499936]

>>10477818
This is the one.