Metal Slader Glory NES English Translation Released

[Anonymous No.5013708]

https://www.romhacking.net/news/2089/

Holy fuck. Its finally happened

[Anonymous No.5014314]

>>5013708
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

[Anonymous No.5014331]

>>5014314
Almost pissed myself over this, had to go make a thread about it on /m/ straight away.

[Anonymous No.5014436]

>>5013708
ahh fuck nigga today is a good day after all cant wait to finally play this shit

[Anonymous No.5014452]

lol EOPs are so adorable

[Anonymous No.5014478]

But there's a director's cut on the SNES, so why pick the NES version?

[Anonymous No.5014532]

>>5014452
I love this meme
Do you also walk into prisons just to scream about how great freedom is?

[Anonymous No.5014536]

>>5013708
FUCKING FINALLY FFS

[Anonymous No.5014538]

>>5013708
This is one of those things where people have been waiting for literally DECADES now.

[Anonymous No.5014539]

>>5013708
Why did they translate the original instead of the SNES remaster? Not that I'm complaining.

[Anonymous No.5014606]

Someone post a translated rom because all I get is "this patch is not intended for this game" bullshit.

[Anonymous No.5014612]

>>5014538
why. looks like a forgettable vn

[Anonymous No.5014613]

>>5014478
autism

[Anonymous No.5014637]

>>5014612
it's a big deal in japan and has the largest size of all roms on the nes. 8 megabytes. something of a cult following.

[Anonymous No.5014683]

>>5013708
Which emulator is best for playing this?

[Anonymous No.5014735]

Fucking finally.
I've been waiting years for this!

[Anonymous No.5014746]

>>5014683
Nestopia UE or Mesen.

[Anonymous No.5014767]

>>5014452
I speak three languages!?

[Anonymous No.5014831]

What's with the downie-looking cunt on the box art?

Also
>"playing" visual novels
SHIGGIDY DIGGIDY DOO WOP

[Anonymous No.5014891]

>>5014831
>downie-looking cunt on the box
Which one?

[Anonymous No.5015613]

This thing is impressing me like all that Japanese homebrew that got cart releases. Love the detail and incidental animations, I feel like I'm playing a Sega CD game, and the music always fits the scene and feels very natural. If the point of choosing the NES port to translate was that it's more impressive then I'm glad to see it in action.

Big fan of menubased adventures like this - JESUS is another neat NES game in a similar mould, but not quite this impressive, and the cart size made for a shorter game.

[Anonymous No.5015617]

>>5014452
larper please

>>5014478
>>5014539

easier

[Anonymous No.5015627]

>>5014891
The one with microscopic hands, giant eyes and mouth, and a haircut that looks like a lawnmower ran over her head.

[Anonymous No.5015641]

>>5015627
>he likes manhands

[Anonymous No.5016201]

>>5014831
It's a "menu-based adventure game", NOT a "visual novel". Those didn't really exist until the SNES. The NES has TONS of adventure games in Japan. It was one of the most popular genres in Japan in the late 80s.

[Anonymous No.5016219]

Someone needs to patch this and upload it somewhere.

[Anonymous No.5016324]

Apart from JESUS, Portopia Murder Case and Akira, what are some other narrative driven menu based games on NES and SNES?

[Anonymous No.5016396]

>>5016201
I think it's more like a "proto-visual novel", for lack of a better term. It doesn't really look like there's much choice involved and the interface is pretty much "visual novel-esque".

[Anonymous No.5016403]

>>5016324
Famicom Tantei Club Part II has a remake on SNES that's been fan-translated into English. This is arguably the pinnacle of the genre and everyone on /vr/ should play it immediately.

[Anonymous No.5016438]

>>5016396
IIRC correctly Portopia is considered first VN, by the dude to who would also codify JRPG tropes by making Dragon Quest. Also Hideo Kojima's inspiration. That game's nes port plays like menu parsing.

[Anonymous No.5016443]

>>5013708
Metal Slader Glory English patched NES rom
https://mega.nz/#!tEEFVCiT!kGs-2DELf1y0ISOhnGITm-VhZYBHwnYY4PJVGqRnZ4E

[Anonymous No.5016445]

>>5016219
See>>5016443

[Anonymous No.5016459]

>>5016443
wow thanks for the embedded hijack software, asshole

[Anonymous No.5016467]

>>5014478

Not translated, plus its hard as hell, decisions are timed.

[Anonymous No.5016468]

>>5014637

Its a Gundam rip off with a alien plot. But rather impressive as it can be considered a tec demo for what the NES could do.

[Anonymous No.5016536]

>>5016459
Really? I uploaded the patched file I am playing right now
>>5016443
Someone will confirm if file is infected? That would mean my computer is infected too.

[Anonymous No.5016548]

>>5016536
based and autistpilled

[Anonymous No.5016567]

>>5016536
Don't worry, he's memeing you.
Also do you still have the original unpatched file? The copy in the no intro set up on archive.org looks like a bad dump.

[Anonymous No.5016637]

>>5016567
I got the original from here
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/metal-slader-glory-9l3

[Anonymous No.5016652]

>>5016467
>decisions are timed

wat.

[Anonymous No.5016654]

>>5016438
It's more like Portopia is the first Japanese adventure. Unlike Metal Slader Glory, that clearly had an adventure game style structure and interface (albeit an OLD school menu based one).

[Anonymous No.5016656]

Asuza is a slut!
SLUT!

[Anonymous No.5016658]

>>5016443
It's easy as fuck to patch anyway.

[Anonymous No.5016835]

>>5013708
(reposting it from /m/)
Finished this right now.
Enjoyed it though the story was quite predictable but worth the payoff at the end.
I loved the beautiful sprite work and the dynamic use of BGM.

Since it's a menu based adventure game, it gets really tedious at times as you have to go through same option twice or thrice in order to make progress. Perhaps this results in most weak section of the game where you also have to do point and click game style pixel hunting.

This game can be completed without any help of walkthrough, even the aforementioned pixel hunting portion which is fortunately short.
All you need to do is to keep exhausting all the options to see whether you can unlock more or it makes progress.
Otherwise, there is one on gamefaq.

I am still surprised that they put one fanservice scene in a NES game.

Special thanks to the fan translation team who after a decade of hard work released this game.

[Anonymous No.5016884]

These are the coolest moments on /vr/. When a new translation comes out it's almost like having a brand new game for an old system.

[Anonymous No.5016896]

>>5016884
Only if you are artificially limiting yourself to what's available in English.

[Anonymous No.5016936]

>Sanma no Mei Tantei is still not translated
>Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin - Okhotsk ni Kiyu is still not translated

[Anonymous No.5016951]

>>5013708
>>5014606
>>5016219
>>5016443
PATCHED ROM:

Metal Slader Glory (J).nes
https://www79.zippyshare.com/v/fg1VoRbB/file.html

[Anonymous No.5017085]

Someone on /v/ said another Japanese adventure game got translated within the last month, but they refuse to say what the fuck game is was. Does anyone know what they're talking about?

[Anonymous No.5017367]

>>5016536
legit - I back virused it

[Anonymous No.5017375]

>>5016896
It isn't an artificial limit. You either understand a language or you don't.

[Anonymous No.5018016]

>>5016652

You have to make the right selection of choices in a allotted time frame.

[Anonymous No.5018058]

>>5014683
Mesen is you're using RA, otherwise Punes has better audio.

[Anonymous No.5018148]

>>5018016
Why put that in an adventure game? Are you even sure that's accurate?

[Anonymous No.5018156]

>>5014452
this game is literally in every language besides english xD

[Anonymous No.5018183]

>>5017375
Your linguistic abilities aren't set in stone.

[Anonymous No.5018530]

>>5016324
there was this princess tomato or something for the NES I think?

[Anonymous No.5018581]

>>5017085
Latest NES adventure game translations.

https://www.romhacking.net/?page=translations&genre=2&platform=1&languageid=12&perpage=20&dir=1&order=Date

Ripple Island translation was released in August.

[Anonymous No.5019332]

COVER OF THE SOUNDTRACK

[Anonymous No.5019337]

>>5019332
BACK COVER

[Anonymous No.5019676]

>>5016835
How long to beat?

[Anonymous No.5019717]

>>5013708
>Metal Slader Glory
Someone give me a quick rundown, this looks cute.

[Anonymous No.5019728]

>>5019717
>one of the most anticipated NES translations of all time and possibly THE single most anticipated translation that hadn't already been translated yet
>best graphics on the NES
>biggest ROM size of any NES game, TWICE as large as any other game on the system
>probably the single most in-depth story of any NES game (I've heard it has the most text of any game on the system, but I can't confirm that)
>actually pretty well done sci-fi themes and designs
>bare bones "adventure game" gameplay, so your mileage may vary depending on whether or not you can get into that kind of stuff, though it's seriously better than the vast majority of those types of games, so it's probably worth playing even if you're normally not into the genre

[Anonymous No.5019742]

>>5013708
Why not the SNES remaster?

[Anonymous No.5019780]

>>5019742
Why not read the thread where someone already answered that question, you mouthbreather?

[Anonymous No.5019808]

>>5019780
Didn't feel like it, so I posted instead.

[Anonymous No.5019810]

>>5019808
Then keep wondering, you waste of oxygen.

[Anonymous No.5020112]

>>5019676
IMO it would take 3-5 hours unless you are stuck at that pixel hunting portion because you forgot to exhaust all possible dialogues in one of the rooms and have to backtrack.

[Anonymous No.5020441]

>>5019717

Imagine Gundam...but with an alien invasion instead of a civil war. Also, the SNES version needs a translation. It too was the highest MEG of a SNES game, something like 32 iirc and with it being the Directors Cut, it was hard, longer and had more scenes. Especially the infamous shower scene.

[Anonymous No.5020951]

>>5014478
>>5014539
>>5019742
>>5019332
>>5019337
Some sort of music rights issue prevented them from using the same music in the SFC version, so the SFC version had to have all new music made as a replacement. So to play it with the original soundtrack, you need to play the FC version.

[Anonymous No.5021213]

>>5019728
>>5020441
>Although this release delighted Yoshimiru as it gave more people an opportunity to play it, he was disappointed they wouldn't understand the back story included with the original game manual.
Hm, so what's the point?

[Anonymous No.5021382]

>>5021213
The "backstory" isn't necessary. It was just "extra" shit in the manual. You can just ignore it.

[Anonymous No.5022069]

>>5020441
It's 24Mbit. Star Ocean/Phantasia were the biggest at 48Mbit. Star Ocean had some compression system in it so it would be even bigger if it wasn't for that.

[Anonymous No.5023759]

So what's the consensus on this game from those that have actually played it (doesn't matter if you beat it yet or not)?

[Anonymous No.5024121]

>>5023759

Nice little story about a boy, his gf (?), his sister that wants him to be her bf, a plethora of girls he is trying to ride, and some seriously fucked up looking aliens trying to destroy a mecha that looks like it belongs in Genocyber, but is really a Gundam/mini Gunbuster.

Oh, and colony lasers. And also, >>5020441

[Anonymous No.5024537]

bumping for awesome game

[Anonymous No.5024971]

>>5023759
Fun game with good BGM and graphics that creates an immersive VN experience.
Flaw is it is quite tedious but then this is how menu based adventure games play out.

[Anonymous No.5026065]

>>5024537

Indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hNT5C8rqc&index=3&list=LLlkPGacLLPvzB3Jp_nCscdw&t=0s

[Anonymous No.5026318]

I can't believe this. Kudos to the translation team.

[Anonymous No.5027159]

>>5023759
This is fun so far
the sister is mentally retarded, though
and I though the credits during the shuttle sequence were the end of the game and I was confused as hell until it ended

[Anonymous No.5028089]

>>5019728
So it's like Fellowship of the Ring in video game format?

sounds groovy

[Anonymous No.5029079]

-

[Anonymous No.5029808]

I'm about half way through.

It's a pretty simple adventure game. Not much depth to the gameplay or dialogue trees. If you're going to play this game, play it for the presentation. Lots of Alien influence I didn't expect and the graphics are incredible. It looks like a 16-bit game at times. Very cinematic.

Elina's bust size is a constant point of discussion.

[Anonymous No.5031868]

>Pennywise releases this.
>Translation is great, hack is great.

>Gideon finally shits out Laplace's Demon after twenty fucking years.
>The translation for the intro is absolutely abhorrent, main game translation is like stale bread for this atmosphere-driven game.
Th-thanks, Gideon...

[Anonymous No.5031891]

>>5029808
is she missing an arm?

[Anonymous No.5032139]

>>5031868
He has done more damage to the emulation scene than Nintendo. I'm not even joking either. 80+ or however many games "reserved" that all would have been translated YEARS ago if not for him and he does literally ZERO work on ANY of them. He needs to retire and hand off his work to other people to finish.

[Anonymous No.5032470]

>>5031891
and a foot

[Anonymous No.5032530]

>>5032139
I just thought it was funny that the newspost on romhacking and AGTP talk it up like some big improvement when the translation quality is this bad.

[Anonymous No.5032541]

>>5032139
He would rather @squareenix on twitter begging for them to literally pay him for the privilege to use his garbage-tier hack jobs of projects he barely completed a decade ago.

[Anonymous No.5032569]

>>5031868
He doesn't do the translations.
But you probably shouldn't sit on a translation for about 15+ years.

[Anonymous No.5033067]

>>5032569
He's still the one responsible for the games not being translated yet, so it's 100% his fucking fault.

[Anonymous No.5033650]

>>5013708
Those are some serious down's faces on that boxart though.

[Anonymous No.5033685]

>>5033650
The box art is fucking SHIT and does NOTHING to accurately represent the game.

[Anonymous No.5033838]

Finished it last night, worked fine on a Wii emu since it's too big for flash carts. The game is pretty much an 80s OVA in pseudo-adventure game format. There's actually a character called Catty that looks almost exactly like the Catty in the Gall Force OVAs...

Lots of jaw dropping scenery and spritework for the NES. Some backgrounds even have a little motion going on. Lots of nice attention to detail. It seriously blows many 16-bit games out of the water. The game hits a serious low point in the latter half when you are running around a building searching the same rooms over and over again. This is the only part of the game where you actually point and click to investigate. You tend to have to choose the same conversation options over and over again to get anywhere, not a big deal and expected in this kind of game, but I feel like it's a little overboard in this game. Also reminded me of Policenauts because almost every NPC is a hottie that the MC wants to bang.

The story is great by NES standards, but pretty average for what it is. The whole game is ~4 hours, everyone interested should play it imo.

[Anonymous No.5035579]

What's /vr/'s favorite Japanese adventure game?

[Anonymous No.5035583]

>>5035579
Zak Mckraken on the FM-Towns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QatR2P4eZWs

[Anonymous No.5036878]

>>5035579
YU-NO

[Anonymous No.5036903]

>>5035579
Kirby's Adventure

[Anonymous No.5037076]

>>5035579
Doukyuusei

[Anonymous No.5038012]

>>5035583
>>5036878
>>5037076
How many of these are playable in English?

[Anonymous No.5038056]

>>5038012
YU-NO is

[Anonymous No.5038169]

>>5038012
The FM-Towns verion of McKraken is on GOG, in English. I got it for a few bucks, totally worth it.

[Anonymous No.5038487]

>>5018581
Where the fuck do I get that? Any ROM that I tried is incompatible with the patch.

[Anonymous No.5038491]

>>5038487
That just means you're retarded. First ROM i found on google was compatible.
Remember, big boys don't need help finding their ROMs

[Anonymous No.5040223]

>>5038491
stop being a faggot

[Anonymous No.5040676]

>>5038012
Zak McKracken was a literal meme-answer, it's a American point-and-click adventure game that got a slight update for Japanese FM-Towns computers. It's really not a Japanese adventure game. Still a good adventure game for its time (probably the most antiquated of the LucasArts adventure games though)

[Anonymous No.5042294]

>>5040676
Oh, OK.

[Anonymous No.5043378]

>>5016324
Is the Akira game actually worth playing?

[Anonymous No.5044398]

>>5043378
VERY story heavy. They're clearly just trying to be "The Movie: The Game", but if you're a fan then it's interesting at the very least.

[Anonymous No.5045312]

>>5016403
I just discovered this game the other week. Incredibly comfy pixel art and scenery, I was very impressed

[Anonymous No.5045489]

Idol Hakkenden just got translated, for those interested in playing more Japanese adventure games.

[Anonymous No.5046321]

Hopefully this is the start of a trend of more adventure games getting translated.

[Anonymous No.5046347]

By the way, the claim of there not being any commercial PCB supporting the 1024k PRG in the patch's readme is incorrect for anyone who wants to play it on real hardware.

[Anonymous No.5047116]

>>5045489

where can i find the room?

[Anonymous No.5048195]

>>5047116
>where can I find the room?

wat.

[Anonymous No.5048202]

>>5014538
>waiting decades
>not using that time to actually learn Japanese
The absolute fucking state of weebs

[Anonymous No.5048337]

>>5046347
[citation needed]

[Anonymous No.5048554]

>>5048337
The picture literally shows the repro I've made and it's not like it's anything new.
It was the same story with Super Mario Allstars or that one Zelda hack. All had a PRG or CHR of 1024k making them unplayable on flash carts but repros worked without any problem.

[Anonymous No.5049681]

>>5046347
The patch expands it to 1.5 megs. THAT'S the issue. There are no 1.5. meg repo cartridges.

[Anonymous No.5049876]

>>5049681
If you check the translated game's header, you'll see that it says the PRG is 1024KB and the CHR is 512KB. Aren't there 1024KB chips out there to put on a repro board?

>>5046347
A pic of the game running on real hardware would be awesome.

[Anonymous No.5049881]

>>5049876
Googling the part number on the PRG chip shows that it's a 1MB (8Mb) chip, so they do exist. The question is, do they work?

[Anonymous No.5050239]

>>5049876
I will post a photo once i'm back from work

[Anonymous No.5050905]

>>5049876
>>5050239
Excuse the potato quality

[Anonymous No.5051197]

>>5019810
Edgy af

[Anonymous No.5051749]

>>5050905
Neato!

Does real hardware show the colored lines above the text during this scene? I've seen it happen on two emulators and it strikes me as odd.

[Anonymous No.5052553]

>>5051749
Not that guy, but which emulators?

[Anonymous No.5052954]

>>5051749
No it doesn't

[Anonymous No.5054198]

>>5051749
Nestopia and BizHawk

>>5052954
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.5054808]

>>5054198
>Nestopia and BizHawk

Has anyone else tried it with any other emulators?

[Anonymous No.5055148]

>>5054808
Mesen displays the scene correctly.
The glitchy area should actually animate passing road stripes.

By the way, is anyone in Europe interested in getting a copy made?
Want to get back into soldering after having nothing to work on for some time.

[Anonymous No.5056574]

>>5055148
Thanks for the info.

[Anonymous No.5058138]

>>5013708
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU ANON FOR SHARING.

been waiting half my fucking life for this

[Anonymous No.5058143]

>>5015613
This isn't homebrew you peasant. It's by HAL, the studio that made Kirby.

[Anonymous No.5058151]

>>5050905
What chip(s) did you use for this? Can you share the prepared files to burn? I don't have a rom burner, going to order for buyicnow and convert a donor

[Anonymous No.5058269]

>>5048195
I think he means Rom

>>5016951
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.5058615]

>>5058151
Just a standard 1 Megabyte EPROM for the PRG rom and a 512 Kilobyte one for the CHR rom.
You will need to lift some legs and rewire them though, otherwise they will not be compatible with the pinout of an MMC5 Mask ROM.
I don't have the files anymore but all you have to do is to get rid of the iNES header and then split the file accordingly. First chunk is PRG data, second one is CHR data.

[Anonymous No.5058729]

>>5058138
>been waiting half my fucking life for this

This might be the most depressing thing I've ever seen posted on /vr/. Not because you waited that long, but because it TOOK that long. I wonder if the entire NES library will even be translated this CENTURY.

[Anonymous No.5059535]

>>5016443
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.5060490]

>>5058729
It would suck so fucking much if we didn't all live to get to see the full libraries of these old consoles translated.

And the worst part is that the entire reason it's taking so long is because people would rather re-translated the SAME games OVER AND OVER AGAIN rather than translate untranslated games. Some RPGs in particular have like 3 or more translations, and that's not even uncommon.

[Anonymous No.5062584]

>>5058729
>>5060490
You know you can learn Japanese in a fraction of that time, right?

[Anonymous No.5062627]

>>5062584

[Anonymous No.5062774]

This was voted the 64th favorite game on the Famicom by Famitsu readers in 2003.

[Anonymous No.5064513]

bump

[Anonymous No.5064519]

>>5062584
I already learned japanese and most games were not fucking worth it