HOLY GRAIL TRANSLATION

[Anonymous No.8777484]

Hey /vr/,

What's your current translation holy grail and why? What draws you to this specific game and what do you think the chances are that it will get a translation?

Bonus points if you can remember where you saw the game and if you also mention a game that was a previous HG that got translated.

Mine is Wachenröder. Which an isometric strategy JRPG with a beautiful steampunk aesthetic.

>>OK, so I have been following this game for awhile as I'd heard a translation was possible. Now, googling it seems that a patch has been released in January and is in the process of being polished up. Well, that's ironic. Finding out my holy grail game got translated in the middle of posting a new thread. I refuse to delete this now. I will post another in the thread.

[Anonymous No.8777497]

OK, so since I fucked up on the first one. My next choice is probably London Seirei Tanteidan. Another SJRPG that has beautiful colorful 2D sprite work that was clearly inspired by Sherlock Hound. I saw a youtube vid on it here: https://youtu.be/yv7EkhoP6lU

There are some online posts saying they will translate it but nothing yet from what I can see.

My holygrail for years was Mizzurna Falls which finally came out. I'm playing it but fuck me the controls are garbage.

[Anonymous No.8777578]

>>8777484
Just learn Japanese. It's fun and interesting and you aren't doing anything better with your time.

[Anonymous No.8777584]

>Hidden germ

[Anonymous No.8777591]

>>8777578
jUsT lEaRn JaPaNeSe

[Anonymous No.8777593]

Omakase Savers. I love this game. It has a very comfy atmosphere and a goofy plot. The combat is a top down shooter with FMV clips playing out wen you attack. It's just fun. Relatively playable without understanding Japanese, but a translation would complete the experience.

[Anonymous No.8777821]

Shining Force 3 came out and thats all I needed

[Anonymous No.8777840]

>>8777497
this one is just a turn based rpg, but it's a beautiful game. jimmy hapa made me interested too.

[Anonymous No.8777974]

Samurai Shodown RPG
Shadowrun on Mega CD
Surging Aura

[Anonymous No.8777978]

>>8777591
What does one gain from typing like a retard?

[Anonymous No.8777987]

>>8777974
There's a brothel in the first town that's not on some versions of the game but not in others. The Neo Geo CD version is the only one with menu window decorations and fatality "cutting in half" animations for when you finish off an enemy with heavy slashes.

[Anonymous No.8778153]

Segagaga

[Anonymous No.8778197]

>>8777484
I am legitimately working on my translation holy grails as we speak, but they don't really fall into the /vr/ category except by extreme technicality.

[Anonymous No.8778403]

>>8777591
How else you going to do something?

[Anonymous No.8778442]

>>8778197
I hope is Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu DX for the Nintendo 3DS PSP

[Anonymous No.8778465]

>>8777484
For a guy cockblocked many times by Dekinai-chan like myself, it would be:
>The untranslated Medarot games.
I'd be happy with Navi alone. I wish the series were more popular because the games have a lot of potential from their features.
>Digan no Maseki
I like Naoyuki Kato's artwork, so that's that.
>Front Mission: Alternative
There's still hope considering Squeenix will release 2 "remade" and translated to english after 1/1st.

[Anonymous No.8778472]

A proper translation of the PC or Playstation/Playstation 2 versions of Legend of Heroes III, IV, and V, AKA the Gagharv Trilogy. The PSP versions released in the west had very poor translations and dumbed down the combat significantly. Despite all that I had a blast playing them which is why I'd like to see what the far superior versions of the game are like.

[Anonymous No.8778494]

[Anonymous No.8778501]

>>8778494
http://web.archive.org/web/20160530180207/https://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/terraphantastica/Terra_Phantastica.html

[Anonymous No.8778502]

Metal Max 2 on SFC.

It's one of the only ones in the series that has never been translated, outside of that touchscreen DS one nobody cares about. I know the DS remake has been translated but it's almost an entirely different game.

Apparently someone called dibs on translating this like 2 decades ago so at this point someone else should just do it

I ended playing it using Retroarch AI translation tool

[Anonymous No.8778513]

also Square's Tom Sawyer on Famicom

I can't believe it's 2022 and a Square RPG on Famicom hasn't been translated

[Anonymous No.8778558]

I just learnt Japanese instead, so I don't have one. Always very strange to see people who are supposedly so invested in a title but can't be bothered spending a few minutes a day to learn to play it.

[Anonymous No.8778571]

>>8778558
How long did it take you to learn Japanese? Good enough to play games, at least.

[Anonymous No.8778582]

>>8777840

Sorry yeah, it is just a turnbased RPG. I think I'm getting confused with another game he showed that was tile based.

[Anonymous No.8778584]

>>8778571
I was playing games after 6 months. Without a dictionary? 2, 3 years or so?

The thing you have to bear in mind is that it's not years of constant study. I put in maybe half an hour a day of actual work. It just takes time.

[Anonymous No.8778586]

>>8778153

OK, so I was under the impression that this had already been done. I even put it on my list of DC games to play once my GDEMU comes but apparently it hasn't?! What the hell, a game about the failings of SEGA that was allowed to be released BY SEGA and it hasn't been translated yet? What the hell is going on.

[Anonymous No.8778590]

>>8778571
I found that I wasn't really happy with where I was playing games in JP until I started to read a lot of light novels in my free time. So probably 2ish years? Maybe longer than that. I can't really remember.
The amount of text/vocabulary in an average game isn't exactly staggering by any means, but having extra overhead and millions of characters consumed goes a long way to helping you be able to enjoy games with minimal effort rather than reaching for the dictionary every other text box.

[Anonymous No.8779467]

>>8778502
>I ended playing it using Retroarch AI translation tool
How did that work out? I tried the AI translation tool a few times and thought it was cool but never completed a game with it.

Also, when Metal Max 3 was translated two years ago, a few anons were asking why 2 wasn't translated instead and apparently it's like a remake of 1 or something very similar to it? Is that true or is 2 a different game entirely?

[Anonymous No.8779483]

>>8779467
>How did that work out?

It only worked because
>I had already played the DS remake first
>I used a walkthrough for help (item/equipment names or when I was stuck that one time)
>I had already played the first game

Otherwise the AI translation is OK but with MM2 it doesn't work well because all the dialogues in incased into the main menu, meaning that sometimes the AI doesn't make the difference between menu commands (Talk, Search, Equipment, etc) and they end up in the middle of a sentence, it's kind of a mess.
You can probably scratch playing the remake first and get by though

>apparently it's like a remake of 1 or something very similar to it? Is that true or is 2 a different game entirely?

No it's a sequel. Not the same characters but it's a direct sequel some years after the events of 1, it's not a remake at all

[Anonymous No.8779662]

>>8777840
bulk slash is done

[Anonymous No.8779757]

The Black/Matrix games
The mainline Summon Night games and the These spinoffs
The Slayers Royal games
The sequels to Rhapsody
Wild Card on the WonderSwan
Blue Wing Blitz on the WonderSwan
Shiren the Wanderer 4 and Gaiden
Young Yangus Mystery Dungeon
Ogre Battle Gaiden on the Neo Geo Pocket
The remaining Far East of Eden games
SMT NINE, Devil Summoner 1, and GMT
Magic School Lunar
The remaining Langrisser games
The remaining Sakura Wars games
Princess Crown
Linda Cube
The remaining Tales games (including spinoffs like Narikiri Dungeon)
Segagaga
El Dorado Gate
The remaining Falcom games
Shadows of the Tusk
Treasure Strike
Milandra
Sengoku Basara 2: Heroes
Giftpia
Surging Aura
That Arc the Lad spinoff on Neo Geo Pocket
Growlanser 1

[Anonymous No.8779808]

>>8779662

Need to play that. The amount of fucking effort they put into that game with the voice acting is just so wonderful.

[Anonymous No.8779836]

All the Nobunaga's Ambition games that were never localized.

[Anonymous No.8780258]

Kowloon's Gate (pretty sure this is on the way by the people who translated Laika)
Moonlight Syndrome (guy translating this is taking forever)
Segagaga
Giftpia

[Anonymous No.8780272]

Anything remaining Quintet I suppose and Segagaga
Is there an actual proper Captain Rainbow patch? I waited forever for them to finish the script and do nothing because nobody wanted to deal with the in game scripting. And then we have a patch, but it's missing lines. Are the lines finally filled? I had been waiting for years for this and it's like half finished

[Anonymous No.8780273]

>>8777978
wHaT dOeS oNe GaIn FrOm TyPiNg LiKe A rEtArD?

[Anonymous No.8780324]

Homeland for GCN would be comfy as fuck, the current english patch only does some of the menus and early text

[Anonymous No.8780354]

>>8777584
just waiting on a translation

[Anonymous No.8780374]

>>8777578
>just learn the hardest language on earth
It takes 5 years to even get to the point of playing pokemon games, there's no point

[Anonymous No.8780430]

>>8777584

I only heard of this recently on Videogame Esoterica and I immediately knew that I needed to play it. (Everytime he shows a Japanese only game actually, I get that feeling. Have you heard of Dark Tales? It looks fucking WILD)

Also reminds me, has anyone played Michigan: Report from Hell? I have seen some stuff on it and I actually live in the UK where it was released.

It seems like one of those games that was super ahead of it's time and also so ambiguous in it's morals and ethics that it would be held up as 'art'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsl6TmXZ2NU&t=257s

[Anonymous No.8780462]

>>8780374
You retarded cuck. Pokemon is FOR 5 year olds, not 5 years of studying JP to play.

It took me 1 year to learn the language/hiragana/katakana enough to have conversations and travel with ease. It took about 3 years to be fluent with all their most used writing in Kanji and the small intricacies to not sound like a foreigner. Games hardly use anything I learned past the first 1-2 years outside the more basic hiragana/katakana. Most are learned the first 6-12 months as the same characters are used over and over.

No games or Manga are using raw Kanji to scare away users. Or they use the most overused symbols. Even JP born and raised people don't know the entirety of Kanji since they don't need it.

[Anonymous No.8780601]

Instead of all these weeby games, any other regions with stuff people want?
There has to be some Chinese tactical rpg, german point n click, Russian rpg or Spanish microcomputer text adventure someone wants to play.

[Anonymous No.8780613]

>>8780601
The French-exclusive sequel to Commander Blood

[Anonymous No.8780702]

fuck the remake

[Anonymous No.8780793]

I realize as a shmup it's already functionally playable even with the language barrier but I'd like to be able to see the anime bits translated in some capacity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8_IPJ60B3Y&t=

[Anonymous No.8780797]

>>8778586
The English font in the game is too wide supposedly

[Anonymous No.8780849]

>>8780702
Someone actually did translate the game into english, just no one has hacked it in because it's claimed by some romhacking.net tranny for the past five years

[Anonymous No.8780945]

>>8777484
tactics ogre chronicle valeria 2 v1.66

tactics ogre is my fav childhood game, i replayed it so many times, i prefer the snes version and cv vastly over psp one vision.
i really want to play cv in english cause it has new scenes and dialog and shit, i thought of learning japanese for this game.

the base snes version has a fan translation from jp to english but literally nobody seems to want or can translate the chronicle valeria mod, i even offered people money.

i heard someone saying the hack used up every little byte in the entire game so that a translation is literally impossible, while someone else claimed its possible but would take years.
but idk if thats true or if games work that way.

[Anonymous No.8781041]

For me, its Segagaga

[Anonymous No.8781058]

>>8777484
>Wachenröder
best i can do is translate the german on the cover kek

[Anonymous No.8781096]

>>8780702
Saw somebody earlier say that the Saturn version is arguably better than the PS1 version but I thought the PS1 was just the Saturn version with a bonus tower or something.

[Anonymous No.8781120]

I just want segagaga one day...

[Anonymous No.8781239]

>>8780702
Fuck all remakes.

[Anonymous No.8781337]

rent-a-hero..

[Anonymous No.8781381]

>>8781337
The Xbox version was officially localized, but got shelved at the last minute. You can easily find an iso of it

[Anonymous No.8781462]

>>8780849
Enlightened me, why should people give a shit if someone "calls dibs" on doing a games unofficial translation? Whoever does it first and does the best quality should get their credit.

[Anonymous No.8781481]

>>8781462
I think the idea behind it is that you don't want to step on someone else's toes and work on something someone else is already working on, because it's just redundant and that energy could go towards another untranslated game.
The idea falls apart when people claim a game and just squat on it without ever actually working on it.

[Anonymous No.8781491]

Call me a fag but I want to play angelique someday... I love raising sims.
funnily enough someone did translated the entire game
http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/ange/angesfam.htm#julious
he translated some things for clock tower too and for that I am grateful

[Anonymous No.8781530]

>>8780601
This German DRPG looks pretty cool
>>8775627

[Anonymous No.8781541]

>>8779757
>Surging Aura
man, nobody ever talks about this game
you'd think it'd come up more often given how RPG-starved the Mega Drive was

[Anonymous No.8781568]

>>8780462
seriously? what was your schedule like for it?

[Anonymous No.8781895]

Dragon Ball 3 on Famicom

There is a grand total of 7 DB/Z games on Famicom and it's the only one that hasn't been translated. Plus it's only a 4 hours long game with few dialogues and it looks to be one of the bests in the series.

[Anonymous No.8782705]

>>8780702
came to post this. or PS1 version I don't care.

[Anonymous No.8782709]

>>8780945

What is Chronicle Valeria exactly? I am planning on playing the SNES version of TO:LUCT when my flash comes.

[Anonymous No.8782745]

>>8777484
I played this with the script translation and the game is painfully mediocre. Not worth holding your breath for.

[Anonymous No.8782747]

>>8781462
Pretty much what this anon said >>8781462
The other end is that a lot of romhackers are narcissists and will bar you from help if you step on their toes. Since translating every rom or iso is different depending on the game, it helps to stay in the autist's good graces so you can get help whenever you're stumped. They'll blacklist you from all their resources if they think you're a bad egg

[Anonymous No.8783136]

>>8782709
chronicle valeria is a japanese mod that fixes the game real good

>adds a ton of new classes
>new chars (ravness, leonar, death knight guildus)
>fixxes combat system
>adds parry/deflect
>day and night combat circle
>no more archer cheesing or double shortbow
>units have skills they can use in combat
>also passive skills

thats just a small gist of it. there sadly isnt much info online about it, but i have a link somewhere with all new classes and how to get them. here is the best write up i found so far in english

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/999440-tactics-ogre-let-us-cling-together/73267101

[Anonymous No.8783148]

>>8781530
Anon...

These games have been translated into English since the mid-90s.

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/36470/

$10 for all three. They're some of the best RPGs ever made. Have fun.

[Anonymous No.8783152]

>>8783148
It's also not a dungeon crawler. It has dungeons in it, but they're really secondary to everything else in the game.

[Anonymous No.8783650]

>>8782745

A-Are you serious?

[Anonymous No.8783756]

Black/Matrix, the entire series. But specifically the AD version of the first game.
>>8778502
Also this.
>>8783650
Not him, but yes I also found Wackenroder to be very mediocre and boring. Music was cool though and the aesthetics as well.

[Anonymous No.8783917]

>>8783136
how does it compare to the PSP remake / One Vision mod? I never played the SNES (and GBA) version.

[Anonymous No.8783971]

>>8783917
i find it far superior desu. one vision is good but it doesnt add much new content just a female paladin version for ravness and game breaking element removals. it doesnt fix the shit the remake bought, the unperson feelings characters have and leveling system, its real annoying.

in snes its pretty simple 1 unit has its own exp and levels normal, in psp there is only shared class and weapons locked to levels, which means a lot of characters feel unpersonal to me, white knights join without their signature weapons on lv 1 and shit like that.

[Anonymous No.8784002]

For me it's Machi and the SFC/PSX versions of Kamaitachi no Yoru. There are so many interesting looking retro VNs on consoles but unfortunately they never get translated. I guess the general retro game hacking community isn't interested in VNs, and VN fan translators don't know how to hack console games. These games are the very definition of never ever, there's absolutely no hope of a translation so I'm just learning Japanese at this point.

[Anonymous No.8784009]

>>8783971
leveling is fucking cancer in psp
>no training mode
>enemies scale to highest team member level
>gear is level locked
Good luck getting your new lv1 classes up, you either have to go through all low tier equipment and have only them fight equal enemies or use high level chars and have 2-3 low levels that gain most exp, eitherway sucks

[Anonymous No.8784627]

Never ever.

[Anonymous No.8784661]

Shadowrun for Sega CD.

I really hope to see the Far East of Eden PCE games translated in my lifetime. Also, the Cosmic Fantasy and Dragon Knight games. There are just so many PC Engine RPGs that never left Japan that I'd like to play.

[Anonymous No.8784682]

For JRPGs, probably this one

[Anonymous No.8784741]

The PC Engine CD version of SNATCHER.
This version is the final director's cut made by Hideo Kojima.
The Sega CD version (and future 5th gen ports) had some alterations and censorship, plus the PCE-CD version had a bonus disc with tons of goodies.
The PCE-CD version also has slightly better graphics than the Sega CD version.
I'm happy that the Sega Saturn version of Policenauts got translated as well as SD Snatcher but I am still waiting for a translation of the best version of SNATCHER.

Also, I would love an English translation of the Evangelion games on Sega Saturn. I was curious about them ever since I saw their TV commercials that were on the bonuses of the GKIDS Blu-ray.

[Anonymous No.8784757]

Devil Summoner. I know people are working on it right now.

And Mystery Dungeon Asuka Kenzan, though I guess you don't really need a translation to play it.

[Anonymous No.8784761]

>>8782747
fuck that faggot mindset. if you claim a game and I see no results in 2yrs oopsie poopsie your claims are null and void and its up for grabs. block me from your resources faggot you dont have any or you'd release the game.

fuck these entitled homosexual manchildren

[Anonymous No.8784778]

>>8784741
The main problem is that the PC Engine version of Snatcher (and all the console versions of the game for that matter) is that there are no subtitles for the voiced dialogue. And you can't just swap the Japanese voices with the English voices from the Sega CD version, since the timing doesn't match.

[Anonymous No.8784815]

>>8784778
It would be great if they could somehow hack a new sprite layer for English subtitles for the dialogue.

[Anonymous No.8784853]

>>8784627
>trust me bro, any minute now
>last update 2019

[Anonymous No.8784969]

>>8777578
It takes over 8 years of near daily study to "learn japanese" to the level of a kid, and 20 years to become fluent. You would need studying for multiple hours a day to become fluent and maintain it.

[Anonymous No.8784991]

The only two I waited for since 2005 ish.

Dead of the brain I & II (released a few years back, thank fuck)

Shadowun on SEGACD

[Anonymous No.8785000]

Anyday now… i shall be released

[Anonymous No.8785025]

>>8781541
>Surging Aura
Has a fan translation, in French
>>8780797
>Segagaga
>The English font in the game is too wide supposedly
The teaser screenshots had that taken care of, but the project is cancelled.

I want Gunparade March. The existing project went nowhere.

>>8780945
>Tactics Ogre
My dream hack would be a complete redo of the English SNES translation (it's buggy as hell, a lot of "missing features" cited by people online as flaws with the SNES version are the shoddy translation patch fault), reinserting all of the PSX translation again AND add an MSU-1 hack for the Saturn voice acting.

>i heard someone saying the hack used up every little byte in the entire game so that a translation is literally impossible
Even in those cases, an emulator only patch like the older T-Edition translation that ran on Snes9X-rr with lua patches is possible. I reckon it might be even the only realistic way we get any of the Falcom SNES ports.

[Anonymous No.8785047]

>>8777484
One day, maybe...

[Anonymous No.8785073]

>>8784969
Not if you study properly. I've been studying Japanese for about 11 years and I can watch movies, play games, etc. usually with no issue. I'm far from the most dedicated learner and the mostly just studied while commuting to university/work. You could get to the same level as me in far less time if you really went at it.

Knowing Japanese is great for retro gaming, by the way. Because Japan has maintained a strong second hand market for decades, retro games have remained in circulation and haven't experienced anything near the inflation in price they have in the West. Many games which would cost fifty or a hundred dollars you can get the Japanese version for a tenth of that.

>>8780462
Games hardly use anything outside the more basic hiragana/katakana.
This just isn't true unless you are playing games aimed at very young children exclusively.
There are plenty of games like Fatal Frame and Sekiro that really don't hold back (do you know the reading for 夜叉戮の御霊降ろし, for example, without looking it up?) but even your average game will freely use kanji that aren't considered to be especially obscure in my experience (I've been playing games in Japanese exclusively for years).

[Anonymous No.8786071]

Madara 2

[Anonymous No.8786117]

>>8785073
>(do you know the reading for 夜叉戮の御霊降ろし, for example, without looking it up?
The only one that I required to look up was 戮.
I recognized 夜叉 from 犬夜叉 (and also the Blaze clone from Bare Knuckle)
御 shows up a lot as an honorific prefix, 霊 means spirit and 降ろし is the -i form of the five-stem verb 降ろす (to dispel something)

[Anonymous No.8786160]

>>8785025
>>Surging Aura
>Has a fan translation, in French

Is anyone doing the English translation? im not learning some language made by weak people that pullout a white flag and surrender at any loud noise

[Anonymous No.8786246]

>>8786160
>im not learning some language made by weak people that pullout a white flag and surrender at any loud noise
You're just a burger who keeps hearing other burgers parroting this stereotype, so you automatically assumes it's true.

[Anonymous No.8786384]

>>8785025
for me it would be
>chronicle valeria content
>snes gameplay (the way levels and classes work)
>psp engline/graphics/english for smooth gameplay
>saturns voice acting added

[Anonymous No.8786393]

>>8777484
Pure Pure Mimi to Shippo no Monogatari. A cute VN illustrated by Izumi Sakurazawa, had two projects but both fell through eventually. I've read a chunk of it in Japanese, it's my palate cleanser after more tragic works like Saya or Fata Morgana.

[Anonymous No.8787108]

Was going to say Ogre Battle Saturn but the patch just dropped

[Anonymous No.8787612]

>65 percent

[Anonymous No.8787664]

>>8778502
Didn't it's remake get a translation pretty recently? IIRC the only ones translated, officially and fan, are Returns, Metal Saga, 3, 2R, and Xeno.

[Anonymous No.8787695]

>>8777484
Maigo No Kimochi by Foster. I ordered a burned copy from a website in 2000 and played through it despite not knowing J. Busted a few loads but I was super in to the cast. I miss those days.

[Anonymous No.8787734]

>>8787664
The NES version of 1 also has a translation.

[Anonymous No.8788127]

>>8786246
Calm down, french bread. The Germans and British hate you too.

[Anonymous No.8788158]

>>8788127
Germany has been France's best friend for decades anon. Back to pol with you if you think your minority of hate represents the world.

[Anonymous No.8788161]

>>8777484
Super Robot Wars Alpha, Alpha 2, Alpha 3, R, MX(either the original or Portable), and Z1 are the main ones that come to mind at the moment

[Anonymous No.8788256]

>>8787664
The problem is that the original version is so different, that they may as well be called different games.
We're also getting Xeno Reborn localized sometime this year. And hopefully we'll also get the two in-developent MMs as well.

[Anonymous No.8788282]

>>8777484
>Wachenröder
how does и come out as a

[Anonymous No.8788463]

>>8788158
I'm French and I hate Germany and Britain

[Anonymous No.8788492]

>>8788463
Based

[Anonymous No.8788496]

>>8777584
I'm sure that one is going to happen at some point. Seeing as it has recently been fully translated into Spanish.

[Anonymous No.8788580]

>>8777821
Based fellow Shining Force III fan. That was a dream come true for me when I finally got to play the translations.
There's not much else I'm really keen to play in English that isn't already translated, but I'll keep my eyes out for more. Particularly Saturn games I imagine.

[Anonymous No.8788649]

>>8777484
Brandish 3
EVERY Brandish game got translated by this one

it's also the most interesting looking one too.

[Anonymous No.8788676]

>>8783650
Yeah it's a very barebones SRPG with incredibly bad balance, the main gameplay gimmick of weapons overheating simply does not work and is completely meaningless. You also get a bunch of characters that are ridiculously busted and the power gap between those characters and everyone else on the roster is just plain absurd. The story also feels like it got dropped halfway through act 1.

I remember looking through some Japanese saturn fan mags of the time and Wachenroder got a ton of hype built around it in the months leading up to release but ended up getting surprisingly mediocre reviews, and were talking about a famitsu style mag where every big exclusive for the saturn got great scores.

[Anonymous No.8788706]

>>8787664
>>8787734
And soon, 4.
70% complete.
>Metal Saga
Chains of Steel PS2 you mean.
US names are confusing, but Metal Saga was how they renamed the whole series. A bunch of JP-only games released under that name, although PS2 is the best one by far and might as well be considered the true successor to the first two games.

There's another Saturn JRPG coming from meduza team. Could be either Terra Phantastica, Tactics Ogre, or Solo Crisis.

[Anonymous No.8788748]

https://youtu.be/S0kMPhfq7-w

This OST fucks hard. Are there any other /vr/ games with IDM soundtracks?

[Anonymous No.8788749]

>>8785073
>you can get the Japanese version for a tenth of that.
>daily reminder that jap ps1 games are always much cheaper than the ntsc alternative
>daily reminder they tend to come with EXTRAS like stickers and artbooks and shit
>paid $60~ for the complete jap SOTN that came with an artbook and mini ost cd and more soulful boxart
its true

[Anonymous No.8788770]

>>8788706
4 is kinda garbo tho. Probably the worst one but I didn't play the DS Metal Saga yet. Even Xeno is better.

[Anonymous No.8788790]

Not super vr but the pap Yakuza games

[Anonymous No.8788939]

>>8788790
Those got translated already

[Anonymous No.8788962]

>>8788939
Was under the impression only the second game was getting a patch

[Anonymous No.8789003]

>>8788962
The first one came out last year, and the second one came out a few months ago

[Anonymous No.8789006]

>>8789003
Ohh shit

[Anonymous No.8789608]

>>8788770
>Even Xeno is better
How come? 4 was still non-linear, somewhat.
I'll agree that the cover art with the hero mounting the girl like a motorcycle is hilarious.

[Anonymous No.8790839]

>>8779757
I hate goons, but this guy on Something Awful is playing through Linda Cube right now and translating as he goes, he's even putting English text in text boxes.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3978577&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

[Anonymous No.8790843]

>>8789003
I think the first one only has the main story translated, so none of the side stuff. That's why I never got around to trying it, I think the group that did the translation for the second game is going back and translating the rest of the first one now.

[Anonymous No.8791354]

>>8788706
Oh shit, nice. I also played this entirely with the AI translation, I did alright though I never got all the sidequests

>>8788770
It's good, I liked it more than the PS2 one gameplay wise (though the PS2 one has better art direction). It's very similar to 3 and 2R but there are now ways to break the game, pic related, my crit machine, space canon + stuff that increase chance of crits + multi hit attack. This was so so broken, and it only needed 1 inventory space and there was only one boss immune to it.

[Anonymous No.8791613]

My little brother is learning runes.
So I'm asking: what is runes?

[Anonymous No.8791647]

>>8778501
Jesus, what the fuck. Why the hell do some people that don't even know how to write in English, bother to play some JP only game and then write a review in said language?

[Anonymous No.8791924]

>>8777484
Ningyo no Rakuin

[Anonymous No.8792684]

>>8791924
Never heard of this one but it sounds neat.

I'm eternally hoping for Linda Cube Again even though I have already played it at this point. It would be nice if more people could try it though, it's got such a weird premise and a lot of unique mechanics and the NPC dialogue is great.

[Anonymous No.8792708]

I need more coomerbait JRPGs in my life.

[Anonymous No.8792756]

>>8792684
Playstation version got censored though.

[Anonymous No.8792859]

>>8792756
I played the Saturn version. I know they're translating the Playstation version which I keep hearing was censored but I have yet to see any examples of what was censored.

[Anonymous No.8792921]

>>8792859
I only said it bc you specifically said Lina Cube Again. Again being the ps1 version. From what I've what got censored where depictions of violence.

[Anonymous No.8792938]

>>8792921
The Saturn version is also Linda Cube Again it just has Kanzenban after that. At this point I guess I'm going to have to play through the Playstation version to see if there's any difference.

[Anonymous No.8792949]

>>8792938
Damn nevermind looks like it doesn't say "Again" in the Saturn version my bad.

[Anonymous No.8792952]

>>8792938
Hm. I thought the "again" part signified the ps1 re-release. Pretty sure I read that once.

[Anonymous No.8793273]

>>8791924
Played this yesterday. It seems OK but the music is shit and the animations are kinda lazy.

[Anonymous No.8793463]

>>8780945
this game is so fucking unreal hard, it was made with the tarrot from psp in mind (safe scumming) right? literally no matter how much i level, enemy is my level or higher, and their is always some units like archers i cant kill fast enough and one shot snipe my mages. even had a battle only winable with orbs cause enemy witches were always before me in turn and charm the entire team while it still stands in startpoint

[Anonymous No.8793889]

>>8778513
>Square's Tom Sawyer
I think most trannylators won't touch this one because of the blackface in it. And the game itself is pretty bad too, I only played it just so I could tell people I've played a JRPG based on freaking Tom Sawyer of all IPs.

[Anonymous No.8794246]

>>8788748
nice OST. might check the game later, thanks for the rec. now listen to this OST and play the game. both are excellent.
https://archive.org/details/GhostInTheShellMegatechBodyCorporationOST
https://archive.org/details/GhostInTheShellMegatechBodyCorporationLimitedOSTCD2

[Anonymous No.8794480]

>>8792708
Grow up and drop the oomer memeshit already.

[Anonymous No.8794503]

>>8791613
Old norse.

[Anonymous No.8794795]

>>8794246
>MP3 V0
>OGG
Absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.8794802]

>>8794795
Actually it's V2. Typo.

[Anonymous No.8795280]

Since Linda Cube has already been mentioned I'll post my personal never-ever Guardian Recall, a strategy rpg with a majority female cast with the ability to summon guardian spirits that act as their own independent units.

[Anonymous No.8795953]

>>8794246
>upload to archive.org
>lossy
that's some augmented trolling

[Anonymous No.8797401]

>>8795953
No one can fucking hear the difference between a flac and a mp3. Stop being so autistic

[None !/Rain/OcS2 No.8797431]

>>8797401
you must have shit headphones/speakers and a onboard soundcard

[Anonymous No.8797479]

>>8793889
>I think most trannylators won't touch this one because of the blackface in it.

Which is stupid

[Anonymous No.8797532]

>>8797431
I'm legally deaf

[None !/Rain/OcS2 No.8797598]

>>8797532
then it comes to no surprise you wont hear a difference between mp3 and flac, but just because you have bad hearing doesnt mean everyone else has

[Anonymous No.8797654]

>>8797401
>doesn't get the irony of archiving lossy copies

[Anonymous No.8797731]

>>8797654
Glossy or matte it doesn't really matters

[Anonymous No.8797983]

>>8797401
This.

[Anonymous No.8797996]

>>8797401
>>8797983
What a stupid thing to say. Depends entirely on the encoder settings, wouldn't you agree? Everyone with normal hearing capabilities can hear the difference between a busy song encoded in <128 kbps mp3 and a lossless encode. On the other hand, there are shitty sounding masters out there too where it a lossless copy still can't fix the damage that's already been done.

[Anonymous No.8798142]

just learn japanese

[Anonymous No.8798153]

>>8797996
>Everyone with normal hearing capabilities can hear the difference
You overestimate the average person. I know for a fact that people rather get their music compressed from some shitty YouTube downloader than even look for other higher quality free downloads. And if they do get them from somewhere else or legally, they don't even know the difference.
This applies more or less to the average player and even to the average anon.

[Anonymous No.8798167]

>>8798153
Not knowing or caring isn't the same as being unable to hear the difference when asked to look for it. All I was saying was that you can't make a such a broad statement because it is partly untrue. Almost nobody will be able to tell a direct 320kbps MP3 encode its lossless source. That doesn't mean you can say the same about MP3 in general. That's not how it works. People not giving a shit about all that is an entirely different argument all together.

[Anonymous No.8798181]

>>8798167
The problem is that the mass majority neither care or notice.

[Anonymous No.8798224]

>>8798181
Isn't that what I just said?

[Anonymous No.8798265]

>>8777484
pity that dude behind the translation(or is he only making patcher and using someone else translation?) is manchild.

[Anonymous No.8798349]

>>8794503
Not Japanese?

[Anonymous No.8798364]

>>8792708
All DK games (the pc-98 versions) are being worked on currently.
Dk1 is in testing/proofreading phase, the author will do dk2 afterwards.
Dk3 has just begun, there's a video on youtube.
Dk4 is about 30% done (it's a huge game text-wise).

[Anonymous No.8798652]

>>8798142
>waste years of life just to barely be able to read anime games

[Anonymous No.8798654]

>>8798652
yes

[Anonymous No.8798670]

>>8798652
>waste years of life to get a translation for one game from someone that is barely able to read anime games

[Anonymous No.8798804]

>>8780793
Same case for this game as well.

[Anonymous No.8799103]

>>8797731
latte is gross, I prefer my coffee black

[Anonymous No.8799250]

>>8784002
Machi baffles me. This was voted #5 in a Famitsu poll for favorite games of all time so it must be pretty popular, yet I had never even heard of it on the English-speaking internet until I played 428 a couple of years ago, not even as a "never ever" pick.

[Anonymous No.8799278]

>>8799250
I learned about kamitachi no yoru because the vita remake had a bonus story by ryukishi07.
Sound novels are incredibly chill and I love the in-game encyclopedia that edits itself.

[Anonymous No.8799665]

Venus and Braves, an SRPG with an interesting visual style.

[Anonymous No.8799694]

Can someone just post a fucking link to Wachenroder already? I don't want to join some random ass Discord for it.

[Anonymous No.8799968]

just learn Japanese, where's the problem?

[Anonymous No.8800020]

>>8799694
>Discord
Go back fgt

[Anonymous No.8800043]

>>8780702
soonTM maybe

[Anonymous No.8800084]

>>8799968
Based DT enjoyer.

[Anonymous No.8800292]

[Anonymous No.8800298]

>>8800020
I love how people on this site are so retarded that they function like those porn bots that try to steal your credit card info. The other guy was talking down on Discord but the moment you saw the word "Discord" you completely ignored the context and started insulting him

[Anonymous No.8800303]

>>8800298
That happens quite here actually, yeah. People are just hellbent on making each other's time here as miserable as possible.

[Anonymous No.8800334]

>>8777484
Brightis for PS1
My Summer Vacation games
Drihoo, but any OG Xbox jap exclusives really, because it's the least likely gonna happen

[Anonymous No.8800361]

>>8799665
I never understood this game's combat system. Shame because it look great

[Anonymous No.8800370]

>>8800292
The Drama is neat. Low budget and very 90's but I enjoyed the two episodes I watched so far

[Anonymous No.8801357]

>>8800334
>Brightis
This. I played it for a lil bit, but with no Engrish I had no idea wtf to do. The item shift menu is kinda neat.

[Anonymous No.8801805]

>>8777484
been trying to learn jp just for this

[Anonymous No.8801819]

>>8800298
>>8800303
Appreciate you two. Fuck stupid ass Discords. I guess I'll just wait for it to get posted somewhere else, I'm not frothing at the mouth to play this.
Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.8802391]

>>8781895
Curious why no one translated that one or the Wonderswan remake

[Anonymous No.8802746]

[Anonymous No.8803051]

>>8802746
is that booba or cartman?

[Anonymous No.8803745]

>>8788706
70 percent?ohhh SHIT metal dreamers are burning the midnight oil. I think they've translated the the latter half of the entire series in a span of a few years, bless them.

[Anonymous No.8804781]

>>8803745
It's really baffling we never got 3 or 2:R in the DS era officially. They are stellar games and we got so much shit shovelwares RPGs instead.

[Anonymous No.8805076]

>>8801805
It's a real shame 1 wasn't included in the generations set.

[Anonymous No.8805109]

Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut

[Anonymous No.8805118]

>>8805109
It's already fully translated, I played through it not that long ago.
https://github.com/furiousg4m3r/Tales-of-Destiny-DC

[Anonymous No.8805150]

>>8785047
yeah only problem is in the game there's a dictionary for the shit you see or whatever
would take ages for someone who's doing it to learn jap like i was.

[Anonymous No.8805158]

just use Google translate

[Anonymous No.8805170]

>game has a port on another platform with new content and unique visuals/music
>it's already translated on another console so nobody will ever make a hack for that one ever

[Anonymous No.8805824]

>>8805170
Saturn ports in English never ever

[Anonymous No.8807409]

>>8800292
Didn't this get a 3DS remake?

[Anonymous No.8807429]

>>8807409
No, PSP (also Japan exclusive)
You're thinking of the sequel, Soul Hackers

[Anonymous No.8807685]

Until recently it was Baroque for the ps1 until it got a spanish fan-patch which was based on some english translation documents floating around the internet. Not gonna lie, I was ass-mad. I know spanish but I just don't like the language.
Also, soul hackers on the ps1. It ended up getting translated on the DS or something, but I mostly wanted to play that game because of how the sprites would look on a crt television. (snes smt games just look so good on crt!)

[Anonymous No.8807893]

>>8780601
I found this chink video on youtube showing a game that I didn't recognize. After researching a bunch and exploring the chinese internet all day I finally found a working copy, it might interest you.
https://archive.org/details/foolish_202108

Something I find very sad is how gamers mostly ignore games outside the USA and Japan. Granted, those are the main producers and there are a lot of famous European games that are but the particular heritage of each country gets usually ignored (and with good reason, most stuff is not in english). How much gaming are we ignoring just because we don't see China, Russia or India as valid game creators?

[Anonymous No.8808558]

>>8805170
SMT I, II, and if... having SNES translations but not PS1 translations

[Anonymous No.8808569]

>>8807685
It was 3DS, and the translation was official for what it's worth. Agreed about wanting to play on a CRT though. The same guys working on the translation for Devil Summoner (which is the PSP version) and Persona 2 Eternal Punishment's PSP version are working on Soul Hackers for Saturn though, so if you buy a Saturn and a Pseudosaturn Kai you'll get your wish. Just kinda irritates me since P2EP (which has extra content than the far from perfect PS1 localization) and Devil Summoner (which has never been localized, Saturn nor PSP) are taking fucking forever to come out so I don't know why they're working on a game that already has a localization on top of it all. I remember them saying P2EP would be done in 2018 and now here we are

[Anonymous No.8808837]

>>8808558
that's actually exactly what i was thinking of when i made that post
the smt 1 sega cd port looks amusing as well

[Anonymous No.8809071]

>>8808569
Bro Devil Summoner PSP got straight up cancelled ages ago

[Anonymous No.8809258]

Taikou Risshiden V
There's an English patch but it's all sorts of jank in terms of translation and technical issues since it's a Windows game from 2005, so a remake would be nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP14_qYEyh4

[Anonymous No.8809316]

>>8809258
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMU7m64QCPo
if Koei are not completely retarded, they will bring the hd version to the west
let's stay hopeful together

[Anonymous No.8809336]

>>8807893
>How much gaming are we ignoring just because we don't see China, Russia or India as valid game creators?
guess it's less about ignoring and more about not speaking their moontounges and thus not caring about those games.

[Anonymous No.8809346]

>>8807893
>Russia
95% of worthwhile Russian games were released in the west, one way or another, and there wasn't much of a gaming scene in the 90s to speak of.

[Anonymous No.8809552]

>>8809336
How many projects are there to translate Chinese games into English? There's a clear bias.
With that said, I get the feeling the situation is slowly changing regarding some modern games in China.
>>8809346
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.8809973]

>>8809552
The Chinese have never made anything of value in their entire existence. Who would want to play shitty bootlegs and CCP funded spyware gachas?

[Anonymous No.8810015]

>>8809973
Ever heard of the Taiwanese? Also, the CCCP made this little game called Tetris, don't know if you have ever heard about it, I don't think it's a big leap to at least consider the possibility of China having something like that. And even if they don't, we don't know retards like you start crying.

[Anonymous No.8810056]

>>8810015
>we don't know retards like you start crying.
we don't know *because retards like you start crying.

[Anonymous No.8810186]

>>8810015
great bait

[Anonymous No.8811876]

PowerPros.
Literally any game will do.
>but there are MLB Pros
you don't understand, I want my Japanese flavored high school baseball, not localized to be american baseball.
Granted MLB localization is damn good and they really tried hard, cause only two countries care about baseball after all.
But I want my Japanese flavour cause I'm filthy weeb.
This game has like 20+ entries for every console out there.
The only thing Konami still good for.*
Pretty please.

*well aside bomberman, it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8812719]

>>8809071
Pic related was posted less than a month ago. Unless you're talking about the official localization that Sony refused to give the green light, in which case yeah I'm obviously aware that we aren't getting new PSP games in 2022

[Anonymous No.8813509]

>>8812719
There was an old translation project for Debisama PSP that died off years or even a decade ago. That's probably what this dumb fuck is thinking of >>8809071

[Anonymous No.8814458]

why there are some games that manage to get fan translated in spanish first?

I remember that happened with baroque, is there translation cene that big?

[Anonymous No.8814485]

>>8814458
Likely just MTL, like all the no-name english fan translations.

[Anonymous No.8814641]

>>8814458
more people who care and love the vidya and aren't vindictive pricks, like in the English scene.

[Anonymous No.8816091]

>>8814458
less trannies than the English scene

[Anonymous No.8816106]

>>8781096
they have extremely minor graphical differences

[Anonymous No.8816112]

Amaranth series would be awesome. But between the problematic in 2 and the fact that 4 doesn't work properly (bad dump ? Emulation issue ?) it's very unlikely.
Branmarker would be nice too.

[Anonymous No.8817358]

I want to buy a Saturn, but they are expensive on my third-world shit hole of a country. Everything gaming related is, now that I think about it.

[Anonymous No.8817381]

Japanese Rival Schools and Project Justice.

[Anonymous No.8818297]

Sakura Wars 1-4 on Dreamcast. Still don't know why the fuck they used the Saturn version of 1 for the translation.

[Anonymous No.8818393]

>>8779757
God, I wanna check out the Black/Matrix games so bad, but I got burned out on TRPGs thanks to fire emblem , they do look cool though, I remember seeing one of them on Tokugawa Syndicate when that forum was still up

[Anonymous No.8818676]

Alvaleak Bokenki, it's a dungeon crawler with an anime art style, but there's a twist:

No Magic.

Instead you use guns and have to keep track of ammunition.

[Anonymous No.8818691]

It’s an interesting game and the fanbase is particularly rabid so maybe it’ll happen

[Anonymous No.8820196]

The NeoGeo Pocket Color Tactics Ogre game. It will never get translated because there is little interest in the Ogre series and absolutely no interest in NGPC games at all.

[Anonymous No.8820210]

>>8818297
>Still don't know why the fuck they used the Saturn version of 1 for the translation.
Because the people doing the programming were more familiar with the Saturn hardware. It also didn't require having to rework the game to go from a GD-ROM to a CD-ROM.

[Anonymous No.8820305]

Normie moment but I'm still dreaming about playing SGGG

[Anonymous No.8820891]

>>8818297
What does the Dreamcast version add?

[Anonymous No.8820938]

>>8818297
Because Saturn is better than DC

[Anonymous No.8822385]

Ryuuki Denshou: Dragoon
Princess Crown
Langrisser V
Growlanser I
That Jap mobile only Mega Man Legends game

[Anonymous No.8822580]

>>8820196
>It will never get translated because there is little interest in the Ogre series
just this month ogre battle 1 for saturn got a transloltion

be the change you want to see in the world

[Anonymous No.8823024]

>>8822385
>Ryuuki Denshou: Dragoon
ソウル

[Anonymous No.8823073]

>>8784627
>>8788649
Amazing nobody care about these
It's worth learning Japanese to play these too even