What are some retro games that are never going to be translated?

Segagaga

my god this is cringy

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>>4114809
Mother 3

>>4115374
Not retro, and it's been translated for years.

Most of the PC-88/98 library.

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The game has a lot of audio on top of text, so unless they make a fan-dub I don't think it's ever gonna happen. Also there's a Super Famicom preequel, that one could get translated because no voice audio.

Super Castles. A Jap only port of Interplay's Castles 2 to the SNES. Even works with the SNES Mouse. Anyone who wants to play it in English can grab a PC copy easy enough, so there's very little demand for a translation. Which is a shame, I'd love to be able to kick back and play Castles 2 on my SNES.

>>4114825
>never read Transmetro
Your loss.

>>4115393
At least there's some movement on that front. But you're probably right when you say most, because there was a lot of eroge shovelware on the system that is absolutely worthless and no one will translate.

SMT if...

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>>4115679

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NEVER
EVER

there has not been any full translations of original ps2 games since 2013 so...

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>>4114809
https://youtu.be/vmUcJ1hBER8

>>4114809
Samurai Shodown RPG

Far East of Eden series.

>>4115935
actual there is a guy doing Samurai Shodown RPG

I wish this faggot would be straight up if he wants to work on shit instead of dangling the carrot for more than a decade now

>>4115936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l25eIOnhqA

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Mahjong Taisen, NES rpg with a mahjong battle system which makes it stand out amongst all the dragon quest clones for the system

>>4115936
>>4115941
He hasn't updated in years. It's dead, tim.

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>>4114809
.And it's a shame too since Mystic Ark has been translated and apparently this is the finale of somewhat overarching plots of 7th Saga, Brain Lord and Mystic Ark

>>4114809

I own the official licensed pair of Spider Jerusalem glasses. Cost me $400. No ragrets.

>>4115971
Exactly and there were no release of his progress only thing it's to copy from the video.

>>4117430
That's a really good cover.

How it's the game?

Gunparade March

>>4115935
There's an spanish translation if I remember well.

Business idea: an emulator with an automatic translator embedded

>>4118175
Could work for something like PC98, Dreamcast WinCE games or some PSP Visual Novels.
It doesn't work for everything else because each game handles its text engine differently in assembly.

Name three games Spider would play. Protip you can't because getting high is better than games

>>4117505
Damn good suggestion.

>>4118142
French.
Another game that was never translated to English, but was to another language, was King of Fighters: Kyo (the PSX visual novel). It was translated to Spanish.

>>4118220
that is good to know, I can read spanish :)

>>4115636
>Your loss.

I don't know about no comic but man is that character's visual design not doing him any favors in the eyes of the ignorant, he just looks like an endlessly smug douchebag who is trying way too hard to be 90's kEwL

looking at /e/ and /d/ endlessly leads a person into numbness to the exotic feeling of Japanese art and a great capacity to criticize its many shortcomings... but one thing I can say for the Jappos is that they don't stoop to the use of mean eyebrows as a near-mandatory default element of a face-drawing style the way so many Americans do

>>4118209
No, you can't because his brain turned into mush

Haven't looked in a while, but I imagine it's still the same. For Fire Emblem Thracia 776 you can either play with a translated story, or translated menus, not both.

>>4115969
This is really cool, how did you find out about this

>>4120452
found someone's list of 10 best famicom exclusive games (I already knew about sansara naga so when I saw it on the list I thought I'd give some of the other games on the list a try)

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>>4115679
I wonder who's suffering from Gideon more: SMTfags or SRWfags.

>>4120346
Not really, he's just merely pretending so people don't keep bothering him.

>>4115404
What about subtitles for the audio voice parts of that gae? Why not?

>>4123007
Subtitling a game isn't as easy as subtitling a video, because in video, you have a definitive mark (the timestamp), while in a game, you have to take into account that:
- the player is speeding up or skipping dialogue
- the character may not say the same thing always, even under the same circumstances

To subtitle an audio-only portion of a game, you have to implement (read: program/code) a subtitling engine (a small program that will read and display your subtitles onscreen), all the while taking care to only play the relevant parts. While in a video, you just have to make sure the subtitle appears at the right time.

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it is beyond the scope of what most people want (or even know) to do. A few PSX hackers tried to implement engines in PSX games, with varied degrees of success. Examples of success are the SD G Gen Overworld translation (PSP), where they managed to subtitle some intro cutscenes (with in-game graphics, not video), I don't remember any others.

A lot of japanese games come with subtitles (yeah, in japanese) on cutscenes (probably to teach children?). Something that can help you on this (if you're translating a game to something other than English) is that sometimes the English version still has the code to display subtitles from the Japanese version, it's just disabled. A big example of this is the Bio Hazard/Resident Evil series, where the japanese versions have subtitles during cutscenes.

>>4123007
It's too much of a hassle. The people who translated YS 4 just did an amateur english dub of the voiced parts, because subtitling them meant doing more hacking than they had expertise on.

This is just some useless /vr/ trivia, but a question as easy as "can I transfer Megaman 2 music to my Mario Bros romhack?" is ignoring all kinds of technical hurdles. When people ask that, they think game music was always sampled (like a .wav file), instead of composed (like an .midi file).

>>4115935
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=23162.0

>>4123309
Ah I saw a playthrough of this on youtube once.

>>4114809
Wachenroder.

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I emailed Sega about Madou Monogatari and I got a response that "We have no information regarding that title".

Has The Black Onyx ever received a good translation?
And if so, for which system?

Goemon 3 and 4 on snes
That London RPG game on PS1

>>4123487
Is the PC-98 one not good?

http://www.pc98.org/bonyx.html

>>4123475
>when she sees your dick

>>4123775

Haven't tried it. Was hoping for an SG-1000 version, but I suppose I shouldn't hold my breath.

Haven't emulated pc-98 before, but I imagine it can't be too hard.

any RPG with a dense enough script. especially mature stuff, because those tend to be the hardest to translate and still get across the subtleties of language. there is a reason why translators get paid for what they do.

so, yeah, Visual Novels, RPGs... forget it. I would bet fan translations of more recent systems would be DOA, due to the difficulty of getting those translations back into the code, and onto a working disc that the system will play. Saturn emulation is still a nightmare, isn't it? so, yeah... Policenauts, Wachenroder, Samurai Showdown RPG... personally, I would love a translation of Napple Tale, but I don't thin anyone even knows that exists.

>>4120837

>tfw both

I said fuck it and am learning moon. Anki is killing me.

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Quiz Nanairo Dreams...

Fffffffuck.

>>4114809
All the PC98 Brandish games...or just PC98 games in general...too bad, too, because I was having a good time playing through Brandish 3, using a google translated Japanese guide site to sorta help me figure out where the fuck to go.

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>never ever

>>4124046
There is a girl who plans to translate 100 PC98 games.

https://www.patreon.com/nana_vs_nana

>>4124046
Brandish 2 Renewal is actually almost done and out the door, last I checked. They're doing some final playthroughs to make sure it's up to snuff but you should hopefully be getting a translation for the soon.

>>4124063
Nana's actually a guy. That aside, he's very focused on real life things at the moment so hasn't been able to really focus on releasing any translation patches lately.


There are two groups that appear decently active as well as a number of other individuals and titles that are "in progress" for the PC-98 at the moment, though. Here's a thread tracking known projects.

https://pc98central.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7

Ore no Shikabane oh Koete Yuke
Nobunaga's Ambition series (stuff that never got released overseas like Tenshouki or whatnot.

>>4124049
Find someone to extract the scripts and do all the hacking and I'll translate it.

>>4117392
That's one nice cover

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>>4114809

>>4124281
Can you email Sega about it? I emailed them and hopefully if enough people do they'll see that there's a demand for it.

Long shot I know, but why not.

>>4124136
The whole thing is already basically translated online, you just have to follow the script as you play which is a pain instead of the game just being translated...so the hard part is finding someone to hack it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080304171404/http://www.andriasang.com/princesscrown/pcrown/translation.html

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This series

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LSD - Dream Emulator

>>4124049
active translation project in progress

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This is the first ever Yugioh video game.

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>>4128346
Oh and this is the 2nd one. The first for the game boy Color. Why nobody has even tried to go inside the ROM and translate it nor its predecessor I'll never know.

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Not sure if it's any good, been meaning to import it since the language probably isn't too difficult. It seems like less obscure stuff in the MegaTen series like Devil Summoner and if... are having trouble so I would be very surprised if something obscure like Card Summoner got translated.

>>4123898
That game it's good in japanese while being a quizz game, it's amazing.

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Speaking of card games...Card Hero is a very obscure Nintendo franchise that never had any game translated.

>>4128346
>>4128353
Yugioh was a shitty me-too cash-in fad riding on the back of Pokemon cards that lasted for like two months and then was forgotten. Why would anyone bother with it now?

>>4128694
The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga actually predates the Pokémon TCG by one month and was about various kinds of games (puzzles, cards, tabletop games, etc.).

>>4128718
Yeah we all know about season zero

>>4128649
It's just a trivia game with tacked on dating sim. Fucking weebs.

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tomato adventure

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Never ever evar

>>4120316
>I don't know about no comic but man is that character's visual design not doing him any favors in the eyes of the ignorant, he just looks like an endlessly smug douchebag who is trying way too hard to be 90's kEwL
this is bad, how? I know people irl who are just like that and they would rape your little boi butt

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It will never

>>4128780
Aesthetic as fuck

Chip Chan for PCFX

for many reasons

>>4120316
lol transmetro is amazing seriously not even him but whatever floats your boat.

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Romancing Saga 2. I really don't get why games that are so highly praised aren't translated yet

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Well at least we had that DS localization that one time.

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The game looks so bizarre
I'm just curious

>>4128980
it looks like an average arcade game

what's there to translate

>>4129023
This was what I was going to post. I remember back in the early 2000s thinking, "Surely these will be the next games to be translated. Saga is one of Square's longest lasting franchises!"

15 years later and only the first one has been translated. Wish I knew moonrunes so I could do it myself.

>>4129023
There's a mobile version that's really good

Besides dodging being a bit hard before getting accostumed, it actually is amazing

>>4114809
Looks like some Antifa superhero

>>4114809
Rinkan Gasshuku

>>4128759

Got the PSP remake of this but haven't played it yet since I got scared off by seeming all the text auto advancing unless you press a button which turns off the voice acting. What's it like? I feel like I'm at a better level now where I might be able to keep up.

>>4129606
What level of nip do you need to understand this game? Speak-wise and read-wise.

Doki Doki panic

>>4130001

Not sure cause I haven't played it. I imagine since you play as a kid it doesn't require too much but your reading speed/listening comprehension needs to be better if you don't want to skip the voice acting. Also I remember moving around the room at the start before quitting and even text that shows up when you interact with things disappears after a tiny bit.

>>4120837
65%. 65% never changes

>>4130038
feat. Did You Know Gaming

Mizuna Falls

>>4128780
thanks for the req, i finna download it and maybe upload some footage to youtube.

>>4128759
I think there's a translated play through of the ps2 one.

>>4127424
It doesn't even have all that much text in it and the majority of the most important text is in English.

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>>4114809
Every Medarot game.

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Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari. I don't know anything about this game besides that I adore its art and characters.

>>4129023
Square Enix would shut down the translation somehow.

>>4128778
He's raging about character design while praising ANIME. It's obvious bait anon.

None of the fucking Power D.O.L.L.S. series games will ever be fucking translated and released. We'll only ever have the first game. My inner mecha fan will never get over this.