Phantasy Star: Generation 1 has been translated!!

Posted Sunday, 2nd September 2012 under Game hacks
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The amazing Phantasy Star: Generation 1 remake has been translated into English!!! Phantasy Star Cave has reported that member Kyence has worked her magic and the translated patch is now available over at Phantasy Star Cave.

This is unbelievable news given the game never received a translation by Sega. What’s even better is that she’s indicated that she’s keen to give Phantasy Star: Generation 2 a whirl next 🙂

In the meantime, grab the patch and download it. If you’re having trouble getting through the game (though I’m sure some FAQs will follow), you can always go through some of the tips I put together when I played through the game in Japanese.

Props to Retro Gaming Australia for the source!

Fan translations for Phantasy Star: Generation 1?

Posted Monday, 30th May 2011 under New old games
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As part of my preliminary hacking of Phantasy Star: Generation 1, I ended up doing some searching for basic info like… how to save the game 😛 (top tip – talk to the terminals in the towns using O to save your game)

Anywho, part of this saw a couple of interesting bits on possible fan translations for the game, including this one from jessethehedgehog on YouTube:

In addition, there’s also a thread on Fringes of Algo where someone as recent as April 2011 is talking about translating the game.

Not sure if either project will get anywhere, but it’s still pretty cool. Shame I don’t have the language skills or the programming ability to help out, as it would be great if G1 and G2 of the Sega Ages Phantasy Star releases received an English translation.

Mind, if Sega of America actually translated them and released them when the PS2 was a reasonably viable machine, or even in the aftermath alongside the likes of Sakura Taisen, a lot of rabid fans would have been extremely happy. If value was a problem, jam them on a disc with all the contents from the Phantasy Star Collection disc. Simple.

Well, it probably isn’t, but the internet is a choice platform for people to voice their opinions with realisation of the amount of work required to achieve such an ask 🙂

Sega announces Monster World IV is getting an English release!

Posted Friday, 13th May 2011 under New old games
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Read this over at Silicon Era – Sega have announced they’re going back and translating Monster World IV, previously only available in Japanese (though a fan translation exists that can be patched to the Japanese version), and are releasing it on Wii, PSN and possibly XBLA.

This is phenomenal news given the age of the game and the perceived lack of mainstream interest. This is is the stuff of fanboy dreams and legends, and it is amazing to see Sega leading the way.

From here, my only hope is that they get M2 to develop the emulator for the PS3/XB360, as previous emulators have been absolutely terrible on the machine in comparison to M2’s work on Nintendo’s Virtual Console and the Sega Ages collections on the PS2.

You can check out the full release over at the Sega Europe blog.