Illusion City (English Translation)

[5thWolf]

I stumbled on this site for Illusion City and its seems like something is coming soon!
Wanted to share for those waiting for it like I am. And if someone catches the release it will be easier to see a post notification here for anyone who posts that they caught the release.

 

[RageBurner]

Very interesting. It seems to be up my alley.

 

[irkella irkella]

Been in the works for about 2 years now, last beta update was about 6 months ago afaik.

Eagerly awaiting!

Edit: Sounds like they're planning on releasing it around September for MSX2GOTO40

 

[sayewonn]

Damn was hoping it was the Sega CD version.

 

[5thWolf]

I hope they all get translated! :D

 

[marxcore]

Auh, this is one I've been waiting for! I recently started playing PC-98 and MSX games.

 

[irkella irkella]

Just a quick update that this will be released on the 14th.

 

[RageBurner]

Just a quick update that this will be released on the 14th.

I appreciate the reminder.

 

[dakidski]

But.. but.. I want to play it today!! :D

 

[Clippy]

But.. but.. I want to play it today!! :D

Patience is a virtue. Besides, I'm sure you have a massive backlog to kill some time until tomorrow

 

[dakidski]

Oh you don't know half of it, mostly hardware related projects though. I'm working on restoring and upgrading SO many machines atm.

 

[5thWolf]

Just a quick update that this will be released on the 14th.

OOOOO I am so excited to get my hands on this tomorrow!!!

 

[dakidski]

Patch files are live: https://www.msxtranslations.com/ic.php

Some files dated 13/09/2025 here:
Rom: https://download.file-hunter.com/Games/MSX Turbo-R/ROM/
Disk images: https://download.file-hunter.com/Games/Translated (English)/

Turbo R or emulation is needed, sadly. I would have loved to play this on my MSX2.

 

[5thWolf]

By chance anyone know how to properly run this version using OpenMSX? I am extremely new to MSX emulation and this rom is oversized.
Also need to know of the 2 files, one is a tiny dsk file and the second is the larger rom file.
Most my games that are tiny is just a single rom file but doesn't have size issue.

 

[Clippy]

By chance anyone know how to properly run this version using OpenMSX? I am extremely new to MSX emulation and this rom is oversized.
Also need to know of the 2 files, one is a tiny dsk file and the second is the larger rom file.
Most my games that are tiny is just a single rom file but doesn't have size issue.

If you set up OpenMSX the way we figured out back when you asked about Snatcher (here) then it's just a matter of picking the right machine to emulate. Panasonic FS-A1GT doesn't seem to complain about the ROM size when you insert it into cartridge slot A. I'm not very far into the game so I don't know if it's beatable but I managed to get to the gameplay part so that's something at least.

I didn't bother with the floppy version since it would mean swapping back and forth between at least 6 of them. Why do that when you don't have to.

 

[5thWolf]

Awesome! Going to try that now!

Post automatically merged: Sep 17, 2025

Ok, I might need a little help with getting the emu to see the bios... I put it in the folder as shown but it doesn't seem to see it.

Also..... anyone know by chance how to get the emu to stop looking at user folders and use the share folder of the emu? (make it portable)
even when I do filepool delete if the 2 user locations it always comes back to it and re-enters them in.

 

[Escaeva]

Wow this is really amazing, great work to the translation team and Eternal Gratitude!

Been waiting for this one for a long time!

 

[Morgana Veil]

Looking forward to the club in the game

 

[kioskmanagerBERT]

is this out yet ?

 

[Clippy]

is this out yet ?

It's been out for almost a month at this point.