What are your gaming translation white whales? Games you want to see translated but feel it'll never happen?

[Xdqwerty]

Theres a Puyo Puyo rpg-like game the youtuber whoisthisgit showed once, theres no fan translation for it

 

[Ain_Gamer]

Didn't we already got this game in English for the Switch as Seven Pirates H ?

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For me it would be Sigma Harmonics for the DS, Text in this game is displayed vertically making a fan translation to it, impossible.

I love the music of this game.

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deSPIRIA for the Dreamcast - what a fascinating premise and gorgeous and spooky art style. Would really love to play through this someday.

I have good news for you a fan translation for this game is already in the works.

 

[Asian girls loverAsian girls lover's icon]

Didn't we already got this game in English for the Switch as Seven Pirates H ?

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For me it would be Sigma Harmonics for the DS, Text in this game is displayed vertically making a fan translation to it, impossible.

I love the music of this game.

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I have good news for you a fan translation for this game is already in the works.

I don't have a Switch.

 

[CrimsonDragoon]

There were 2 white whales for the PS2 that i've wanted translated for the longest time.
One happened in 2020, with Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations.
This is the other that still needs to happen:

 

[Yukyon]

That game has translation project

LET'SGOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

[rodimusprimal]

Just a few I can think of:
-The Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden trilogy on Super Famicom. There are patches but they're incomplete.
-Godzilla Kaiju Daikessen. Yeah another fighting game, but I'm surprised it was never done.
-The Romancing Saga Trilogy. I believe the first game was finished. Just need the rest.

 

[Leon]

Just a few I can think of:
-The Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden trilogy on Super Famicom. There are patches but they're incomplete.
-Godzilla Kaiju Daikessen. Yeah another fighting game, but I'm surprised it was never done.
-The Romancing Saga Trilogy. I believe the first game was finished. Just need the rest.

The romancing saga games have been translated for a while now officially, there's even a pc version of 2 and 3, and 1 had the remake, i've heard 2's remake is more different.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

I have a lot I want to see translated one day, but the one I think has the least chance of ever being given any attention is Yaku: Yuujou Dangi.

It's a horror visual novel with an arstyle that I've been obsessing over for years, it reminds me of Hideshi Hino...
Also this thread has a lot of cool looking games I've never seen before, maybe we'll get out white whales one day all of us.

 

[Mago]

I have a lot I want to see translated one day, but the one I think has the least chance of ever being given any attention is Yaku: Yuujou Dangi.

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It's a horror visual novel with an arstyle that I've been obsessing over for years, it reminds me of Hideshi Hino...
Also this thread has a lot of cool looking games I've never seen before, maybe we'll get out white whales one day all of us.

Wasnt Hino involved with that game?

 

[Arklem]

I have a lot I want to see translated one day, but the one I think has the least chance of ever being given any attention is Yaku: Yuujou Dangi.

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It's a horror visual novel with an arstyle that I've been obsessing over for years, it reminds me of Hideshi Hino...
Also this thread has a lot of cool looking games I've never seen before, maybe we'll get out white whales one day all of us.

That one's been on my list too, that artstyle is really intriguing, always wanted to play it, hopefully it's exoticness will make someone take interest in translating it someday.

Thought I'd add a bit more to this thread since my list is very long haha, But I'd love to see the Kamaitachi no Yoru series translated someday (I really hope that's a little closer to happening since x3 got a pc port released on steam recently) and Sengoku Turb for the dreamcast! Odd little game with a super barebones 3d artstyle that I adore, this one is fun.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Wasnt Hino involved with that game?

I can't find anything on it but it whouldn't surprise me

 

[rodimusprimal]

The romancing saga games have been translated for a while now officially, there's even a pc version of 2 and 3, and 1 had the remake, i've heard 2's remake is more different.

Still, I would like to see the entirety of the original games translated. Maybe even port the remaster text to them.

 

[Leon]

Still, I would like to see the entirety of the original games translated. Maybe even port the remaster text to them.

I mean that's fine but the pc and newer consoles versions are literally the same games with better resolution for modern systems.

As for more white whales, i think someone mentioned it but i'd also like to see the el dorado gate games for the dreamcast get translated, but those are difficult.

Tengai makyou namida as well.

 

[HikaruKitsune]

-Segare Ijiri (PS1)
-Dragon Shadow Spell (PS2)
-Tengai Makyou The IV Apocalypse (Saturn, not Machine Translated)
-A-Rank Thunder Tanjouhen (Sega CD)
-Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu I and II (PC Engine CD)

 

[Ain_Gamer]

Dragon Shadow Spell (PS2)

How did you became aware of this game ?

I am very interested into getting this game translated too.

 

[CrimsonDragoon]

How did you became aware of this game ?

I am very interested into getting this game translated too.

Came across the intro more than a decade ago, and was hooked:

 

[rodimusprimal]

This game right here as I mentioned before. Would be awesome.

 

[pr0xy]

BLOOD+ One Night Kiss (I haven't lost my hope, yet)

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

SEGAGAGA!!!

A translation of chapter 1 is already done, after five years. Only twenty more years to go!

 

[longestseason]

PS1
- Koukidou Gensou Gunparade March
- Suzuki Bakuhatsu
- Nemu Lu Mayu
- Doki Oki
- Ore no Ryouri
- Ore no Shikabane wo Koete Yuke
- Wonder Trek
- Ling Rise
- Planet Dob
- Fox Junction
- Neorude series
- Doki Doki Poyatchio
- TwinBee RPG
- Charumera
- The Adventure of Little Ralph
- Psychometrer Eiji
- The Airs
- Iblard
- Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life
- Astronoka

PS2
- Fu-un Shinsengumi
- Shinjuku no Ookami
- Sagashi ni Ikouyo
- Bouken Jidai Katsugeki Goemon
- Kamen Rider: Seigi no Keifu
- Rimokokoron
- Reveal Fantasia
- Ø Story
- Mawasa
- Poinie's Poin
- Brave Story: Wataru no Bouken
- Deka Voice
- Chain Dive
- Seven: Molmorth no Kiheitai
- Zill O'll
- Code Age Commanders: Tsugu Mono Tsuga Reru Mono
- Kaena
- Kuma Uta
- Endonesia

GBA
- Yuurei Yashiki no Nijuuyon Jikan
- Youkaidou
- Black Matrix Zero
- Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar: Byō to Deru! Megane-kun
- Hatena Satena
- Hachiemon
- Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest: Shougeki no Shippo Dan
- Samsara Naga 1x2
- Samurai Evolution: Oukoku Geist
- Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival
- Guru Logi Champ
- Zero One SP

 

[LawOmega]

Seaman 2

This will never happen but one can dream

 

[BadMrFrostii]

Maten Densetsu: Senritsu no Ooparts is my #1, for sure in terms of feeling like it will most likely never happen.

El Dorado Gate is another one. Truthfully, I don't know much about the games, but the Amano artwork and being an RPG alone is enough for me to want to play them. The weird release schedule it had, and releasing in seperate volumes sure was something.

There are a handful of others like the missing Megami Tensei translations, especially something like Ronde which most people probably don't care enough about to bother with, but I can still see them maybe down the line having a translation, especially with the release of the G-MODE games. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicles had been translated. Fantastic game.
Same thing with King's Field Additional I and II. I'm not exactly holding my breath for them, but I also won't be entirely surprised if a translation were to pop up one day.

 

[Escaeva]

-Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu I and II (PC Engine CD)

So sad that the translation project for those games seems to have come to a halt. The people who were working on them are still active, but they have lives and other projects. For sure one of my biggest white whales and I pray a bit each day to play them translated one day :P

 

[ClarityZero]

I honestly don't think I could fit them all in a single post. And that's not even including the ones that have partial/mediocre translations, which are still mostly unacceptable to me.

 

[Graw]

I'd like to try the 3ds version of Dragon Quest XI.

It was never translated into English. There was a fan translation in the works but when they released the S version the translation project was dropped. The 3ds version has a bunch of differences from the newer version that makes it worth trying so it's a shame the fan project was never finished and likely never will be. Square's also probably never going to localize this version either.