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

[Leon]

Think i already said dinosaur resurrection earlier, so here's a bit more of a obscure series.
I'd love to see most of the farland odyssey games translated, most of them are on old windows or even stuff like the PC-FX, but those would be great.

Not obscure enough?
How about arcus 1-2-3 for the sega cd? Good luck finding out much on this.

Still not obscure enough?
How about fhey area on the sega cd?
A game so obscure that i can't even find anything more than boxart and a couple of videos on it.

 

[Segadude113]

Shining Force Gaiden: Ensei – Jashin no Kuni he (SEGA GAME GEAR)
Rurouni Kenshin - Meiji Kenyaku Romantan - Juuyuushi Inbou Hen (PS-ONE)

Those are the only two that come to mind right now. I would love to play both of these in English someday.

 

[Leon]

Shining Force Gaiden: Ensei – Jashin no Kuni he (SEGA GAME GEAR)
Rurouni Kenshin - Meiji Kenyaku Romantan - Juuyuushi Inbou Hen (PS-ONE)

Those are the only two that come to mind right now. I would love to play both of these in English someday.

Don't know about ruroni kenshin, but didn't shining force gaiden get a full fan translation?

 

[Segadude113]

Don't know about ruroni kenshin, but didn't shining force gaiden get a full fan translation?

No you guys keep mixing them up. There's 3 Game Gear games. The 3rd one got a fan translation. Final Conflict. Ugh i hate having to explain it again. The first Gaiden was only in Japan. The west got the 2nd one, Sword of Hajya. The third one came out after that and got a fan translation.

 

[Netra]

This one and the others 8.

 

[Leon]

No you guys keep mixing them up. There's 3 Game Gear games. The 3rd one got a fan translation. Final Conflict. Ugh i hate having to explain it again. The first Gaiden was only in Japan. The west got the 2nd one, Sword of Hajya. The third one came out after that and got a fan translation.

Well, for what it's worth, shining force CD contains the first 2 game gear games remixed and a unique third game not on game gear,

 

[marxcore]

A full translation of Akuma-Kun: Makai no Wana
aka Devil Boy
There has only been text and menu not full translations yet it was abandoned

 

[Netra]

This one:

Vampir: Kyuuketsuki Densetsu (Japan) PSX ISO – RGT Repository

Vampir: Kyuuketsuki Densetsu (Japan) PSX ISO Game ID: SLPS-01932. Languages: Japanese. For Sony PlayStation.

retrogametalk.com

Not a translation but Dungeon Chill have a new video talking about the game and the two stories gameplay.

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I'll add these.

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It's a shame they don't bring this one, the others two are good GBA games.

 

[Moloch]

Not a translation but Dungeon Chill have a new video talking about the game and the two stories gameplay.

I know that video. I have watched a bit of it some weeks ago, but as I have realized that he was going to translate the whole thing I stopped watching. I don't want any spoilers. I will wait for the translation, so I can learn the story whilst I am playing the game.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

The Black Matrix series.

 

[DoopLA]

Not a translation but Dungeon Chill have a new video talking about the game and the two stories gameplay.

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It's a shame they don't bring this one, the others two are good GBA games.

Came here to add this after seeing the video on my YT feed. Would happily donate to a translation project

 

[marxcore]

Here's another I can contribute
Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes 2
PC Engine CD

 

[Leon]

Here's another I can contribute
Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes 2
PC Engine CD
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I'd love to see the PCE CD version get translated but if we ever get that translated, the pc-98 version will probably come first, which last i saw it's still being worked on so there's that at least.

 

[marxcore]

I'd love to see the PCE CD version get translated but if we ever get that translated, the pc-98 version will probably come first, which last i saw it's still being worked on so there's that at least.

Yeah I'm about to play the PC engine cd version with machine translate through retroarch. I've been hoping a tranalation would come out. So this is my option for now :)

 

[Ne0Griever]

Super Robot Wars Z

 

[marxcore]

I know there is a pc version of Daemon Vector, but I would love this for my OG Xbox collection

 

[Illuminary]

I really, REALLY want an English patch for Segagaga

 

[BigHairyMarty]

I'd like to see the in-progress Ladystalker translation complete someday.

The Famicom port of Maniac Mansion would also be nice, as well as the Wonderswan version of Clock Tower.

 

[marxcore]

I really, REALLY want an English patch for Segagaga

It's close, there was big progress recently, and some testing is being done. It's definitely a huge undertaking

 

[Mechmainiac]

Two games I would love translated are Feda 2 and Assault Suits Valken 2.

Both are tactic games but Feda 2 the last of the series with the 1st being such a banger and Assault Suits Valken 2 has to be a big inbetween for Assault Suit Leynos.

Other than those any Sakura games getting translated is very appreciated, I really want to donate to try and help them along.

But we're blessed boyos we got nearly the whole Tales of games to play

 

[Illuminary]

It's close, there was big progress recently, and some testing is being done. It's definitely a huge undertaking

It's been on and off for as long as I remember, it's definitely my white whale and something I really want to experience

 

[starman271]

Super Robot Wars Z

it not going to happen i know we all want all the super robot wars game to be english but at the end of day its not going to happen because no one dont want to translated these game since the game is full with mecha anime plot from other series and it is too much so we better off using guide or learn japanese until someone who a huge heart to translated super robot wars game

 

[Leon]

it not going to happen i know we all want all the super robot wars game to be english but at the end of day its not going to happen because no one dont want to translated these game since the game is full with mecha anime plot from other series and it is too much so we better off using guide or learn japanese until someone who a huge heart to translated super robot wars game

Hate to break it to you, but super robot wars fanbase has translated tons of SRW games, the real problem is that there's just so many of them.

 

[Ne0Griever]

it not going to happen i know we all want all the super robot wars game to be english but at the end of day its not going to happen because no one dont want to translated these game since the game is full with mecha anime plot from other series and it is too much so we better off using guide or learn japanese until someone who a huge heart to translated super robot wars game

Aaaaaand what is the title of this thread?
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What are your gaming translation white whales? Games you want to see translated but feel it'll never happen?​

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Am sorry but come on mate.

On another note, this has nothing to do with the story or language, this games are not translated because of the space limitations on character speech boxes, a hacker is needed to reverse engineering and modify parts of how the text is pulled, someone else need to see how to make it fit.

THAT is what nobody is willing to do.

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Hate to break it to you, but super robot wars fanbase has translated tons of SRW games, the real problem is that there's just so many of them.

Hate to break it to you but this is not a ton:

• Super Robot Wars (GB)
• Super Robot Wars 2 (NES/GBA)
• Super Robot Wars 3 (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars EX (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masoukishin - The Lord of Elemental (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden (PS1)
• Super Robot Wars GC (GC)
• Super Robot Wars J (GBA)
• Super Robot Wars W (DS)
• Super Robot Wars Original Generations (PS2)
• Super Robot Wars A Portable (PSP)
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier Exceed (DS)
  
  Clearly as Thread implies the we take translation as "Fully Translated" and not "Script Translations"

 

[Leon]

Aaaaaand what is the title of this thread?
"

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

"

Am sorry but come on mate.

On another note, this has nothing to do with the story or language, this games are not translated because of the space limitations on character speech boxes, a hacker is needed to reverse engineering and modify parts of how the text is pulled, someone else need to see how to make it fit.

THAT is what nobody is willing to do.

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Hate to break it to you but this is not a ton:

• Super Robot Wars (GB)
• Super Robot Wars 2 (NES/GBA)
• Super Robot Wars 3 (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars EX (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masoukishin - The Lord of Elemental (SNES)
• Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden (PS1)
• Super Robot Wars GC (GC)
• Super Robot Wars J (GBA)
• Super Robot Wars W (DS)
• Super Robot Wars Original Generations (PS2)
• Super Robot Wars A Portable (PSP)
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier Exceed (DS)
  
  Clearly as Thread implies the we take translation as "Fully Translated" and not "Script Translations"

That IS a ton for a niche games being translated, the problem is, there is over 30 super robot wars games i believe, some games will take precedence, i for example want super robot wars F Final translated, but i expect that will never happen simply because it's one of the least important games in the series.

Keep in mind how many games there are to translate, even romancing saga 3 took nearly 2 decades to get a fully completed translation and that's from the SaGa series, one of square enix's most well known series.

The SRW/SWT series are actually some of the most fan translated of series out there, if we include official translations, 1/3rd of the series has been fully translated, while a few others are being worked on last i heard.

Also don't misunderstand me, i want the entire series translated, i'm just saying that the series has had a ton of work done on it, more than most series.