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

[LastValsion]

The entirety of the Super Robot Wars Z series

 

[Ppapeno7135]

Surging Aura for the Mega Drive, and the Sega CD Shadowrun game.

 

[Inkingsama]

After playing project X zone, i wanted to see where does neneko come from. There is an anime but it sucks and i suspect that it doesn't even scratch the surface of Yumeria as a whole. So yeah, this will never get a translation. Never ever.

 

[Igge]

For PC-88/98 games, it’s usually enough to translate just the interface to make them playable for people who actually want to play. That’s because there is the Textractor hook and AI translators (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, you name it). With those, you can probably enjoy the story even better than with an in-game translation, since there’s no byte limit on the translated text. When translators have to fit within strict byte limits, they often end up crippling the original meaning of the Japanese lines.

Same can be said about windows (non-DOS) games.

 

[marxcore]

Terra Phantastica Sega Saturn

 

[Remisse]

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Terra Phantastica Sega Saturn

There's a translation patch in the works for this one, actually! Progress has been posted here: https://segaxtreme.net/threads/lets-localize-terra-phantastica.25272/

 

[marxcore]

There's a translation patch in the works for this one, actually! Progress has been posted here: https://segaxtreme.net/threads/lets-localize-terra-phantastica.25272/

Yes, I saw that back in 2022, just waiting for the day it gets fully translated :)

 

[mistymermaid]

I've been hopeful for a re-translation of Pokemon Gold and Silver. This is a series that alters names and terminology for just about *everything*. From towns, items, people, the critters and creatures...