@Sketcz You are very welcome to feel this way.

I think the reason for the RGT rule is how many people go into a thread and post something unhelpful to anyone such as "I hate AI" or "eff you" because unlike TE they aren't dependent on clicks for anything .

Here's a thought that I'm sure is still not helpful.

My fav sports team, which means A LOT to my city, generationally, traded my favorite player for a literal serial rapist , and the owner is a crook as well and literally had a bunch of his underlings go to jail for him .

So I don't watch the team anymore and I'm alarmed at the civic level how much the owner swindles from the city and state , because the politicians are all being bribed to take his really bad ideas.

There are few mechanisms for someone like me to do something , but are plenty of things I could do - write to decision makers, organize protests, etc etc.

If I went into Browns comments and told people they are bad people for following the team and giving them money, even tho they have ruined our team and are harming the city, I personally don't think it would be effective and I think I'd just annoy people who otherwise might listen to me a bit.

A long-term "sell the team" campaign is really what is needed mainly because for all his money his leadership methods product very bad sports teams.

I'd probably annoy people who even agree with me .

I've also known people who say, "well I'm sorry you're going to hell because you don't believe in the same sect of Christianity as I do ". Like, OK, but really all you're doing is surrounding yourself with people with people who have the same extremist opinions and closing your mind to actual conversation and possibilities .

I would like to understand what people seek to accomplish by name-call and target fans and hobbyists over using AI for personal projects rather than companies using AI resources on massive , wasteful, unfocused levels .

I haven't seen anyone say "AI translation is better than humans". Using AI to overcome the coding of fan hack work is not any lazier than using a calculator or computer to do high-level math and engineering. Developers are using Ai to code because it literally saves dozens or hundreds of hours . It's a tool , with many potential uses for "good" and "bad" like most powerful tools.

I study Japanese because I enjoy it. I found a computer site called wanikani to learn Kanji. I never thought I could handle Kanji but when I finally tried, low and behold , with the teaching method on the site , I remember stuff. I'm up to 1500 Kanji and Kanji phrases now .

Ideas and disagreement are great. People posting "I hate AI" in long-form does not make me want to engage with that content at all, and makes me want to skip other informative sites like TE because there is so much negativity and disrespect in our culture now, that the only fan communities I will engage in need to be refuges from that .

Also, I just noticed the changed headline.

So you guys are saying it's more important news that Shadowrun used AI in some capacity — and without the story going into what capacity — than the news that this exists in English at all?

Here's what I like about the fan translations using AI:

1. It got done, esp when people have been trying to figure it out the code for 25-30 years without AI and have been unsuccessful
2. When authors talk about how they used AI honestly (which most have ).
3. Authors are not gatekeeping or saying "this version is mine and no one else should work on it "
They're usually , like SEGAGAGA, providing the tools for others to use to retranslate. The very hard part was the coding ! It's done now ! If you have a passion project, help with a retranslation you want to see better.

For all the passionate talk about SEGAGAGA I honestly thought some people would have redone the actual translation within a few months. The hard part is done - the coding . People are acting like the project is locked away and frozen in time as is. When the authors are like " hey, by all means ! We re giving you the tools to improve this !"

This is everyday people doing this stuff because they love it and care about videogames , for zero dollars of pay. I would never tell someone "hey F U , you did your fan translation wrong , if I did it I'd do it right !"

please assist any project you would like to help on !

I ve played many games with official and fan translations that were not how I would prefer to read them and many that are simply bad writing. But if it's a game I cared about I would play it. If I didn't enjoy I'd just stop lol .

I don't think it's helpful to act like everyone has to spend their free time on free projects the same way.

And BTW in that reddit the author mentions using Claude . That's it. Didn't say what parts for because no one asked anything intelligent as a followup. So idk if it were me and I cared I would try the game and/or find out more info before setting fire to the internet . Shrug

Badass idea. Neo Geo is such an awesome system for shooters . Looking forward to the result

@guardian1128 yeah for sure , retrogametalk is where to go . Just sign up for the forums (it's free). It's the new romhack capital after CD Romance went away .

Sorry, just seeing your comment now !

Long ago I read in an HG101 book that this was the best RPG on the SNES. I scoffed, then played it, now I agree too .

I m always happy when this gets mentioned to keep it in the eye of anyone who hasn't played it. Hope you like it!

A JP copy is climbing in value but still $30-40. I love taking real carts and changing it to an official or fan-translated EN.

I know not everyone will take the time and resources but I think to let people know it's an option ! it's a better investment than pirate copies and you'll have something that will be more valuable than a repro ! And if being able to make your own games is fun and much less expensive than buying repros!

/endPSA

I'm joining HG101 to talk about Terranigma for their podcast soon, very excited to talk about my love for this game !

Does anyone count the LoS games??

Wow DQ isn't in yet?? And Def Galaga as well. I voted

I'm into Chapter 2 and honestly I've played worse-sounding fan translations done by hand, lol.

My feeling was that this would probably be a great first draft . I want to play through it to see what could seem to use better phrasing and then go from there.

A lot of the "convinced" taunts are hilarious but some could use a better translation for sure.

Clearly a lot of work and collaboration and care went into this project , and it's a monumental task to make it happen and lay the groundwork for future translations .

I would advise anyone remotely interested to play the first chapter for yourself and form your own opinion rather than arguing over a few screenshots

From talking to one translator that helped a bit, the level of negativity directed at the people who worked on this is not conducive to another, unrelated team picking up further work.

People are doing this stuff for free and out of passion; I feel like people are kind of acting as if Nintendo said "We translated Mother 3 for you only using AI Haha now STFU".

This is the coolest gameplay experience I've had in a long time so IMO if you're remotely interested in SEGA you should certainly try it. It's creative, real, inspiring, hilarious , and I can't think of many games that fit all 4 of those.

I m going to try this myself obviously, today, but have seen on reddit that the writing is dry and has managed SEGA references.

Of course that's disappointing after waiting 25 years , but the main thing here is that this team contributed their unique skills to conquer the MAIN problem for Segagaga in English.

It says they've released the tools so that anyone wanting to do a real translation can do so and insert the text !

Their skillset was on the tech side, so they did what they could to pave the way for another team to use their translation / writing skills to finish the job.

The text insertion was the main issue as to why it seemed this never might be done. And now that's solved!

I'm going to look at the tools to see how text insertion works, and I'm going to ask around to see who's interested in the scene to collaborate on picking up on the human translation work that s been done so far.

I hope Cargidan or someone might be interested in contributing if all that's needed really is old-fashioned translation and localization work needed!

I've read that previous teams had already translated the whole game. There's got to be some remnants of completed translation work out there still.

If anyone knows how to pre-order the JP cart, I'd love to know as everytime I look into this I can't find an answer.

I know whatever subsidiary is releasing the JP cart still had some finial ties to Limited Run but yeah

@Sn0w that sounds like an odd reason to completely disavow what could be an experience to dramatically enhance something you love, kind of like, I dunno, "i love the food at that restaurant but I can't go there because this one light in the corner really pisses me off"

You do you do though! Translations are all about choices made by humans and there are many different ways to interpret things

Everytime someone is like "I heard the dialog was X/Z" I always suggest trying it or just finding a YouTube of the hack . If it's worth wiring a complaint about it might be worth seeing what you yourself feel about it

Sorry to be preachy if it comes off like that , just finding what has been helpful for me .

I'm a lot more concerned with just banal/boring writing than isolated lines.

Man we love these articles like we re all little soldiers in a pissing war .

If Sony really wants to stay "on top" and add to its sales figures they should release a retro Playstation 2 console that isn't emulation , works with real discs and digital games, and has progressive scan for every game lol. *****.

I've played plenty of fan translations that have terrible writing/phrasing lol but I'm just glad to be playing it in EN, and my brain can fill in the blanks of what the characters would be saying if it was "good".

Yeah machine translation sucks ass but it's better than not playing it at all

I guess it's tough for me to judge someone who's doing this for free for the good of others in their spare time and just doing it in whatever way will allow them to actually finish it

@mjparker77 It makes sense that if you don't like III that you like Leo , Leo is kind of the oddball of the series - I think it started out as something else as well ?

I just wanted to comment that putting in co-op for 1P shooters like this is ***** awesome

@WileyDragonfly Do you like...videogames ?

It's ok to not like whatever you want for sure!

GH is Def one of the best games ever made tho. Branching paths all with well-thought-out characters and their little world and its history, all inside a beat em up with semi -infinite combos and techniques .

Oh and a 6-player fighting game with 50 characters or whatever!

Again it's cool to like or dislike whatever you want. I think Ocarina and Mario 64 are boring and really don't have much of what I like about videogames lol .

But yeah thank goodness Gamefan put GH on the cover . It's a one-in-a-million game . Games like SoR4 are popular now and all but GH is completely on another level with the execution , variety, and options you have in gameplay, let alone the ridiculous branching paths and Easter eggs of which characters know each other and stuff

And oh ***** the soundtrack ... Ah man , Guardian Heroes.

With things like this , like with the N64 one, could you run a 30 fps game at 60 frames ? Or is that not what these projects do?

@gojiguy You don't need to take out the BIOS or use a GDEMU, you can use a boot disc like Utopia that you can burn online .

A gameshark also does the trick , which I ve found just really helpful to have in its own fight over the years.

Maybe you're aware of these easy solutions already but in case you weren't !

Also if you look into ODE options there are some very inexpensive ones that also don't require removing the disc drive, in case you haven't gotten too far into your research yet

@MikeP The Grid is ***** awesome . It s a perfect companion to the Midway sports games.

How many arcade games are PvP Arena-based shooters and give you a trackball and a joystick ?

Nothing else like the Grid. It's fast but not too fast to get into quickly as a beginner.

I guess they were porting it to DC and would have had online. Maaaaan that would have been amazing.

We play everytime we re at Galloping Ghosts in Chicago, they have 4 machines or more linked right by the entrance. It's so good!! I'm just lucky my local arcade had linked machines when it was new

@Sketcz Yeah the dam is like NES 101.

Good job all who've powered through that corridor.

I tried and tried as an adult to shoot scrolls strategically at the cosmonauts , but I don't think it's possible because I found I HAD to backtrack slightly to kill them without taking damage . So then they spawn again as soon as you go right .

I hadn't played through the game since I was a kid when I got an NES again in college, and with 4 turtles max health and max scrolls I still died in that corridor lol .

If anyone knows a way you can beat the corridor WITHOUT ducking them and watching them despawn themselves please post about it, because I didn't think it was possible and I don't like looking up videos or other people's solutions.

@Sketcz Totally. That's the kind of think I don't get out of today's games.

I got the bug to play Sewer Shark again last night for instance, Ghost is pribably one of my favorite Videogame characters ever lol .

@Sketcz I will ! I'll get ahold of Laser lords.

And yeah I owe you an email! Fam was sick all break and I have been trying to get back up to speed with life since. Haven't made time for hobby stuff but am now a bit more!

I haven't seriously played any game I guess, mostly have sampled stuff. I honestly was excited for the MPEG card games like Mad Dog McCree, played it at the arcade as a kid and have never had a good way to play it at home. The PC version sucked but with a mouse at least it was functional for me lol.

I got the CDi gun and the tech is impressive for what it is, like a Wii remote but better . Looking forward to playing more of these when I get my system back fixed

@RejectedAng3L thx for the info!

@Moroboshi876 oh really? No way, I had no idea! Thanks !

I had the GB one that was different than the NES version, with Robo Manus as a huge last boss, and I really liked it. Thanks for educating me!

I can't picture playing NES BT but on that ghosty little screen omg

If you don't have time for this kind of RPG but just want to experience it, there is no shame in cheating .

I just disabled most random battles and made my team strong and beat it in two half-days with an Everdrive ( I do own a copy but will prob never touch it again ;/)

The music and art are awesome if you like Shining Force and are worth playing!

I cheated my way through Koudelka , Lufia 1 & 2 , and idk a few more in the past few years. It's a great way to experience an RPG when you just really don't have time anymore.

You're just saving yourself time, it's not like you re bypassing some major test of your gamer skill or something with most RPGs

I used to be a hardass about game purity and challenges and ***** , and I didn't realize what life was like for other people who had like their own businesses and kids lol . It's better to experience a game that not play it at all cos you know you don't have time

@Moroboshi876 GB poet of BT is completely different and much easier. Still not what I'd call easy tho so nice job!

@MeloMan I beat TMNT once as a kid and as an adult could not get past that Technodrome final corridor.

After trying the game twice in 20 years and dying there with all 4 full-health turtles and max scrolls, I had to look it up

YOU JUST DUCK. I cannot believe that ***** .

@JJtheTexan NG2 is easy as hell man ... Shadow Doubles , more invincibility , much more forgiving level design , and you aren't kneecapped for losing to one of the last-stage bosses

I'm not like trying to be a jerk but it's objectively much easier

@Right_Said_Brett Now that ***** is hard

Your guys aren't serious are you?

Stage 3 is a joke compared to the rest of the game after that .

You guys know what ***** killed my heart? BT was the last NES game I was bought, and I could get to stage 7 or 8. I sold all my NES games and stuff for a Genesis a month later.

When BT came out on Genesis , i rented it and beat it.

About 15 years later I was talking about BT with a friend and he said "oh the Genesis ver is easier acrually ." and it is actually :/. More lives and some gameplay tweaks. Gamer pride damaged.

But if you hate NES BT try the Genesis version . BT is really only fun if you're in the mood for a game where you to just die everytime the screen scrolls, and you have to memorize what cruel obstacle or enemy placement is there that couldn't be predicted.

When handheld Sonic games do that everyone says it sucks. Idk why BT was and remains popular , lol .

These designs were featured in Gamefan ! I was like oh I recognize these.

They made me want to play Tomb Raider way more than those breasts that would poke your eye out .

I did not know this but for some reason am not surprised.

Earthworm Jim is such a completely random universe it totally makes sense to be based off one really weird dude.

I almost literally worship Gamefan so I'm very grateful to Dave's contributions to gaming despite the uh by-products of his regimes.

OMFG I can't believe the JP version had online!!!

Geeeez i wish they brought that to the West! Whyyyyyyy SEGA.

If you like the DC and/or arcade games and have never played VT, just play it like right now.

SEGA arcade games just FEEL incredible to play. I could play VT every day against an opponent and never get sick of it .

The only thing it needs to be one of the best 1v1 fighting games ever is a timer!

Also there is no stupid ***** or gimmicks in SEGA arcade games ,lol, they're just so fun to play as they are.

Even if you ve played VT3 or 4 the ones made by SEGA's actual arcade team and no Sumo feel different , and much better id argue

This is a great article , and Tetris CDi really does has an amazing soundtrack experience.

Also I'm sorry to be a ***** weenie but I have to point out that Who Framed Roger Rabbit actually has no question mark on the title.

IT SHOULD

But does not. On the commentary they talk about how journalists each asked over and over why there was no question mark in the title lol.

Fun Faxx

I was confused from the article, is this a hack of the CDi version or another Windows port?

I'm glad some CDi games have been reworked so people can play them but I'm always most excited for a hack that works on real hardware!

@Sketcz Haha didn't know you were a CDi fan!

I just got one last year and of course I had to get the time keeper fixed cos it stopped working after like 2 months .

It's a fun library to mess with it. With the passage of time , a lot of the games are just interesting. It was a more interesting time for games period with less set genres. Games could still just be a mishmash of weird ideas and mechanics .

I can't say I've beaten a CDi game yet but most games I've tried (maybe 20-30) are interesting and worth exploring.

Once I can ***** save in looking forward to actually getting into them

Doesn't Bluetooth have inherent lag ? Every Bluetooth headset I've used for sound has a little lag.

I was really skeptical of new lightgun solutions but Sindens really blow me away. I only wish I could use them with real Saturn/DC.

@gojiguy Have you tried the official JP SEGA ones?

I don't like then as much as the stunner but they're good enough to play through HOTD2 and only get pissed off if you're an insane perfectionist and vividly remember the feel of the deluxe version of the arcade machine.

I even use them on my Blast City with just the DC version, it's pretty solid

You have to literally hate videogames to complain about the English translation.

It gets to a point where if you need to experience everything exactly as a Japanese person would, in the most literal sense, you just must learn Japanese.

Translation differences have existed since the Bible lol . They're worth talking about, not yelling about.

Also, it makes sense that EN PW was done by one guy. I really like Jeremy Balusteins thought that it's hard to get a lot of character and heart into a game translated and localized by committee. And the PW translation is unique and amazing. I'm very happy to still have my game from the original run! I remember going they'd print more so easy more people could play it!

@Poodlestargenerica Have you played Moon?

While everyone is trying to remake stuff we ve already played with a new skin, Onion is still at least putting out creativity . Very excited they have a new RPG coming out in English !

This is great news!

Popful already has a pretty silly and fun script in Japanese . I hope it's not super literal
... Like what the heck does "Material Horun" mean to an English speaker vs "Muttonhead"?

But whatever , they're doing the work so they can make it how they like. It'll be really cool for fans to play this since the SEGA CD version is really the outlier , gameplay wise .

If you haven't played the PC or PCE ver of Popful , it's a little more like Legacy of the Wizard and those Falcom games than the reprogrammed SCD ver .

@Sketcz I think the biggest difference now online is that when people used to argue online, they were more being facetious than actually angry, or maybe debating about stuff online in part cos we were just bored.

Now people are actually serious about like "If you wear a Harry Potter shirt you are a piece of ***** in real life." Regardless if that person with that HP shirt hates trans people for real, or if they just like a fairy tale that will get their kids to enjoy reading. Like my mom has no idea what a TERF is or what JK has said on this issue.

I think it's good we were all passionate about our causes and stuff but yeah, you're right that we're tossing actual discourse out the window.

We don't do a very good job of "I care about this issue, so my choice to support XYZ product should extend to EVERYone else and I need to tell everyone else about it AND they should do what I do, or they're dumb/ignorant/*****."

I wish we could be more comfortable with "yeah, I don't like this guy, I'm not buying this game" or whatever and just leave it at that. We are not going to convince everyone else to match our buying decisions.

I was a diehard Cleveland Browns fan, until the owner broke up a good team, is MOVING the team, conned our state out of $1 billion for his new stadium, and gave a known rapsist $230 million and got more sexual assault cases than TD passes out of it.

If I lived my life telling everyone with a Browns shirt that they are woman-hating dumbfucks I'd be ***** miserable and no one would want to talk to me lol. But I'm fine to tell people why I don't support the team, and maybe people will think for themselves why I feel that way, even if they probably won't.

I think there are better ways to make change in the world than "don't buy this entertainment product" and like yell at people over it.

Nobody likes being told what to do or what to think lol.

I don't blame you for seeking connection over games online but man I can't do it anymore :/ I have a few email penpals and that's mostly it

I also think it's good when you have to interact with people with different views than your own, but only in real life, haha, cos people are way less mean to each other's faces.

Personally I think Luckey is a rich soulless dick who seems like they never had to become an adult and think critically about how their actions might affect other people. I also think people like this tend to MAKE terrible things because they ATTRACT terrible people, so I'm wary of the quality of product people like this produce in the first place. I think that's reason alone to stay away from him. I feel bad for WayForward getting themselves embroiled in indirectly being involved with him. I'm sure they just want to manufacture some ***** gameboy carts.

@Aloe if there are in bed with LRG I don't think it's any secret why some nebulous "coming 2026" change has occurred. It's basically "coming someday" as well with LRG.

My friend who is a sucker for these things said it's been a year since his Sonic X Shadow statue was supposed to be here, they said they wouldn't refund him because "parts have started shipping" whatever that means, and then announced a formal delay a few weeks after his request. But he's now like oh I'll just wait, lol.

The FOMO is so strong with this ***** people have no issues giving them money. To each their own.

I feel like if people gave more of a ***** what they're willing to spend top dollar on the gaming industry would be very different

I'll also ask, has anyone seen how to pre-order a JP version Mega Drive cart?

I know Super deluxe is minority owned by LRG but for me at least it's not wholly owned. The SDG nor Amazon.jp don't seem to have a mega drive link

Idk, even if I were on live TV I might have to do something about that or else everyone would assume I'm an idiot too

So what is the point of this project then?

Everyone knows Nintendo games had custom chips that did the "heavy lifting" since the Famicom, but putting a Pi inside a cart to essentially provide a new console configuration just seems silly in this day and age.

Much more interesting is Doom Resurrection, a new version of Doom for 32X that runs on real hardware, has optional SEGA CD sound, and is a free passion project that is ongoing

SEGA's constant innovation and focus on fun still leaves a glaring hole in theindustry.

Nintendo does a nice job with their core properties, but SEGA in the '90s was ridiculous with making "weird" or even "boring" ideas into AAA game experiences.

I don't think that time can ever be returned to but if SEGA is at least updating their old ideas, it's something

I for one am glad to see Sol-Feace hailed as a classic! The OST is really great at least

I didn't even know an X68K ver existed till I tried it on Mister last year. Even better, and the chip tune OST is different but still ready great!

@Gryffin I've never understood anything that happened in FFT at all. I really enjoyed playing it though lol