Fan translations and other contributions that feel essential

Great fix for great port of a great game

https://twitter.com/masterlinkueibr/status/1486345865358884870

https://scd.sk/clanky/playable-english-localizations-of-slovak-digital-games-from-the-late-80s-period/

Not exactly a fan translation but definitely in the same wheelhouse.

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These translations were funded by the Slovak Arts council, and they should be playable in any ZX Spectrum emulator.

I think I've seen other people mention it around the forum here and there during its development, but the Bloodborne PSX demake is finished and released

https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx

https://youtu.be/9Pz_T6Kog6k

@ā€œFunbilā€#p56251 This is amazing and the top comment is amazing too.

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@ā€œFunbilā€#p56251

https://twitter.com/b0tster/status/1488286978852356096

oh heck yeah big head mode

this feels like a big dealā€¦ and it was tweeted mere days ago!

[size=25][b]YAKUZA UNDUB

https://twitter.com/sylwahan/status/1484985808167882752

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPVSP3U3mxo

@ā€œcaptainā€#p56614 some interesting choices being made in the localization there! this would be a fun way to play through the game, potentially.

Not a fan translation but certainly an ā€œā€¦other contributionā€, has anyone had a chance to look at the RE4 HD Remaster yet?

https://www.re4hd.com/?p=9421


@ā€œwhatsarobotā€#p56615 Iā€˜d certainly like to try it myself. Iā€™m intrigued by the idea of the English dub though if Iā€˜m going to play every other one in Japanese I suppose Iā€™d like to see (or hear) what it was like in the very beginning

@"rejj"#p56620 Thank you for reminding meā€”I can finally try this now that I have a PC that can run the game!

also unsure what's going on with this person! radio silence for some of my most anticipated translationsā€¦

http://www.grimmtranslations.com/shiren-the-wanderer-gb2/

People might know Telefang better in their bootleg incarnations as Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Jade.

The folks at https://telefang.net/ have disassembled and translated the game with incredibly professional results. They even flexed and threw in a proportional-width font.

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Some of the new features utilized for this demo include:

8Ɨ1 attributes

Per-frame palette swapping

Per-frame attribute swapping

Auto-bankswitching for CHR

https://www.retrorgb.com/the-ness-hidden-power-is-being-unlocked.html
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Wanna try this on my famicom hardware so bad but it's in the repair shop up in oregon right now !!

https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE

This is huge, I would say somebody call francis cifaldi, but it will get to him if it hasnā€˜t already

Nintendoā€™s WIP console emulators for Nintendo Switch have leaked

they are making extensive use of fan projects from the same homebrew scene they treat very poorly in general:


  • - using third party flash carts (you'd think they could make use of their own first party flash carts, back in the day they certainly did lol)
  • - using artemio's 160p test suite, for anyone who is familiar with this software and the scene surrounding it, this is very ironic. it is free to use, however. so perhaps this means a better product for consumers... LOL
  • - I'm very glad this leaked, if you can smell the bias on me in this post, sorry
    https://twitter.com/orcastraw/status/1516170111341764613?s=20&t=-Qt-8CiorsLTP0GqeN726A
  • just goes to show that emulation has never been a black & white issue like nintendo lawyers spin it, and **these days** work from the people is far more important that whatever corporate BS nintendo produces themselves.

    MVG is skeptical
    https://twitter.com/ModernVintageG/status/1516158062192517120?s=20&t=bByOIFIWxt6ONnE03GyXmQ

    https://archive.org/details/sega-channel-revival-v-3-mega-everdrive-pro

    SEGA CHANNEL REVIVAL! Now compatible with real hardware! Use with your mega drive flash cart!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d118NnfjxYQ

    https://youtu.be/ajT61DNqV9E

    https://youtu.be/1EtElmheaek

    I donā€˜t recall where I stumbled upon this so it may have already been posted on IC, but thereā€™s a fan-made upgrade for Maze of Galious which takes advantage of MSX2 capabilities. Maze of Galious is the game that informed the design of La Mulana.

    Thrill Drive 3 has been made to work on PCSX2 and PS2 hardware. https://archive.org/details/thrill-drive-3-1

    Never heard of this before but it's a Konami arcade racer.

    https://youtu.be/kcAT9dzlzTQ

    Thrill Drive is the game Criterion shamelessly ripped off with Burnout.

    https://romhacking.com/

    I really wish we could have one central hub for rom hacking
    I wish everybody could just get along
    romhacking.net attempts to do this, and does it very well
    but there's still [lots](https://ffhacktics.com/) of individual [scenes](https://metroidconstruction.com/hacks.php) with [tons ](https://www.pokemonhacking.com/)of hacks that aren't promoted anywhere but within their moors and I find that very annoying. I guess there's a benefit to multiple hubs, but when I haven't found 90% of them, and when I'm looking for hacks of a specific game I forget that there's a specific hub for just that game, it's annoying.

    https://romhacking.com/
    Here's a newly created hub. They have Kaze. It seems like 100% SM64 hacks.


    _____

    in other news, coincidentally my family computer I've had since 2008 arrived back in the mail today, I had shipped it out for a pro to take a look at it since i totally botched a mod.
    and I was expecting it this weekend, so *all day yesterday* I was organizing my famicom roms by year of release, something I do for more curated selections on other flashcarts like GBA, but had been meaning to do it for famicom for a long time... it's a lot of work lol.
    anyways, the coincidental cherry on top is an unreleased famicom game from 1986 was discovered and dumped this morning!
    https://youtu.be/VF6XZp-z4Ko

    Yakuza Restored, a patch for the original Yakuza game on PS2 which re-translates the Japanese script and replaces the English voice acting with the original Japanese (along with many other smaller tweaks), has been released

    https://twitter.com/sylwahan/status/1540667739706167303?s=20&t=_6tzDWTruFgLHQKz_oOfcg