Status of PC-FX fan translations

[Aggie Tsubi]

I don't know if Filler is still around here (not like I'm on here often either), but less than a week ago, he put up a video about his dead and/or unfinished fan translation projects:

Just shy of the 20 minute mark is where it gets into the PC-FX projects.

I'm really glad to hear the projects haven't been totally dropped. He's still working on Ah! Megami-sama, even within the last month or so. But it's a damn shame that Team Innocent and Oujosama Sousamou have been effectively ready to go for years and just need a programmer to finish them off. It's even more of a shame when are there still only two finished PC-FX English translations out there. If EsperKnight isn't interested anymore, I sure hope somebody else will step forward and help these projects reach completion.

[NightWolve]

So looks like Filler is the only other guy that ever finished a PC-FX fan translation/localization project until SamIAm came along with Zeroigar ??

I noticed sabre470 visiting recently, I could swear he played a role in the Dracula X project, but then I realized he was the one that started a PC-FX project on "Little Red Riding Hood Chacha" eons ago.

I found his old project page on WayBack. There was a WIP patch somewhere apparently.

wayback://brinkster.com:80/sabrevgc/

Oh man I haven't touched this translation for ages, I did even take Japanese lessons for 2 years to support that project and satisfy my curiosity of the language. Life got in the way, I guess. I did have fairly automated tooling for translating since it's mostly Hiragana and Katana. I've kept all the files for the project, though so I could resume it, time permitting.

I'm still deep in PC-FX and PC-FXGA though, if you haven't seen my blog cdromrom.wordpress.com

I said hello, he replied back with his new site and I'm guessing he's referring to the ChaCha project ??

Anyway, yeah, as mentioned in chat, I saw Filler's twitter posts about these dead projects, that's too bad. We just don't have the numbers for the kind of attention NES/SNES/Sega and other systems got, it's lucky enough to get PC Engine translations every few years, let alone a total failure like the PC-FX (which failed terribly even in Japan, in contrast to the successful PC Engine ancestor)!


In other news, looks like he's been working on a PC Engine HuCard game, "City Hunter."

https://twitter.com/romtranslator/status/1066781118479912960

I've successfully dumped a script for #CityHunter on the #PCE/#TG16. It was a PITA between having to insert the script values into the ROM so I could ID the 300-or-so kanji, to messing with the final dump encoding due to a kanji missing from JIS, but it wasn't TOO bad in the end. pic.twitter.com/IQGcPZ0TF3

— Filler (@romtranslator) November 25, 2018

[sabre470]

I said hello, he replied back with his new site and I'm guessing he's referring to the ChaCha project ??

Not really, just been spending some time writing about the PC-FXGA and doing some videos, I guess I could put a page about the translation but I don't want to give false hopes about it. I'm still keen to finish it though, time is lacking with family and work.

[Aggie Tsubi]

I do recall hearing about the Akazukin ChaCha project a long time ago too. I would love to see that finished someday as well.

There's also a partial patch of Ruruli Ra Rura out there, but I haven't seen any indication that anyone intends on making a full patch for it.