Yeah, "Final Fantasy V" was the first patch I had the motivation to really sit down, learn how to apply it to the ROM and fire it up on the ZSNES emulator. Heh, I still remember how "cool" I thought it was when zsKnight, one of the emulator creators, had answered me back over email on tech questions/comments and what not. My more dopey past, it was another time, another place.
Anyway, I had beat to FFV to play catch up in the Final Fantasy series, after all, this was the point where you were learning about all the untranslated games that got left behind in Japan, how FFII was the 4th sequel starting on SNES, and how you missed out on 2 NES prior sequels, etc. These sorts of things led me to pursuing fan translation projects of my own, along with meeting Neill Corlett who was the top hacker for "Seiken Densetsu 3," "Bahamut Lagoon" and some others.
I did try the "Seiken Densetsu 3" patch too but I couldn't get into an RPG flow at the time actually, I dunno. So only played it to the intro. :/ Something better that caught my attention though was learning about what the UK got, but we didn't, and that was Quintet's Terranigma! All you needed was the ROM and emulator, it was professionally localized to UK English! Truly a great privilege and honor to have gotten to enjoy another masterpiece in the "Soul Blazer" and "Illusion of Gaia" saga! For sure!
Next up was "Ys IV: Mask of the Sun" also for the SNES, and here I can definitely say I gave up after getting a bit stuck half way, but being so bored out by the script, I just no longer cared to resume the thing and figure it out, plus I found it an offensive counterpart to the REAL Ys IV sequel, "Dawn of Ys" for PC Engine CD!
That's a bit of my story, and I'm sticking to it!
Oh and uh, GameSack4ever, brutha!
