Prospect of Making Some OMG RAREZ! Game Boots

[blueraven]

I second the idea of pressing the JRPG's that have been translated. Excellent idea.

I'd gladly pay $100 for a single copy with fully translated manual of games like Ys IV and LoXII.

I like both but $100 would be quite a stretch for me. Maybe more like $50.

[Necromancer]

How much of a manual would Ys IV really need. D-pad functions and explaining how to RAM enemies, maybe put the text translation of the cutscenes in very tiny font in the manual?

If it doesn't get the full monty treatment (if any game deserves it, it's this one), then it doesn't really need anything: the manual cover is already in English, the spine is easy as pie to fix, and it doesn't have to have instructions (if ya can't figure out how to play this game without instructions, ya probably couldn't read 'em anyway).  But I think peeps are interested in more of the artwork than just the cover; at the very least it'd need the case liner and something for the opposite side of the insert.  Besides, the difference in price between a simple insert and a manual can probably be found in your couch cushions (the cumulative outlay to me is only $136), so why half-ass it?  Full-ass or nothing!

I'd gladly pay $100 for a single copy with fully translated manual of games like Ys IV and LoXII.

I like both but $100 would be quite a stretch for me. Maybe more like $50.

It'll be more like $2 plus shipping, or it ain't gonna be by me.

[DragonmasterDan]

If it doesn't get the full monty treatment (if any game deserves it, it's this one), then it doesn't really need anything: the manual cover is already in English, the spine is easy as pie to fix, and it doesn't have to have instructions (if ya can't figure out how to play this game without instructions, ya probably couldn't read 'em anyway).  But I think peeps are interested in more of the artwork than just the cover; at the very least it'd need the case liner and something for the opposite side of the insert.  Besides, the difference in price between a simple insert and a manual can probably be found in your couch cushions (the cumulative outlay to me is only $136), so why half-ass it?  Full-ass or nothing!

Then that settles it, go all out, end the Poll and do Ys IV. :-D

[MasonSushi]

i too vote for Ys IV

[hizaygizirlz]

I voted for Space Fantasy Zone, but I think anything that was never available to us would be nice. Ys IV and things of that nature.

[roflmao]

Ys IV would be awesome, though I'd probably be in for anything.

[termis]

Dynastic Hero for me.  It's all ready to go, no diddling around with anything needed, and I'd rather play this one in English than in Japanese if possible, but there's no way in hell I'm going to pay the going price for a real one.

But really, any other high(er)-priced PCE/TG games that's known to be a decent game, I'll shell out for.

Translated RPGs would be cool and all, but if don't have English voices (or corresponding subs), it'll always feel unfinished to me and I wouldn't be all that interested.

[cyloaiza]

I don't like the idea of making pressed copies of these US releases, in particular Dynastic Hero. The PCE counterparts of these games are cheap and it is not necessary to know english to get through these games. Not to mention you can play the Genesis version in english as well. If you can get through Bikkurimanworld without know Japanese, you can definitely finish Dynastic Hero as well.

I agree that a J-RPG such as Ys IV would be the best route to take, just as so many of us have voiced out since it is not one of the choices. Having just the text is good enough for me. But out of the voting choices, my vote goes to Space Fantasy Zone since it never got an official release.

[SignOfZeta]

Heh, Genesis versions, yeah, that's funny.

[xelement5x]

I think this is a phenomenal idea, and like most I'd probably get a copy of whatever booties you made, but I voted for Space Fantasy Zone because it'd be awesome to have an unreleased game out in slick packaging.  Plus, the cover art looks like Satoshi Urushihara whose art style I've always liked.  I would also be happy to buy several copies (maybe for the car CD player?) to help defray the initial cost for you.

[SignOfZeta]

It is Satoshi Urushihara, but its actually art for the print advertisement since there never was a cover. The actual cover might have been the same, but probably it would have been a different picture with a latently square layout.

[TheClash603]

Space Fantasy Zone is easier than Ys IV, start with it to make sure you aren't biting off more than you can swallow!

[vestcoat]

I don't like the idea of making pressed copies of these US releases, in particular Dynastic Hero. The PCE counterparts of these games are cheap and it is not necessary to know english to get through these games. Not to mention you can play the Genesis version in english as well. If you can get through Bikkurimanworld without know Japanese, you can definitely finish Dynastic Hero as well.

Again, I'm personally only interested in prototypes and translations, BUT I see merit in Dynastic Hero and some of the others.

U.S. candidates blow by blow:

Dynastic Hero
This is the most expensive U.S. CD for crying out loud.  It's up there with the most expensive PCE titles.  It's so expensive that sane people will never buy it.  Yes, one can muck through the import version, but there's enough text in this game that it's pretty nice to be able to read.  When I only had the PCE version I got stuck in the first town because I didn't know I was supposed to press "up" in a certain spot to go talk to the fairy.  I have no qualms telling those interested in Super Air Zonk to go fly a kite and buy the fully-playable import, but I really like to get the full experience when I'm playing a non-linear, pseudo-RPG with a storyline and shops.  I don't like depending on walkthroughs.  And I really hate people suggesting that I go play Genesis or Virtual Console.  I don't play those systems.  I have one game for my Genesis - Warriors of the Eternal Sun.  Unlike kids these days I don't dive into a different console every six mouths.  I have only bought one non-NEC system (a 3DO) in the last fourteen years.  I'm a TurboGrafx gamer; that's why I ponied-up and bought Dynastic Hero.

Super Air Zonk
1) The game sucks.
2) It's a shooter and there's no text - go play the import.

Beyond Shadowgate + MMIII
The first wasn't released in Japan, the second requires reading.  I don't put much stock in ebay prices and maybe these games aren't really that expensive, but it's fair to say that both titles have become a whole hell of a lot harder to find in the last two years.

[Black Tiger]

It is Satoshi Urushihara, but its actually art for the print advertisement since there never was a cover. The actual cover might have been the same, but probably it would have been a different picture with a latently square layout.

That picture was used in small sections of NEC ads along with other games like Monster Maker, in which each of the games' actual cover art was used.


Vestcoat: I ran into similar problems in the first area of the English versions of MWIII for Genesis and SMS.

[ParanoiaDragon]

If you do Dynatic Hero, I'd rather see it be reprogrammed to have paralax & such, as it easily could've had it, using the various techniques, & pretty much all the scrolling is horizontal, there's very few area's that have vertical scrolling, & even fewer that would have paralax!  So, somebody get right on this & reprogram the bastard!