Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!

[LentFilms]

I have a rather random question about the Legend of Xanadu games. I was researching the series recently and noticed that both games were released on the Virtual Console in Japan and were given new CERO ratings. The first Legend of Xanadu was rated C (15+) and the 2nd game was rated B (12+). Does anyone one know why the first Legends game has a higher rating? Just curious.

[Black Tiger]

The first game is twice as long, with much more dialogue and cinemas, including some war scenes.

[Arjak]

It's been about three months since we've heard anything about this project. Has there been much progress? Are we any closer to seeing a release?

[Zead]

Hello everyone. I just registered here to say a big THANK YOU and good luck to everybody who are making this possible, that this is/looks rad and I can't wait for finally play it in English. I'm a big Falcom fan and I love Legend of Xanadu I&II so much (even to the point to upload their long and fantastic soundtracks on YouTube for everybody's pleasure), so when I found that Legend of Xanadu II was going to be translated, I cried of joy and imported the game (AND the prequel). It was worth every penny, and I can't wait to see more people finally enjoying it and read their opinions about this amazing game. I understand that translating is hard work, no talk about the programming part, so I'm not going to say "WORK FASTER DAMMIT" or stuff like that

Now, I have 3 questions:

- How are the things going? Any progress? Announcement incoming?

- Any possibility for the first game (Legend of Xanadu) to get fan-translated? I know that Nightwolve tried it back in the past, but he had some difficulties around that time and then decide to do the Xak III's translation.

- This one is for Nightwolve itself (don't know if he'll read it, but here goes!): does still work the "Donate" button on YsUtopia? I'm seriously considering on donate you 10€ (I know, not too much :oops:) because your efforts, especially the Ys IV translation project (Ys IV in FULLY English? That's hot man!), although before I would like to ask you something about that precise game (and preferably by private).

Anyway, good luck again guys!

[NightWolve]

- This one is for Nightwolve itself (don't know if he'll read it, but here goes!): does still work the "Donate" button on YsUtopia? I'm seriously considering on donate you 10€ (I know, not too much :oops:) because your efforts, especially the Ys IV translation project (Ys IV in FULLY English? That's hot man!), although before I would like to ask you something about that precise game (and preferably by private).

Sure, it's just a link to Paypal with my chosen email address. Easiest way to have found out if it works was by clicking it, ya know ? Anyway, PM away as to anything private you're wanting to know.

[Arjak]

I just wanted to bump this thread to remind everyone of this project's existence. I hope things are going okay and that it won't get cancelled. It's been a really long time since any official news was given, and I know there have been some setbacks as of late. I still have faith that it will one day be finished and released, though.

Good luck, SamIAm. Know that I'm still cheering you and Esperknight on. I know I've been a little overzealous about knowing how things are going, and I'm sorry about that. I've just been really excited (and a little impatient). Keep fighting the good fight.

[geise]

He's been busy with the Princess Crown translation project, but should get back to this at some point.

[Arjak]

It has now been OVER A YEAR since the last status update from SamIAm regarding this project. If there has been any progress, or even just more difficulties, I would certainly appreciate hearing about it. When you know nothing for so long, any news is good news.

Please?

Is there anybody out there? *Creepy Synthesizer Effect*

[SamIAm]

Don't despair, but it's kind of a long story.

AFAIK, the biggest hurdle in the way of finishing the project is getting a decent print routine to work.

Esperknight once coded a variable-width font routine for use on some other project, but apparently it didn't work on real hardware. He's looking for alternatives.

His plan for a while has been to try and see what Ah! Megami Sama! on PC-FX does for its VWF and duplicate it for other games, but to do that he needs some additional debugging features in Mednefen, the emulator he uses for all his PCE/PC-FX hacking. And there's no telling if or when Mednefen will get those features. To my understanding, that's been the holdup for a while.

I'm thinking I'll start goading him into using a fixed-width font so we can get this project done. It's important to be tactful though, because he's doing all this for free. I also think he wants to do other PCE translations and hopes to get a working VWF routine figured out that he can apply to any or all of them.

Anyway, I just emailed him now and asked him if he has any news for me.

[Bonknuts]

So, you guys tried a FWF routine and it worked fine, but the VWF routine had problems? Tell him to send me an email and I'll take a look at it (second set of eyes is always good); tomaitheous-at-pcedev-dot-net.

[SmaMan]

SamIAm! Great to hear from you! Good to know someone's at least trying on this still. Still remember those voice samples I recorded for it. Good times!

[SamIAm]

So, you guys tried a FWF routine and it worked fine, but the VWF routine had problems? Tell him to send me an email and I'll take a look at it (second set of eyes is always good); tomaitheous-at-pcedev-dot-net.

Thanks a million! I gave your address to esperknight. I hope he gets in touch with you soon.

[Bonknuts]

So, you guys tried a FWF routine and it worked fine, but the VWF routine had problems? Tell him to send me an email and I'll take a look at it (second set of eyes is always good); tomaitheous-at-pcedev-dot-net.

Thanks a million! I gave your address to esperknight. I hope he gets in touch with you soon.

 Cool I have a something I'm working on to get out the door, but as soon as I'm done - I'll be bringing SM2 up to date. It's mostly just that one stage where I need to write a special compression scheme to fit the text in.

[Arjak]

Are you referring to Spriggan Mark 2? I remember hearing about that project being in the works a while ago, but haven't heard anything since. Are there still plans to do a dub? I remember hearing that Burnt Lasagna was going to direct.

If there IS going to be a dub, let me know. I'd love to audition!

[Bonknuts]

Are you referring to Spriggan Mark 2? I remember hearing about that project being in the works a while ago, but haven't heard anything since. Are there still plans to do a dub? I remember hearing that Burnt Lasagna was going to direct.

If there IS going to be a dub, let me know. I'd love to audition!

 A dub is planned. But I'm not handling that part (other than maybe helping on the tech side, say ADPCM stuffs). I haven't had contact with Burnt Lasagna in awhile, so I don't know if he's still interested in the project. SamIam redid all the game translation (I had a partial translation before) as well as translating the cinema dialog. I just have to tidy up little bits on my end and have him give the final OK on it, or make any changes. But yeah, Spriggan Mark 2.