Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!

[SamIAm]

I think the Duomazov review of it is pretty fair.

And I suppose it's worth mentioning that, thanks to a cool and unique battle system that lets you run around crashing into creatures like "hell caterpillars" while the computer manages your allies (competently enough), ED is a lot of fun to play. Unfortunately, even the fun of fighting doesn't last the whole way through. Towards the end of the quest, there are some large locations where the frequent battles become very time consuming and nearly unbearable. Enduring the drawn-out fights and exploring said locations will typically earn you little reward aside from superfluous healing items. So while many great PCE CD RPGs really hit their strides with incredible cinematic moments during their last few hours, ED kind of sputters out and degenerates into a mess of irritating battles.

To be fair, there are only five party members, and usually the wait-for-the-AI period won't cross the minute barrier until the last couple of dungeons. On the other hand, basically the entire second half of the game is going to make you wait at least 20 seconds per round, usually 30 or 40, and to me, that's just nuts.

[SamIAm]

Have you tried playing any of the PC versions (X68000, FM-Towns etc.)?

I know for a fact that the SFC port of Emerald Dragon is really bad and that D considers the FM-Towns version to be the best version of the game. It could also be that the PC Engine port of EM is also bad.

I have seen a lot of people speak very highly of ED. Can you do AI presets, or do the characters just do whatever they want and you have no input whatsoever?

I don't know how I missed these two posts.

I'm pretty sure that all versions of ED have the same basic battle engine, which means no input for any of the secondary characters. I'm pretty sure there was some kind of AI preset, but IIRC it wasn't something that you would change frequently. I can't remember, though. It's been about 8 years.

The X68000 version and the FM Towns version are similar, and they share the same art style for the cutscenes. The FM Towns version has CD music, narrated cutscenes and touched up graphics, so it wins out. Beyond that, I don't know what the differences are. One of these days, I just might check. Even the FM Towns version is ripped and emulate-able, after all. 

[SamIAm]

Esperknight is on the case again. He cleaned the scripts of a lot of redundancy to make them ready for insertion. We might go with a FWF after all. I'm not sure what his next move is, but stuff is happening.

[A Black Falcon]

What good 2.0 RPGs are there?

Efera & Jiliora?  I know it's an action-RPG, but it is good and a regular CD title.  Most of the better RPGs are Super CDs, though, that is true... some of the regular CD RPGs are not very interesting, like Astralius or La Valeur.  Regular CD RPGs that are a bit better than that, along with Efera & Jiliora... hmm.  Auleria, Tengai Makyou Ziria, Last Armageddon, Redord of Lodoss War I, a few more.  I at least think that it'd be pretty cool to play the Record of Lodoss War games translated!  The second game is the second half of the story and is a Super CD game, though.  I like them, I think, but playing the games without knowing much of the language is hard (they're not simple, linear games with obvious places to go without being able to read what you're being told...), and there aren't even guides for them... ah well.  It would be nice if I wasn't so hopelessly terrible at learning foreign languages.

[esteban]

Esperknight is on the case again. He cleaned the scripts of a lot of redundancy to make them ready for insertion. We might go with a FWF after all. I'm not sure what his next move is, but stuff is happening.

Should I finish making the English-language instruction manual? I must have those files on my harddrive.

Damn. 

[Arjak]

Esperknight is on the case again. He cleaned the scripts of a lot of redundancy to make them ready for insertion. We might go with a FWF after all. I'm not sure what his next move is, but stuff is happening.

Great news! Let's hope for smooth sailing from here on out.

[Bonknuts]

Esperknight is on the case again. He cleaned the scripts of a lot of redundancy to make them ready for insertion. We might go with a FWF after all. I'm not sure what his next move is, but stuff is happening.

 Does he still hang out on IRC?

[SamIAm]

You know, I'm not sure, as I've never hung out on IRC myself. I've asked him, though, and I'll let you know. He and I are in frequent contact these days.

[Arjak]

Sam, how is the audio quality of my voice acting? The reason I ask is because I just got a new higher quality microphone, and I know that the recording quality on my old one was crap, so I'm a little concerned about how good my old recordings sound.

If it's not too much of a hassle, I could probably re-record my dialogue with the new mic if you want. Please let me know if you would want me to do this.

EDIT: Yowza! I just listened to my old recordings of my performance of Nuse and the audio quality is horrible! Sam, could I please re-record my dialogue? I don't want it to sound like it's raining whenever Nuse speaks, especially after all of the hard work you've put into this project!

[clackattack]

Ya know, ive been told before that I have a good "voice-for-radio", Id be game to do some voice acting if you guyz need any other speech to finish up the tranlation. And honestly, if anyone at any point wants/needs recorded speech for anything, I would be willing to volunteer my vocal chords

[Nighttrate]

Hi guy I'm British so my voice would work well for a hero or villain (just putting it out there) Id be up for doing some voice acting as I actully do have my own radio show

[NightWolve]

Ya know, ive been told before that I have a good "voice-for-radio"

I don't think you can beat synbiosfan on that!

https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17268.0

Check out the first youtube video. Now THAT'S a helluva radio voice right there!!

[Nighttrate]

Ya know, ive been told before that I have a good "voice-for-radio"

I don't think you can beat synbiosfan on that!

https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17268.0

Check out the first youtube video. Now THAT'S a helluva radio voice right there!!

He does sound like your typical US radio jock / discovery channel host, ill give you that.

[Nighttrate]

Hi guys, How's the progress coming on this ?

also will there be a Legend of Xanadu I Translation Patch ?

[whisper2053]

also will there be a Legend of Xanadu I Translation Patch ?

This part was what I was wondering about as well. It'd be nice to be able to start from the beginning eventually