Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!

[True Puffer]

Hey, SamIAm how much motivation will it take for you to finish the game? The same goes for Anearth fantasy?

[Black Tiger]

Hey, SamIAm how much motivation will it take for you to finish the game? The same goes for Anearth fantasy?

He's already finished his work. If you're volunteering your services as a capable hacker/programmer for these passion projects, then that is all the motivation he needs.

[elmer]

Here's a little tease for you all ... thanks to Black Tiger's generous help, there's a new English logo for the title screen. 



If you've got a Xanadu 2 rip that runs in Mednafen, here's a savestate so that you can actually see the title sequence working with the new logo. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqvx8dm23hnq8zy/Kaze%20no%20Densetsu%20Xanadu%20II%20%28J%29.1ec3f0df4c96aee8ed6654d4e0ad8922.mc0?dl=0

This savestate's name is right for a Xanadu 2 rip made with Night Wolve's wonderful TurboRip.

You may need to rename it if your rip comes from somewhere else.

[Gredler]

Looks great!

Here's a little tease for you all ...

Here's a little tease for you all ... thanks to Black Tiger's generous help, there's a new English logo for the title screen. 

[esteban]

Magnificent.

[Dicer]

Here's a little tease for you all ... thanks to Black Tiger's generous help, there's a new English logo for the title screen. 



If you've got a Xanadu 2 rip that runs in Mednafen, here's a savestate so that you can actually see the title sequence working with the new logo. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqvx8dm23hnq8zy/Kaze%20no%20Densetsu%20Xanadu%20II%20%28J%29.1ec3f0df4c96aee8ed6654d4e0ad8922.mc0?dl=0

This savestate's name is right for a Xanadu 2 rip made with Night Wolve's wonderful TurboRip.

You may need to rename it if your rip comes from somewhere else.

OMG OMG OMG, awesome...

[Necromancer]

Very nice!  Not to put the cart before the horse, but I hope you guys do part I as well. 

[jtucci31]

Very nice!  Not to put the cart before the horse, but I hope you guys do part I as well. 

Agreed. I'll give you money if you do both at the same time. Not joking!

Title screen looks great so far!

[esteban]

Very nice!  Not to put the cart before the horse, but I hope you guys do part I as well. 

Agreed. I'll give you money if you do both at the same time. Not joking!

Title screen looks great so far!

I'll give money for either one, in any order. WORD UP.

[Bonknuts]

Here's a little tease for you all ... thanks to Black Tiger's generous help, there's a new English logo for the title screen. 



If you've got a Xanadu 2 rip that runs in Mednafen, here's a savestate so that you can actually see the title sequence working with the new logo. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqvx8dm23hnq8zy/Kaze%20no%20Densetsu%20Xanadu%20II%20%28J%29.1ec3f0df4c96aee8ed6654d4e0ad8922.mc0?dl=0

This savestate's name is right for a Xanadu 2 rip made with Night Wolve's wonderful TurboRip.

You may need to rename it if your rip comes from somewhere else.

 You have officially taken this over!? Woot!

[elmer]

You have officially taken this over!? Woot!

Yep, might as well make it "official".

I think that EsperKnight probably got discouraged years ago when he got as far as reinserting some of Sam's translations into the game and things started breaking.

He kindly passed on his stuff to me, and it did help save a lot of time in identifying where the data files were on the CD.

But since there aren't any "notes", I've just gone back and started everything again from scratch.

Very nice!  Not to put the cart before the horse, but I hope you guys do part I as well.

As I mentioned in the "blog" thread ... Xanadu 1 uses basically-the-same game engine and data formats as Xanadu 2. If we can get Xanadu 2 done, then Xanadu 1 should follow on soon-ish after.

Agreed. I'll give you money if you do both at the same time. Not joking!

I'll give money for either one, in any order. WORD UP.

The offer is appreciated, and to-be-honest I'm on a fixed-income now and still trying to get used to it and to figure out where in the "budget" is the cash for getting someone here to recap my slightly excessive collection of PCE "development" hardware 

  1 Turbo Express
  1 Turbo Duo
  1 Briefcase
  1 Duo-R
  2 Core Grafx II with SuperCDROM
  3 Super Grafx

But ... the reality is that I'm doing this for the love of the system, not for money, and I know that SamIAm feels the same way.

Any translation like this is a "team" effort anyway. It wouldn't be possible without SamIAm's original hard work, and now Black Tiger's, too.

Probably best to save up your "donations" for a KickStarter to raise funds to buy a license from Falcom to actually make some real CDs and cut Tobias out of any profits. 

Falcom have a "licensing" page on their website, so they're open to offers, but gawd knows how much money they'd want. 

[jtucci31]

Agreed. I'll give you money if you do both at the same time. Not joking!

I'll give money for either one, in any order. WORD UP.

The offer is appreciated, and to-be-honest I'm on a fixed-income now and still trying to get used to it and to figure out where in the "budget" is the cash for getting someone here to recap my slightly excessive collection of PCE "development" hardware 

  1 Turbo Express
  1 Turbo Duo
  1 Briefcase
  1 Duo-R
  2 Core Grafx II with SuperCDROM
  3 Super Grafx

But ... the reality is that I'm doing this for the love of the system, not for money, and I know that SamIAm feels the same way.

Any translation like this is a "team" effort anyway. It wouldn't be possible without SamIAm's original hard work, and now Black Tiger's, too.

Probably best to save up your "donations" for a KickStarter to raise funds to buy a license from Falcom to actually make some real CDs and cut Tobias out of any profits. 

Falcom have a "licensing" page on their website, so they're open to offers, but gawd knows how much money they'd want. 

All of your hardware is currently broken and/or needs a recap? While I don't know how to recap that kind of stuff, I could always let you borrow an extra Duo/R that I have. Just let me know, I'd be more than willing for such an awesome project.

This actually came at a real good time. I had just been pushed over the edge to finally just say "f*ck it" and start Xanadu anyway.

[elmer]

All of your hardware is currently broken and/or needs a recap? While I don't know how to recap that kind of stuff, I could always let you borrow an extra Duo/R that I have. Just let me know, I'd be more than willing for such an awesome project.

Haha ... no, thanks for the generous offer, but it's only my Turbo Express that doesn't work anymore.

Everything else only gets minimal use so that they remain fine until they're recapped ... but then, too many people here have scared me with stories of Turbo Duo caps leaking and damaging the motherboard, even when they're not plugged in, so I still worry.

As it is ... none of that effects the translation, because as the programmer, I spend all my time in Mednafen and not running on real hardware.

For future development, though ... I'm definitely going to have to get 2 of the Super Grafx and both SuperCDROMs checked out, and perhaps the Duo-R, too.

The other systems are all classified as "really should do to avoid damage", rather than "must do now or can't work".

[Bonknuts]

Falcom have a "licensing" page on their website, so they're open to offers, but gawd knows how much money they'd want. 

 They might be interested in a trade? You get distribution rights for the console, they get distribution rights of the translated product which they can wrap into an emulator and sell on steam? Though that probably wouldn't be Falcom, but some other publisher. Or.. you get the rights for both, PC and PCECD, and distribute both yourself (though you'll need to find an emulation author willing to contribute). Kickstarter would be the way to go on that route. 

[elmer]

They might be interested in a trade? You get distribution rights for the console, they get distribution rights of the translated product which they can wrap into an emulator and sell on steam? Though that probably wouldn't be Falcom, but some other publisher. Or.. you get the rights for both, PC and PCECD, and distribute both yourself (though you'll need to find an emulation author willing to contribute). Kickstarter would be the way to go on that route. 

I was literally just thinking of trying to buy the rights to burn 400-500 Japanese/English sets of PCE CDs for fans (like one of Tobias's special sets), and using the earnings to pay for the license and the costs.

It's hard to imagine what a real "business" deal for a game like this would look like.

Sure, I'm a registered developer ... I could technically do it as a PlayStation Mini on the PSVita/PS3/PS4 or on the Xbox One, or Steam ... but the costs would be pretty steep.

Would there be enough people out there that wanted to play PCE graphics on a modern 64-bit console?

If they wanted to "trade" and start selling the translation, then that would potentially open up a can of worms with the legal state of everyone contributions to the project.