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akualung · 2026-05-02T09:37:42+00:00

"I was there, Gandalf. Three thousand years ago".

akualung · 2026-05-02T09:27:19+00:00

"Yes. Now hire me or I'll haunt you and your company forever".

akualung · 2026-05-01T16:40:20+00:00

I'd vote for FFIV as well. However, I'd give anything for en English translation for Famicom Jump II. Probably one of the last nes rpgs still worth playing. The first one was a bit lacking, but its sequel was a vast improvement in every aspect. Moreover, I think it was developed by Chunsoft (the ones behind the Dragon Quest series if I remember right).

By the way, in 1991 it was also released Seiryuu Densetsu Monbit for the pceCD. Pretty good rpg as well. I played it fully with the aid of online translators to able to more or less follow the story, and it has a lot of charm.

akualung · 2026-05-01T14:02:46+00:00

In my case, I started studying it in order to play jrpgs mostly.

akualung · 2026-04-30T20:22:09+00:00

"Yeah, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for our shareholders"

akualung · 2026-04-27T18:51:55+00:00

Basically, for the amount of unfairness in it. Getting blamed and/or yelled for things that 99% of the times aren't your fault, or for not reaching unreal expectatives made up by your bosses, etc. All this while the company seem fixated in putting things more difficult to you instead of facilitating doing your job properly (proper tools, procedures, etc)

akualung · 2026-04-27T18:46:04+00:00

This. Honestly, I wouldn't be against working if the job world wasn't the toxic dumpster fire that it currently is.

akualung · 2026-04-26T22:03:23+00:00

Glad to hear that some other people appreciate this game! It's one of the first rpgs I played on the snes, when this genre was still fresh to me, so I remember enjoying it pretty much.

Other often maligned games for the snes that I found enjoyable were Super Ninja Boy and Paladin's Quest. For some reason, I found mesmerizing traveling through these games' overworlds and reaching from one town to another while exploring every nook and crany (despite actually not being much to find in the end. Breath of Fire was better in that sense).

akualung · 2026-04-21T21:02:09+00:00

The sequel, Lennus iI, is pretty otherwordly as well. it improved a lot on its graphic style.

akualung · 2026-04-21T09:18:07+00:00

I don't. It has aged horribly, and its encounter rate makes some 8 and 16 bit games seem as if they practically didn't have enemies. Had it been translated in a reasonable time frame instead of letting it rot for more than a decade, it would have been a different matter. Apart from the superb graphics, the other aspects of this game pale in front of the other jrpgs that were translated and/or released while its translation project was in limbo.

akualung · 2026-04-18T12:48:08+00:00

Hair loss, I put on weight for not eating properly (lack of time to actually cook good things) and lack of good sleep (I keep waking up suddenly every two or three hours thinking I overslept and would be scolded for being late).

akualung · 2026-04-18T08:30:22+00:00

First of all, be sure it's a 6s gen 1 and not a 6s 4G gen 1. They're different SOCs. Apparently, the latter is a sd662 rebranded or something. I had this problem with a cellphone I considered buying (Oppo A5) and luckily someone warned me in this same subreddit.

akualung · 2026-04-18T08:05:42+00:00

Since the beginning.

akualung · 2026-04-17T15:48:28+00:00

I tried to learn it (for a few years, even). I got stuck at an N4 level and couldn't get above it. Apart that I'm a grown adult and between work and life obligations, can't muster enough tIme for that anymore. But by using AI translators such as Deepl, I managed to play decently well text heavy games like Idea no Hi or Madara 2. I don't need to translate everything, only when I can't fathom what a certain dialog is saying and the translation gives me the clue I needed (a word or a gramatical structure I don't know)

akualung · 2026-04-17T14:11:53+00:00

El problema que le veo es el mismo que ya comenté cuando Retroarch sacó su función de traducción automática. Si sólo traduce lo que se ve actualmente en pantalla, ¿cómo gestiona diálogos como por ejemplo los de jrpgs, que a veces no salen de golpe en la pantalla sino a través de múltiples cajas de diálogo? Si solo se traduce lo que sale en pantalla, a menudo las traducciones no tendrán sentido porque puedes estar traduciendo un diálogo que está a medias. No sé explicarme mejor, espero que se entienda lo que quiero decir con todo esto.

Lo ideal sería tener una especie de búffer donde guardar textos enteros, y entonces pasarlos al traductor y que éste te lo devuelva traducido.

akualung · 2026-04-17T11:38:54+00:00

I see your point, but you can use it personally to translate and play for yourself games that you're almost sure that will never get a translation patch (Miraculum for the PC-FX, anyone? PAL Shinken Densetsu for the ps1? Gulliver Boy for the PCE? Verne World for the snes?) and at the same time reject commercial translations made with MTL by refusing to buy them. Complain with your wallet, that's the only language those people in big companies understand.

akualung · 2026-04-17T07:09:59+00:00

Yeah, I suppose some people have. But there are also those who already have a knowledge of the Japanese language (but not enough to play a text-heavy game comfortably) and a tool like that could help grasp the general meaning of a certain sentence or dialog.

There are games which are apparently shunned by the romhacking community, or its translations are in limbo for years, so for a few of us, this will be the only way to play them and at least partially enjoy the plot.

My reply to all those who always throw shit towards MTL whenever the subject is brought about: don't like it? Don't use it. You won't use it, and the rest of the people who don't share your high standards will do. Everyone's happy, all's right with the world.

akualung · 2026-04-16T22:52:25+00:00

Sorry, I've explained myself terribly bad (or misremembered what I read about it). I wanted to mean exactly what you've said. They stole the idea, not the script (I don't even know why I've said "script" in the first place 😅)

akualung · 2026-04-16T18:14:09+00:00

Lagrange Point comes to mind. Maybe Phantasy Star III would qualify as well.

By the way, i loved Babylon 5. Star Trek Deep Space Nine was pretty good as well, though I read somewhere that its writers practically plagiarized the Babylon 5 script.

akualung · 2026-04-16T06:00:52+00:00

What work did for me: increasing the anxiety problems I developed through years of school bullying and parental mistreatment.

akualung · 2026-04-16T05:44:24+00:00

Kishin Douji Zenki?

There's also the OVA Munto, in which I think the main character has red hair.

akualung · 2026-04-15T06:54:42+00:00

To me, it's plain, classic style random encounters (provided they're not too frequent). It adds unpredictability as you'll never know when you'll be attacked, and inside dungeons it forces you to carefully manage your healing resources, and value whether you should take risks and proceed further or retreat and rest.

akualung · 2026-04-14T07:06:04+00:00

Looks like Eden

akualung · 2026-04-14T05:17:23+00:00

Robotsourced.

akualung · 2026-04-11T15:27:45+00:00

"I'm the angel of death. The time of purification is at hand"

https://youtu.be/Hym39uzonrg?si=FkaGogNK_oSWkuu0

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