How many of you collect imports from other countries? I personally bought quite a few boxed games in bulk recently from one seller from Japan who ususally has nice conditioned Super famicom games.
To answer the question, imports are all I collect, for the most part. Specifically CIB Famicom games... however, I buy NES games if they weren't released in Japan, or if they were released in Japan but never in cartridge form. (Such as Jackal or Rush N Attack)
For anyone interested in tracking down good import exclusives, the best Famicom-only ones I'd recommend would have to be: Mitsume Ga Tooru, Holy Diver, Donald Land, Adventure Island 4, Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2, Cocoron.
Damn apparently I need to buy more from Ryoplanshop, they never send me tea! 19993wands has sent me DBZ & One Piece trading cards with my orders which is cool.
Yep, I import for the Famicom, Super Famicom, and Saturn. I have other imports as well but I wouldn't consider myself an active importer for those systems. People constantly complain about modern games and always want to go back to the retro games they love. Well guess what? There are TONS of exclusive import gems out there. You pretty much have libraries of retro goodness that are waiting to be played. I hope more people realize this and realize that import gaming is almost like reliving the 80s/90s again.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
Also, import collecting can be a great way to save money. For example, I paid $10 for a mint CIB Harvest Moon (Super Famicom). I can simply apply a translation patch to it and enjoy the game instead of having to pay $400+ for a CIB SNES copy.
There are plenty of games that require 0 Japanese as well and are exclusive to Japan. Import collecting doesn't have to be expensive, unless you have a sweet tooth for SHMUPs. If you do happen to love SHMUPs, then all I can say is God help your wallet.
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Originally posted by: Silent Hill
I'll pick up any shooter/platformer/action import for:
Famicom
SFC
Saturn
PC Engine
I also pick up certain PS3 releases that never saw a physical release in the states:
Siren Blood Curse
Destroy All Humans
REmake HD
R&C Quest for Booty
That's odd....I found a loose copy of Siren in a local Goodwill! I was always puzzled why it had 18+ on it and not the standard ESRB logo somewhere on the disk. Never knew the game didn't naturally come state-side.
Originally posted by: nightstar6999
For anyone interested in tracking down good import exclusives, the best Famicom-only ones I'd recommend would have to be: Mitsume Ga Tooru, Holy Diver, Donald Land, Adventure Island 4, Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2, Cocoron.
I've actually been looking for all of those CIB haha. I also really wanted to get Wai Wai World and Do Rei Me Fantasy.
I bought the Rumble Pak version of Wave Race 64 1997 this week and it is such a great experience to finally add the force feedback to a game I've played for 20 years. I don't usually collect Japanese games, especially ones that came out in the US, but this was a release I'd known about since 1997 and I was always dissapointed it was never brought over here. I was pleasantly suprised that some of the sound effects and music are different than the US. I've always wondered why they never released a Rumble Pak version of Mario Kart 64 anywhere. I've always wondered how long it even took Nintendo to develop the Rumble Pak. I seem to remember it being announced and released very close to each other. When Mario Kart 64 first came out in the US I had never heard of the device, yet it was out only 2 months later in Japan.
The last one I bought was brand new and that was Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy for ps3. So far, seems like a winner as far as Macross games go. Much better than both the Robotech and import Macross games for PS2. It's an action-RPG and mine is the PlayStation TheBest reprint.
I mainly only buy imports for the Dreamcast (need to get Ghost Blade), and PS2. They're mostly shmups. Recently, though, I did purchase two famicom games in anticipation of the AVS. I got Esper Dream 2 and Lagrange Point loose carts. I plan to stick translated roms into both of them as soon as I can confirm they work.
I have a few. Some Japanese Saturn, 360, PSP and DS shooters. A few from UK 2. Also some import Tales of games and a few others. Nothing too crazy. Probably don't even have 20 imports total. I do want to dive into some more important Saturn games at some point as well as PC Engine. Maybe in the new year!
I think this will be a double post of this pic, was going to place it in the pickups section too:
Just a test fit, I haven't straightened the games up or aligned them. Hard to see the famicom carts with the camera, but they show up much better in person. I want to pick up Ys 1 & 3 on Famicom soon and do the same with a Ys collection, 1 - 5 using two versions of Ys III (famicom and super famicom). Or I may pick up the other version of Ys V if I can find it (The expert\hard type).
I'm not sure if you guys realized, but Amazon has done an extraordinary job of making the listings for japanese video games on their Japan site available to english speakers. It is very cheap and the shipping is good, considering the sellers graciously ship over seas. There's still some stuff missing, but its fairly impressive. Just go to Amazon US or Canada and look up the game in question. You should find it, like Dragon Quest famicom or others.
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
I'm not sure if you guys realized, but Amazon has done an extraordinary job of making the listings for japanese video games on their Japan site available to english speakers. It is very cheap and the shipping is good, considering the sellers graciously ship over seas. There's still some stuff missing, but its fairly impressive. Just go to Amazon US or Canada and look up the game in question. You should find it, like Dragon Quest famicom or others.
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
I don't think people get how good amazon can be, for some things. Sure, random nes carts is kind of risky, but if I want a sealed game, I check amazon first. Sure, sometimes it's a complete joke on prices, othertimes it's a sweet deal.
My first import was a bit of an odd one -- Vision of Escaflowne for PS1. Because it came with a pretty cool Tarot deck.
I wouldn't recommend the game though. I used to buy imports here and there until my collection was lost, and now I'm getting back into it all again but only have a small handful of imports.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine with my cart on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
I'm not sure if you guys realized, but Amazon has done an extraordinary job of making the listings for japanese video games on their Japan site available to english speakers. It is very cheap and the shipping is good, considering the sellers graciously ship over seas. There's still some stuff missing, but its fairly impressive. Just go to Amazon US or Canada and look up the game in question. You should find it, like Dragon Quest famicom or others.
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
I don't think people get how good amazon can be, for some things. Sure, random nes carts is kind of risky, but if I want a sealed game, I check amazon first. Sure, sometimes it's a complete joke on prices, othertimes it's a sweet deal.
Like the fact that Mega Man X Collection for PS2 (among other games) can still be had for $12-14 brand new directly from Amazon?
One of my first imports years ago was Samurai Shodown RPG. Played through it with a guide and it was awesome. Did the same for Azel Panzer Dragoon.
Mostly now I've been into Famicom, FDS, and SFC. Bought a Retron 5 for translation patching and just beat Ganbare Goemon 2. Also have Lagrange Point incoming.
I would like to get a japanese ps2 so I can play both ps2 and ps1 titles that never made it over. But for some odd reason I can never find a decent priced system. I would even settle for just the system and no cords.
The easier systems I have imported for so far is the saturn and super famicom. Bought some gems like Symphony of the Night, Psychic Assassin and Magical Pop'n.
I have an AV Famicom and Everdrive N8 plus a drum peripheral for Taiko no Tatsujin for the Wii (have the five games via soft mod, damn no localization...)
If I were to collect actual carts, I'd probably do Super Famicom and Famicom, just seem cooler to me and for the hard to find SNES games, 9 times out of 10 the SFC version is much cheaper.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
Yep, very true. You're right, I forgot to mention that, thanks!
Fortunately my method works for that situation too.
Let's say you have a Revision A cart.
1. You'd dump or download the REV-A ROM that matches the cart.
2. You'd download the REV-0 ROM too.
3. You'd patch the REV-0 ROM and test the results in an emulator, or download a pre-patched ROM.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
Yep, very true. You're right, I forgot to mention that, thanks!
Fortunately my method works for that situation too.
Let's say you have a Revision A cart.
1. You'd dump or download the REV-A ROM that matches the cart.
2. You'd download the REV-0 ROM too.
3. You'd patch the REV-0 ROM and test the results in an emulator, or download a pre-patched ROM.
7. 'Current file' should contain your patched ROM.
8. Click 'Create patch' and now you have an IPS file that will work perfectly with your REV-A cart.
I got one even better:
Take any NES ROM you want to load on your Retron5. Make an IPS patch to convert "Super Mario Bros. (JU).nes" (or Mario Duck Hunt combo if you have the 2-in-1 variant) to said game. For instance you could make an IPS to convert Super Mario Bros into Panic Restaurant or Little Samson or even Stadium Events (not sure why you'd want to play SE though as the Power Pad accessory won't work on a Retron). Now you just insert Super Mario Bros as a dummy cart and play any NES ROM you want, ya filthy pirate...
lol if you're going to do that, may as well use a lightgun game like plain old Duck Hunt or Gumshoe.
Anyway the point of having a game-specific patch is not having to reload it whenever you want to play the game. Pop in your RPG cart and the IPS translation patch auto-loads every time.
However start messing around with 'master games' like Duck Hunt and you'll have to switch the IPS patch any time you want to play a new game, which can be a bit of a pain. However that's a great way to sample other games you might want to buy.
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How many of you collect imports from other countries? I personally bought quite a few boxed games in bulk recently from one seller from Japan who ususally has nice conditioned Super famicom games.
I just listed a couple good ones for sale in case you were interested: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=154688
To answer the question, imports are all I collect, for the most part. Specifically CIB Famicom games... however, I buy NES games if they weren't released in Japan, or if they were released in Japan but never in cartridge form. (Such as Jackal or Rush N Attack)
Ryoplanshop is great. They send tea!
Damn apparently I need to buy more from Ryoplanshop, they never send me tea! 19993wands has sent me DBZ & One Piece trading cards with my orders which is cool.
Yep, I import for the Famicom, Super Famicom, and Saturn. I have other imports as well but I wouldn't consider myself an active importer for those systems. People constantly complain about modern games and always want to go back to the retro games they love. Well guess what? There are TONS of exclusive import gems out there. You pretty much have libraries of retro goodness that are waiting to be played. I hope more people realize this and realize that import gaming is almost like reliving the 80s/90s again.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
Also, import collecting can be a great way to save money. For example, I paid $10 for a mint CIB Harvest Moon (Super Famicom). I can simply apply a translation patch to it and enjoy the game instead of having to pay $400+ for a CIB SNES copy.
There are plenty of games that require 0 Japanese as well and are exclusive to Japan. Import collecting doesn't have to be expensive, unless you have a sweet tooth for SHMUPs. If you do happen to love SHMUPs, then all I can say is God help your wallet.
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
I'll pick up any shooter/platformer/action import for:
Famicom
SFC
Saturn
PC Engine
I also pick up certain PS3 releases that never saw a physical release in the states:
Siren Blood Curse
Destroy All Humans
REmake HD
R&C Quest for Booty
That's odd....I found a loose copy of Siren in a local Goodwill! I was always puzzled why it had 18+ on it and not the standard ESRB logo somewhere on the disk. Never knew the game didn't naturally come state-side.
For anyone interested in tracking down good import exclusives, the best Famicom-only ones I'd recommend would have to be: Mitsume Ga Tooru, Holy Diver, Donald Land, Adventure Island 4, Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2, Cocoron.
I've actually been looking for all of those CIB haha. I also really wanted to get Wai Wai World and Do Rei Me Fantasy.
does anyone know a cheap method of aquiring and shipping games from japan or are we pretty much stuck with high p&p and import tax??
importing from america land can be a bitch too as retailers dont tend to ship to other countries
Just a test fit, I haven't straightened the games up or aligned them. Hard to see the famicom carts with the camera, but they show up much better in person. I want to pick up Ys 1 & 3 on Famicom soon and do the same with a Ys collection, 1 - 5 using two versions of Ys III (famicom and super famicom). Or I may pick up the other version of Ys V if I can find it (The expert\hard type).
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
Hey, OP Where in SC are you located?
I'm not sure if you guys realized, but Amazon has done an extraordinary job of making the listings for japanese video games on their Japan site available to english speakers. It is very cheap and the shipping is good, considering the sellers graciously ship over seas. There's still some stuff missing, but its fairly impressive. Just go to Amazon US or Canada and look up the game in question. You should find it, like Dragon Quest famicom or others.
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
I don't think people get how good amazon can be, for some things. Sure, random nes carts is kind of risky, but if I want a sealed game, I check amazon first. Sure, sometimes it's a complete joke on prices, othertimes it's a sweet deal.
I wouldn't recommend the game though. I used to buy imports here and there until my collection was lost, and now I'm getting back into it all again but only have a small handful of imports.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine with my cart on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
I'm not sure if you guys realized, but Amazon has done an extraordinary job of making the listings for japanese video games on their Japan site available to english speakers. It is very cheap and the shipping is good, considering the sellers graciously ship over seas. There's still some stuff missing, but its fairly impressive. Just go to Amazon US or Canada and look up the game in question. You should find it, like Dragon Quest famicom or others.
I also got myself a copy of Kanji Sonomama: Rakubiki Jiten for NDS. Good little tool for learning Japanese. I quite like it, being a foreign language afficianado, of sorts. Looking to get Touch Dictionary as well, but its a bit more elusive.
I don't think people get how good amazon can be, for some things. Sure, random nes carts is kind of risky, but if I want a sealed game, I check amazon first. Sure, sometimes it's a complete joke on prices, othertimes it's a sweet deal.
Like the fact that Mega Man X Collection for PS2 (among other games) can still be had for $12-14 brand new directly from Amazon?
Mostly now I've been into Famicom, FDS, and SFC. Bought a Retron 5 for translation patching and just beat Ganbare Goemon 2. Also have Lagrange Point incoming.
The easier systems I have imported for so far is the saturn and super famicom. Bought some gems like Symphony of the Night, Psychic Assassin and Magical Pop'n.
If I were to collect actual carts, I'd probably do Super Famicom and Famicom, just seem cooler to me and for the hard to find SNES games, 9 times out of 10 the SFC version is much cheaper.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
Yep, very true. You're right, I forgot to mention that, thanks!
Fortunately my method works for that situation too.
Let's say you have a Revision A cart.
1. You'd dump or download the REV-A ROM that matches the cart.
2. You'd download the REV-0 ROM too.
3. You'd patch the REV-0 ROM and test the results in an emulator, or download a pre-patched ROM.
4. Assuming your patched ROM worked, you'd download an IPS creator such as SamIPS2 http://www.zophar.net/utilities/patchutil/samips-2.html
5. You'd click the 'Make IPS' tab.
6. 'Original file' should contain your REV-A ROM.
7. 'Current file' should contain your patched ROM.
8. Click 'Create patch' and now you have an IPS file that will work perfectly with your REV-A cart.
I had a package come in from Japan today with around 20 super famicom games. Mostly RPGs and a lot of that has to do with the Retron 5 (translation patches).
I do have to say though, the Retron 5 is really shitty with some games when translating them. I tried to translate Seiken Densetsu 3 to english and it would just loop the opening cutscene with glitched out graphics. Needless to say, it pissed me off greatly.
Well, the Retron 5 doesn't translate anything. Fans make the translation patches, and the Retron 5 just gives you the ability to patch the ROM to display the English text in the patch vs. the Japanese text on the cart. Also, your issue might be with the patch itself, or the toggle in the Retron 5 menu that selects whether or not the patch expects a header or not.
The patch I have of Seiken Densetsu 3 works just fine on my Retron 5, but I'm not sure if I had to remake it or what.
Yeah, the original ROM matched the ROM of the cart he was putting in, but the patch either was expecting a slightly different header or was meant for a custom ROM.
It's easy to get around that on the Retron 5--Just have your original ROM, a pre-patched ROM on your computer, and then create your own patch using an IPS maker and all your patches will work flawlessly.
Another thing to bear in mind, many games have multiple ROM revisions. Typically the REV-A is the most common on cart, but nearly all hacks expect the original REV-0 version. This often creates a conundrum when trying to patch the physical game ROM. Sometimes they may still work but oftentimes data is moved around resulting in glitches, errors or a even completely crashing on boot.
Yep, very true. You're right, I forgot to mention that, thanks!
Fortunately my method works for that situation too.
Let's say you have a Revision A cart.
1. You'd dump or download the REV-A ROM that matches the cart.
2. You'd download the REV-0 ROM too.
3. You'd patch the REV-0 ROM and test the results in an emulator, or download a pre-patched ROM.
4. Assuming your patched ROM worked, you'd download an IPS creator such as SamIPS2 http://www.zophar.net/utilities/p...
5. You'd click the 'Make IPS' tab.
6. 'Original file' should contain your REV-A ROM.
7. 'Current file' should contain your patched ROM.
8. Click 'Create patch' and now you have an IPS file that will work perfectly with your REV-A cart.
I got one even better:
Take any NES ROM you want to load on your Retron5. Make an IPS patch to convert "Super Mario Bros. (JU).nes" (or Mario Duck Hunt combo if you have the 2-in-1 variant) to said game. For instance you could make an IPS to convert Super Mario Bros into Panic Restaurant or Little Samson or even Stadium Events (not sure why you'd want to play SE though as the Power Pad accessory won't work on a Retron). Now you just insert Super Mario Bros as a dummy cart and play any NES ROM you want, ya filthy pirate...
Anyway the point of having a game-specific patch is not having to reload it whenever you want to play the game. Pop in your RPG cart and the IPS translation patch auto-loads every time.
However start messing around with 'master games' like Duck Hunt and you'll have to switch the IPS patch any time you want to play a new game, which can be a bit of a pain. However that's a great way to sample other games you might want to buy.