It’s been a long time coming, but a group of fans have released a fully translated English patch for Konami’s 2009 dating/girlfriend sim Love Plus. Now those of you who’ve saved yourselves for the right virtual girl have three to pick from on your Nintendo DS.

The patch still looks incomplete, or at least not totally polished, as it’s a v0.9 release, but everything is in English with the exception of some graphics, which is no small undertaking for this text-heavy game. All you need to run it on your portable is a digital copy of the game (legally acquired, we hope), the patch, and a homebrew device.

For those of you wondering about the game’s 2010 sequel, Love Plus+, the team says it “might consider” working on that later. With 3DS homebrew/hacking still impossible, as far as I know, a translation project for the upcoming New Love Plus won’t happen for a while if ever.

Import: Love Plus, Love Plus+

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See also: More Love Plus posts

[Thanks, Clookster]

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Success! About two months after it started (and after we posted an appeal for help), the Nanashi no Game fan translation project has resulted in an actual, downloadable patch. If you have access to a DS flash cart and a legally-acquired ROM of the game, you can now read the text in Square Enix’s creepy-ass DS game (about people discovering a cursed RPG).

Perfect timing! You can play this on Halloween while you wait for trick-or-treaters, and then get really startled when they knock on your door.

Import: Nanashi no Game

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[Thanks, Clookster!]

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The Nanashi no Game translation project we’ve posted about a couple times is progressing much more rapidly than I would have expected — I’m totally going to pretend we helped speed the process by posting about it. Yesterday, “summvs” posted in the GBATemp thread that “As of last night, the files are 100% translated. Now begins the checking and editing.” “Nagato” then released some screenshots of the intro text.

The translators warn that there’s a lot of editing and other work to be done before a patch will be released. Even so, this translation is progressing at an alarmingly fast pace. So fast, in fact, that one GBATemp user believes “something freakish is going on.” Spooooooky!

Import: Nanashi no Game

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[Thanks, bc!]

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If you love horror games and reading Japanese text, consider your personal Batsignal lit. Coder ‘nagato’ came up with a tool to extract and reinsert text into the difficult-to-hack horror game Nanashi no Game (the one about a haunted 8-bit RPG). Now, all the fan translation effort needs is an actual fan translation.

And that’s where you come in. If you’re interested in contributing, you can download the tools here, and you should probably jump into that GBAtemp thread  to coordinate, as well.

Why isn’t Square Enix doing the translation, and an actual North American release, itself? Focus groups didn’t like it. Basically, the game entered a haunted conference room and died mysteriously a week later.

Import: Nanashi no Game

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[Via Romhacking.net]

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Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side: 2nd Kiss, Konami’s dating sim targeting female players, is now playable in English thanks to a completed translation patch from Gokusaishiki that’s been almost a year in the making. 

It’s great to see groups setting out to translate these slightly older DS games (Konami originally released this enhanced port of a PS2 game back in early 2008). It gives me hope that someone will eventually go back and do the same for titles like Sakura Note and Project Hacker. Gokusaishiki appears to already be working on a patch for Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side: 3rd Story.

In related but sad news, Crimson Nocturnal, the translation group that released the SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny patch earlier this year, called it quits. :o(

Import: Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side games

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See also: More translation projects

[Via DS-Scene]

tags / tokimeki memorial / girls side / gaming / imports / translation / patch / homebrew / konami / gokusaishiki / crimson nocturnal / ec

It likely won’t receive the attention that the Mother 3 fan translation enjoyed, but Tomato has put out an English patch for Mother 1+2, Nintendo’s Japan-only compilation released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

Though Mother 1 has an English NES prototype floating around, this version, this version features a retranslated script, bug fixes, and various tweaks, as well as some enhancements by Tomato. The Mother 2 script is still in Japanese (menus have been translated), but it’s not like you can’t already play it in English with Earthbound.

You’ll need a copy of Mother 1+2’s ROM (one you acquire through relatively legal methods, we hope) to install the patch before running it on a flashcart or emulator.

Import: Mother 1+2

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See also: More Mother/Earthbound posts

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The Game Center CX 2 / Retro Game Challenge 2 fan translation project, possibly the most important work of our generation, is now underway and has a web site!

Modeled after the Japanese GCCX2 hub, the site doesn’t have much content yet other than a single shot of Triotos’ translated title screen and the videos we shared before.

It does, however, reveal that the project is seven strong — coder Xvirus (Shiren the Wanderer DS 2 translation), four translators, GCCX expert and SCROLL publisher Ray Barnholt serving as editor, and Tiny Cartridge reader Ryuza working on the graphics and web site.

Now, let us all pray this is one of the few DS translation projects that actually sees completion.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

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