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[Falk]

Made by Bullfrog. Published by EA. Released only in Japan.

I want this.

 

[boyshine]

Never thought you would have it in the OP, but Spyro's Adventure for Wii U was the one I came to post as well. Annoys me a lot, because with it I could have a complete Skylanders collection all on one console.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Due to Japan's love affair with the Wizardry series, there were about a million ports released across various systems there, a number of which never officially came back to the West.

Its honestly kind of a curiosity in terms of a franchise's progression.

 

[Hayama Akito]

Is this from the game? i remember it was dubbed in japanese.

 

[univbee]

Is this from the game? i remember it was dubbed in japanese.

No; movie DVD subtitled in Japanese (the English line is "This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.")

 

[djtiesto]

The Black Onyx comes to mind. Would be the first JRPG ever if not for the fact that it was made by an American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Onyx

Henk Rogers was Dutch iirc, but Black Onyx wasn't the first Japanese-developed RPG. Hardcore Gaming 101's blog had a whole series of articles on early, pre-DQ RPGs coming out of Japan from companies like Koei (The Dragon and the Princess), Falcom (Panorama Toh), and ASCII (Bokosuka Wars). Unfortunately, I can't seem to access those articles at the moment... site seems to be down.

 

[Hayama Akito]

No; movie DVD subtitled in Japanese (the English line is "This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.")

Yeah, the resolution was too high for a PS video, i guess. Still funny.

 

[Glowsquid]

No; movie DVD subtitled in Japanese (the English line is "This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.")

The translator's note for a Beavis and Butthead episode must be amazing.

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Hmmm, looks like Gundam War For Earth was indeed released in the west after all, though it must be very rare. I found this on twitter

shar aznabull

 

[univbee]

The translator's note for a Beavis and Butthead episode must be amazing.

Non-book professional translations generally don't do them, although Japanese does have a weird built-in shorthand way of doing it with subtitles through furigana. Generally it's all about modifying the pun or whatever so it works in the target language, though.

 

[Glowsquid]

I've learned that like the FM Towns, the X68000 has quite a few ports of western computer games. The most interesting port is so far is the one for the original MechWarrior, which had significantl redrawn artwork. Fun if you ever wondered what a Battletech anime/manga would look like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXRqPCv5Mw

Are there any western productions original to the X68000?

 

[PotionBleue]

Ubisoft Paris made several Japan-exclusive Just Dance games such as "Just Dance Wii" (2011), "Just Dance Wii 2" (2012), "Just Dance Wii U" (2014) and "Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition" (2015).
They contain a mix of songs from the Western Just Dance games and Japan-exclusive songs.

 

[Glowsquid]

Bumping this thread because I just remembered there was a Japan-exclusive PC port of the first Twisted Metal.

Gameplay footage

Beside minor graphical differences, the biggest change it does is that it replace Darkside's special with a freeze ray. This version is so insanely rare and obscure that most game database sites don't even list it.

In an interview, a Singletrac employee says a PC port of Warhawk was also released in Japan but I wasn't able to find any information on that version beside that the ERSB rated it for Windows. Was it actually released?

 

[Aters]

Jim Power seems to be only released in Japan on consoles and home computers in Europe. if the wiki's right, it has never been released in the US?

Those covers, no wonder the public perception for gamers was negative.

 

[Hellraider]

Why would you make a PC port of Twisted Metal for Japan? Were people that drunk at the company meetings?

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Bumping this thread because I just remembered there was a Japan-exclusive PC port of the first Twisted Metal.

Gameplay footage

Beside minor graphical differences, the biggest change it does is that it replace Darkside's special with a freeze ray. This version is so insanely rare and obscure that most game database sites don't even list it.

In an interview, a Singletrac employee says a PC port of Warhawk was also released in Japan but I wasn't able to find any information on that version. Does it actually exist?

Huh. There's so much lost or forgotten stuff from that format over there. Learn something new every day.

Why would you make a PC port of Twisted Metal for Japan? Were people that drunk at the company meetings?

And was all the text Babelfished like Blizzard games were?

 

[Glowsquid]

And was all the text Babelfished like Blizzard games were?

No, all of the ingame text is in English.