u/FallenRaptor

Ayn Thor and the game featured is Mizzurna Falls for the PS1; a really ambitious open world set in a fictional town in Colorado…or “Corolado” according to that bit of Engrish (must be a beer brand). I’m seriously in awe of the scale and detail that was achieved in this game given the original hardware. Here’s a link to the patch: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6027/

There are so many diamonds in the rough to be discovered on these devices, including a number hidden in Japan for decades only to finally be translated in recent years, and so are especially unlikely to have been played by most English speakers. Hats off to the people who put in the hours to complete these projects and ask for nothing in return BTW. They’re the real heroes here.

PS: If you saw my previous post and wonder why I deleted it, there was an embarrassing grammatical error my phone must have added to the title which couldn’t be edited and my OCD didn’t like that. Rather than just repost it I figured I’d take the less lazy route, wait till morning and create a different one. I still wanted to shout out the excellent Mizzurna Falls but it’s certainly not the only excellent recently translated game that people should know about.

Ayn Thor. English Patched ROM. I can’t believe such a detailed and intricate open world was possible on the PS1 of all things. It’s a bit rough around the edges but not nearly to the extent that a game of this nature should be on the original PlayStation.

I’ve heard I should just follow a guide the whole way with this game and I intend to do that on my next playthrough since I’m most certainly not getting the good ending, but I just had to see what happens via exploring this town in my own first.

Pics 2 and 3 are just showing off some fun Engrish, although with it being at a bar I suppose these examples could be brushed off as beer brands.

Obligatory mention that the device is AYN Thor and I figured I’d test out the Cardcaptor Sakura RPG for the WonderSwan.

I might as well share all the pics I snapped to show how the app seems to work. Based on this first experience this app is amazing!

Honest observation is the translation accuracy seems to vary based on the amount of text being translated, which in all fairness shouldn’t surprise me as that’s consistent with all translation software I’ve used over the years, and Japanese and English are two very different beasts.

I have also noticed that in cases like the title screen where there’s a lot of text jumbled together, especially when said text is layered on top of one another, with the “press the start button” message floating by, the software can get easily confused, but that’s understandable, especially with a lot of text in these old games being pixelated.

I was eventually able to get the app to accurately capture all but the start message (which I thankfully know enough Japanese to infer the meaning of). In most cases though I find that if a translation feels off, running it again can yield a different result, especially if I break it up into smaller chunks to translate.

The Anki feature is amazing and I’ll definitely make great use of that as I try to use games to hopefully get the language down once and for all!

All in all, amazing app. Thank you u/domino_stars for the time and dedication you’ve put into this software that will open a lot of doors for us!