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NOTE: Thanks to filler who linked this
video of the game with D-D's English patch in the Bugs & Issues sub-thread. I just wanted to create a new thread for non-bug related reasons.
Not related to the bugs. But there are some good comments over at that Youtube link already. Someone by the name of Tchitchouan Inouane is hoping for Popful Mail to be translated while the video's poster, who will also write about THIS GAME (Hyper Iria) at Nintendo Life, also replied that he wants 'Legend of Galactic Heroes' to be fan-translated too. Since there were
so many games of that anime-based series released on many older consoles and computers back then I'm sure he's referred to the sole
SFC version. Very hard to find any info about it - it seems to be a space-sim strategy game, similar to the Super Robot Wars anime/game series. The Japanese name is '
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu'.
Two brief
videos with no gameplay but lots of dialogue text.
So would the people in this D-D group be interested in looking into and translating either of the Popful Mail SFC or Legend of Galactic Heroes SFC?
- Popful Mail on the SFC was Japanese only, while the Sega CD version was localized into America by Working Designs with fun dialogue and cutscenes. The SFC version did look better with a fuller screen, but not that much prettier. So I dunno if that would be a great motivator for anyone to be interested in fan-translating the SFC port. The menus in the SFC game are actually partially in English. Videos below:
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EDIT July 4, 2016: I've found this
review of the SFC version of Popful Mail. It's a good one!