Classic Console Game Talk Thread

[A Black Falcon]

But I'm still the winner because I'm playing games that you guys have never even heard of before.

I've heard of them too, most likely. I do read RHDN after all.

But yeah, the others here... probably not so much, and it is too bad. Some of the games are quite good. Not all are of course, there are translations of mediocre stuff too, and a lot of them are SNES RPGs and such so you have to like lots of random battles and menu combat... but still, awesome stuff.

Fan-translated games to recommend... there are too many, hundreds of games are fan-translated by now.

I'll just mention a couple right now. Seiken Densetsu 3 is of course great, plus it has a 3-player patch on top of that (it's only 2 player by default, unlike Secret of Mana; on that note Evermore has a 2-player patch too, where the other person plays as the dog, and a fix patch that fixes some of the many bugs in the game too). Dark Lord (NES) and Dark Law (SNES) are pretty interesting games too, kind of like PC-style RPGs in a way, but Japanese... pretty good games. There are lots more of course.

As for non-RPGs, how about Umihara Kawase (SNES), the NES and SNES Fire Emblem games, SNES Tactics Ogre just got some translations, Front Mission, FEDA, Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun, Clock Tower, Miracle Girls, Wonder Project J... (those are all SNES games)

A bunch of Genesis stuff has translations too, such as most or all of the Phantasy Star 2 text adventures, Gleylancer, Undead Line, Twinkle Tale, Langrisser (Warsong) 2, Battle Mania Daiginjou (Trouble Shooters 2), Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makyo Touitsusen, King Colossus, Monster World IV... Monster World IV, Battle Mania Daiginjou, Twinkle Tale, and Gleylancer are particularly great. Oh, there's also a Bare Knuckle III translation, because Streets of Rage III completely changed, and utterly mangled, the story of that game.

Most rom patches are for older systems, up to the 16-bit era. Only a few are for newer systems. Some patches for games for newer systems do exist, though, such as Namco X Capcom, Dragon Quest V, and Front Mission 5 for the PS2, Tales of Phantasia, Policenauts, and Persona 2: Innocent Sin for the Playstation... there's even one for the Wii Fatal Frame game. Oh, there are some for the GBA as well, including Love Hina Advance, Mother 3, and Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart.

Obviously I haven't played all of those myself, but some I have played include Final Fantasy V SNES, Seiken Densetsu 3 SNES, Gleylancer, Monster World IV, Battle Mania Daiginjou, and a few of the Phantasy Star 2 text adventures on the Genesis, one I didn't mention for the Turbo CD, Xak III (Ys IV TCD also has a translation, but I haven't played that one yet), at least some of all of the SNES games I mentioned, Love Hina Advance, Dark Lord, etc.