Any good source for japanese scripts of games?
 

Futher to my other thread, I will be receiving my japanese playstation 2 next week and would like to get some games that you cannot find in North America. What I am wondering, since the extent of my japanese is watching anime, is where (if possible) can I find scripts for games that are not released over here.

Is there such a thing as video game fansub'ing groups? Better yet, do some games have both lanquages or is it usually all japanese?

time to get a book to learn japanese in 21 days :p

sometimes gamefaqs has a few, otherwise google and pray heh

Google'ed a bit, found nothing. I'll take a peek on Gamefaq and see what I can find.... its too bad, there are so many neatto titles we'll never see.

Which game are you looking for?

Looking for rpg scripts and anime game, nothing in particular, just for ones that are not found in North America and probably won't be coming over. I don't an actual list, just looking for titles that we won't get.

Ah, well in the good old days when I used to import my titles for the Saturn, there were websites dedicated to the complete translation of specific games. For example, Tokimeki Memorial was one, and there was a great site (http://endtears.net/tokimemo/) which had pictures and translations of pretty much everything there was to know about that game.

Remember the old IGN site for the Sega Saturn? I think it was after they purchased Saturnworld (another one for the old-school gamers) they published a guide of necessary Japanese terms and phrases for gamers. The guide was great, and I even have it printed out. Hmmm... I still might even have the HTML pages saved somewhere. Anyway, it would separate the terms based on the genre of the game - RPGs, shooters, etc., along with some general Japanese - listing both the kanji (for understanding on-screen text) and the romanized spelling (for understanding spoken dialog).

Not that it would help you by mentioning the above, but like I said I might have those guides saved somewhere. If I can dig them up, I'll let you know. RPGs and games are a little more complex nowadays, so hopefully it's not yet obsolete.

Jeremy

That Saturn site sounds (err.....sounded) pretty cool. Its a shame that a resource like that isnt around anymore.

And to read that its not around anymore on the day i get my first Japanese Saturn game :(

Japanese Saturn games = Greatness.

I just checked my backup files - sorry, no soft copy of the Japanese guides, only a hardcopy. Good luck though.

Jeremy