JRPG Spotlight: Tengai Makyou Zero
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Yeah, they fixed that in the translation, and I hear there's a possibility of a clock hack for the JP version that does the same thing.
Great thread!
I've been interested in playing this ever since I saw the fan translation was released, but wasn't sure what the quality was like.
I remember the patch saying that only certain emulators will run it though??
I've been interested in playing this ever since I saw the fan translation was released, but wasn't sure what the quality was like.
I remember the patch saying that only certain emulators will run it though??
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Whoops must have missed that part.
Nice to see that it works with Retroarch for the most part. Part of me feels like I should bite the bullet and just setup Retroarch, but MAN I hate that thing's interface.
Either way, I'll give this a shot on my GPD XD later today.
Ah, I hope these threads become a thing again. I loved backreading them.
I need to get back to Zero soon. Got a bit occupied with some other games, but what I played was very charming! The PLGS system is wild to me considering that it's an SFC gamd. Feels so ahead of its time, at least in terms of design innovation.
Also definitely recommend that anybody interested in it check out the full manual translation that the patching team did. They did a great job on it.
I need to get back to Zero soon. Got a bit occupied with some other games, but what I played was very charming! The PLGS system is wild to me considering that it's an SFC gamd. Feels so ahead of its time, at least in terms of design innovation.
Also definitely recommend that anybody interested in it check out the full manual translation that the patching team did. They did a great job on it.
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Yeah... I'm trying to find a new one. Apparently the patch got submitted to the main snes9x github but there haven't been any recent builds from there.
Seeing "JRPG Spotlight" threads makes me almost as nostalgic as the games they cover.
For those who are wondering, it's a pretty common and thus not all that expensive game either. I got a complete (though pre-owned) copy for less than 15 bucks earlier in the year. I expect the price to have gone up now that it's got an English patch, but it usually doesn't climb that much. Still haven't touched it though, and probably won't have time for it any time soon.
For those who are wondering, it's a pretty common and thus not all that expensive game either. I got a complete (though pre-owned) copy for less than 15 bucks earlier in the year. I expect the price to have gone up now that it's got an English patch, but it usually doesn't climb that much. Still haven't touched it though, and probably won't have time for it any time soon.
Is the SFC file and the XML file named the exact same thing?
For example, I named them both "Tengai Makyou Zero (English)".
The game also needs to make sure everything is working, so when you see "the backup data isn't working", hit the A Button(whatever key or gamepad button you have mapped), let it do the check, then hit "Reset Game", when that screen pops up again, hit the B button(whatever key or gamepad button you have mapped) and it'll run another check and once it gets done, reset the game again and this time just hit the A button and it SHOULD run the game just fine.
That's how I got it to work with some help from the readme.
"The translation will work on real hardware, given a donor cartridge that has the SPC7110 chip,"
Does this mean it will only work on a Japanese donor cart?
Apologies if that's a stupid question. I'm not well versed in this area.
All I know is that I want to play this on my SNES console, on my TV.
Does this mean it will only work on a Japanese donor cart?
Apologies if that's a stupid question. I'm not well versed in this area.
All I know is that I want to play this on my SNES console, on my TV.
That's what I was wondering. I presume the original Japanese version would work?
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I don't know the details, but one of the people who worked on the translation demonstrated it working after flashing it to an original cartridge of the game (video here). If you want more info, you'll have to ask him.
Yes, I mentioned that in the OP. You have to use Retroarch (it doesn't work with the built-in emulator), and you have to use the updated snes9x core. There's info about that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/79032y/how_to_get_tengai_makyou_zero_aka_far_east_of/
Played my share of Super Famicom JRPGs but I've never heard of this one. Gonna check it out for sure.
Thanks wonder if they have similar steps for BS Zelda no luck for me yet.
Really wanna play this, but the chances of getting me to sit in front of an actual screen to play an RPG right now are pretty low, so in the queue it goes, for now.
I desperately want to play this and Star Ocean (SNES), but right now the only way I'd be able to do that time-wise is on henkaku, and the latter runs super slow with crazy sound glitches, and the former not at all. T_T
I desperately want to play this and Star Ocean (SNES), but right now the only way I'd be able to do that time-wise is on henkaku, and the latter runs super slow with crazy sound glitches, and the former not at all. T_T
I'm a huge fan of 1 and 2 but this one's still in my backlog. I need to change the battery but that looks like a pain as I've never been good at soldering.
Little trivia: the Hudson/Red developpers made this game so that their kids could play a Tengai Makyo (the PC-Engine Duo was too expensive for them).
Little trivia: the Hudson/Red developpers made this game so that their kids could play a Tengai Makyo (the PC-Engine Duo was too expensive for them).
So excited to play this, the only taste I have got of this series is Oriental Blue on GBA. Been waiting years for one of these to get translated, now the wait continues for The 4th Apocalypse to finally get done, that one has one of the coolest battle screens I'v seen in a jrpg
Thanks for making this thread, Aena! Heard about this when it landed a couple years ago and I'm curious to check it out sometime. I don't have any attachment to the series, but I played fan translations of Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia years ago and love seeing these late-era Super Famicom games available in English. Fan translations are an incredible gift.
The production values in the game are insane, I was pretty impressed with some of the sprite-based cinematics. Lots of detail and great sprite animation... the Tengai Makyou games really have some stunning production values as compared to many of their contemporaries.
Also some other trivia, at one time WD wanted to release Ziria (and possibly Manjimaru) for the US Duo, but the system's short lifespan put the kibosh on that plan.
Any repros made for this yet? Lately I've been into playing these translations on a real SNES...
Also some other trivia, at one time WD wanted to release Ziria (and possibly Manjimaru) for the US Duo, but the system's short lifespan put the kibosh on that plan.
Any repros made for this yet? Lately I've been into playing these translations on a real SNES...
Is it just me or is the random encounters really high? I mean, I've played a lot of RPGs with lots of random encounters, but I think this one takes the cake. I think there's like one random encounter for like 5-10 steps each time... At least, we can escape the battles 100% succesfully. But stil...
Also, even after batting through lots of random encounters, I still died at the first boss. Is the game hard with lots of grinding involved?
Aside from though bad points, the translation looks stellar and the animations are absolutely gorgeous.
Really excited to give this series a try!
Also, even after batting through lots of random encounters, I still died at the first boss. Is the game hard with lots of grinding involved?
Aside from though bad points, the translation looks stellar and the animations are absolutely gorgeous.
Really excited to give this series a try!
He's using what appears to be a Japanese donor cart.
Aren't there any American carts that have the chip?
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Yay, it works, thank you so much.
If for whatever reason that link stops working, I can probably put it on Dropbox just in case.
I just bought this game last week on a whim, so it's been weird seeing all this talk about it thanks to the fan translation.
Always meant to play this series, looking forward to it!
Always meant to play this series, looking forward to it!
Since you bumped this, anyone know if there's a way to reset the clock on a real cart without resetting the save? I somehow got AM and PM mixed up when inputting the time.
Don't think we can talk about that.
But do a bit of google research, you'll find out what to do fairly quick.
-buy the game on ebay
-dump the game using a retrode/jailbroken supernt/etc
-download and apply the patch - instructions for which are in the readme
-play using an emulator like Higan or Snes9x.
Beautiful repros man.Not pirating anything if that's what you mean.
Found them online too...they go for 100 dollars though.
