PS1 Fan Translations (2023 Update) | Sean Seanson

[@tikazombie37]

whenever someone finishes a fan translation of a ps1 game, a new jp exclusive ps1 game emerges from the core of the earth

[@aliasmcdoe]

My most wanted PS1 translation would be the Rival Schools school sim mode, for sure. Second would be London Seirei Tanteidan for the Grandia vibes it gives, and it looks beautiful.

[@kitestar]

Honestly? Same

[@Majuular]

Nice work man! I enjoyed taking a look at Ultima Underworld for obvious reasons, but very cool seeing a light shone on some of these. Something the PS1 and Saturn have in common - 90% of the fan translations are for Tactical RPGs.

[@Gatorade69]

Haha. As soon as he mentioned Ultima Underworld I wonder if you'd eventually talk about it since you're doing your own Ultima retrospective right now.

[@YukeWeiss]

These videos are the cosiest. It's so cool to see how much love folks have to translate and make these games accessible.

[@personnelproton]

Been binging all your videos, and I’ve gotta say these bumpers/title cards are by far my favorite. Hits an itch in my brain just right

[@Mx64MaxyImpress]

Ace Combat 3 was my first Ace Combat I ever played and this games is such a heavy story oriented with 5 ending and clash of 4 faction in war of strangereal, this translation is also first game I played as mod game and amazing so I can enjoy full experience without language barrier

[@goatbone]

"...and bash on some giant rats. It's...you know...a classic." Slayed me.

[@DGR_Dave]

I gotta say, I love all your content Sean...but I think the videos I look forward to most are these ones! I love seeing all these translations and the work that goes into them. Thanks for another great video!

[@SeanSeanson]

Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching :)

[@DGR_Dave]

@@SeanSeanson Also I gotta mention that a PS1 game with a Dorris Day song in it, was NOT on my bingo card 😂

[@shards-of-glass-man]

You'd be happy to know then that Fox Junction has been in the works for awhile now, it's just on pause / lower priority since things like Linda, Kowloon's Gate and GERMS are further along. I'm hoping for Volfoss or Blade Arts to come across, but it will absolutely be not this year though.

[@SeanSeanson]

I am happy to know this, thank you!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Its not common to find channels made by people who really do just love videogames and make fair critique. Whenever I leave your playlists on while I'm working, I'm put in an optimistic mood lol thanks bud.

[@SeanSeanson]

aw thank you! appreciate you watching :)

[@FistyDollars]

Your videos are the perfect comfort food for a rainy weekend. I literally love to see it.

[@Vexicrypt]

Great video as always Sean! Its not a PS1 game but I cant wait for that Hungry Ghosts translation.

[@SeanSeanson]

Hungry Ghosts translation is gonna be BIG

[@va8157]

There's so many mystery adventure/visual novel games on the ps1 that I'm interested in but my Japanese is still not good enough to fully grasp their stories. One that I found recently is noel 3, a third game in a dating sim series which somehow turned into a hacking thriller adventure by the third game where you have to save the girls from terrorists.

[@YusMat700]

Thanks so much for telling me about the new Ace Combat 3 translation! What an awesome surprise!

[@ChrisHilgenberg]

26:30 As someone that knows Japanese and has done translation work before (not for games, but elsewhere), I am seeing machine and AI being used more and more, especially in some scanlation groups online. The key aspect is having an editor that has a good grasp on both Japanese and English (or the source/target languages) to fine tune the output of the programs doing the work. I know for some PS1/Dreamcast/Saturn games it's more than just a language hurtle, sometimes the compression and the way the game stores text has to be reverse engineered before the translated text can even begin to be inserted into the dialog systems used by some games.

[@nilzero5686]

If you have an editor who understands both Japanese and English editing an MTL then you'd just be redoing the work you already did, wasting time on a potentially erroneous MTL script when you could have just done it yourself and produced something likely a lot better and less sterile.

[@Bakamoichigei]

@@nilzero5686 I don't entirely agree. Obviously ground-up translation by a perfectly fluent individual is ideal, but lacking that, MTL as a tool can fill gaps. Like when I'm playing a game and I encounter something I can't read, I use my phone to translate it... If the MTL seems unhelpful or doesn't fit the context-which is MTL's biggest hurdle in Japanese, imho-I switch on 'display original language', and it shows me the romaji reading of the Japanese text, which is super helpful because my spoken Japanese far outstrips my reading ability. Like all tools, its effectiveness is down to how it's used.

[@ChrisHilgenberg]

@@nilzero5686 'redoing work you already did' It's easier to OCR or load text into a ML/AI model to produce a translated output, then use that to fine tune the translation than having to do all the work yourself. Before such things became common, I'd use the technique with Google translate to get a 'gist' view of something, then go through and fine tune the actual (and usually missing) nuance of what was being said.

[@DeepWeeb]

The PSX game I want to see translated is "Forget Me Not -Palette-", a remake of the RPG Maker game (while the original is already translated, the remake has been given a graphical overhaul with voice acting and FMV cutscenes)

[@ParaParaKing]

Oh yeah. I was waiting for my favorite translation update video.

[@goatbone]

6:58 Absolutely love that synchronisation with the music and the dialogue.

[@joegatto5580]

love these fan translation videos so much. great for game discovery!!

[@SparkleLynn2113]

I didn't know about the galaxy Yuna series, definitely going to look into that one Another good video my man 🫡

[@Highretrogamelord]

Amazing that there are still fan translators out there. One can only hope that one day all PS1 games get a fan translation. Of course I hope the same for other systems, too. Thank you for another fantastic video!

[@pmcTRILOGY]

Learning about Go-jin Senki and Fox Function was great, thank you for helping me learn about more ps1 mecha!!!

[@Fleshlight_Reviewer]

Great update. Those srpg looks great

[@FriendsAndGamingYT]

Always cool to see more games translated and made available for more people!

[@marxcore]

it would be great to see a 2024 update for this :)

[@SeanSeanson]

End of the year! Still time for a few more to appear 😉

[@marxcore]

@SeanSeanson awesome. Looking forward to it.

[@hosaminthehouse3431]

good video as always, hope another fan translation videos for other systems, or maybe more than 1 system in the same video, because the dreamcast video helps me out🖤

[@PSXGamingMemories]

Excellent Video Sean, I have still to try most of these games but now that many of them are translated, there is no excuse. Cheers as always.

[@SeanSeanson]

That PlayStation backlog will never stop growing! Thanks for watching pal :)

[@patricioruiz8371]

i hope that someday someone makes a full translation of "wachenroder" for the sega saturn, i've been waiting years for a full translation and i hope i see it in your channel if its ever comes out!!! great video!!!

[@vampirecountingmoneyup2248]

keep the great vids coming sean

[@CreeperShorts]

Love these videos so much! Please keep making them! And don't be afraid to venture into other consoles too.

[@AlecLeigh]

my man! ❤

[@striker0614]

Glad to see you shout out Chocobo Land at the end there! Dice de Chocobo/Chocobo Land have been games that've piqued my interest ever since your Square PS1 video, and even if it's partially machine translated, it's exciting to see it get any love at all. Now for the PS1 original and Chocobo Stallion to get some love...

[@MidBoss666]

One PS1 game that surprisingly doesn't have a translation yet is One Piece: Ocean of Dreams, a fun jrpg that you'd think would be be long translated given the series' popularity.

[@SeanSeanson]

It's an odd one, theres so many very popular series that are almost completely ignored for patches. No Gundam, No One Piece, No Naruto, No Rave Master, legit very surprising.

[@nikoladedic6623]

​@@SeanSeansonGundam does have few patches, both finished and in the works. It's for PSP games mostly.

[@Marioxas77]

For anyone else that wants to know and doesn't feel like looking up the soundtrack of every game mentioned here, the music/songs/tracks of the pre-intro is 'Jet Grind Radio - Humming the Baseline' and the post-outro is 'Ace Combat 3 - Physical Layer'.

[@tonyichiban2144]

Love this series. Thank you for introducing me to Baroque in the last one ❤

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Your in-video graphics are unmatched in the YT scene

[@SeanSeanson]

ty

[@junkthefox]

Cleaning up machine translated games sounds like a fun time, but I'd imagine instead of a regular script, I'd just get notepad files full of single unrelated sentences of text. But still, it sounds like an interesting time

[@DfactorLongplays]

Ey, I think you're the first one to mention AC3's translated manual! I've spent a lot of time on completely remaking it, since the original manual was... not that useful.

[@SeanSeanson]

It's so well done!

[@infrid]

​​@@SeanSeansonpeople don't know he also proofread the game twice, because we decide to update the font and text, while he was working on the walkthrough 😅 A real legend ❤ P.S. thanks for mentioning us!

[@SeanSeanson]

And thanks for all your hard work. The passion in the project really shines through!

[@TundraG3ckO]

I'd really looking forward to being able to play a few more horror classics from Japan in a translated state! Both _Twilight Syndrome_ titles, _Moonlight Syndrome_ and even _Yuuyami Doori Tankentai_ (the latter two seem to have translation projects in early phases, but sadly I haven't heard anything new about them for quite a while).

[@randybutternubs1209]

My most wanted PS1 translation is for sure gotta be Kowloon’s Gate. That game is so mysterious and I vibe heavily with its aesthetics

[@Scottengelwalker]

I’d love to see a translation of Brightis but there are still so many games i’ve yet to check out so I can be patient

[@lillyclarity9699]

man, the only ps1 game I've been waiting for a translation is Ultima Underworld because the UU psx port looks so interestingly different , and you've already given me the news that it's recently available. I'll have to get that on my machine soon because I've been waiting to try the psx version for years now. I honestly don't think I could ask for another game to be translated, that'd just be greedy. Thanks for the video Sean

[@SeanSeanson]

Aw I'm delighted for you! Appreciate you watching :)

[@ScottBeck79]

I had been looking for someone doing something similar to what SNESDrunk does, especially with hacks, translations to just keep track of what's being released and such -- but for PSX. I think I hit the jackpot!

[@thepixelempire9290]

Ace as ever 😊 Liked the (mini) appearance of Dark Seed - I've just been playing the Amiga version! Tri Puzz looks really satisfying. Resident Evil with slapstick sounds like something I never knew I needed haha :)

[@BinaryDood]

The two games i would like to see translated on the PS1 are Khamrai and UFO a Day in Life

[@z.s.7992]

Im going to need to check out those games...never heard of either

[@BinaryDood]

@@z.s.7992 not much talked about... But the all time game i would like to see translated is Sigma Harmonics for the NDS, but everyone says that game is impossible to translate...

[@shards-of-glass-man]

​@@BinaryDoodFrom what I've heard, it's more about technical difficulties / cracking the text encoding rather than translation itself

[@yourewelcome5493]

I would really love to see a fan translation of the Cowboy Bebop rail shooter game. Kinda nuts that something as popular as Bebop is in the states hasn't gotten one.

[@NukaLuLu]

Really hoping somebody does an English translation for Fist of the North Star on the PS1. The game is gorgeous and so fun

[@chuckdelgado3253]

would love if that Patlabor game you covered a while back got a patch. One of my favorite anime

[@kenpe1455]

Hilltop really is amazing. Hope adventures of robin Lloyd gets translated some day

[@shards-of-glass-man]

Nowhere close to having an ETA yet, but it has been picked up.

[@DGR_Dave]

Robin Lloyd is such a great game!! I stumbled my way through it a few years back and would love others to have the opportunity to play it 😄

[@kenpe1455]

@@shards-of-glass-man oh cool, which translator group is doin git?

[@shards-of-glass-man]

@@kenpe1455 Same one that brought over Addie's Present. Don't expect it anytime soon though, as their other projects are more of a focus presently.

[@Pridetoons]

Same Here!!! Also Wonder Trek is a pretty interesting PS1 game.

[@greenhowie]

The 3D characters in Goujin Senki look amazing, something about how simple and sharp the designs are with weird bouncy energy really hits that "mid-to-late 90s RPG you rented once from Blockbuster and almost forgot about" vibe.

[@beraboman]

I hope someone fan translates 'Nemuru Mayu' one day.

[@harney-barrow2036]

Would be down to pay for someone or a group to translate that or anything else by Asmik Ace (much respect to the people that translated LSD), but also it's surprisingly long game so a translation effort would definitely take some time.

[@HeyItsLollie]

I'm really holding out for a translation of _Robbit Mon Dieu_ , the third and final main-line entry in the _Jumping Flash_ series. The big bads of the first two games remain well and truly defeated, and so _RMD_ takes a different path: Robbit's mission is to assist the public in whatever odd job they need, and jobs are chosen non-linearly from a world map at the player's leisure. The game features voice acting and quite a bit of dialogue and text setting up each level, making it a ripe pick for English translation. I'd also love to see a translation of the _Jumping Flash_ series' PocketStation-focused spinoff, _Pocket MuuMuu_ , but y'know. One pipe dream at a time.

[@SeanSeanson]

Robbit would be a great choice, theres still so many people who don't even know it exists!

[@sander7989]

As a massive fan of the original Ultima Underworld, playing without a mouse sounds incredibly painful, but to each their own I suppose. UU also does feature walkways above the floor and (untextured) polygonal objects, so it is 3D even if very limited by hardware of the time. It's what inspired John Carmack to create what became the Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom engines as faster alternatives, and those really are 2.5D.

[@Enecororo97]

You ever considered doing a video on Sega Saturn fan translations? I know you like the console, and while I'm not expecting as much coverage on this channel as the PS1 I feel like it could use some attention in that kind of way.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

crazy i was listening to the escaform ost and just found out it was translated this week. coincidence

[@wraygun44]

This has been a really great year for PS1 translations imo since Ultima Underworld and Galaxy Fraulein Yuna were grails for me. As for future translations I'd really like to see the Mobile Police Patlabor game on the console receive one! As well as a finished version of Gunnm: Martian Memory

[@sterbebett]

What a time to be a PS1 fan! I know how silly of a pick it is, but I hope some day the Bakusou Dekotora Densetsu games get a translation; I mean, truckers trying to impress girls in overdecorated trucks getting cargo from point A to point B while listening to sappy 80's japanese love songs, what's not to love?

[@thebrightcube7817]

If it has to be a PS1 exclusive, definitely Debut 21. It seems to have the original makings of an Idol management game similar to Idolm@ster later down the line. And I would love to see how it compares as an Idolm@ster fan and translator myself.

[@SeanSeanson]

Debut 21's aesthetic is unreal.

[@TheCrawl]

Been slowly chipping away at this over the last few days, and now slapping myself for not watching it all at once because WE GOT ULTIMA AND WIZARDRY IN THE SAME SEAN SEANSON VIDEO BAYBEEEEE

[@SeanSeanson]

A segement designed to pop the boys

[@smokeythebearr95]

new Sean video, rejoice!

[@Pythoner]

I'd take a translation of Wizardry VII. Another Holy Grail 🥺

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

two episodes in a week bless

[@Razorblade1812]

Speaking of Prism Land Story, another game from D-Cruise that got an official English language release, albeit only in PAL regions, is Defeat Lightning, renamed to Future Racer in PAL regions by Midas. Like the European release of Prism Land Story, it is also heavily modified from the original Japanese version as all story segments are all shown in FMVs, rather than in-engine. Also, many story segments, such as the one choice you can make in the final boss race, and pre-race quotes from the drivers are missing in the PAL version.

[@thrilleex]

I'm into RC Hobby, every Sunday I go to the club with the guys. Today the weather is miserable and the flying day was cancelled, I was bummed because I was going to maiden a new plane... No worries I have no problem trading it with a new Sean Seanson upload. Sunday saved !!

[@SeanSeanson]

RC Club with the guys sounds amazing! Hope the weather picks up for you soon :)

[@rogerhunt6582]

A complete translation for PoPoLoCrois Monogatari II was just released today 😄

[@SeanSeanson]

Good times, will mention it in this year's update :)

[@wienerbob9999]

is there any type of ode or “game loader” i could use on the ps1 that doesn’t require me to remove the disc drive???

[@wienerbob9999]

something akin to the satiator on the sega saturn???

[@SeanSeanson]

afaik theres nothing akin to the saitator, at least in terms of simplicity. Might be worth looking into something called Tony Hax

[@Falco.exe93]

Aaaaaand the Linda³ translation just dropped

[@nikoladedic6623]

Let's go. Great Irish Man is back.

[@etenby699]

I think Welcome House was on 3DO first, then got ported to PS1. There's a whole video about the 3DO in Japan by Amelie Doree.

[@SeanSeanson]

It's definitely got the vibe of a 3DO game, but I think if there was a 3DO version planned it must have been scrapped and moved over to the PlayStation since by 96 the 3DO was more or less done and dusted. It did get a Saturn port in 1997 though, I'd like to check that out some time.

[@etenby699]

@@SeanSeanson Never mind. I got the title confused with Life Stage:Virtual House and that one survival-horror game.

[@KingLich451]

Woohoo! Ace Combat 3 baby!

[@DTheVigne]

My back log is excited to add these new games

[@midnightkiteflight6333]

KZbinr Finntrovert has done a series of retrospectives on Ultima, which I strongly recommend to anyone interested. Especially those who haven’t played them before.

[@Schurik]

Same goes for Majuular, who is planning on doing the entire series and is up to 2 atm

[@thelastchoi6217]

Lfggg we luv seaseansonnn🎉

[@SeanSeanson]

❤️

[@goatbone]

I would die for a Nemuru Mayu translation. I have noticed it is on the wheel...

[@DrPepperone]

Oh wow Fox Junction looks just like Time and Eternity on PS3, also soundtracked by Yuzo Koshiro

[@devonwilliams5738]

I love magical girls and giant robots, so Galaxy Fraulein Yuna and Goujin Senki are on my shortlist. Cosmowarrior Zero would be my pick for fan translations, I think half the appeal of that game would be the insane crossover story.

[@z.s.7992]

I never saw that addie game...i swear i need to play that.

[@YouTube-Grifter]

23:20 Any chance you could cover other Japanese games that already have language options in the menu, or games with little language barrier?? I don't know how to apply patches and such... I've bought a Japanese playstation and I'm looking to import some games!! As many as possible!! 👍🇯🇵 Cheers, loving your content mate!!

[@SeanSeanson]

Thanks for watching! Unfortunately theres way too many games to pull together a concise list or video on the topic that wouldn't takes months if not years to make. I'm trying to cover as much as I can in my Japan Only PS1 Videos, so you'll be able to find out out about many of them there, but since theres a few thousand playstation games out there that are exclusive to Japan, I don't think anybody has the time or will to go through and document all of em.

[@YouTube-Grifter]

I'm working my way through those videos!! I've got Panzer Bandit and The Firemen on my list!! Nice one Sean lad!! 👍 Edit: and OH NO 😂

[@SeanSeanson]

OH NO is always a great one

[@jeffvenancius]

About soccer games traslations: Bomba Patch is a huge thing in Brazil

[@2HeadedHero]

Man that Ulitma Underworld port looks fantastic

[@OctorokHero]

I found out about Click Medic recently, so I really hope for a fan translation of that. It's a strange-looking futuristic game about fighting a disease inside the body, made by Game Freak.

[@SeanSeanson]

Came across that recently too, looks great!

[@mario-mario822]

I'm hoping Konamis cute rpg Magical Medical to get a fan translation 😁

[@rivage3900]

Sorcerer’s maze was released as a pal game aswell? I think i've seen that cute face on the swedish ebay "Tradera"

[@SeanSeanson]

Yeah theres two PAL variants. Both classic Prism Land and Wizard Prism Land. We really couldn't get enough of it apparently.

[@gamesystem540]

One stupid question: how the hell do you run a translation patch in a PS1 console ?? On emulator it seems clear, but for someone like me that always uses original hardware I never understood how do you run it if you own the original game or not. By the way, great video as always !

[@SeanSeanson]

Thank you! You basically need to apply the patch to an iso of your game. Then you can either burn the updated iso to a cd-r or run it via an sd loader. So at a minimum you need a way to play back up discs, but other than that its usually smooth sailing on hardware. I use a modded PS2 for most stuff!

[@ciasteczkoimbirowe1160]

I'm still waiting for Volfoss translation [aka that weird tactical RPG with Yasushi Nirasawa monster design], I remember finding about it in some gaming magazine in section about new releases and I was puzzled why it didn't got out from Japan. Then I was trying to play it on emulation and, yeah, it's weird and unique looking, but the core gameplay was surprisingly well done in it's classic tactical way [then again, I could miss a lot, because of the language]. And the branching path, depending on the choices and creating the renown for the character's army. Also London Seirei Tanteidan, I saw it was mentioned in the comments few times, so maybe?... And it looks beatiful.

[@louischarvillanimation]

Personally, I would like to have one of those Atlus Togue racing games being translated. Especially having Togue Max G's story mode translated would be nice.

[@Dynamo128]

I really hope they'll do a translation for Critical Velocity on PS2, although the game is mostly in English already minus the story. Have you ever heard of that one? It's a Ridge Racer open world spin off, very weird but charming title.

[@SeanSeanson]

Yes! It's very cool. Would love to see a translation for it someday

[@cube6485]

I just want one of the last non-translated fully 3D goemon games translated, and the last game released for the franchise on the Nintendo DS. Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage & Ganbare Goemon: Tōkai Dōchū Ōedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki. We're so damn close to completing a full translation for the franchise, it's been like two decades already, I'm dying out here.

[@taksadarkandiri2429]

I hope in 2024 we will get circadia fan translation...however looking at the amount of texts that the game have, i kinda understand why the game never translated into english...but aside from that, big big respect to the all fan translator out there preserving part of human history

[@NeoRocket64]

funny that winning eleven translations are some of earlier ps1 translations and therefore VERY hARD to find it nowadays. only found WE 3, 2000, and 2002

[@SeanSeanson]

I know right, so much so that I didn't even know they were around for the first two videos.

[@TVindustries5000]

YO! Welcome House! I played it on saturn so many moons ago when i was looking for unique saturn games. i played along with a guide. pretty amusing wacky gane

[@somesketchydragon5189]

There is a Fist of the Nord Star game that looks really cool. It'd be neat if someone translated that.

[@zemaduvant8676]

Fire Woman Matoigumi seems to be an interesting school sim game.

[@elementalcc4991]

When's GERMS releasing?

[@SeanSeanson]

Don't think theres a solid date locked down, but I'd expect it to be sometime this year all going well.

[@KeiOuGi]

I want to see translation for PS1 version of To Heart. Original version is a cult visual novel, but many consider PS1 remake as a more complete game. Well, I should say, I wanna see a translation for every major visual novel or dating on PS1. There are so many of them.

[@Ali-fs7ze]

Hot dog, it's a hot vod!

[@Darmani2MB]

Here's hoping someone translates "Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life", that weird survival horror game made by SNK featuring Athena Asamiya from King of Fighters

[@terran347]

I’m really hoping someday we see Doko Demo Isshou get a translation

[@SeanSeanson]

the worlds deserves to know Toro Inoue

[@KingLich451]

not a psx game, but on snes, i'd love to be able to play Zero 4 champ, and zennihon gt senshuken in fully english.

[@mopeybloke]

I would like to see Khamrai translated fully. The RPG has great presentation. I am a bit worried the gameplay would sour on me though.