Fatal Frame IV Fan Translation Finally Released

Do you have to have a Japanese wii? and if so do you have to hack at all?

No and no.

Wow. ok. I never played the others but I have a friend who loves the series. She was shocked that there was no NA release. Now I think I know what to do for her birthday.

There are instructions on the site, but basically all you need to do is put the patch on an SD card, install it and play the game as usual.

Cool.

Very nice. This might make me consider importing the game then. Though I wonder how easily this might be broken by a firmware update. Hm.

I heard this game is very glitchy... I'd rather see something like Captain Rainbow get translated tbh.

Wow, that pretty cool,

Im totally doing this.

Wow all without hacking??? MUST DO!!!!

Wow, I never even knew there was the capability to do patching translations without hacking. I might have to invest in an import copy now!

Interesting... I might still pass and get Silent Hill, but a applaud the work these guys put into it.

well, i live in japan, so i can easily buy a retail copy, and i understand japanese at a pretty high level, but i only have the NA Wii that i brought with me when i moved here. is there a patch that only bypasses the region lock?

All games should have this feature, and it should be the distibutors/importers responsibility to supply language packs either as dlc packs through wii shop channel or on their native webpage. No language pack should equal less money from sales of game. Wii more or less being a family console and I can count the games in Swedish on my fingers. Unbelievable.

Wow when i just saw the headline i tought "Meh, it's an same for me i don't have an hacked wii." But now i got more hope for playing FFr4 in english!

Interesting, I wonder how that works, some bug in the code? If a Captain Rainbow translation is possible that would be awesome because I have it sitting unplayed on the shelf; the prospect of using a walkthrough isn't appealing and my Japanese learning is still in its infancy.

Getting this somehow this year. Play-asia though i expect sales are gonna go through the roof now. Wonder if this puts pressure on an official release.

Props to the translation team.

Wait, so if you can't play the Japanese game normally (because you have a PAL/NTSC-U console)... you can with this patch?

Yeah, Nintendo's not gonna let that happen.

Wow. I need to get ahold of an import copy forthwith, before the prices start to soar from increased demand.

I'm highly interested, but don't understand how this is supposed to work without hacking the Wii. Playing discs from other regions? Running and/or installing code from the SD slot?

Definitely need to find out more, because I'm very interested in the title.

Quickly, Tell TECMO to use the English patch to fix some errors and use Tecmo USA as publisher for the NA distribution after settling with Nintendo!

Wow, I'm impressed. This really seems on up-and-up.

Site and support forums are strongly anti-piracy and the patch seems to require an actual disc instead of allowing people to play a pirated version. Might void a warranty, might not... but seems worth trying if you can find the game at a reasonable price.

The downside is cost. It's pricey to import the game, so maybe I'll just wait until there are some second-hand copies floating around North America.

Now the problem is finding a copy.

I searched Google and ebay and only found 1 still in bid for $65.00

I think play-asia has the game for about $71 (CAD). When you can get Cursed Mountain and Silent Hill for the same price locally it's hard to justify unless you are really a collector... but hopefully increased demand will make the pricing more competitive before long here. (Especially since I think the game was clearance priced in Japan for a while now.)

I would say play parts 1 or 2 or 3 on xbox / ps2. Its cheaper. Than decide.

NOA is lame I don't know why they didn't bring this game state side! X(

"It already happened, and since it's on the Internet now. It will be forever."

I'm refering to the system update that Nintendo will release, possibly quite soon, to fix this "leak".

Forgot to add to that^ comment:
So unless you plan on never updating your Wii again, this is only a temporary thing.

It would be great if Nintendo Life would do a review of this one.

no hacking at all?perfect for me, since i refuse to hack or mod my Wii

@tealovertoma: Where's Nintendo's incentive to stop this, since it still requires an actual retail disc? They didn't try to shut down the Mother 3 fan translation (which they DO know about), and that DOESN'T require buying an original copy!

Now...I want to know how they got the game working around the region locks without hacking the Wii. Or more importantly, I want some extremely nice tech-savvy person to know, and make SD patches for several European Wii games so I don't have to hack my system to play them.

Also, I support the idea of someone using this technique to patch Captain Rainbow.

@tealovertoma: There are actually loaders for System Menu 3.2, 4.2 and one for HBC. No reason at all that they can't work around it somehow.

again i ask, is there a patch to just bypass the region lock, i don't care if its translated or not, and i live in japan so its easy to get a copy (the price went down at my local store), there are a few other games i wanted to pick up, but the region lock on my Wii made me worry abouyt buying japanese games. Is it common for patches to come out that bypass the region lock?

@Tsuchinoko: Not common at all; in fact, this is apparently the first! Usually, people just hack their Wii's to play out-of-region games. I REALLY don't want to do that, hence my previous post in this comment thread.

EDIT: Okay, I just did a bit of online research and found that they DO have plans to finish the region-lock bypassing patch for use with any game. To that I give a loud shout of HUZZAH!

It's labeled "Riivolution," and is one of several files you can download from the translation page linked in this article. You MIGHT be able to run the game not translated on your Wii using just that piece of code, but I don't know for sure. You could contact them directly through the site to find out, though.

Wait: a hack-free, disc-free, working version of the Freeloader is part of this? Nintendo won't stand for that.

[Edit] Correction: it's a game modding system. NSMBWii custom levels anyone?

And the PCification of consoles continues.

Trouble with this game is that it has 3 bugs

1. Crash bug, thats easily avoidable.
2. You cannot complete the ghost list.
3. As a result of 2 you cannot get a special item without gameshark.

At this point tecmo were struggling for money so put faith in nintendo to handle the licensing / distribution issues with this game project. When bugs were identified Nintendo asked tecmo to fix the bugs and tecmo asked for money but nintendo wanted to rush the release. Nintendo wouldnt pay so left a message on the official jp page advising how to avoid bugs. No developer at nintendo is gonna touch tecmos game to rectify it hence its decided not to release it world wide. Tecmo should never deal with nintendo again as they were screwed in my opinion.

What an absolute Farce.

And also whats wrong with having a Wii that can play various regions. You bought it so you can do what you want with it. Ive got the american Silent Hill from ebay to play that was made in england but out in america for a month at least.