Fire Emblem Meets Front Mission In Galaxy Robo, A Freshly Fan-Translated SNES RPG

Robot rock

by Damien McFerran Fri 31st Jul 2015

Not a week seems to pass without another Super Famicom RPG getting translated by devoted fans, and this particular week it's the turn of Copya Systems' Galaxy Robo, a turn-based strategy title that was published in Japan by Imagineer in 1994.

Playing like a cross between Fire Emblem and Square's Front Mission, Galaxy Robo has been lovingly translated into English by Dynamic-Designs. Interestingly, it features support for the little-used SNES mouse.

If this sounds like it's up your street, then grab the patch, find a copy of the game and bung the two into your RetroN5 console. If you're still to be convinced, check out the video below of the patch in action.

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Thanks to Gonçalo Lopes / Shiryu for the tip!

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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linforcer
Fri 31st Jul 2015

The graphics aren't too great for a snes game... But nice to know this is out there...

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Einherjar
Fri 31st Jul 2015

I love it that you report on recent Fan translations

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Shiryu
Fri 31st Jul 2015

I played like 5 scenarios when I first discovered the game over a decade ago. Its nice to finally understand the plot. Another title added to play for my usual retro-summer vacations.

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Expa0
Fri 31st Jul 2015

@linforcer
Graphics generally aren't the focus on a strategy game. The music seems pretty cool though.

I'm personally not a fan of the gundam theme though, so prolly will be giving this a miss. At least for now.

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AVahne
Fri 31st Jul 2015

So for every journalist, if a game is a tactics game, it automatically draws comparison to Fire Emblem.. Well it's a mainstreamers' franchise so I should be expecting more of that.

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zionich
Fri 31st Jul 2015

Or just play Advanced Wars =P

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Shiryu
Fri 31st Jul 2015

@AVahne No, those were my exact words, not just Damien's. If you watch the video, you will understand. Pu ting the battle sequences side by side with the very first "Fire Emblem" on Super Nintendo, it is very clear where the inspiration for this one came from, right down to the menu colour scheme.

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PolarKoalaBear
Fri 31st Jul 2015

Haha, yeah right. I'm going to emulate it Nintendo Life, you know that.

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JaxonH
Fri 31st Jul 2015

Downloading this for my DStwo

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Melkac
Sun 9th Aug 2015

@AVahne It's not like Fire Emblem invented this type of strategy games or anything.

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Filler
Wed 22nd Mar 2017

@Melkac You do know that Fire Emblem started on the NES/Famicom right? It's one of the earliest, popular TRPG/SRPGs. The Wikipedia article on tactical RPGs states "However, the genre did not become prolific until Nintendo released and published the game that set the template for tactical wargame RPGs, Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi, created and developed by Intelligent Systems for the NES."