Dynamic Designs picked April first for a double Super Famicom games translation release, but no need to worry, this is no April's fool. Add one of the last great JRPGs plus one anime fan favourite brawler to the club of fan translated Super Famicom games.
Originally released by Infinity/Imaginer in 1996, G.O.D: Mezame yoto Yobu Koe ga Kikoe will cleverly trick you with its prologue, making you believe you're playing a sort of tribute to Earthbound. A leisurely summer stroll to your grandmother's house in Hokkaido ends up with the great alien invasion of 1999, taking humanity to the brink of destruction. The game picks up a decade later, you're now part of the underground resistance fighting for mankind's survival. Dark tones indeed for this JRPG, but some lovely fourth wall breaking humour (retained on the translation) and some fantastic plot twists (sorry, no more spoilers from us) make it stand apart from the usual lot of fantasy settings. Since it is a late generation Super Famicom title, presentation is also rather pleasing.
Also released as a bonus and a 'thank you' project to Filler for his contributions to other projects, Dynamic Designs also released a complete English translation for Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu Hen, the fourth of five games in the series released on the Super Famicom. This was sadly the second game never to be released in the West, a shame since Ranma ½ was extremely popular among fans in the '90's with good reason: The zany cast and goofy situations the main character found himself with his cursed, gender changing body raised the series awareness among Western viewers to the same level as Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. As such it is nice to finally be able to understand what is going on in yet another one-on-one licensed anime brawler.
Both English translations patches can be used along with the original Super Famicom cartridge on the RetroN 5 or Retro Freak. Any memories of these two games from back in the day? Are you a Ranma ½ fan? Lets us know in the comments below.
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Tried that G.O.D. translation but the game has delayed input recognition. It's not huge, but it's noticeable and it irks me.
@Fazermint eh? Didin't notice any of that while playing. You sure it is not some sort of wacky emulator config?
That Ranma game is pretty good, albeit a little slow. I had a SNES import back when it came out, and played it more than Street Fighter. I remember seeing ads for the western release in comic books. I'm not sure what ultimately happened to get it cancelled, but I remember the advert had some controversial wording that made it seem like it was excluding girls. Though, if read the intended way it was meant either as a jab to the main character, a guy who can change to a girl and back depending on the temperature of water splashed on him, or the fact that there's a large amount of female characters in the game, 7 out of 13 characters.
I remember reading a review of Ranma when I was a kid and really wanting it despite the pretty average review score. I think it just looked so Japanese and the idea of hard to obtain imports made just about anything seem good back then.
@Shiryu Possible. I'm just using ZSNES standard configuration, never gives me trouble otherwise. I'll experiment a bit and see if I can alleviate the issue
@Fazermint Upgrade to bsnes+ or snes9x v1.55. I have not used zsnes for over a decade now!
Oh wow! I love Ranma! I had no idea this even existed.
Cant wait to play this on my snes mini, thanks for the article Shiryu!
ah crap, just tried running on snes9x and the sound goes all garbled when there's text coming up on screen, bit weird. I have encountered this before but cant remember how I fixed it lol
The Ranma anime is great but all the games based on it sucks including this one. The fighting mechanic is sloppy, controls are laggy, matches are slow, and the special moves does the same damage as regular moves (sometimes even worst). Unless you really want to play as your comedic character duking one another then get it for that but be warn that the game is far from great.
Is it possible to upload the Dynamic Designs-patched games onto the SNES mini? That would be a dream configuration for me.
@Magrane - You can! I actually started G. O. D. like 2 days before this article was published, because Nintendolife is old news.
@Magrane yep I have been running princess Minerva on the mini for a while now.
Great news! Thank you both. Will be keeping my eyes open for these games and how to upload them.
I didn't discover the "Ranma 1/2" manga and anime until years later, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found the first "Hard Battle" game in a used game store. I snatched it up and found it to be a decent fighter.
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