F-Zero Climax For GBA Now Has A "Complete" Fan-Made Translation Patch

Hooray! Been waiting on this one actually. Crazy to think it’s the most recent game in the series.

Damn F-Zero started with Mode 7 and ended with Mode 7. If you take out both F-Zero X and F-Zero GX, it's almost like the series hardly ever evolve.

Time for F-Zero Switch!!!!!! Come on Nintendo, get your arse in gear!!

Surprised it took this long, but then I'm not a translator or have any knowledge how much text this game has.

Might be 2D F Zero but should give fans something till Nintendo finally cracks.

We need a new F-Zero in the vein of GX Nintendo!! Don’t listen to Miyamoto, we don’t need innovation, we are just asking of more of the same awesomeness.

Please STOP using the world "translation" and "localization" interchangeably. They are not the same.

Localization involves rewriting the story to remove context and literary tropes from the source culture and replacing them with context and tropes from the culture it's being localized for, as well as changing art and sound assists that would have an unwelcome meaning. Looking at Xenoblades, Tora telling us that Poppi'a design is based off his grand father looking at blade designs in the UK as opposed to him taking her design from PORN in Japan is "localization". The fact that her names were changed to Alpha, QT and QTpie instead of JS, JK, and JD, which are abbreviations for school years in Japan, is localization.

As far as I can tell from this video no localization was required. It was translated. It's a big deal because to a lot of purists a translation is fine but a localization is taboo.

@HeadPirate Someone needs to introduce you to outside.

We need an F-zero HD All-stars with all the games in one cartridge

F-Zero 99 please.

To be fair, a proper remaster of F-Zero X with infinite draw distance, stereo soundtrack and Expansion Kit options would do the trick for me.

I am just writing.. because I always write when there is and appropriate or inappropriate moment to demand a new F-Zero shrug

@HeadPirate Hey, I'm the translator of the project here. We did, in fact, do a full localization job on the game. In this case, what this meant was changing details of the F-Zero characters and world to match that of the previous F-Zero games that were released in English (such as Clank Hughes -> Tek Hughes, for example). That's a small example, but there were a lot of changes like this and some things where we had to make tough decisions about which direction to go, so we think "localization" is the most accurate term to use for this version of Climax.

ROM hacks are so cool and fun!

@Xiovanni

I can go ahead and answer this while I'm here. Yes, most of the menus and important gamplay information was already in English. This translation was definitely aimed at the hardcore fans, because the bulk of the work was translating the story chapters, character profiles, and vehicle profiles. That said, there was still plenty of Japanese in the menus (link cable messages, tutorials, the entire track editor, descriptions, etc.), so it was still quite a bit of work (over 3 years, in fact).

@pichuscute0

Awesome, thanks a ton for the clarification.

So now my rant is "stop using the word translation to cheat these people of the recognition they truly deserve" ... but the "don't use them interchangeably" argument still stands.

@pichuscute0 Hey there, as someone who still enjoys a GBA a lot (usually a Micro) I'm delighted for what you've done here - and I for one will definitely enjoy the localised and translated aspects. Graphically at least Climax looks to be the pinnacle of the GBA trio - so I'm glad to have the option to experience it in English. I will find a way to get a paid copy of Climax and patch it for use on an Ez Flash.

Thank you for what I'm sure was a lot of hard work offered freely.

I'm also curious if you have a next project in mind?

@HeadPirate I think the only thing still standing is your unshakable belief that when it comes to anything to do with Japan, everyone except you is a hopeless imbecile. Your commitment to finding inane things to quibble about whenever anything tangentially related to Japan is mentioned is so total as to be almost admirable.

I probably should let this go, but I remember when you criticised an article writer for saying that a set of chocolates literally called バレンタインコレクション/Valentine Collection, were intended for Valentine’s Day. You said this was like calling Hanukkah ‘Jewish Christmas’.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/random_japan_gets_exclusive_pokemon_treats_for_valentines_day#comment6064490

When you’ve put in the effort to fully localise and/or translate a video game, I’ll take your opinion on the subject seriously. Until then, I’ll lend my ear the person who actually did the job.

@Maxz

I'm honestly flattered I've had such an impact on your life that you save my posts. Like, not even joking. That's a really affirming thing to know!

And rest assured, every second I continue to have and state an opinion without your permission feeds my self esteem.

I have no moral qualms with fan translations, ROM hacks, roms, emulators or hacking or modding consoles. The best way to combat piracy is to provide a convenient service at a reasonable price. (The opposite of NSO).

@HeadPirate Honestly, I think the statement ‘“calling Valentine’s Day chocolates ‘Valentines Day chocolates’ is like calling Hanukkah ‘Jewish Christmas’” is one of the most impactful things I’ve ever read. I’m not sure I’ll ever forget it.

For what it’s worth, you have my full permission to both hold and state your sometimes… rather novel opinions. My only request is that you work on the phrasing. As things stand, many of your posts read as though you’re positioning yourself as the sole purveyor of fact.

I’d also suggest that what your often haughtily delivered remarks suffer from is not a lack of self-esteem, but of humility. I would have hoped that literally being corrected by the translator of this project might inspire that within you, but perhaps not.

@HeadPirate Really getting all worked up over this? Sheesh.

@brunojenso Nothing else at the moment. This started just as a way to practice my Japanese (mostly during an old job I had lol), but it ballooned into much more when we realized what we needed to do to make our Climax translation the best it could be. It ended up taking a team of 5 almost 3 and a half years to finally complete and we definitely couldn't have done it without everyone involved. I think I'll be taking it easy as far as translation goes for awhile haha.

But I'm very happy everyone can finally play this game in English.

@pichuscute0

Hi, thank you for your Work.
People like you give older Systems just more Games to enjoy for us Fans
Without your Work Imports from Japan and Devices as Everdrives would lose half its Worth.

Well, this is going on my Everdrive! I have yet to play Climax.