splaz

Eh, thought worth reminding you guys.

We still don't even have a fully fleshed script for this game. I'm
ashamed to be one of those hackers who just doesn't know how to hack and
breakpoint inside a ... what ISO/Joliet namespace....

The game is VERY much like "Snatcher" for the Sega-CD. GOOD Graphics for
the time. The dialog and storyline appear to be a murder mystery hook
with lots of dialog along the way. SOMEONE of greater skill needs to
make this available.
It took me a whole afternoon just to translate the intro screen, and my
japanese friend just laughed when she read it. She said it wasn't WRONG,
just not very good.
Seriously. Kanji are the devil. I don't care what people say about
radical IDs. Do you have any idea what it's like to translate a kanji
set for "Dermal Body Armor'?! That association is not going to appear in
any kanji dictionary anywhere. Only Japanese SF freako-otaku know those
kanji, and I'm a white guy with my bad college Japanese.
Oh, and just for fun I spotted a few of the expanded mechanical and
engineering kanji used for scientific terms, which also don't appear in
any non-scientific Japanese dictionary.

Otaku 84 did some startup work on it, but that was never finished.

It looks like we may have to wait another 10 years for a REAL SR game to
come out, so we might as well get our fix off the MegaDrive. The intro
sequence ROCKS all by itself.

DO _NOT_ UNDERSTIMATE THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSLATING & THEN HACKING THIS
PROJECT. YOU WILL BE A GOD AMONG MORTALS IF YOU DO!

Just reminding you guys; there's still an SR game that you _haven't_
played. Good luck to us all on this one.

splaz@nowhere.loopback.edu

With all of the aformentioned being said:

If you've had about a year of Japanese, and are willing to spend a great deal
of time with a couple of good dictionaries, this game is still playable and
quite enjoyable.
The mechanics are simple; it's just that a proper SR translation requires the
proper flavor and diction.

If you can't translate it, at least give the MegaCD Shadowrun a try...
It's well worth it!

SplaZ


--SplaZ

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