Re: Top Five Games from the localisation wishlist (TFG 7 Oct 2008)

Chris F wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:24:08 +0100, Gunther Gloop
<thunderbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chris F wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:29:16 +0100, Gunther Gloop
<thunderbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:35:17 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kendrick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <qkane4lm04k943kd7sgu0s9b988569ibpn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:57:43 GMT, Chris F
<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:44:35 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's a Donkey Konga in Japanese? With Japanese music? WANTTTT!
http://uk.cube.ign.com/articles/455/455683p1.html
Oh my. I think I've just wet meself.

Bugger, I suppose I'll need a Japanese console too. Or does chipping
'Cubes open up regions as well?
I believe that the Gamecube region is determined by jumper only and requires no mod chip. I submit this link, with the disclaimer that it explicitly shows only US and JPN region hardware. I wager a clever hacker could figure out the rest based on process of elimination:

http://www.gamesx.com/importmod/ngcmod.htm

-KKC, who remembers he has a spare Gamecube he can do this on...
Reputedly only allows NTSC US <-> NTSC J compatibility, nothing
similar for PAL machines. Boo.

I suppose next time I'm in North America I can pick one up for $10 and
do this mod on it, might be easiest.

I did that mod on my US cube. It was a thing of beauty. :)

I kind of regret giving it away now -just for the Japanese games I can no longer play. :(

...Just remembered another one that was better in its original form... Kero Kero King. Excellent game when I had no clue what was going on. Less fun in english.

Not bad by any means though.

-Kevin.
was that the odd golf-thing with a frog?

it was pretty crap, i thought.
Yes it was.
Did you play it in Japanese? I played it in Japanese and loved it to the end, then loved it longtime in multiplayer for aages after. Play it with kids especially (and wives) for the best kind of pure family fun.

I played it in english thereafter and it felt a bit 'meh', but I wasn't sure if it was because I had played it so much previously or if it had actually lost something in translation. I think the latter.

-Kevin.

no, i played the english version, whatever it was called (ribbit
king?)

i just felt the actual gameplay itself was just rubbish and this was
after several months of people gushing iover the japanese version on
here.

As I say, the Japanese version was lovely. As with other games, playing it _in_ Japanese seems to make it a far more immersive experience because you are struggling to comprehend what's going on and everything is not-straightforward, so you are playing more intently and it's all even greater fun when it clicks. ...And the voices are much better too.
It really does make a difference -even to actual gameplay... something region-locking kills. :(

-Kevin.

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