I am very proud to announce that our English translation patch of London Spirit Detectives is now done and released on GitHub. Thanks to aishsha, bigbanana23, Cash Ogawa, Pennywise, Ryusui, TheMajinZenki and vervalkon What a wonderful project! See reply for details.

Kowloon's Gate spotted on the floor at E3 1997 Source: archive.gamehistory.org/item/667d84e...

In Chinese culture, the zi zaat 紙紮 in Kowloon's Gate are papers that are burned in order to be sent to the the world of Yin (the underworld). Known as joss paper in English, they can take the form of money, clothes, and even modern conveniences like smartphones, sport cars, and mansions.

Man-eating angels wander the ruined streets of Tokyo. Haruaki searches for the human-turned-angel that he used to love. What will he do when he finds her? Innocent Tears is now here in English! Hacking - @yuvi.app Translation - @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games Images - @nichetopic.bsky.social

Volume 3 of the manga Great Teacher Onizuka (1997) contains a direct reference to Kowloon's Gate.

I got a PVM.

Tapping the sign again. Start your playthough on August 1st for a magical experience!

Hilltop@hilltopworks.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you haven't yet played the Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch, consider starting your playthrough on August 1st. I recommend playing an in-game day every day so your playthrough syncs up with the real calendar. You won't regret it. Link to the patch here: www.patreon.com/posts/boku-n...

I got to enter the giant publicity stunt xbox they plopped down in downtown Vancouver 13 years ago because it was right next to work.

There may not be a Women's Street in Kowloon's Gate, but in the real life Kowloon Peninsula (not the Walled City) there are both a Men's Street and a Women's Street! Men's Street is the nickname for Temple Street, and Women's Street (aka Ladies' Market) for Tung Choi Street - both popular bazaars.

Look at this photograph. The composition of this scene, a serious moment in the plot, is actually a reference to a classic Bon Curry commercial from 1969. Says so in the guidebook!

I hate the PSP/Wii font so much but it's objectively the right choice for this game so I'll bear it.

The circular structure of Wangren Road is reminiscent of the Hakka dwellings known as tulou in the Fujian and Guangdong provinces. Hong Kong does have fortified villages in its rural areas, but not the iconic circular ones as shown in Kowloon's Gate.

Save Onigard from the clutches of Emperor Mahj with the power of riichi mahjong! Mahjaventure: Warring Tiles for the Famicom is out now in English! Patch: github.com/Eight-Mansio... Hacking: Pennywise Translation: @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games Graphics: @nichetopic.bsky.social and Graphicus

For those concerned, I can say a friend of mine did work on this for a long while now (name withheld by request), so I'm confident in personally saying it's legitimate. Also if you were eyeing this and have not played the Kill the Past games before, *please* play The Silver Case first.

Patchbay Works@patchbayworks.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome to paradise! Patchbay Works presents an English patch for the PS2 version of Grasshopper Manufacture's 'Flower, Sun and Rain'. romhackplaza.org/translations...

Welcome to paradise! Patchbay Works presents an English patch for the PS2 version of Grasshopper Manufacture's 'Flower, Sun and Rain'. romhackplaza.org/translations...

Flower, Sun and Rain (English Translation) PlayStation 2

Welcome to paradise! Patchbay Works presents an English patch for the PS2 version of Grasshopper Manufacture's 'Flower, Sun and Rain'. Original sc...

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Kowloon Gate's character designer Inoue Koki cites his favourite stop-motion animated films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Street of Crocodiles (1986) for the game's gothic character design.

Kowloon's Gate was originally going to have Otomo Katsuhiro (of Akira fame) do character design. As art director Inoue Koki was making preliminary sketches for Otomo, the producer Sudo Akira decided to have Inoue build upon those sketches in-house instead.

I made a quick unscripted video talking about some official localizations of previously Japanese exclusive games. This was really just an excuse for me to give some more attention to Geppy-X though which just came out lol. Love seeing these games available to more players! youtu.be/h8OI9mqtF5U?...

Previously Japanese Exclusive Games with New Official Localizations

YouTube video by Naveed Collects

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The manga Kowloon Generic Romance is very clear about being inspired by Kowloon's Gate. There is the whole plot about the Walled City remanifesting itself in the real world. Also, the characters Xiaohei and Gwen are named after characters in KG (where Gwen is Nguyên, both グエン in Japanese)

The lines by The Champion, the cargo ship in the West City Road dungeon, are inspired by the Tears in Rain monologue from Blade Runner (1982) ☯️

I spent a day fixing a critical save import bug in the Gunslinger Girl patch. It's a multi disc game and it was reporting save files from earlier discs as corrupt. The culprit? The save file icon. The disc builder was padding the 3D model by a few bytes and the game would no longer recognize it.

Kowloon's Gate makes "tongji" タンキー as some sort of voodoo. It's actually a form of divination involving a shaman being possessed in a physically-demanding ritual. On the other hand, voodoo is practised in Hong Kong in the form of "villain hitting" 打小人, where dolls are smacked with shoes.

West City Road in the game, with its river of diesel, is based on the picturesque water towns of the Jiangnan region. There were no rivers in the real Kowloon Walled City, only open sewers. ☯️

I got a flat top CRT that can daisy chain and I gotta say it rules. This is the cyberpunk future.

The sealing stones with the words 石敢當 (shigandang/ishigantou) are a real life feng shui custom in East Asia including Japan. They are usually placed at intersections, traditionally thought to be inauspicious spaces where qi forces clash, thus needing a spiritual stone to quell the negative aura. ☯️

Hey! Translator of the new Puyo Puyo 15th Patch here. Wrote a fairly lengthy write-up about the creation of the translation on the Puyo Plaza Forums: puyo-plaza.forumieren.de/t229-puyo-pu... Also, I'll be streaming the patch and discuss the translation in a couple minutes. See you there?

Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary Wii - English Patch Now Available!

Hello, everyone! A completely new Translation Patch for Puyo Puyo! 14th Anniversary for the Nintendo Wii was released today by the preservation group Suzuran Li

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Suzuran Library@suzuranlibrary.com · 3w ago

You guys really wanted to see this scene huh. (See you in a few hours! 🏅) #PuyoPuyo

"Mosquito eyes" are actually used in traditional Chinese medicine, known as Yemingsha 夜明砂 ("night-bright sand"), mostly to treat eye conditions. Yemingsha is extracted from bat guano because it is believed bats could not digest mosquito eyes. They're rarely prescribed esp. post-covid.

Tapping the sign again. Start your playthough on August 1st for a magical experience!

Hilltop@hilltopworks.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you haven't yet played the Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch, consider starting your playthrough on August 1st. I recommend playing an in-game day every day so your playthrough syncs up with the real calendar. You won't regret it. Link to the patch here: www.patreon.com/posts/boku-n...

According to a talk event in 2014, peeled shrimps have purification powers in the game because director Kimura Nakaji hates shrimp. It's not actually a feng shui thing.

Posting culture is stagnating because keyboards only let you type tiny tildes ~ instead of big beautiful wave dashes 〜