English translated pre-Budokai games

[GS7X7]

I'm just curious but does anyone know how many of the pre-Budokai games wound up being translated into English by fans?

I know years ago that someone was working on an English translation of "Plan to Destroy the Saiyans..." it'd be pretty epic if that was ever assembled!

[Thanos]

I remember back in my DBZ game SNES emulation days (who didn't have that phase?), seeing a fair amount of fan-translations of the Super Gokuden, Super Butouden and Hyper Dimension games of varying degrees of legibility, accuracy and completion. I don't remember any of them actually being good at all. The best they could do was translating enough just so that you could get the jist of what was being said.

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

[VegettoEX]

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

That's what he's called in the French dub, which is why the dreaded H-word came into play when they got to him and OH CRAP WHOOPS WE ALREADY CALLED SOMEONE SATAN.

Pretty sure Super Butōden was released in France, because I know its soundtrack got this really weird soundtrack release where they re-orchestrated the entire thing for some bizarre reason, so that's likely where the English translation came from (Japanese -> French -> English).

[Thanos]

Pretty sure Super Butōden was released in France, because I know its soundtrack got this really weird soundtrack release where they re-orchestrated the entire thing for some bizarre reason, so that's likely where the English translation came from (Japanese -> French -> English).

Intriguing. Have you heard it? Is it any good? Not to say the game's soundtrack isn't perfect to begin with...

[Xeogran]

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

That's what he's called in the French dub, which is why the dreaded H-word came into play when they got to him and OH CRAP WHOOPS WE ALREADY CALLED SOMEONE SATAN.

In Polish translation it was "Satan Heartie", as in Heartie being diminutive of Heart. I don't know how to explain it in English xD.

[MCDaveG]

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

That's what he's called in the French dub, which is why the dreaded H-word came into play when they got to him and OH CRAP WHOOPS WE ALREADY CALLED SOMEONE SATAN.

Pretty sure Super Butōden was released in France, because I know its soundtrack got this really weird soundtrack release where they re-orchestrated the entire thing for some bizarre reason, so that's likely where the English translation came from (Japanese -> French -> English).

Wow, so that weird reorchestrated rip I downloaded as a kid aeons ago, which have a pretty good quality for fan's work and is different than the official Japanese release is actually legit release of the soundtrack from France???

[omegalucas]

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

That's what he's called in the French dub, which is why the dreaded H-word came into play when they got to him and OH CRAP WHOOPS WE ALREADY CALLED SOMEONE SATAN.

In Polish translation it was "Satan Heartie", as in Heartie being diminutive of Heart. I don't know how to explain it in English xD.

Satan('s) Little Heart. That's how I translate the Portuguese version into English (Coraçãozinho (de) Satã).

[Jord]

Technically, the first Dragon Ball NES game was translated and released as DRAGON POWER:



It's just too bad that the whole game was altered to remove as much from the Dragonball vibe as possible.

[GS7X7]

There's a poorly translated English rom of the uncensored J. version of that game. Brother got it for me years ago!

http://dbz.superpope.com/dbzgames.html

And here's all the old era games- nearly 30 of them!

[GS7X7]

Dragon Ball Z - Super Saiya Densetsu

Hellz yeah! I'm playing this on the ZSnes right now! The translation's a bit iffy in places, but it's about 98% there! This is great! 1 down, 27 more to go!

(sorry for the seperate post but figured each English rom for the oldschool J. games deserves one!)

[GS7X7]

Dragon Ball - Shen Long no Nazo (J) [hM34][T-Eng1.0_TransBRC]

I'm playing this on the Fceux... OH GOD, WHY DID I DOWNLOAD THIS GAME! Now I remember playing the Americanized version as a child, this game is one of the worst NES games of all time!

Let me give you advice- use saved states and cheat LIKE CRAZY! This game is not "Nintendo Hard," it is "Nintendo Impossible!" I remember when I interviewed Ramza a long time ago he mentioned how bad the game was briefly.

There's a better translation version on this site I can't get to emulate but given that there's less dialogue in this game than in 1 or 2 pages of Harry Potter, I didn't think it was worth the effort to try to fix.

[Adamant]

Let me give you advice- use saved states and cheat LIKE CRAZY! This game is not "Nintendo Hard," it is "Nintendo Impossible!" I remember when I interviewed Ramza a long time ago he mentioned how bad the game was briefly.

It's not as hard as people like to claim, you just have to discover the secret rooms that give you the necessary powerups and occasionally warp you past tough spots.
Just run around and hug the walls a lot, particularly in small indents, and you'll find the difficulty decreases a lot.

[coola]

Dragon Ball Z I and III and Gaiden for Famicom http://archive.rpgclassics.com/subsites ... jects.html
Dragon Ball 2: Daimao Fukkatsu http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
These are only patches.

[Cold Skin]

The one that always sticks out in my mind was a poor translation of the first Super Butouden in which Piccolo is flat-out called "Satan".

That's what he's called in the French dub, which is why the dreaded H-word came into play when they got to him and OH CRAP WHOOPS WE ALREADY CALLED SOMEONE SATAN.

Pretty sure Super Butōden was released in France, because I know its soundtrack got this really weird soundtrack release where they re-orchestrated the entire thing for some bizarre reason, so that's likely where the English translation came from (Japanese -> French -> English).

Wow, so that weird reorchestrated rip I downloaded as a kid aeons ago, which have a pretty good quality for fan's work and is different than the official Japanese release is actually legit release of the soundtrack from France???

Yeah, the whole Super Butoden series was released in France with a weird and horrible translation in every case due to various reasons - lack of space to type occidental text, old dub translation partly used, pure invention of new names at times, etc...

But I know nothing about that reorchestrated soundtrack disc, I didn't even know a disc of it was possibly released in France!!
The game itself had the same soundtrack at least, but I didn't even know another "arranged soundtrack" existed besides the Japanese disc.

And to all those having Heartie and Little Heart and all, it definately comes from the old French dub which impacted many countries' dubs afterwards, since we were the ones to come up with "Satan Petit Coeur" ("Satan Little Heart"), often shortened as "Petit Coeur" ("Little Heart") inn dialogues. And we came up with the H-word too, and the Space Warriors, the Intergalactic Warrior, Booboo, etc... Oh, and "Cachalot" instead of "Kakarotto" meaning the hero's true name is "Sperm Whale". Right.
Luckily, much like every country now, we had our re-dub for Kai with accurate translation and good acting this time! All hail Kai for giving a second chance to various dubs around the world!

[GS7X7]

Dragon Ball Z I and III and Gaiden for Famicom http://archive.rpgclassics.com/subsites ... jects.html
Dragon Ball 2: Daimao Fukkatsu http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
These are only patches.

What exactly do you have to do with the patches to apply them?

[GS7X7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvzeYpCE6eg

Looks like Super Gokuden 2's been translated for the SNES.... thanks GM!

[GS7X7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dr ... cade_games


Arcade games "Dragon Ball Z" (now I know why shonen games get such bizarre titles, to help differentiate them especially when there are so many games for the same series!) "Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle" and "Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S." remain untranslated. Hell, the first 2 games don't even seem to be online anywhere.

These are also the only 3 J. games unlisted at Super Pope's site but, his inability or hesitance to import arcade cabinets is more than understandable.

[GS7X7]

Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiyan has a -old- patch that must be manually applied made by Saiya Translations.

Klepto Software has the newest (and actually accurate!) patch.