Hey guys, I thought it was @Lord_Hill or someone else here who told me about this, but I can't seem to find any posts so it must have been elsewhere, which means I forgot to post it here so shame on me lol!
I recently discovered that the talented @riderr3 on another site has successfully managed to partially translate the rather cool ASMIK Japanese Playstation port of Sid Meier's Civilization 1 into English and released a patch. This is very cool as obviously I did a video on this version a while back and had to use a phone camera translator app to have any idea of what was going on, but now that is no longer needed! For the uninitiated the PS1 port of Civ1 is a special unique isometric 2.5D almost 'Civ2 like' looking version of Civ1 filled with FMV and new graphics that was never released outside of Japan. I imported a near mint condition physical copy of it from Japan a few years back and muck around with it occasionally so I'm very happy there's an English patch for it now! I wonder if @riderr3 could be tempted into also doing a similar translation patch for the similarly rare and unique ASMIK Japanese port of Microprose's Master of Magic called Civizard (which I did a partial picture translation guide of on GameFAQs) as that would be too good to be true lol! Have added this patch to our main links & info thread.
Here's the patch and links to tools for applying it:
www.romhacking.net
Here's some screenshots of his English patch in action (normally all this text is in Japanese):
Here's the video I did a while back on the SNES and PS1 ports:
youtu.be/xZ9pNNOsr2A?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY
And lastly here's a picture of my physical copy for anyone curious:
I recently discovered that the talented @riderr3 on another site has successfully managed to partially translate the rather cool ASMIK Japanese Playstation port of Sid Meier's Civilization 1 into English and released a patch. This is very cool as obviously I did a video on this version a while back and had to use a phone camera translator app to have any idea of what was going on, but now that is no longer needed! For the uninitiated the PS1 port of Civ1 is a special unique isometric 2.5D almost 'Civ2 like' looking version of Civ1 filled with FMV and new graphics that was never released outside of Japan. I imported a near mint condition physical copy of it from Japan a few years back and muck around with it occasionally so I'm very happy there's an English patch for it now! I wonder if @riderr3 could be tempted into also doing a similar translation patch for the similarly rare and unique ASMIK Japanese port of Microprose's Master of Magic called Civizard (which I did a partial picture translation guide of on GameFAQs) as that would be too good to be true lol! Have added this patch to our main links & info thread.
Here's the patch and links to tools for applying it:
Sid Meier's Civilization
Partial translation from japanese to english by riderr3. Version 1.1 Game: Sid Meier's Civil
Here's some screenshots of his English patch in action (normally all this text is in Japanese):
Here's the video I did a while back on the SNES and PS1 ports:
youtu.be/xZ9pNNOsr2A?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY
And lastly here's a picture of my physical copy for anyone curious:
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