On
November 30th Joy Division, the team behind the
Metal Gear Origin plans, announced they would like to re-translate Konami's all-time classic
Metal Gear as the English version originally released by Konami missed a lot of detail and contailed quite some 'Engrish' typo's. Even worse, the English Metal Gear 1 only contained 86 different text messages, as opposed to 155 messages in the Japanese version. As you can see, there were more than enough reasons to release a proper translation of this truly historical game.
The entire Japanese gamescript was translated by Takamichi Suzukawa and proofread by Jon Taylor, who were also responsible for the English version of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. After that, the activities of Joy Division came to a halt and both the
Metal Gear Redux and
Metal Gear Origin projects were dropped. It looked like a properly localized version of Metal Gear was never to be released.
But all that changed when Nekura_Hoka joined the MRC forums with
this message in August 2004. He managed to improve the text routines of Metal Gear, to implement Joy Division's Metal Gear translation and has just released it as an IPS patch on
his website. On this website you can also find some extra information on the translation project, Metal Gear 1 and the Metal Gear series in general.
Relevant link:
Metal Gear 1 retranslation website
