Source: MSX Mailinglist

A month ago A&L Software released version 0.3 of the English and Portuguese translation of Illusion City. As of today a new version, the MSX Jaú Edition, is available. Changes in version 0.4:

• Fixed many translation errors/typos
• First 5 disks are fully translated

You can download the new versions at the Illusion City translation page, where you can also find information about who are responsible for the current translation project.

Relevant link: Illusion City translation page

Novalia Spirit just released a translation patch for Compile's action RPG Golvellius. Players that get lost in the game will be happy to know that Novalia Spirit's webpage also contains an informative map of the Golvellius overworld. Let's hope to see more quality translations from Novalia Spirit in the future!

Relevant link: Novalia Spirit

Source: MSX Café

DJANGO has been very busy lately and translated Phantasy IV - Birth of a Hero to english. Phantasy IV is a japanese RPG, created by Starcraft in 1991 for MSX2. You can download the translation from the MSX Café website.

Relevant link: Phantasy IV

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

Source: MSX Café

DJANGO created a translation in english and french for the game Robo Crush. Robo Crush is a simulation game, released in 1990 by System Soft for MSX2. You can download the translation from the MSX Café website.

Relevant link: Robo Crush

Source:MSX Café

DJANGO has created a translation in english and french of the turn-based strategy game Master of Monsters. The game was originally released by System Soft in 1989 and requires at least an MSX2. You can download the translation from the MSX Café website.

Relevant link: Master of Monsters

Source: MSX Mailinglist

Some time ago we reported about the latest A&L Software translation project, Illusion City English. They have just released a new version 0.3. Some updates:

• Fixed many translation errors/typos, including intro screens
• Fixed a bug in text scrolling routines
• First 4 disks are fully translated

Next to the translation project itself, A&L Software have also updated their site with some very interesting features, for example all the sounds from the original Illusion City, amongst them some songs which are present on the original disks but were never used in the game itself. You can also find information about who are responsible for the current translation project.

Relevant link: Illusion City English

Javier Pérez has released a partial English translation of Crimson III, a MSX2 RPG from XtalSoft. Due to the lack of colaboration, the project was not finished; however, the work is enough to give the game a try. The translated items are:

• Opening demo
• Start and game menu
• Main text in battles, shops, etc...
• Most items, weapons and magics

The patch is released in a TRD file that applies to the game disk 1.

Relevant link: MSX Review download section (Spanish)
Relevant link: Crimson III partial English translation

MSX Café have released a French translation of Compile's classic RPG Golvellius. The game can be downloaded by MSX Café members only. An official English translation of the game and its manual was recently released in WOOMB.

Relevant link: MSX Café

Although the Sargon website hadn't been updated for a couple of months, Sargon now announces a new English translation to be released at the MSX fair in Tilburg, April 24th. Actually it's not one, but two English translations that will be released, being the T&E Soft games Daiva Story 4 (Asura's Bloodfeud) and Daiva Story 5 (The Cup of Soma). Apart from these new translations, previously released English translations will be available again as well. Visit the Sargon/MSX part of Samanet for some extra information.

Relevant link: Samanet (Sargon/MSX part)