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Tobal 2 for PS1

This improved on everything from the original and I enjoyed this game more than any other from the developer. I was a bit surprised SE never chose to release it here, it was one of the better fighting games on the system.

lordkaosu wrote:

And there were a LOT of fighting games on the system.

So basically just an import I liked that would benefit from a US release? I've played quite a few JP only games over the years. Would probably want to pick things that are text heavy.

Napple Tale on Dreamcast is a cool one that could have benefited from a translation.

Gypsy wrote:

You don't even have to have liked the game. Just wished it had been released here. Hate drafting is totally allowed. Maybe there is a particularly bad game on a system you despise, and wish you had yet another reason to point and sneer at the system during its heyday.

Nintendo DS: Wi-Fi Taiou Yakuman DS

Mahjong with Mario? Yes please. The wi-fi version of this game specifically so that folks who don't have a ton of local mahjong pals would still have been able to play together (though not anymore since WFC is dead)

It's fully featured, allows for customizable rules, it's zippy, and has great assist features for new players. The only problem is Mahjong is a fairly complex game and the dense rules plus lots of mahjong-specific terminology make it challening to learn, even if it had been in English.

If anyone could have pulled off making Riichi Mahjong more popular outside of Japan, it's the Mario crew, though.

(If anyone needs a copy of this game I always have more copies coming in)

benstylus wrote:

HA! I'll think of some others. One per system is hard. :D

Gypsy wrote:

This looks like a game I would have liked to try. I missed a lot of DC imports unfortunately. I should have known better after the Saturn.

lordkaosu wrote:

I played it back in 2013 with a printed off general translation guide so I missed a lot of the story. Very charming and fun game though. It has a fully playable fan translation now. I've been debating replaying it with that.

Mother 3
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (aka Ace Attorney Investigations 2)

I suspect they might actually localize Gyakuten Kenji 2 and release it digitally with the first as a combo like they did with The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

Yes I've played them both patched, but getting a official US releases would've been nice for the collection.

Pokemon Trading Card Game 2

Really enjoyed the first one. Would have liked to have played the 2nd one too, but it was Japan only.

DQ11 I own the Japanese version but it’s a pain to play through since I can’t read the dialogue or menus. No English patches either.

Star Wars 1313

I don't know if this counts. It wasn't released here. It also wasn't released anywhere.

I saw a magazine ad in Next Generation for a PC port of Warhawk - the original 1995 PlayStation shooter, not the online-only PlayStation 3 multiplayer fest - that never amounted to anything.

https://vgprintads.tumblr.com/post/618174149327765...

I was a big fan of the PlayStation original and wanted the game to see the same treatment that Twisted Metal 2 and Jet Moto did with higher-resolution graphics and 3D accelerator support, plus more control options. I even sent an email to Singletrac to ask what was up, but all they did was confirm that the project was cancelled.

There's a part of me that holds out hope that a prototype will surface one of these days, like the rediscovered PC port of the original Twisted Metal. Seems unlikely, though.

loztdogs wrote:

Related I will go with Dragon Quest IV . I'm not sure exactly how far along it got but I remember seeing ads for it here in the US. This is kind of a weird one for me to pick but I will explain. After starting with the N64 I got PS1 /2 and Dreamcast consoles next iirc. At some point I started getting into jrpgs (Lunar EBC was the first one I played) and Dragon Warrior (Quest) VII was a title I ended up buying. It was almost enough to make me swear off the series for good at the time. Had IV been released here I probably would have started with that instead and it's a much better game. Thankfully I did grab DQ8 near launch and loved it which got me back into trying more of the series and honestly I find 7 to be the only major misstep. Obviously the first couple are far from perfect but for NES rpgs they are fine.

Disaster: Day of Crisis for the Nintendo Wii. Fortunately there's a PAL version you can play with a modded Wii.

nonamesleft wrote:

There's English-patched versions out there. I played thru it once in the past and it was amazing. Better than the original. Forgot what I played it on.

There's a bunch, but Resident Evil Survivor with light gun support always boggled me that they took that out of the American release.
That's all we wanted. Also RE Survivor 2

Sun wrote:
Better than the original? The original was already great, so that makes me want to play the 2nd even more.

bill wrote:

Dude that never came out EVER.
Oh man, when Disney gutted LucasArts and we lost all those great games in development, so sad.

Renaissance2K wrote:

I LOVE the original Warhawk. Did you play the Tiger Electronic games version? Its actually pretty awesome, the whole unit is shaped like a flight stick. My brother and i used to try to beat eachothers high scores on beach trips and then on the way home, we'd hope for a bunch of street lights, lol.

A similar thing happened with the underrated, super ahead of its time PS1 shooter, Codename Tenka. It ended up getting a VERY small PC port release. I actually prefer the PC version.

Simon_Belmont wrote:

OH MY GOD. I HAD NO IDEA THIS EXISTED.

Edit: Yup, I just bought one of those mofos on eBay.

I’ve got a few:
Star Wars (the bizarre Famicom version where Darth Vader constantly morphs into animals)
Chalvo 55 (a fun 2D platformer starring a character, whose first game was cancelled)
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (very popular with FE fans despite the English fan patches being lackluster)
Innsmouth no Yakata (we should’ve gotten this while Japan got Waterworld)
Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong and Dixie Kong (a Japan-exclusive, colored port of Donkey Kong Land III; and all they had to sacrifice to make it happen was Bear’s animations)
Tomato Adventure (the Mario & Luigi RPG series’ predecessor)
SEGA AGES Fantasy Zone Collection (the collection never saw release outside Japan—still eyeing this one, @benstylus )
Chibi-Robo! Clean Sweep (I don’t remember its Japanese name; this is its fan-given name)
Zangeki no Reginleiv (would’ve gone great alongside Pandora’s Tower and Xenoblade over here)
6x1=/= UNLIMITED? (simple enough to grasp on gameplay alone, but I have no idea how to do better than the bad ending since English info is so obscure)
Tabe-O-Ja (more on this one later, eh @Gypsy ?)

Thankfully a lot of games I would have chosen have since been remedied. Examples would be Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti and Metal Wolf Chaos. I'll have to give this some thought to do it justice today.

@SupremeSarna Looking forward to reading about your adventure with the game.

OP chose a neat game to start off with. The manga portraits really caugh my attention when I first saw it.

I played Pokemon Card GB2 on the PSP. I did think it was amazing. One thing to note, though, that I played through it exactly once, where I played the first game a crap ton of times. But perhaps that has more to do w the first game being so short and easy in comparison and I would keep coming up with new challenge runs to do.

Terranigma on SNES

Easy choice for me. Mr. Gimmick for the NES. Supposedly it's the Little Samson of the PAL region.

At least Mr Gimmick finally has a re-release

It's coming for the Evercade, right?

Renaissance2K wrote:

There's that too. Part of the Sunsoft Collection 1

egg wrote:
You played the patched version, or can you read Japanese?

Hmmm.

My choices would definitely be the PS2 NeoGeo Online Collection discs that were not released on this side of the world (ADK Damashii, Garou MOTW, KOF Orochi Collection, Fu'un Super Combo, Sunsoft Collection, KOF Nests Collection.)

I bought every US release of that series and was so sad I couldn't get the rest of them. :(

Negged for picking more than one.

Some ultimate punishment up in here LOL

benstylus wrote:

They also released them in a boxset. So it still counts as one release. :D

nonamesleft wrote:

English patched.

Simon_Belmont wrote:


Thanks to you guys posting, I picked up a copy of Warhawk for ps1 I saw when I was in Owensboro this weekend

It's super fun. I wish it had a save system. That's my only complaint. I think Warhawk and Twisted Metal are in the same universe as the ship shows up in Twisted Metal Black.

Simon_Belmont wrote:

Might have been an homage since both series were created by Singletrac (although they closed down the year before Twisted Metal Black was published)

Incog Inc. is the reanimated corpse of Singletrac after GT Interactive, its owner, bit the bullet.

There are a handful of other references to Warhawk in Black - Dollface's mask was made by Mr. Kreel, a name that any Warhawk man would associate with large amounts of radioactive Kool-aid - but I don't think they share a universe. There's a pretty wild theory (that may actually be confirmed, actually) that

Perhaps, in one of those universes, Walker became a dentist like his mother told him.

I don't know if it counts, since technically we did get a slightly enhanced version of the game on the GameCube a couple years later, but I was soooooo looking forward to Animal Crossing on the Nintendo 64 from the first preview I ever read of it in EGM or GamePro.

I’d like to try Captain Rainbow, but it’s way too text-heavy for a raw playthrough.

Veering a little off topic, but I'm bummed out about Omikron 2 never getting made lol. I wanted to play it than, now I dunno, not like I have a chance