How did game importing work in the 90s? Would Westerners really play untranslated Final Fantasy V or something?
>>740716168I once heard a guy say he would watch imported anime in college in the 90s, and that they had to have a guy who actually spoke Japanese there to summarize the dialogue as it was playing. Also, the anime that was popular among “japanimation fans” then was VERY different from what ended up becoming the US/European canon of anime through Toonami and such.
>>740716168It’s cool that zoomers have brought vintage aesthetics back
The full letter size photo printouts are a dead giveaway, that would not have been remotely possible in the 90s
I imported shit that's playable without to know much moonrunes like action games and shmups.
>>740716715You never went to a library, nigga?
>>740716715Retard.
>>740716532Zoomies ain't doing this shit, it's aging millennials forcing this shit the same way boomers were responsible for 50's diners
>>740716168post the picture of her where she's fat
>>740716715those are magazine cutouts zoomie
>>740716168nice arctic monkeys poster
Potentially yes.
>>740716987>>740717027>>740717219There's an Arctic Monkeys poster retards
>>740716987>>740717027>>740717219NTA but those are clearly NOT magazine cutouts.Besides, the camera quality is clearly an instagram filtered smartphone pic, 90's photos didn't artefact like that.Also, there's an AM poster behind her
>>740717530>>740717560No shit, niggers. The cunt has Instagram face. You can instantly tell zoomers and millennials from actual humans
>>740717284how did they become cringecorenickelback for zoomers
>>740717284>Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. God Zoomers are such posers. And while we're at it, 80s hair metal was exceptionally unpopular during the 90s. I mean , some people probably liked it but not teenagers. WHy is there a Guns N' Roses poster there... in a teenage girl's bedroom?
>>740716168>How did game importing work in the 90s? Would Westerners really play untranslated Final Fantasy V or something?there was a whole market for it in the 1990's. It was mostly through magazine mail order or specialty shops that dealt in this kind of thing, though.
>>740716168I used to get them from a shop across the street from a swimming center.Had all sorts of weird shit from overseas (e.g. a Korean storybook that looked like it was for kids but it included explicit imagery of some sort of monster gremlin thing raping someone) and a bunch of Japanese stuff too.
please continue shitting up this shitty website with your AI trash, OP
>>740716168I knew a black guy who imported loads of shit from Japan, was also the only guy I knew who was fluent in Japanese, self-taught from library books and then sat in on Japanese classes at the local community college even though he was a teenager, though that was early 00s.
>>740716168It was such chad times...people made fantl'd and played things on emulator.Skip to now...>noooOO that's piraCyYY
>>740716168There were shopping catalogs you could import JP vidya from. Also some dedicated import stores in malls.Most normalfags didn't import, it was mainly enthusiasts. And it was usually for major titles or entire systems. Huge games (e.g. Mario 3) used to launch months/years earlier in Japan. Same with most consoles until the 7th gen. There were some script translation FAQs for JRPGs like FF5. You can play along with a guide like that. But most people's first experience with those JRPGs were when the fan translations came out.HappyConsoleGamer and Sega Lord X on YouTube are some older dudes who talk about import stories sometimes. They were teens/adult in the 80s and 90s and have a good perspective since they were enthusiasts back then. Worth checking out their videos:https://youtu.be/dIyVhgc8WyM?si=wuW5T1fPbj2uiRRshttps://youtu.be/P9X2GT0agsw?si=WFkDtq-v6pPWX0xxThis guy also talks about his experience importing Pokemon Gold from JP and playing the game with a physical translation guide that was for sale.https://youtu.be/2f4NXjDfG2o?t=108&si=2VVgIgNMIPDj8Tsa
>>740716168Play in Japanese and just mash x through the story. Storyfags are a recent development. Nobody used to care about story
>>740717027You could not find jpgs that high resolution to print out in the N64 era
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>>740716168I never heard of anyone doing it at the time but you'd have to do that yes. And region lock shittery was more common in the past too both directly via the consoles and indirectly via tvs depending on where you lived (ntsc and pal). That one you could work around but still.
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>>740716168Imported games would literally not work on unimportant consoles so you would need to have both. Only the real diehard enthusiasts would bother.
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>>740724704das it mane
>>740724637Hardware mods were a thing back then. SNES and Genesis it was easy, just removing plastic for the consoles so JP carts would fit. Saturn you needed an a bootleg cart like an Action Replay. PS1 needed a softmod.
>>740723156https://youtu.be/KP7kcE3NCFA?t=137&si=qCu8ZN5qcPAnxHgqThis video has a good story about these guys renting a N64 from an import store upon its JP launch.https://youtu.be/0fxAybWzQw4?si=n52FXeDKhjSXnzywNot imported, but some insight into how the PS1 was viewed when it launched.
>>740725097Didn't SNES need a game genie for the lockout chip too?
>>740716168Yes. It sucked ass. I remember paying an assload for a local gamestore to get me megaman battle network 3 early and it sucking complete dick because I couldn't read shit
>>740725758>Not imported, but some insight into how the PS1 was viewed when it launched.Have this webm that is related.
>>740725758https://youtu.be/AXnxJ65TenM?si=2C_orjv0Dn-TH6LvGood video about being a Western weeb in 1994/1995.
>>740716168https://youtu.be/HD2MYkH1NB8?si=jja5KVwnEDXKTt0OHere's a similar photo that's actually from the 90s and not a LARP.
>>740728596SOVL
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>live in Ireland>same selection of games as the UK and most of western Europe in theory>in practicality, the selection is always slim>often times your chipped Playstation and a good pirate game seller at a market will have a much better and cheaper selection>my dad starts selling pirate games (and movies) as a side gig>constantly have a cycle of obscure as fuck games from Japan coming in and out of the house>often times have to give them back to my dad to sell them before I can beat them>some of these games either had super weird localised titles that differed in different regions, or just didn't have English titles at all>often times I have some half memory of a game that I will never find irlTo be honest though, I did eventually find Konami's samurai Resident Evil knock off, Ronin Blade/Soul of the Samuari/Blade of the Rakshasa in a retro store and it was fucking shit, so I'm probably not missing out on much.
>>740729490Describe some
>>740717150>>740723797that's not the same girl, m0n1lu btw
Yeah. You've never struggled through a game in Japanese along with the 2 other people on the internet that did too?
>>740732770How did this shit get deleted the second it was posted? Fuck the tranny mods in this thread, kill yourselves
>>740716168That's not how women's faces looked in the 90s
>>740716168It didn't. Not where I lived anyways.My first time playing a JP game was through PC emulation. Access to anime was limited to paperback catalogs distributed by complete randos who set up a booth at the mall.
>>740732291wish it was though
>>740716446The guys who worked on the set design for Star Trek TNG were such huge 'japanimation' fans they hid an anime reference in EVERY episods. Gunbuster, Macross, Urusei Yarsura, and Dirty Pair were the popular ones back then. At least for the Star Trek crew
>>740716168Stop posting this zoomer whore. Nobody had hair like that in the 90s.
>>740716168You had to get your console chipped first, a local game shop did it and even had imports available but they were really expensive, we actually got our PS1 chipped with pic purchased as wellThey also had the US version of FFX available well over a year before the PAL release
>>740716168I imported Pokemon Red in the 90s I think. My tendie magazine listed the number to order it
>>740729490the only chipped games I remember encountering IRL were basic bitch PAL normie shit, that was most chipped gamers, they weren't weebs, they were actually sub-normie cause they weren't even enthusiastic enough to buy the absolute most surface level slop, it's like if gameboy copiers were massive but everyone was using them to play tetris and that's it
remember the comic book guy from the simpsons? he also handled video game imports and you had to close your eyes and suck some yogurt out of a hose before he let you see the catalogue.
>>740723156lol my first experience with gold was using no$gb to play the rom which already had a shit english patch for it, then I was like the last in my class to buy the game when it came out in the UK. I think I was getting bored of pokemon by then and just going through the motions
>>740728596I recognize that 2 on the TV
>>740716168This girl is probably dead
