>Japan: 28 July 1995>America: 25 March 2003
>>12355083>lets localize an old DB game because the thing just got popular now!
>>12355083Does Earthbound Beginnings count? It got translated in period but its english release was cancelled and only eventually brought to America 25 years later via the WiiU eshop in 2015.
>>12355096Some Famicom games like the Kunio games got a release later than 2015 too
>>12355094>>lets localize an old DB game because the thing just got popular now!And despite that long ass gap, there wasn't a serious attempt to properly localize it with English dubbing or anything.
>>12355112Because it's a rushed cashgrab at the end of PSX life cycle.
>>12355124And they couldn't bring in the Polish janitor to pretend to be Goku?
>>12355112>Properly localize
Super Butoden 2 was finally officially released in America in 2015, as a bonus with Extreme Butoden.game released originally in 1993, and almost got a 1996 american english release (titled simply "dragon ball") but was cancelled
>>12355083Forbidden Memories came out in 1999 in Japan, and I think it was either 2002 or 2003 in the US.
Fire Emblem 1 got a translation for its 30th anniversary, and whatever reason Nintendo made it a limited release
>>12355083I actually bought one of these piece of shit early 3D DBZ gamesBudokai mogged it so badly it's unreal. There definitely was a time when "old=good" was totally bullshit
Not as long as these other examples, but Sakura Wars 5 took 5 years to release in America, so you have this PS2 game coming out as late as 2010.
Does Final Fantasy 3 has to be the record right? 31 years for it to get an official release outside of Japan if you exclude the DS remake. Even then there would still be a gap of 16 years between any version
>>12355961I remember when Final Bout was considered one of the rarest and most expensive PS1 games. I bought a copy for $100 and was absolutely pissed when the game got a reprint. What is it even worth these days?
>>12356013I ordered it on ebay back in maybe 2005? It was like 20 bucks. I have no clue where it ever ended up. I've lost most everything I ever owned
Do remasters count? Live a Live came out in 1994 and the remaster came out in English in 2022, 28 years after the original game.
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>>12357289And yet to this day, Nintendo and HAL have yet to recognize Metal Slader Glory exists.
>>12355083Based
Innsmouth no Yakata is gonna be on the Virtual Boy Switch 2 library this year also in English, released originally JP-only in 1995.
What's the point of this thread if we're gonna post ports and remakes?Make it the longest timegaps for the same platform like OP did.
Mother 1 spent about 3 decades being Japan exclusive until a few years back, and Mother 3 remains Japan exclusive because Nintendo are fucking cowards.
>>12356013The original print still has value. I recently got a disc only copy for 10 and its like 50ish online just for the disc. Different art on the disc so you will know when you see it even without a case.
Kanon got an official english release 25 years after the Jap version.Same platform too (Windows PCs)
>>12355238>Didnt even romhack SB2 in english.
>>12358945But they DID change the whole soundtrack, due to the whole Yamamoto plagiarism drama. It doesn't come close to being as good as the original but it's a really bizarre curiosity
>>12355083Europe has some surprising timegaps even for major franchises, FF1 came out in Japan in '87 but didn't see a PAL release until 2003.The rest of the pre-FF7 games suffered the same fate as well, which made FF9 a fundamentally different experience for europeans as they'd never played a medieval Final Fantasy game before that unless they were importing games.
