There's so many you barely see mentioned out there. Are any of them that good? From 8-bit games like Musashi no Bouken to GBA titles like Magical Vacation, what are the actually obscure fan-translated JRPGs worth playing?
>>12707256Mother 3 is very underrated obscure hidden gem
>>12707256Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia are excellent. Star Ocean came out just a few months before FF7 and pushed the SNES to its absolute limits. Its basically a PS1 RPG crammed onto a SNES cart.
>>12707256I wouldn't call picrel hidden, but it's not tremendously well known either.Best Front Mission game.
>>12707452Best Front Mission game is Front Mission: Gun Hazard. Highly recommended OP, it has a translation patch too. Not exactly a JRPG but its adjacent.
Oh, and Bahamut Lagoon is another nice SRPG.
>>12707256Metal Max Returns on SNES. It's fucking awesome.
>>12707457>Front Mission: Gun HazardI enjoyed it but I wouldn't compare it to the main series, wildly different genre.
>>12707256Linda Cubed, Scenario C is the best the medium ever produced. It's a shame it peaked too early, a real 32bit Linda with pre-rendered BGs would be ultimate ludo.Metal Max Returns comes close. Racing Lagoon if vroom.While not an RPG but a TBS game, Hybrid Front has all the craft and superb writing as Linda Cubed
>>12707820Hybrid Front is awesome. If you want a corpo controlled Earth (from space) setting while being people that salvage scrap while operating military vehicles it's worth a look. Also you can level up your characters and put them into different vehicles so they wouldn't be "class locked" like other games but still would have stats that would favor certain vehicle usages.I have to get back to it. I got through the first handful of missions and now they were granted access to travel North American roads for junk.
The Sailor Moon RPG, the Dragon Ball RPGs, Sweet Home, and Mother 3.
>>12707458it's too fucking easy
Gunmans Proof
oh didnt see the JRPG part
>>12707256Sorry but AI translations are just so much better
>>12708027Second this. It's literally ALttP if it were a light hearted western with guns. Lots of fun.
>>12707458The cuck game...
>>12707256Chaos World (Chronix translation, the two AG translations are broken), Emerald Dragon.pretty much any SFC ROM endong in T-Eng is worth playing for a couple hours. Weirdly enough I didn't enjoy Hourai High so ymmv.
>>12707256If you like Musashi no Bouken there are other lesser known "1 party member" DQ1 clones worth playing on Famicom like SD Keiji Blader or The Magic Candle. Still with only 1 party member but not as a dungeon crawler I loved Shadow Brain (make sure to check out the 30 mins VHS intro video). Still with only 1 party member but more like Sweet Home, Namco Prism Zone Dream Master is also great. All of these are translated and lesser known even in Japan.
>>12707905Hybrid Front really looks interesting. In the same genre, Jyutei Senki was okay, it was carried by the unique setting.My pick would be Radia Senki for NES.
>>12707820racing lagoon is a fucking terrible game beloved by people who have never played a racing game in their life
>>12707420Maybe I should make a game inspire by it but add gay niggas
>>12707820>metal Maxboring garbage
>>12707448Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia are beginnings to big franchises. Not obscure>>12707458Squaresoft games also aren’t really “hidden” at all at this point. At least the ones that have been fan-translated already for 20 years
>>12707256Can't believe this hidden gem is only partially translated.
>>12707256Is that Hourai High?Also Rudra no Hihou.Its cool but not mind breaking.
>>12708027>>12708079The dungeons are terrible though.
>>12711028>Rudra no Hihou.One of the worst JRPGs I've ever played. It's no coincidence it was never officially translated.
>>12711143I hate people like you who post nonsensical shit like that. Opinion discarded.
>>12707458Cuckold game
>>12708494I need dq1 clones to have some sort of gimmick, like double dungeons had, being pseudo real-time, or having sports/racing/etc. battles. Most of them fuck up the simple but effective flowchart that dq1 had so they might as well do something differenr.
>>12708227>>12711172dudes who've never even seen a pussy in real life worried about cuckolding
>>12711586WOOOOOW YOU LOOKED AT A HOLE, COOL!
There are none. Most weebs are like gamefaq megaman fans and will be obsessed with any shit even sounding remotely japanese. Most of translated jrpg's suck balls.
>>12711153NTA but rudra is a shit game. barely anything memorable from it outside of the multiple protagonists, and that was done better by live-a-live
>>12711586>dudes who've never even seen a pussy in real lifei see strays cats every day
>>12712559>>12712376Hi OP
>>12712376It looks pretty good for an SNES game, and the magic system is fun to mess around with for a while, but other than that, it’s absolute dogshit.
>>12713078>>12712376Yeah, I remember playing the translation around 2006 and found the game underwhelming. I agree the presentation is great and the OST is awesome, but the rest is pretty bland. The gimmicky, imbalanced spell system doesn't help.
>>12708227i love Live A Live.
Monstania, it's a small scale sRPG.
Energy Breaker, another sRPG, with awesome graffix, interesting gameplay and a funny script.
>>12711586You sound upset. Hit close to home, huh?
>>12713701The short duration was a bit disappointing. I remember starting the game after lunch then reaching the ending the same afternoon, but still had a good time.
>>12713716I liked it being short, long games are a chore
>>12707256I liked popolocrois
>>12707256So is it Hourai High or not?
>>12707256>JRPG Hidden GemsStop using meaningless terms.
>>12714409Yes it is Hourai High
>>12716385Cool.I remember getting interested in it but never played it.He looks very whimsical. Your opinion?
>>12714003The entire PS trilogy is in English now that they had some basic quality control and didn't just mix MTL with translations from a gamefaqs guide the instant tools were out. Poporogue's patch had an actual proper playtesting for its initial release.The PS2 games are pretty but the plot is poorly executed enough the fansubbed anime series based on it is a superior experience.
>>12716541Do you know if the souvenir transfer function from game to game works on emulator in the ps1 pietro games?I’ve been meaning to replay popolocrois 1 and go onto poporogue but I want to collect all the souvenirs this time.Is there an effort to translate the ps2 pinon games anyway? I’d like to play them anyway even if I agree the anime is the superior experience
•PS1: Linda, PoPoLoCrois 1&2, Planet Laika, Brigandine Grand & Cross Mod, Front Mission 2, Langrisser 4&5, Tear Ring Saga,•PS2: Tales of Destiny DX & Destiny 2, Zill O'll Infinite, Front Mission 4&5, Tear Ring Saga 174, Growlanser 6•Genesis: Phantasy Star 4 (Generation 4 retranslation)•Saturn: Baroque, Princess Crown, Sakura Wars 1&2, Shining Force 3 trilogy, Vandal Hearts (best version), Ogre Battle (best version), •dreamcast: Segagaga•Game Gear: Shining Force FC
