Note that the subject line above is meant to be a question to catch your attention, not to scare you, of course. It's got nothing to do with the SFC platform. No, instead, it's for the PC-98 computing platform to be precise.
I saw that Hardcore Gaming 101 (@HG_101) on Twitter had
re-tweeted a couple
tweets by a young college lady named 'Nana' online where she says that she is working on many PC-98 game translations and hopes that she can receive the 'donations' to help her achieve her mission on her
Patreon page. And, yes, she is capable of inserting the translations in-game via patches, and, secondly, that she will provide them all for free in the end when each one is completed. She's already done two previous translations.
Would any of you be willing to donate just a little bit of money per month to help her out such that you'll all be able to get the cool translation patches for many little-known games (even all of the confirmed projects that she's working on
AREN'T even listed on Datacrystal at the moment!) for a 'fairly unloved' (by comparison to the rate of translation successes for other platforms) computing system? I know how this could certainly be a controversial idea in the breadth and depth of the romhacking & fan-translation community, which generally does things for free for reasons... BUT, on the other hand, would most of the members in said community bother to go work on games that were on a
very old computer, not even a console at that, or that these games' graphics and controls may seem
too old to some? Also add in the fact that nobody in the near or medium-term future may ever get access to playing these games in the English (international) language. And so you may finally concur that it'd be nice to get more of those game translations for a very old computer system that launched in the 1980's but continued onwards into the '90's. At least that
could reduce the burden all around for finding and having to bother to translate yet more quality games spread across so many platforms!
For me personally it's a far better sense of charity than for how those perhaps fairly foolish contributors donate to the
closed-source Cemu's Wii U emulator when even there is the open-source Decaf emulator in ongoing progress, too! You just look at the remarkable successes of the Dolphin (GC/Wii), Citra (3DS) and several N64 emulators as well as various other Nintendo handheld emulators like the mGBA and you just know instinctively that you must be patient for these software to keep improving over time!
The good news is that she's going to work on Star Cruiser 2 which is already a boon to the team that's working on the Genesis port of the first Star Cruiser game (In fact, they've already released the latter's patch in beta form on
Romhacking just now!)!
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New next-day edit: Interestingly enough, this new member of the romhacking community has recently posted details about her projects in the threads over at the
Shmups,
NFGgames and
Tokugawa Corp forums; with enlarged picture proofs and good comments from her and other users.