10/31/2023: Localization News - Dead of the Brain 1!

No, NOT a trick, a Halloween treat! Presenting the Dead of the Brain 1 English patch by David Shadoff for the DEAD last official PC Engine CD game published by NEC before exiting the console biz in 1999! I helped edit/betatest and it's also a game I actually finished in 2023, yaaay! Shubibiman also did a French localization. github.com/dshadoff/DeadoftheBrain
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#1
http://www.seganerds.com/?p=11262

QuoteSad news for the Wonder Boy / Monster World fans, the Tokyo District Court is investigating Westone Bit Entertainment for debt. Financial reports indicate the WB/MW developers will file for bankruptcy soon.

Westone's official site has been closed already, while their Facebook account has been left intact since June 13th. Due to this problem, their upcoming software development and deliveries to PSN 6 Xbox Live have been paused, there is also the copyright problems of their IPs that will enter in hiatus.
Pour one out. A piece of my soul dies today.

If you haven't bought the Monster World games on WiiWare/XBLA/PSN, now might be a good time to do it, most especially for the English localization for Wonder Boy in Monster Land and Monster World IV. I figure these would be okay since they were published under Sega, but the wording in the article is a little worrisome.

WiiWare also has the TurboGrafx-16 versions of Monster World II (Dragon's Curse) and Monster World III (Dynastic Hero). Again, I'm not sure if these are "safe," being Konami published (and not technically part of the Wonder Boy/Monster World IP), but you never know.
#2
After three months of painful waiting I finally conceding to being screwed on a previous sale for these two games. Shop deleted, no communication, etc. I guess it happens, but during my April PC-Engine buying spree these were literally the two games I was looking forward to the most.

Since these are fairly common I figure I'd put a call out here for them, if anybody can offer these to me for a fair price (and hopefully from the US for cheaper/safer shipping). I've seen them go fairly low on eBay, but I don't know if I want to wait for them to pop up again for low start price and dealing with bidding (and all of the BIN prices are insane).

Oh yes, I'm looking for complete and in fairly good condition.
#3
I want at least case/manual for everything and everything I have to trade is at least case/manual.

Stuff I Want:

^ I tried to reduce to stuff I'm REALLY, but it still ended up a pretty large list.

Madou Monogatari < #1 on my want list.

Dracula X
Fausseté Amour
Hi-Leg Fantasy
Steam Hearts

Alien Crush
Adventure of Chris
Cadash
Devil Crash
Gunhed
Legend of Xanadu
Legend of Xanadu II
Moonlight Lady
Seiya Monogatari
Son Son II
Spriggan

Dragon Knight III
Galaga '88
Gradius
Gradius II
Gulliver Boy
Makai Hakkenden Shada
Marchen Maze
Winds of Thunder
Xak I+II
Xak III

Alice in Wonderdream
Cyber Core
Fray CD
Macross 2036
Nexzr
Pop 'n Magic
Puyo Puyo CD
Ruin
Space Invaders (HuCard)

Stuff I Might Trade:

^ I'm still working on which of these are for sure on the way out, but make an offer.

The Adventures of Mr. Heli
Bomberman
Burning Angels
Cross Wiber
Darius Plus
Deep Blue
Doremon: Meikyu Daisakusen
Double Dungeons
Energy
F1 Circus
F1-Pilot
Formation Soccer on J-League
Genji Tsushin Agedama
Heavy Unit
The Kung Fu
Lode Runner Lost Labyrinth
Maniac Pro Wrestling
The New Zealand Story
Psycho Chaser
R-Type I
R-Type II
Rabio Lepus Special
Side Arms
Space Harrier
Special Criminal Investigation
Street Fighter II Champsion Edition
Super Momotaro Dentetsu II
Takeda Shingen
Tiger Road
Veigues
Violent Soldier
Zero4 Champ
#4
I never (rarely?) do introduction threads on forums, but I figure a collection of people still passionate about the TurboGrafx-16 and PC-Engine are probably a pretty tight group, so here I am.

I don't remember the exact circumstances (birthday, paper route, etc.), but I got a TurboGrafx-16 pretty soon after it came out. I remember cutting an enlarged photo of a Pac-Man multi-vitamin from one of my mom's magazines and taping it to the system like a sticker. I also remember playing the few games I had for it OBSESSIVELY. One of my current best friends, our friendship is owed to this. I met him through a mutual friend, and he had just bought Namco Museum vol. 4 for some other system thing. I asked for a turn on Pac-Land and proceeded to show him deep, dark, evil secrets of the game from putting hundreds of hours into it on the Turbo. His floor fell to the ground and it was (bro) love at first site.

Keith Courage, Double Dungeons, Parasol Stars, Galaga '90, Dragon's Curse, Final Lap Twin, Legendary Axe, Bonk's Adventure, Neutopia, Alien Crush, Devil's Crush, these are some of the other games I had and played when I was a kid.

I am also fuzzy on how I got a CD-ROM and I don't think I had it long, but it introduced me to Ys, which is one of the best things ever (well, maybe the last two aren't so great, but that's another topic for another day).

Years later, I am obsessing, quite hard, over an arcade game called Wonder Boy in Monster Land. This led me to buying a Core-Grafx II and Bikkuriman World, which was the only decent home version of the game (until Sega and Westone put a previously unreleased English version of the arcade original on Wii in 2012*swoons*). I also bought Tower of Druaga, another game I love more than I should. Then I blind bought a big box of games from a Japanese auction (because it had Legend of Valkyrie in it).

So my roommate at this time, we had been talking about getting a TurboDuo for years, usually when we had had a few beers. One night (probably beer fueled) I aggressively called him (or us?) out on our big mouths and threw a couple of benjis at somebody over at Digital Press for a PC-Engine Duo-R with a region switch. I eagerly bought Popful Mail (dat Falcom) and Dynastic Hero (dat Westone), thinking they would be the first of HUNDREDS of awesome import CDs. Sadly, my ADD brain quickly shifted to something else and the dream of having an awesome PC-Engine library fluttered away as I furiously built up an NES collection.

But the bug bit me again. I just bought a house and one of the rooms is going to be for retro gaming. So much Duo-R is back out and I've been playing all those mystery games from the bix box years ago and I've been stumbling my way through Monster Maker wishing I had stuck with my Japanese studies so long ago. And I've been buying a lot of new CDs.

Anyway, I'm rambling because I only slept four hours last night (I was playing The Last Story online until 1:00 AM since the servers were shutting down), so this will be a fun thread to look back on once I've rested.

But yes, hello there. Now sell me some Japanese CD-ROM²s.

PS: Konami is the devil.

PPS: Have some pictures.

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