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Nov. 10th, 2007 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom bought me a new watch battery the other day, and installed it into my watch the next day.
Yesterday morning, I downloaded Wonder Project J2 (an anime game never released outside Japan) and Nemu64 (the only Nintendo 64 emulator that supports it). I also downloaded a translation patch from ROMhacking.net, even though the patch in question isn't complete yet. Since the patch isn't complete yet, I requested that my library borrow that Japanese/English dictionary that I sometimes like to borrow, so that I don't have to flip a coin when answering questions that are still in Japanese. It still is nice to play this game in particular, which I discovered in Nintendo Power volumes 93 and 94 (February and March 1997).
Now, about th game... Well, the point is to teach this android girl named Josette how to get along in the world. Not sure how to explain it any better. The first time I saw the first screenshot in Nintendo Power, it didn't really catch my attention. Four years later though, when I became more familiar with anime, I wondered if that game was an anime game (which it is), and which volume the screenshot appeared in. Days or weeks after those thoughts came to mind, I was digging through some old magazines underneath the bunk bed in my room and looking through each of them (actually for ideas for a game based on Super Mario World), and I found the screenshot in NP volume 93. Shortly before Christmas that same year (2001), I wrote a letter to Nintendo asking if WPJ2 would ever be remade for any future consoles or if such a game as Wonder Project J3 would be made (also to feature Josette).
Back to the actual game, let's put the Japanese text aside. While Nemu64 is a fully functional N64 emulator, it does tend to stall every so often. Good thing that so far, it never did freeze completely. The alternative to downloading the game, though, is to buy a copy off of Ebay, and there are several auctions going on for that game as of now. However, buying a copy would be even more troublesome for the following reasons:
1) You have to pay money for it.
2) Delivery trips are not environmentally friendly.
3) Some of Nintendo's home consoles are region-protected. That means that technically, American gamers are not allowed to play import games on their NES, Super NES, or Nintendo 64. So to actually play the game, you need to either buy some kind of override device or follow the instructions on this website The former is just another expensive, polluting Ebay auction, but the latter requires some tools that not everyone has, is also time consuming, and might also damage your system if you're not careful.
4) And finally, forget about the translation patch if you buy a physical game copy.
Yesterday morning, I downloaded Wonder Project J2 (an anime game never released outside Japan) and Nemu64 (the only Nintendo 64 emulator that supports it). I also downloaded a translation patch from ROMhacking.net, even though the patch in question isn't complete yet. Since the patch isn't complete yet, I requested that my library borrow that Japanese/English dictionary that I sometimes like to borrow, so that I don't have to flip a coin when answering questions that are still in Japanese. It still is nice to play this game in particular, which I discovered in Nintendo Power volumes 93 and 94 (February and March 1997).
Now, about th game... Well, the point is to teach this android girl named Josette how to get along in the world. Not sure how to explain it any better. The first time I saw the first screenshot in Nintendo Power, it didn't really catch my attention. Four years later though, when I became more familiar with anime, I wondered if that game was an anime game (which it is), and which volume the screenshot appeared in. Days or weeks after those thoughts came to mind, I was digging through some old magazines underneath the bunk bed in my room and looking through each of them (actually for ideas for a game based on Super Mario World), and I found the screenshot in NP volume 93. Shortly before Christmas that same year (2001), I wrote a letter to Nintendo asking if WPJ2 would ever be remade for any future consoles or if such a game as Wonder Project J3 would be made (also to feature Josette).
Back to the actual game, let's put the Japanese text aside. While Nemu64 is a fully functional N64 emulator, it does tend to stall every so often. Good thing that so far, it never did freeze completely. The alternative to downloading the game, though, is to buy a copy off of Ebay, and there are several auctions going on for that game as of now. However, buying a copy would be even more troublesome for the following reasons:
1) You have to pay money for it.
2) Delivery trips are not environmentally friendly.
3) Some of Nintendo's home consoles are region-protected. That means that technically, American gamers are not allowed to play import games on their NES, Super NES, or Nintendo 64. So to actually play the game, you need to either buy some kind of override device or follow the instructions on this website The former is just another expensive, polluting Ebay auction, but the latter requires some tools that not everyone has, is also time consuming, and might also damage your system if you're not careful.
4) And finally, forget about the translation patch if you buy a physical game copy.