Snatcher in English and Portuguese

posted in Translation News by narvick on Dec 23rd, 2003

Well, it's been done just in time for Christmas. Snatcher for the MSX has been translated into English (v0.6.0) and Portuguese (v0.9.9). The translations were completed by Daniel Caetano and Dante Nishida. Here's what the authors had to say:

Well... after a long time I had translated this marvelous game to portuguese. The portuguese translation is almost finished and I had started to work on the scripts to other languages translation also. A long time has passed since the first person tried to translate this game. Many of them had quit because of the difficulties inherent to the game internals. Many misteries grown based on the "untranslateability" of this game... Well, the game itself is now translated, and I'm enhancing many of it's functions. Hey, don't get me wrong. The translation work was not easy. It was something like "eating rocks instead of cake"... Hehehe. Anyway, every dificulty was solved and it looks like no serious side effects surfaced. The portuguese translated game uses the same resources needed by the original version provided by Martos: 128Kb of memory mapper and a normal SCC (Satcher and SD-Snatcher SCC+ will also work, full featured, of course!). English one require some more memory. Look for requirements on the readme! Beside Martos (mapper version) and Dante Nishida (translation of the graphics), I would like to thank several users that helped with the translation, such as Artemio Urbina of Junker HQ, who had dumped the game texts by the first time and Takamichi Suzukawa, the guy that had spent many hours of it's life translating the japanese text into english... I would like to thank Ricardo Bittencourt, because he created and modified the BrMSX emulator, adding functions needed by me and Dante during the translation (Hey! Waht about addind the missing V9958 functions and finish the Shalom translation!?). Finally, I would like to thank two more persons: Norikuni Kofuji, who gave me an original Snatcher game, including booklet and disks. Artemio Urbina, who deservers a HUGE THANKS by the help and support during the translation and specially for the gift he sent me: a SD-Snatcher game including everything (the SCC+ too!), booklet and 90 cards of Snatcher colection...! PS: Thanks to Konami and Metallica. The translation would be too much boring without Ride the Lightning, St.Anger and Snatcher Zoom Tracks. =^D

There doesn't appear to be any patches, only versions of the ROM itself translated. So head over to the homepage for downloads!

Thanks to James for the news!

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