CREATOR HIGAN BSNES EMULATORS DIED PATCH

“Basically, everyone remembers Bahamut from Final Fantasy. Dark Force told NEEMblog firstly over email that “You’re lucky I just saw this, since I don’t really check or use this email anymore,” and wrote further the last time they were contacted about Bahamut Lagoon was almost 10 years ago.Īccording to Dark Force, the reason fan translators and overseas JRPG fans generally were so interested in Bahamut Lagoon was rather simple: it sounded cool. Now here’s where it gets juicy: using an email address I found on an archived mirror of DeJap Translations’ old website, I actually managed to track Dark Force down for comment. Dark Force, the current head of DeJap, handled the hacking and programming and aided in localizations and script editing, while Tomato is credited with translating the text itself and the main script editing.

CREATOR HIGAN BSNES EMULATORS DIED PATCH

“After months of sleepless nights and countless hundreds of hours of grueling work,” the note continues, the patch was finished by a duo of ROM hackers known respectively as Dark Force and Tomato.

According to a note appended to the English Bahamut Lagoon patch found on DeJap Translations’ website, “Neill started to lose interest in the game after a few months, but Dark Force from DeJap came to the rescue. The first successful effort to create a translation for Bahamut Lagoon was started by “emulation God” Neill Cortlett around 1998, who at the time was already renown for his work on patching the famed Seiken Densetsu 3 into English. DeJap was a legendary fan translation collective that created English patches for other noted Super Famicom titles, such as Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia, but went defunct in 2004. An English patch for the game was finished by the ROM hacking team DeJap Translations in 2002, and until very recently this was the only option available for English-speaking retrogaming enthusiasts around the world.

Approximately six years after Bahamut Lagoon’s official launch in Japan, it was finally playable by the Western JRPG community.

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