Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026IGA's Willyvanias are mediocre and shame Konami's pedigree of The Maze of Galious and The Goonies II. 000
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My Castlevania hot take is that IGA and his lot from Tokyo fundamentally damaged the franchise in the long term and that Konami Kobe was the best thing to ever happen to it. 101
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This pattern extends to games like Celceta, where they ignored the original Ys IV scenario draft (also by Hayakawa, ironically enough) and replaced it with embarrassing nonsense. It's the exact reason I dread a Ys V remake: I really don't trust these people to do it properly. 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You might think one thing has nothing to do with the other, but a mistranslation is, from its very root, a distortion of the author's intent—which is exactly what LoH4 Windows did. Even if called a secondary creation, the "original sin" of distorting that intent cannot be erased. 110
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not defending legitimately bad translations, but Takeiri and Kondo set the gold standard for script infidelity and revisionism. Scrapping an entire game's text to write vanity fanfic is on a whole different level than questionable localization liberties or mistranslations. 100
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's real rich to see Kiseki zealots whine about the "purity of the Japanese script" when these very writers showed zero respect for the original Legend of Heroes IV by tossing out Hayakawa's entire script like garbage in 2000 and bastardizing it with their own trite fanfiction. 110
Reposted by JosepKaisaan @kaisaan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Check out this interview! I tried my best to explain properly how the process of making a fantranslation works in a way that anyone can understand. Big thanks to @groggy.dog for running YsLink and interviewing me! If anyone has any further questions, feel free to ask! 13215
Reposted by JosepYsLink ⚔️ An Ys Fan Site @ys-link.net · 25/09/2026NEW on the YsLink blog: I sat down with @kaisaan.bsky.social to chat about the unique difficulties of modding Ys III and Ys V, and learned just a ton more in the process. www.ys-link.net/blog/2026/09... 0206
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026youtu.be/imfaZ_iugzYyoutu.beThe September Wind (12inch Version)YouTube video by Naoya Matsuoka - Topic 000
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026youtu.be/LNinq6Ra0HYyoutu.beAno Natsu No Hi O (2017 Remaster)YouTube video by Naoya Matsuoka - Topic 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The PS1 version is a rather curious port (even if quite cheaply done), but it has some interesting features and welcome QoL changes, such as preventing healing if a character is at full HP. Do note that the physical level is bugged at 40, though, so that would need to be fixed... 030
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If someone manages to hack the PS1 version of The Legend of Heroes IV, I'm willing to port my translation work to it. Of course, my main priority is getting the PC-98 version done, but the script is identical, aside from some manual descriptions and text from the back of the box. 181
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026youtu.be/-9ef1OzD0T4youtu.beHajime No Ippo: Victorious Boxers OST (Disc 1, Track 10) “Shotguns”YouTube video by cheapether 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One thing I've paid special attention to is using oceanic, passive terminology and metaphors to describe the gods, contrasted with fiery, active language for humanity when characters assert their will. This is crucial for conveying the story's duality/deterministic undercurrent. 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There are a myriad of things I'd love to post about and discuss in detail regarding the original The Legend of Heroes IV, but I'm refraining from doing so to avoid dropping spoilers. I've also woven plenty of nifty literary devices and very deliberate choices into my translation. 100
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Leave it to corporate drones to literally trash older games just to shill hijacked remakes or worse modern entries that distort and strip away what made the originals special, degrading and ruining the series to satisfy the creative vanity of people who think they know better. 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Everything from Fusion onward might as well be a different series altogether. It made painfully clear that NES Metroid to Super Metroid was a fluke and that Nintendo has no idea why people liked these games to begin with. Zero Mission is also horrible and just sucks as a remake. 000
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The monsters around Phildin in the PS1 version are definitely weaker than in the PC-98 original. It's sort of understandable that GMF wanted to make it more manageable early on for less experienced players, but the harsh, funky balance of the original is part of the appeal, lol. 110
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't care about views; it just annoys me that all this stuff isn't accessible. The issue lies in whether Falcom will go nuclear again, but given they left every other channel alone, it should be safe. I just don't want to put effort into something and see it gone in a flash without warning again. 110
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's all really cramped compared to the PC-98 version, but the controls and redone UI work quite well... 100
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Bead of Scarlet... The dazzling sweat shed by humans striving with all their might. The vital blood proving a soul is teeming with life. The beautiful tears overflowing with emotion. The Bead of Scarlet... It stands as proof of the myriad passions held by all living things. 100
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ran into a weird bug during the Lucref Open Scenario that wasn't there before, so I'll play around with this port for the time being. 110
Reposted by Josepcleartonic @cleartonic.net · 31/08/2026First release of the Dragon Quest VI English patch revision is up: Info Site: cleartonic.net/dq6/ Download: github.com/cleartonic/d... 16396198
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This matter has still not improved in 2026, by the way. Just look at Falcom Acoustics 3 out there with flattened peaks everywhere and a fake hi-res version that is literally just an upsampled 44 kHz CD master (well, and the album itself just being disgustingly cheap and bad). 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There would still be the problem of this dumb company having over 2 decades of albums with botched mastering, which is something I was slowly working to "fix"/improve for over a year. But neither them nor their lobotomized shills truly care about the integrity of their music, so. 100
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A lot of things I had up were actually self-curated rips that I personally recorded and mastered myself. This included things like the *only* accurate-sounding rip of The White Witch on Sega Saturn and Ys III with Nuked-MD, and I also had plans to redo the Taito PS2 Ys remakes. 130
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's clear this company has no interest in being transparent or properly keeping a good amount of their old catalogue available, so theoretically there shouldn't be any harm. But at the same time, my emotional tolerance is low and I don't want to bother with a pointless endeavor. 150
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Basically, it would only cover games without OST albums, albums/tracks missing from digital platforms (e.g., MIDI Collections, old vocal arrangements, tracks pulled due to plagiarism), third-party ports with unique music/arrangements, self-made recordings, that sort of thing. 150
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I had this thought weighing on my mind, but would people be okay/interested if I opened a new Falcom music channel that focused strictly on old, unreleased/unavailable music? I would actually like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, so please let me know what you think. 6152
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Still no reply, but that was to be expected. Falcom is just the inflexible type. They are just incredibly obtuse and narrow-minded. 020
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026youtu.be/BpqnACGK0Icyoutu.be炭坑節YouTube video by Release - Topic 010
Josep @josepmc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Still waiting for a response from Falcom now that Obon is over. If anyone knows a more effective way to reach out to them or has direct contact with them, please let me know. 020
