SS1 Japanese System Shock version
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20. August 2014, 21:01:29
As pointed out by Briareos_H there apparently used to exist a Japanese retail version of System Shock with translated in-game text and English sound. (original source)#0
This comes as a surprise because to my knowledge only the English/German/French version was known before.
According to Google translation the author of this "Blog of a man who was tired of life" gives this information on the Japanese version:
Quote by http://d.hatena.ne.jp/BCC/20130113/p1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxr1Jv7DPEReleased In the very fine and after 1996, sales representative for Electronic Arts Victor , Inc., Japanese transplants in charge of Infinity, Inc. (listed in the previous 2000 work history).
Box, CD, manual in the DOS / V it was written with the version, but in practice PC-98 version of the hybrid version of it has been recorded on the CD together with.
The following differences between the English version
- Installation program is written in Japanese. The DOS / V is not displayed correctly unless the environment, and garbled can continue to set as it is good if it remains the. Sound card , install movie image quality, unlike the English version of some set of destination joystick is not set.
- Game body Japanese fonts are Japanese localization without built etc.. However, the game to run CD-ROM MSCDEX. requires EXE it is necessary to also incorporate. ": \ -t Cdrom MOUNT DD": (D found in the \ if to run in DOSBOX CD-ROM to be mounted by entering the drive path) CD-ROM be to put the.
- VESA1.1 compatible video card is required. The error is displayed in the start-up before and no different from the English version.
- Basically CD-ROM -based version. The movie has high-resolution audio, the log.
- Game resolution can be selected from the three stages of the 320 * 200,320 * 400,640 * 400. The default is 640 * 400 setting. 640 * 480 story that was in the English CD version.
- Display English, the characters only alphanumeric notes that you can be described Japanese, to map all voice.
- Localization I think can of that's enough, but (and bossy than necessary) the tone of SHODAN is different from the image a little.
Acknowledged by: Briareos H
20. August 2014, 21:19:31
Jesus, the interface help screen looks even more daunting/terrifying in Japanese.#1
20. August 2014, 21:32:18
Awesome box art.#2
Strange this went unknown to Western SS fans all this time...
20. August 2014, 23:05:19
So does anyone speak enough Japanese to point this guy here and politely ask him to give us a copy?#3
RocketMan?
//Attached slightly cleaned up version of the boxcover, because afaik this is the largest we have of this motif, which was also used as a poster.
21. August 2014, 12:57:42
He also shows some footage#4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOGNzez1u18
What search engines does the people in Japan commonly use?
google.co.jp? or something else? Mabye there is more information about this release, but I lack the knowledge to find it.
I have never seen a glimpse of this in the "western" parts of the internet.
Quote by Kolya:
The guy is on youtube and steam and seems to speak english. So maybe someone can talk to him there?So does anyone speak enough Japanese to point this guy here and politely ask him to give us a copy?
RocketMan?
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