Game-compatibility: Japan-only games that may/may not have the Japanese language in it

Created on 30 Apr 2018 · 6Comments · Source: Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility

Description

This issue may not be applicable to the issues tab here as it's meant for reporting compatibility status of software titles. But it may be replicated into a page under the Wiki tab (I cannot do it myself).

Admins, can you please add the purple 'language-japanese' label to almost all or all of the following issue pages below (I don't have the time right now to title them here but you can quickly click on them all). Sure, there is the possibility that some of these games below already have near-full or full English text on-screen (Maybe add the label 'probable-language-japanese'?). Hopefully I have not missed any other page.

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Previous behavior:
Most of the Japan-only games currently listed under the Issues tab here lack the purple language-japan label. So I tried to find for all of them that could potentially contain Japanese language inside the games - i.e. gameplay text, menus, credits...

Current behavior:
Ideally, an admin can make a duplicate copy of this list onto the Wiki section. If they wish I can update this list here with additional possible titles (Or close it down). I'll try to title each of these issue above here at a later time.

Additional Information

As we know, some of these mentioned games may actually have full English intact in the gameplay world and even the menus. But there is always the possibility to detect Japanese text characters in some screens/videos such as the control screen and end credits roll.

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ObiKKa

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I'm going to close this but keep notifications on, so if there are any issues that need updated you can comment them. There should probably be a better mechanism to report this though, maybe putting everything needed to change in the projects tab?

CakeLancelot on 6 May 2018

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Done. I applied the language-japanese tag to all of those issues for now. If you see any more that might need it, or if you don't think there should've been a tag applied to one of them, gimme a shout.

Voxel9 on 30 Apr 2018

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Thanks. Ah, there is an useful hint. If you hover your mouse cursor over each of these auto-linked issue numbers/tags then you'll see the full headline title of these issue pages as white text on black background in the shape of a cloud pop-up!

By checking the much larger region-japan label (Most titles that have that label also have other regional release labels), I have found a large number of more issues that don't yet have this language label:

https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/759
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/694
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/684
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/683

Probably Japanese edition of worldwide releases:
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/748
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/670 (GameFAQs, Wiki, SR)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/655 (See internal image)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/639 (This is confusing as Wikipedia & GameFAQs show there was no Japanese release)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/572 (See internal image)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/570 (GameFAQs, Wiki)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/568 (GameFAQs)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/557 (GameFAQs, Wiki)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/556 (Same as 557)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/549 (GameFAQs, Wiki)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/506 (Wikia)
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/game-compatibility/issues/219 (GameFAQs, Wiki)

ObiKKa on 30 Apr 2018

Should we be adding language-japanese to all of these? The screenshot from the issue for Loons - The Fight for Fame, and the fact there wasn't any signs of a Jap release on GFAQs/W.Pedia, makes me feel as if it doesn't have any Japanese language at all. (The Crazy Taxi and FIFA screenshots are also completely in English; can someone confirm if they're Japanese by default?)

At any rate, I added most from that list which I trust have the japanese language.

Voxel9 on 30 Apr 2018

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Yeah. I know about the Loons issue. I can't find any confirmation anywhere. Maybe check auctions on ebay to see if there were Japanese cases of that game?

Edit: I also found a Japanese edition of this game on TheISOZone's website but the screens don't show any Japanese text (Just sparse English fonts in load screens).
This very ancient Gamespy database page appears to indicate that the game was only officially released in the United States but unreleased in the UK and Japan! But Wikipedia says it was released in PAL/Europe anyway.

I saw that Crazy Taxi 3 (GameFAQs, Wiki) & FIFA have their own Japanese releases.

ObiKKa on 30 Apr 2018

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CakeLancelot on 6 May 2018

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Yes. How do I get into the projects tab? I have seen it before. But it's kinda hidden.

ObiKKa on 6 May 2018

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