Hi. I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered before. I looked through the topics but didn't see anything that answered my question. Basically I am pretty interested in picking 1 or both of these up and this would be icing on the cake considering what the carts allow already but i was curious and thought maybe someone could answer my question. I'm sure a lot of you are aware of the english translation patch that was released for Final Fantasy 6(j) by Sky Renderer and RPGOne. This was a waaaay more faithful translation than what was released here in the NA as Final Fantasy 3. It also corrected bugs and the censoring that was made to the NA game So my question is...I've already been playing this game for a few hours on Znes and it runs fine and is pretty awesome. BUT would it play on the Super Everdrive? Has anyone tried this out yet? I am also aware of the patches that have been released for Dragon Quest, etc. I am almost 99% certain that i will be getting one regardless but this would push it too 100 if they work. Cheers
Yup, translation patched games generally work fine (some patches have bugs that make it not work on real hardware, though I cant think of any of the top of my head). Just patch the rom before you put it on the SD card, as the everdrives don't do patching themselves.
Most translated/hacked games I've tried have worked fine on the SNES PowerPak - good job too since it's the main reason I bought one. It's generally just the crappy ones made by people who don't know what they're doing that screw up (I tried a bunch of Super Mario World hacks and it's really pot luck there).
The NES translations were worse than the SNES for having bugs not found because of emulator testing. SNES even before EverDrive and other flash carts had Copiers to play these translations on real hardware. I haven't found any complete translations that don't work on real hardware such as with the EverDrive. But it's possible there might be but you can probably assume the popular games like Final Fantasy will work fine.
Thanks for the info guys. That's great to know. I'm currently have a bid on Super Famicom via Yahoo Japan auctions so it would be cool to get it and then pick up the Super Everdrive. I also know that SMSpower released a Re-translation patch for Phantasy Star so if i picked up a everdrive i'd like to test that out as well. Although it would be nice to play the translation with FM via real console...I honestly don't feel like shelling out to get the JP Master system or Mark III with FM unit. Months ago i probably would have but I think I am pretty much done collecting stuff now.
I recall reading it's possible to install the FM chip into a MegaDrive/Genesis console to get the music. So you could still possibly get the FM music if you can mod or get a modded MD console.
