Posted in Captain Rainbow on June 6, 2012| 1 Comment »
So says the team at Kirameki when talking about the difficulties of translating the comedy dialogue of Captain Rainbow’s Hikari into English. You can read the full interview with Kirameki over at gamestm.co.uk and learn more about the translation process behind Captain Rainbow.
Oh and while you’re at it, have a look at this round-up of the new Wii U games that were announced today. There’s an unlikely connection to Captain Rainbow right at the bottom.
Posted in Captain Rainbow, tagged Captain Rainbow, Fan Translation, Kirameki on May 26, 2012| 2 Comments »
Nuff said, really.
The awesome team over at Kirameki has completed its translation of Captain Rainbow and announced that it expects to have the patch ready by Christmas. This news was actually announced over a month ago but, as usual, I was asleep when it happened. Still, I am damn excited. As are quite a few people actually. Just check out this guy on Kirameki’s comments page, who says
ARE YOU STILL TRANSLATING CAPTAIN RAINBOW. I WILL JIZZ ALL OVER EVERYTHING WHEN YOU RELEASE THAT SHIT
Lovely stuff. In other Kirameki related news, I heartily recommend that you follow the team at its new Facebook or Google+ pages. This group isn’t just working on Captain Rainbow, folks, it’s dedicated to a handful of cool games and seems to generally have interesting stuff to say. Get following.
Posted in Captain Rainbow, tagged Captain Rainbow, Fan Translation, skip on February 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »
English screen by Kirameki
Most of you are probably already aware of this but it looks as though Kirameki’s Captain Rainbow fan translation is nearly finished. Under a new team of hackers and editors, the group has made fantastic progress, enough to be able to release a trio of preview videos.
Interestingly the old progress counter has now been removed, presumably to prevent false expectation and to take a little pressure off the volunteer team, but it really does look as though we’ll finally be able to play an English version of this absolutely brilliant game very soon. No thanks to Nintendo.
Actually, with Nintendo UK blazing a localisation trail with The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles and Pandora’s Tower this year I wonder what might have been if Captain Rainbow had been included in Operation Rainfall. Then again, the infamous Birdo storyline may have always torpedoed its chances.
(PS – There’s quite a bit more Lovedelic-related news but I’ll save that for a separate post. Captain Rainbow is special enough to get his own)
Posted in Captain Rainbow, tagged Captain Rainbow, FAQ, Guide, Solution, Walkthrough, Wii on April 26, 2011| 6 Comments »
Lovedelic Life presents, in association with NTSC-uk, the one and only English language walkthrough for Captain Rainbow.
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Posted in Captain Rainbow, Giftpia, tagged Captain Rainbow, Giftpia, skip, Translation on March 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
Good news! Indie translation group Kirameki has finally completed its English translation of Skip’s Giftpia. The translation can be found here, and though there’s currently no patch so you can play in English on your telly, Kirameki is eager for any interested hackers to contact them. Text is better than nothing, of course, and I for one will be taking advantage of the translation, with the GameCube on my TV and the script running on my iPad. And if I get a bit stuck, well there’s always NTSC-uk’s handy guide.
Now how about that Captain Rainbow translation that Kirameki’s also working on? A member of the group got in touch with me and said, “Sadly, captain rainbow is still ongoing.” Doesn’t sound too promising does it? Well, until it’s done, NTSC-uk (again) has you covered with a nice little guide.
Posted in Art Style, Audio Inc, Captain Rainbow, Route 24, Sakura Note, skip, tagged Akira Ueda, Art Style, Audio Inc, Captain Rainbow, Followars, Kenichi Nishi, Rotozoa, Route24, Sakura Note, skip, Space Agency on June 21, 2010| 1 Comment »
In amongst the chaos and excitement of E3, I’ve been combing through all the news to see if there have been any Lovedelic-related announcements. Alas, the current financial state of the games industry, leading to the near collapse of publishers like Marvelous, and the fact Lovedelic-style games hardly ever get announced at a big tradeshow, means that there was nothing to report. I’d almost given up hope and then a bunch of little tidbits arrived at once. Here’s a round-up…
Posted in Captain Rainbow, Chibi-Robo, Giftpia, tagged Captain Rainbow, Chibi-Robo, Fan Translation, Giftpia on May 5, 2010| 12 Comments »
Good news comes courtesy of waxingerratic. Kirameki, a fan translation group I’ve never actually never heard of before, is working on English and Italian translations of Captain Rainbow. And why not? This one of my favourite games, despite the fact that I don’t understand a word of it, and I’m sure it can only be better in my native tongue. Shame on Nintendo for not releasing it worldwide and good on Kirameki for picking up the baton.
It’s still early days for the translation, around 25% of the English script done so far, but there is an official page for the project here. The most encouraging detail, as far as I see, is that the patch will work much like the recent Fatal Frame IV translation, requiring only an SD card to work. No modified hardware and no copied/patched DVD needed!
In addition to this fabulous news, Kirameki is also running a poll, allowing readers to suggest what the next project will be. There are tons of great games in the possible candidates, but of most note to this site are Giftpia and Welcome Home Chibi-Robo! I voted for Giftpia and I’m pleased to see that it’s currently leading the polls… Although I would love to see a translation of SGGG/Segagaga some day. What a totally original and Lovedelic worthy game from Sega.
And while we’re on the subject of fan translations, has anyone heard about the old Moon: Remix RPG Adventure translation lately? The forum seems to have closed and the webpage hasn’t been updated. Shame.
Posted in bit Generations, Captain Rainbow, Sakura Note, tagged Bargains, bit Generations, Captain Rainbow, Play-Asia, Sakura Note on February 2, 2010| 3 Comments »
Play-Asia is having a huge sale to celebrate Chinese New Year. 5000 items discounted! And there are a few Lovedelic school games included. Here’s what’s left.
Sakura Note – £25.21
Bit Generations: Boundish – £6.26
Captain Rainbow – £12.57 [EDIT – As Douglas points out, Captain Rainbow has already reverted to its whopping £41 price tag. Ouch! I hope you all picked it up while you had the chance]
I particularly recommend that you pick up Captain Rainbow if you don’t already own it. It’s an absolutely essential Skip game and I can’t believe how cheaply it’s being sold. Personally, I’ll be buying Sakura Note. I’ve been putting off getting the Audio adventure in the hope that an English translation would be announced, but it doesn’t look very likely at this point.
Posted in Captain Rainbow on December 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It’s finally happened! Somebody has written a full English language walkthrough for Captain Rainbow, which should come as quite a relief to those of us who got stuck on the more text-heavy puzzles. The guide was written by the same chap who wrote the GiFTPIA walkthrough. So you know you’re in good hands.
PS – The image to the left is from Eegra’s Captain Rainbow Fan Art Festa. Which I should have linked to ages ago, not least because it includes something silly that I scribbled down for them.
Posted in Art Style, Captain Rainbow, Editorial, Lack Of Love, Lovedelic, newtonica2, Route 24, skip on December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As is becoming common these days, I’ve completely neglected this blog as real life gets in the way and countless Lovedelic happenings come and go. Here’s everything you should be aware of, that I can remember.
NEWTONICA2
The big news of course, is that Route24 has released Newtonica2 on iPhone for the bargain price of just 59 pence. I picked this up a while ago and I’m really liking it. The game is completely different to the first one and is well worth picking up in addition. I’d kind of liken it to ‘space pool’, in that you have to knock a ball (space chick) into a hole, by bouncing him around the screen with gravity emitting cue balls. All in all it’s a really good puzzle game with a fiendish difficulty curve.
LOVEDELIC MEDIA WATCH
If you enjoy reading about Lovedelic and its offspring in places other than this blog (I wouldn’t blame you) then check out the following. GamesTM magazine has recently run a couple of substantial features. One in issue 76 took a look at the characters of Captain Rainbow and compared them to their retro counterparts, while another in issue 77 interviewed good old Kenichi Nishi about the making of LOL: Lack Of Love. In other news, Patrick Alexander, at the delightful EEGRA, has finally transcribed the second part of his Nishi/Skip interview and it is ESSENTIAL that you give it a read. As usual, Patrick asks some smart questions and gets some equally smart answers.
MORE ART STYLE GAMES
As I may or may not have reported before, Skip’s Art Style series is set to hit DSiWare in Japan just before Christmas, and details of the first two games in the series have just been announced. One is called Aquario and the other is called Decode. Follow the links to scope them both out. Then pray for a worldwide release in 2009.
That’s all for now. Go away, have a great Christmas break and we’ll hopefully share some more Lovedelic moments in the new year.
Ash
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