Romancing Saga 1 translation

[Magma MK-II]

At that time it was more trouble than it was worth. They'd take months or a year to translate a game, at which point it would already be obsolete. Plus RPGs weren't really popular with console gamers at that time.

[KingMike]

Sounds like the bugs in this game would've been another issue.

And maybe some of the same reason the official localization of Final Fantasy II (NES) was canceled. They decided that game's system (having stats effectively auto-changed, raised AND LOWERED, based on your characters' actions) was too much for Americans to handle.
Maybe we got the GB SaGa games due to not much competing games available. (kinda of like why we would've gotten Mother 3 in English if it came out on the N64, but when it was moved to the GBA, Nintendo didn't want to localize the game anymore.)

[Magma MK-II]

For the two Final Fantasy games it was mostly a case of timing. The first game was localized very late in the NES's life, and the SNES and FFIV were just around the corner, making it pointless to translate two already obsolete games instead of the current one on the beteer hardware.

[Bregalad]

They decided that game's system (having stats effectively auto-changed, raised AND LOWERED, based on your characters' actions) was too much for Americans to handle.

Only FF2 lowers the stats. Square learned from their errors and fixed mostly the system for Romancing SaGa, the stats only increase.

[KingMike]

For the two Final Fantasy games it was mostly a case of timing. The first game was localized very late in the NES's life, and the SNES and FFIV were just around the corner, making it pointless to translate two already obsolete games instead of the current one on the beteer hardware.

Also, translating four games at once (FF2, FF4, Legend II and Adventure) would probably have been a huge task for Square's US branch at that time (seeing how they were lucky to put out even a couple games per year).
(or so I assume they were close together. Square's pamphlet from SCES 1991 announced both FF2 (NES) and FFL2, while in the end the other three released games seem to have been released weeks apart in October-November 1991)

[Jaza]

Hey there. I'm curious is there a way to make 1.2 works with the non [!] version of the game. I cannot find the 1.1[!] anywhere SNES9X says bad checksum. 1.0-1.1 patch worked when I tried a while back.

[Thirteen 1355]

Hey,

I noticed something peculiar in the Romancing SaGa 1 translation's intro (backstory) reel. It reads:
"Before the creation of mankind, when the world was young, three wicked gods existed in this world.

The eldest brother, Death...
the younger brother, Saruin...
the youngest sister, Shirach...

They led terrifying monsters into war to challenge the humans and the lord of the gods, Elore."

How does this exactly work? How are these three gods able to challenge the humans when mankind does not yet exist? Is there something I'm misreading, does mankind refer to something else?

[Tyrantnyx]

Hey,

I noticed something peculiar in the Romancing SaGa 1 translation's intro (backstory) reel. It reads:
"Before the creation of mankind, when the world was young, three wicked gods existed in this world.

The eldest brother, Death...
the younger brother, Saruin...
the youngest sister, Shirach...

They led terrifying monsters into war to challenge the humans and the lord of the gods, Elore."

How does this exactly work? How are these three gods able to challenge the humans when mankind does not yet exist? Is there something I'm misreading, does mankind refer to something else?

I think it's supposed to come across as saying the gods are older than mankind before transitioning to them going to war with man. It does feel like it could've been phrased a bit better.