A talented fellow named riderr3 has successfully managed to partially translate the rather cool ASMIK Japanese Playstation port of Sid Meier’s Civilization 1 into English and released a patch. This is very cool as obviously I did a tour video on this version a while back and had to use a phone camera translator app to have any idea of what was going on, but now that is no longer needed! For the uninitiated the PS1 port of Civ1 is a special unique isometric 2.5D almost ‘Civ2 like’ looking version of Civ1 filled with FMV and new graphics that was never released outside of Japan. I imported a near mint condition physical copy of it from Japan a few years back and muck around with it occasionally so I’m very happy there’s an English patch for it now! I’ve tried to message riderr3 to see if he could be tempted into doing a translation patch for the similarly rare and unique ASMIK Japanese port of Microprose’s Master of Magic called Civizard (which I did a partial picture translation of at GameFAQs) but sadly didn’t hear back from him of course as that would be too good to be true lol!
Here’s the patch and links to tools for applying it:
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/5677/
Here’s some screenshots of his English patch in action (normally all this text is in Japanese):
Here’s the video I did a while back on the SNES and PS1 ports:
youtu.be/xZ9pNNOsr2A?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY
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