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How long have you waited to get it? Was it worth it?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Secret of Mana 2, when I was a kid in the 90'. I knew back then it was released in Japan, and I was waiting for it in Europe. โ€ฆ and it never happened. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I think I've seen they finally translated it recently, as a retrogame, but hey, my tastes and priorities changed a bit in 30 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually the third in the series (Seiken Densetsu 3) and also known as Trials of Mana, released in Japan in 1995. A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch. But the official translation to English wasn't released until 2019.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, indeed, there was Mystic Quest (the european name for the first game) before. Although, it was such a different beast it's only with Wikipedia later that I discovered the two games were related.

A fan translation was actually completed in 1999 and kinda big news so you could have played it way back then if you were able to run a ROM patch

Oh really? Nice, I missed that. But well, I didn't speak English either back then, so it probably wouldn't have helped. :)