Download on PC-E Question

[kitkit.com]

LOL! I love this thread.

[maxchainsplendid]

Download 2 intro translated:

[PepsimanVsJoe]

You can't be fucking serious...

[Turrican]

#1 in next year Top 25 of All Time.

[ultrageranium]

Has anyone translated either Down Load game, or is there any sort of guide/FAQ that has translations?

Apologies for the big necrobump, but I actually picked this game for my first attempt to complete a PCE shmup and while the fucked up engrish is of epic grandness, I was wondering if the inter level scenes in Japanese carried similar depth.

Admittedly, the title of this shmup is the worst word to Google for

If anyone knows of an obscure patch or guideline, it would be so fantastic!

[Koa Zo]

Apologies for the big necrobump,

Really enjoyed reading this thread again.
A link to a translation patch would be fantastic.
These will always be a couple of my favorite games.

[Aleksei]

"population is fucking growing", does it really say that or was that a pic edit?

[Ed Oscuro]

"population is fucking growing", does it really say that or was that a pic edit?

I'll give you one guess! But here's a hint: What do the other pics in the post look like?

[Aleksei]

ooks liek shait matey

[RegalSin]

I think both Downloads really suck. Never understood why they get mentioned so often in PCE circles.

I will admit, Download speaks to me directly, and should be considered apart of the Snatcher, Rise of Dragon, and other Blade Runner inspired or related series.

However I played a bit of Download 2. I will admit, I did not get it, considering the hero from the last series was captured and that is his brain, the enemy, or maybe an Eisenstein character.

Bottom-line, two was more story debt then shooter, did you know their is a secret code that allows players to have SD/chibi/Caricature type sprites? This game just keeps getting better and better.

Sad part is that I and a couple of people had a "Download" experience with all the new anti-privacy laws. I guess many people back then had problems during the time of this game creation. The only difference is that your soul/mind is not literally caught in the web, and or net.

Speaking of odd disappointing sequels, the art of the first game made more sense, from the zoom in, to the characters profiles, amazing, it is like synchronicity is taken place through time. I know it is a 100X100 screen but it looks like something animated out of "Bubble Gum" Crisis or something along those lines.

The second game look like they going down the road of Akira, or Shin Megaten. It is like they got big headed, and just decided to go with the flow. IDK, just my opinion.

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About the OP, question, back then during


In Japan, they do have annoying jesters, but the finger, and using profanity is not one of them, because unlike the west, they have the "Eros" ( spirit/etc/god like figure, of sex ), and is apart of their religious values. Similar to how the western ( I forget Africa, or Europe ) "Lilith" ( "Evil" lustful spirit who children are doomed, and plagues men?? ) and Rome had "Aferdidties" ( goddess of love ), and India has the "Yakshee's" ( facilitators and encourages of sex and thus reproduction ) . Their

The bottom-line is that fuck, and the finger do not have the same meaning or effect.
Their are tons of different, jesters. The one most of here are familiar with is the wide, ugly eye, with the stick out tongue.

Then of course their is derogatory terms, but of course people in various cultures have all kinds of ways to show cruelty towards each other, that is beyond sanity welcomes.

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Another thing was during the 70's and 80's many people did not really care about violence in media at all. So hearing profanity being used was not a big deal, compared to calling a person a racist remark. Even when talking about cultures we get into that same argument, as I can see the argument riding in another section of this forum.

It only became a big deal once, people started to take AIDS ( Straight Rich girl caught AIDS from lover ), seriously, and a whole new set of citizens was imported, to replace the pro-civil rights citizens. In short, you have to understand the peace of mind, people had before we were born, or while we were children.

uncensored items, in the media only became a problem once people started to complain, a topic which has appeared, in even some comic adventures. Basically people wanted to blame this, and said that "Looney Tune" was not that.

The PCE was lucky to be born in a time, when everybody had freedom of expression, and nobody could really careless unless you started to use terms that people knew. For a Japanese viewer, it meant nothing to them, but release this thing on an NES, or even SEGA CD, it would have lite up the headlines, was insanity.

In short people just have to realize, they need to mature and have self-control. If they do not want their kids being exposed to something, just say no, and let them sneak it, inside their home like the old fashion way.

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Otherwise this game was jawsome, speaking of which such fowl language has been edited from "Shadow Run SNES" ( differnt story and game from the MD ), and the same could be said, about the re-airing of tv programs, where many lines and scenes are cut short, after the first airing. Just a whole string of censoring.

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And de fuckity, phuc, phup, phuching, phakk, phucc, too phooozee yah, phac phac.

[ultrageranium]

Yes, so to sum-up there are two obvious interesting elements in this game:

- the cultural appropriation of the cursing 90s Hollywood alpha male by Japanese game makers, which looks rather funny from a western perspective, moreso nearly 25 years later. Note that cultural appropriation works both ways and it's obvious that Japanese looking characters and any Asian words or idioms appropriated in the west, often with mistakes will have the same effect.

- the fact that curse words are used so naturally feel rather odd today, and is a living proof how everyone has been internalising the process of rationalisation in which game subculture has been slowly shaped by all sorts of hit and miss ethical codes of conduct, very often embedded as different legal codes.

As for the peculiar cyberpunk storyline, I would so much love if there was some sort of ROM translation bounty, to know more about it. I'm now at third stage (slow progress, playing in between other things) and while "download" might not being the first cyberpunk influenced creation, it's an old enough one to become super interesting to look back at it today.

[BIL]

Reminded of this auld gem the other day.

I love it!

REAL RECOGNISE REAL

Spoiler

Never underestimate one man's desire to fuck this up. (｀w´メ)

[Lander]

Ahhh, that's the stuff

It's like those I HATE THIS FUCKING JOB AND SHINJI IS A MAN WHORE text blocks that get datamined out of a ROM years down the line, only full-treatment.