Today marks a pretty big day for the Front Mission brand, both officially and for the fans!
Officially, Front Mission Dog Life & Dog Style 09 was just released today. And in predictable fashion, this omnibus volume was gobbled up by hungry fans! Even Kyle, who’s back in Japan for a while, raced to get his copy before it was sold out at a bookstore…and that’s just today! It may not be selling faster than the earlier omnibus volumes, but Front Mission is still beloved by the Japanese! And the series is still on-going with Young Gangan so a tenth volume is guaranteed…and it’s all but assured that the story will continue into 2013!
And for things that are not official, we have finally released Patch 2 for Front Mission 2! And as a bonus, we have also released Prototype Patch 1 for Front Mission Alternative! That’s right, the team hasn’t forgotten about this nifty genre spin-off! Patch 2 for Front Mission 2 pretty much covers the most our programmers have been able to decipher in terms of re-inserting back the text assets. You can read our earlier blog posts on this matter…I’m not rehashing it again! And the Prototype Patch 1 for Front Mission Alternative is bare-bones, but hey, it’s a start!
Our development of Front Mission 2 from our last prototype build is worth a shout because for whatever the reason, all of us decided to really go for it and get things done. While it doesn’t match our heroic 4-month effort to work with the 1,000+ page tome for bases section in Front Mission 5 ~Scars of the War~, nearly a month’s worth of working with at least 100 pages of dialogue was heroic enough.
There’s a few other new updates, but none of them really compare to the above two patch releases. On a parting note, this day and month is significant in the Front Mission universe. Why? Because it’s the day that the Alordesh coup d’etat in Front Mission 2 officially ends! Neat coincidence, eh?
8 replies on “June 25, 2102, meet June 25, 2012!”
That was quicker than I expected! Congrats on the milestones and on getting this leg of the FM2 project done!
Already 4 days and only one comment? Shame on you other 649.998 people! Give these people the respect they deserve….
*several kowtows later*
Have to resist urge on downloading this patch…still need to finish FM1st UCS Scenario…..
Anyways keep up the good work and thanks a lot!
Congrats! Didn’t expect the next official patch for Front Mission 2 out so soon after last month’s prototype build release! Makes me realize this patch would have been released much sooner if your team handed the work off to more caring fans, or just kept plugging away without handing it off to someone else!
Anyone else using a hex editor to read the script?
@Hex
Why would you want to read the script with a hex editor? The text assets in Front Mission 2 aren’t exactly positioned like a script for a theater production where it flows in chronological order. (and trying to read through that mess is, well, no fun) Have you tried applying the patch to your physical copy of Front Mission 2?
@Tyler
Still waiting on whether I’m approved for a credit card, then I need to buy a physical copy of Ultimate Hits, which will hopefully still be available by then, then I need to wait for it to arrive, etc. I’m just too eager to play this in english and complete the series :p I gave up on the hexedit option pretty quickly anyway.
Good Job!!!
Thank you for translating Front mission 2, hope this translation has the same quality of the front mission 5.
hello,sorry if this question is already repeated by another anon.do you have any plan to translate the DS Border of Madness 🙂 ?