Illusion City English translation
幻影都市 · Gen'ei Toshi
MSX Translations' complete English localization of Micro Cabin's cyberpunk RPG for the MSX turbo R, with a new variable-width font and a fast-loading cartridge version.
What's translated
Everything on all eight disks: the intro, the main game and the ending and credits, plus an alternate version of two disks whose scripts differ. The team also translated the manual for its backstory and item and spell names, checked the other versions of the game to enrich the text, and translated graphics where needed, including an English subtitle on the logo.
What's new
- New print routines with a lowercase variable-width font, coloured speaker names and multi-colour battle text.
- A larger post-battle window so no message is cut off.
- A cartridge-image version that puts all eight disks into one ROM: near-instant loading, no disk swapping, and saving to flash memory on supported cartridges. A floppy version is included too.
- MIDI music support on both 256KB and 512KB turbo R machines, plus fixes for small flaws in the original.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the original disks, following the instructions on the team's page, which lists the exact disk versions it expects. The game needs an MSX turbo R (or an emulator set to that model); for the floppy version, saves go on a separate user disk.
Credits
MSX Translations: 232 (translation and research), Max Iwamoto (reverse engineering, coding, graphics and fonts), KROP, SHADOW and Vampier (proofreading and testing).