Over 23 years in the making, you can now finally play the original Medarot video game in English. Originally teased on this site back in 2015, the fan effort to translate the first entry in the franchise has finally reached a playable state. While it’s not entirely polished, a translation patch for the entire game launched earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 13: “Metabee … Rebels?” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 12: “Deep in Space!” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 11: “Rokusho’s Past” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a small update on the upcoming Medarot video game fan translation. The team behind the patch has announced that their initial translation is complete and is now going through editing and more coding. That should include both the menu and story components of the game. Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 10: “A Fierce Battle at the Hot Spring!!” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 9 (the start of volume 2): “A Huge Find!!” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 8: “Dad’s Job ♥” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
Community members Kimbles and Tobias have come together to bring the original Medarot manga to English readers for the first time! Chronicling the events of Hikaru Agata, the first manga series in the franchise was created by Horuma Rin between June 1997 and April 1999. You can read chapter 7: “Rokusho the Samurai!!” at Batoto or embedded below: Read the rest of this entry »
It’s taken nearly 18 years, but non-Japanese readers may finally get to play the original Medarot game. Announced on the Project Rising Beetle forums, a group of fans have pledged to release an English translation patch for the first RPG in the series.
Debuting in November 1997 on the Nintendo Game Boy in both Kabuto and Kuwagata flavours, Medarot stars Hikaru Agata in his quest to become the world’s best Medarotter. After its successful launch, the game then received an enhanced Wonderswan port in 1999. In 2004 it was re-imagined with a different set of characters on the Game Boy Advance. Citing better documentation for ROM hacking, the fan translation will be based on the game’s original release. Read the rest of this entry »
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