A user only known only as "user123123" on romhacking.net has just released a full English translation for the Japanese-only released Gameboy Color game Star Ocean: Blue Sphere on January 15th, 2020.

UPDATE: The translation was taken down from romhacking.net without notice or reason, so I uploaded it to my file hosts:

Google Drive: HERE
MEGA: HERE
Torrent: HERE and HERE
The 7-zip password is: romhacking.net

Lunar IPS ROM patcher: HERE

Note: The ROM you'll need for the patch is named Star Ocean - Blue Sphere (J) [C][!].gbc and will obviously NOT be linked to here.

 

[bajol]

not available anymore, wonder what happened...

 

[zfreeman]

It was probably derived from this release. The author of the translation was commissioned by this company to translate the game for a physical release. I assume a stipulation from the commission disbars the author from publishing the work.

 

[fmhugo]

Did someone download the patch before it was deleted?

 

[Jayro]

I still have it on my PC, I'll rehost it when I get home.

 

[player594]

cool

 

[soniccomcisbr]

Waiting for the new link

 

[Jayro]

Waiting for the new link

I'm off in two hours, I'm at work. But it's the first thing I'll do when I get home, no worries.

 

[Jayro]

Link fixed. Uploaded it to my Google Drive. Enjoy!

 

[Sakitoshi]

wow, big news.
I could have played it already since there is a spanish translation, but I prefer gaming in english.

 

[Jayro]

wow, big news.
I could have played it already since there is a spanish translation, but I prefer gaming in english.

I've waited well over a decade for this, so as soon as I saw it, I just HAD to preserve it, and share it with the world.

 

[Paulsar99]

Nice I love the star ocean series but ashamed to say that I've forgotten about this game.

 

[DaFixer]

Great news, i love StarOcean
Thanks for the link

 

[xeronut]

I'd seen some discussion in the Discord about whether or not they wanted to remove it from the site, and knew where it came from.. glad I snagged this from RHDN before the patch was taken down. This and Super Mario 64 Splitscreen rounded out a very nice week for ROMhacks.

 

[seseiSeki]

Whoo!! I've been looking forward to the translation by "mz" from romhacking.net, but the thread kinda died out. I even bought the game about a year ago and now I can finally play it \^^/

Edit: Ok, nvm. It seems to be mz's translation, but leaked and unfinished. I'll wait for the complete product, or learn Japanese ^^'

 

[Silent_Gunner]

This story gives me AM2R vibes LOL!

 

[Jayro]

Oh snap! This made the front page? That's a first for me!

 

[AsPika2219]

Wow! Thanks for translations! Waiting for Romhacking website and AGTP website will show this one anytime soon.

 

[Fugelmir]

Can anyone comment on the quality of the translation? GideonZhi, who is working on another version, claimed it was a haphazard machine translation with slight edits for readability.

 

[Sakitoshi]

I investigated a little about why it was removed and turns out that the translation is not 100% finished and has lots of bugs.
I have yet to play it to confirm if that is true, but I wont get my hopes up just yet.

EDIT: yup, is incomplete.
see for yourself by saving at the first moment you can, reset and enter connect mode.