Super Fantasy Zone

By saulfabreg

Posted by saulfabreg Aug 18, 2024 Updated 1 year ago

Game Name Super Fantasy Zone

Platform SEGA Genesis

Genre Action

Language English

Status Complete

Version 1.0

Release Date 2021-07-12

Downloads 83

Description

With this English translation patch you can play the game “Super Fantasy Zone” for Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive in English (only text and menus are in English).

There are two patches: “superfzone-J-EN-v1.0.bps”, which is for use with the original Japanese ROM file of the game; and “superfzone-U-GenMini-EN-v1.0.bps”, which is for use with the “American” (USA) Genesis Mini / Mega Drive Mini ROM dump of the Japanese game. These ROMs must be in “.bin” format. It also works in ROMs that are in “.md” format.

The game has not been translated, the Japanese version of the game has the English language hidden, it is curious that they did not activate it in the Mega Drive version, but by modifying the “region” of the ROM file from ‘Japan’ to ‘USA’ internally in a hex editor it was possible to have the game in English following a “region change” of sorts.

Now, this translation is in patch form to make it easier for you.

The European version was launched in English, but it runs slow on PAL 50Hz, so this patch is made to have the English version of the game at full speed on NTSC 60Hz.

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MKZ 2025-04-05

But clean "Super Fantasy Zone (USA) (Ja) (Genesis Mini).md" ROM already in English. Why patching it?

kandowontu 2025-04-05

Read the entire hack description for more information.

Adrian Gauna 2025-04-05

It's quite confusing isn't it? I'm assuming the description is explaining about the original Japanese ROM made by SUNSOFT in 1992 which already was in english to begin with even when the language and country settings were set to Japan NTSC-J which makes the first patch redundant. The second patch is for the Mega Drive Mini version that must display the language in Japanese? I'm not sure about the Mini patch as I don't have a Mini, only a real Mega Drive.

MKZ 2025-04-05

I do. And still don't get. “superfzone-U-GenMini-EN-v1.0.bps”, which is for use with the “American” (USA) Genesis Mini / Mega Drive Mini ROM dump of the Japanese game. This Genesis Mini dump already fully in English. All text translated.

brianvgplayer 2025-04-05

I'm confused as well. The JP ROM already plays in English on US systems and the EU ROM is already at the correct speed when the game is played at 60Hz (it wasn't properly optimized for EU). I have the EU cart and didn't see any differences in speed when I played the JP version, both on US NTSC hardware. Maybe the author incorrectly assumed the game was region and/or PAL/NTSC locked?