Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20200410231931

Maybe http://alicecottage1989.blog.jp/ or the Japanese wiki have a mention of it, though both seem to cover the media itself more than the surrounding bits. Alicecottage has covered hint disks and audio CDs as well (and lists of magazine I think), so they might mention something.

I guess that's sort of to be expected with Rance being "over". At some point people will sell that stuff more though, magazines really shouldn't increase in value by that much. Then again these are Japanese auctions... I think the hardests things to find might probably be the myriad of PC Monarch games and Vantage master, I actually did manage to find the Sorcerians somewhere. I have a list, but I've stored all of the digital copies on an external drive. Missing the windows Legend of heroes ports as well. That's to be expected though, that era of gaming is pretty much unarchived. I'll probably find second hand copies when I decide to go for them, can't be that rare. Apart from that I should be missing some of the rarer Japanese home computer titles, but I'm not too worried about those. Falcom tends to get more preservation attention then smaller companies. I'll certainly be going for used though, don't want to deal with Japanese Falcom collectors. I imagine those games get a ton more attention.

I had free time and the tools piqued my curiousity, wanted to see how workable it was. Ultimately not that hard, finding translators though... As for the blog, can't say it rings a bell. I remember a blog for some of the older translations, but these were done before mangagamer licensed it. I assume most of those blogs themselves are dead by now. You'd think they'd have some presence on the wiki or 4chan as there aren't many other places this gets discussed. I'd assume they'd have finished something, but I don't think there are much fan translations released after 2016/2017.

A new store would be nice. As for Rance 4.1/4.2, threw it in Virustotal, 17/73 and 15/73. mostly generic warnings. My virus scanner doesn't react and not many big virus scanners react to it. So it's probably a false positive. The little Vampire patch gets 20/73 hits as well, pretty much the same warnings. Probably just the way the program runs that makes those scanners react. It's better if you ask him though, it seems like false positives to me.