Three new videos from the Rockman DASH 2 demo, and my final Rockman DASH 2 update(for a while, anyway).

Anyhoo, as I mentioned before, there are 4 parts to the demo in all; the town, the dungeon, the pig chase and Roll’s Close Call.  The videos I’m posting today are from the town and the pig chase.  I’m not bothering with the dungeon, as it’s more or less exactly as it would be in the final game.

I was going to fansub the town video, but there wasn’t much point.  They’re mainly talking about gameplay mechanics; stuff like “Push select to bring up the status menu.” and what not.  The town wasn’t in the final game, though, so it’s still kind of cool to see.

Rockman DASH 2 - Town

For the pig chase, as with Roll’s Close Call, I’ve uploaded two videos.  The first is the subtitled part.  There wasn’t much story in this one, but what was there was cute and funny, so I decided to subtitle it.

Rockman DASH 2 - Pig Chase, with English subs

The full video is longer than it probably should be; I recently found out about the apples you can retrieve from trees by shooting them.  If you throw an apple to a pig, he’ll begin to eat, and sneaking up on him will be easier.  I got a little obsessed with this near the end.  I also became obsessed with hitting an enemy with an apple, hoping it would do some massive damage.  It didn’t. ;-;

Rockman DASH 2 - Pig Chase Full

tl;dr: link at the bottom.

Okay!

Over the weekend, I began working on the second, third and fourth parts of this video.  At that point, a friend visited; this friend brought with him a video capture device he’d had for a while.  Apparently, it was given to him a year ago, he completely forgot that he had it and then he found it while cleaning.

I was a little skeptical at first; historically, I’ve had terrible luck with capture devices.  There’s always something, be it the audio, the video, the codec used, etc.

But it worked!  It worked really, really well.  So, I went and captured the entire Episode 1 video.  Then I cut it up, made it all nice and timed it.  So, to that friend, thanks a lot!

A few quick things, again: This is my first time doing something like this, so I no doubt made some errors here and there.  It didn’t help that, thanks to the numerous explosions and rather loud music, certain parts were very difficult to hear.  So, if you’re watching, and you see that I’ve made a mistake somewhere, please tell me!  I’ll fix it, and give you credit.

There are some other parts to the demo, namely, the pig chase and the town exploration(there’s also a dungeon part, but it’s nothing you won’t see in the main game).  I’ll be capturing and subbing both of those,  as well.  They should be up later this week.

Anyhoo, without further ado:

Rockman DASH 2: Episode 1: Roll’s Close Call, with English subs

Here’s the full demo, without subs.  It’s a little over 17 minutes long, so I upped the compression to keep the size down.  I’ll blame my terrible playing on the capture device’s very slight delay(that, in reality, didn’t affect anything).

Rockman DASH 2: Episode 1: Roll’s Close Call Full Demo, no subs

Long time with out an update!  If you want the video link, just skip all my drolling on; it’s at the bottom.

This is something I’ve been planning for a while, and it’s finally come together(sort of).

Anyhoo, for some backstory, when Tron ni Kobun was released in Japan, it came with a demo disc for Rockman Dash 2.  The demo disc had 4 different sections: One was a (very) small town you could explore that did not appear in the final game, another was a pig chase where you had to capture 3 pigs(I believe the areas here did not appear in the final game, either), then there was a dungeon, and, finally, the most important part was Episode 1.

Episode 1: Roll’s Close Call was a short side-story that dealt with Tron kidnapping Roll in an effort to get Megaman to join her.  For those still interested that haven’t played the first game, despite being one of the main antagonists, Tron developed a crush on Megaman.

Episode 1 was supposed to come with the US release of Tron ni Kobun(called “The Misadventures of Tron Bonne” when released in the US) , but was pulled at the last minute and replaced with a standard demo.  They probably didn’t want to do the voicework or something, but we’ll likely never know.  It was pulled late enough that the instruction manual still made reference to events of the Japanese demo, which left at least one player a little confused.

Anyhoo, long story short, I’ve seen the video around, but never with a full, proper translation, so I decided to fansub it.  I’ll apologize outright for all aspects of the quality; I had to record it off of a TV with a camera, so the sound is a little tinny and the picture looks a little weird( sample ).  Also, this is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this, so I’m sure I made some mistakes; I think I got all of the dialog correct, however, if you happen to notice any mistakes, please don’t hesitate to notify me.  I’ll augment the video and give you credit.

Also worth noting is that this is just the beginning; the other parts will follow soon.

Full Episode 1 video here

One more thing: The timing for this was a bitch; it was much more difficult/time-consuming/irritating than I thought it would be.  I’ve got some other old PS1 games I’m planning on fansubbing(most notably, Tales of Fandom and Ace Combat 3:Electrosphere), but those are going to be put on hold until I can find someone to help with the timing.  If you can do timing, or know anyone who can, please send them my way. : D

All I could think of, when this occured, was “Ganmen”.

Also, it was nice to see Kagutsuchi back, even if only for a few minutes.

I’m posting this more to post something than for any other reason. This comic is a few years old, and it seems relatively unknown. A group started it, and got through the first volume or two, I think, but I wanted to translate this(part of it, for now) as I really love Mine Yoshizaki’s artwork.

Anyhoo, a few other things that should be noted are that I’m still learning Japanese, this translation isn’t perfect and that there are bound to be errors. That having been said, I’d like to thank the people that helped me whenever I had a question about something.

Ah, finally, this isn’t a scanlation. I don’t feel like tearing my copy apart, scanning each page, etc. I doubt anyone will ever find this translation useful, but hey. : D

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