seki108

I don’t know how to speak or write Japanese, but it is one of my goals someday.

First, decide which one you want to play: the official English GBA game, the official English DS game, or the unofficial English translation of a PS1 game.

Then download an emulator (and maybe other things) corresponding to it
GBA (http://vba.ngemu.com/downloads.shtml), DS (http://www.ndsemulator.com/), or
PS1 (http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/epsxe.html).

Then, download the rom of the game: just google “Super Robot Wars/Taisen xxxx English rom” (x is the name).
GBA (Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 1 or 2)
DS (Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier)
PS1 (Super Robot Wars: Alpha Gaiden)

I don’t know if Alpha Gaiden is already translated or if you will have to download a translation patch as well. Probably one the Original Generation games would be easier.

Now you should just have to unzip/extract the rom files. There are many easy to follow guides online, and you will probably need a file extraction program like 7zip or Winzip. I may have skipped a step somewhere, but everything is pretty easy to download and there are plenty of FAQ’s online.

Personally, this is the best pic so far. Boob fondeling..cant’ look away. And it gets to skirt right on the NSFW line, I think, maybe.

One of the only games that have been unofficially translated into English is SRW Alpha Gaiden for the PS1, but I haven’t tried to download it yet because of school work. From the videos, pretty much everything is translated, so that may be a better starting place.

Of course, playing it on emulators takes away one of the best details, at least for me in D. I can’t get the replay (new game +) feature to work, which lets you replay the game with all your upgrades. Also note, that technically emulators are illegal, but what isn’t illegal on the internet nowadays.

Anyway, I wish you luck. Just write if you have any questions.

However, many play these games on some kind of emulator. For example, three of the games that I’ve played (D, A, and J) have been played on a GBA emulator. There are also DS and PS1 emulators but I have not really tried one of them yet.

Of course, this doesn’t really help the language barrier one bit. For me, I started with D since it contained some of my favorite series and found a partial english translation patch. This would probably be a good place to start. It translated the unit names, effects of the spells/senien, and the menus; the items, pilot names and script weren’t translated but it did affect my gaming fun. Once I memorized the placement and rhythm, I just had to look at online guides for some translations in other games.

I’ll start with the bottom question first. Sadly, there is little to no chance for most the SRW games to ever have an official English release. This is because of the numerous copyrights involved with every series in the game, which isn’t as hard in Japan because of most are owned by only a few companies; only one game has ever had all the series licensed in the US.

Two games that contain only original characters has been officially released in the U.S. One is for the Game Boy Advanced and the other is for Nintendo DS.