Today is Hideo Kojima's birthday. To celebrate, the long-awaited fan translation patch for Policenauts has been released. Though repeatedly re-released in Japan for PC, 3D0, PlayStation and Sega Saturn, the game has never ventured outside of its country of origin. Policenauts is referenced in other Kojima games and I've been curious to try it ever since seeing a poster for the game in Otacon's lab on Shadow Moses.
The translation, which has been in the works for several years, is available over at policenauts.net. You will, of course, need a copy of the game as well, which can be purchased from many fine online retailers and certainly not downloadable from many not fine purveyors of illicitly traded data.
So, who among you will be taking a crack at this Kojima classic?
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11:40 AM on 08.24.2009
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This is so weird, seriously. For no particular reason I've been playing MGS on PSP recently. It's like 5th playthrough in my life so I thought I'd mix it up a little and google some secrets/hidden things in the game. Of course I read something about a poster and Policenauts. Curious I read up on the game and was saddened that there was no english release
2 days later this comes out.
mind BLOWN
There's a thread http://forums.junkerhq.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1295 regarding running the game on a computer.
I've been looking forward to this game ever since I read the review of Snatcher. I'm lucky to be one of those people who finds out about the project the year it comes out so I didn't have to wait, wringing my hands, for 15 years.
Can you not make a not eboot for your not hacked not PSP not?