Slayers Universe Slayers RPG

It's been half-attempted by many groups in the past, but after keeping tabs on a particular recent addition to the fold, RPGOne, I think we finally have a group that may stick it through to the end.

I'm talking about the Slayers RPG, of course. The game for Japan's Super Famicom that never saw an english release. This is probably one of my favorite things in regards to emulation - translation hacks.

But every time I'd found a group working on this title, they'd stop after a bit of translating. Hacking in and testing streams of text can be very time consuming and oft frustrating...

So when I stumbled across RPGOne's site (I admit that I visited due to their Final Fantasy 2 Wonderswan patch) and saw a Slayers page, I was leary. It seemed like another hopeful promise that might not get carried out.

But, I continued to monitor it on a semi-frequent basis, hoping to see some progress. And now that I've seen it, I'm bubbling with anticipation.

Click on the link if you haven't already, and you can see their current progress - which sounds great (table and font hacking is always the sign of a serious translating group), but even more tantalizing is the screenshots linked on the right hand column... It almost has that professional look you'd see on a real released version.

Can't wait until I can get that baby going! Somebody go volunteer to translate their script dumps, will ya?