im in, where do I sign? ^^
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You aren’t the only one.
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haha you know me so well 
I’d so be down for a Zelda club
The hardest part would be getting access to the Japanese version of the games (legally). iirc you can download the Japanese version of Nintendo Switch Online apps with a Japanese account and then play with your actual NSO account you pay for, but that would mean paying for NSO+ for a long time…
Assuming the language of the games is anything like the manga, something like Ocarina of Time would be around Natively L24
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I started playing Ocarina of Time in Japanese a while a go (and then forgot about it…).
Level 24 sounds about right to me. It’s also not very text-dense compared to something like FF.
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Hopefully this isn’t breaking any forum rules, but in my opinion when a company makes it that difficult to legally use their products, it stops being immoral to illegally use them. Nintendo is a very frequent offender.
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Yup, confirming this is how I play Japanese NSO games. NSO typically has pretty good campaigns towards the end of the year where you get at least a couple of months free – last time I topped up my subscription they had two 12 month coupons for the price of one, which works out to a couple of euros per month.
The Switch games have Japanese built into them, so it’s just a matter of switching your system language. Too bad I just played, well, all of them when I got Switch 2…
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I’m joining too many long running game clubs but I’d probably be down for some Zelda, too. Honestly the real barrier on my side is wanting to get the real hardware to run through my CRT, so I’m paying more for these types of things, but that’s my own fault, heh.
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I would go even beyond that and argue that after 30 year or so these works should be in the public domain.
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Now that big tech decided that copyright laws no longer apply to them, there is finally a counter-force to Disney extending the copyright law every time they approach the current limits.
Can these two wrongs make an accidental right?
In this specific case though, Nintendo is still effectively selling their game catalogue via NSO. It’s not abandonware by any definition of the word – the work remains for sale. The moral choices are buying the games secondhand (and dumping the ROM for private use – expensive and laborious) or paying Nintendo directly for NSO.
If you bought the NES or SNES Classic Edition a couple of years ago, you received legal ROMs for some games from Nintendo itself. Nintendo 京都 offices have the originals. Their various subcontractors don’t have access to these, and have used bad dumps in the past… some of these have ended up even on NSO.
Possibly interesting video posted two weeks ago about various official Nintendo emulators:
tl;dw: miniNES has a really accurate built-in emulator.
Oops, we are quite off topic. It’s interesting to me that they included FF1 in the Western miniNES, but FF3 in the ミニファミコン. I guess Square Enix wanted to boost the sales of the pixel remasters by not including them on the NSO at all?
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Assuming everything works well (PLEASE), I am a big step closer to being ready for Final Fantasy 2 as of today.
My intention is to actually run a modded version of the game on the original hardware (so I can use my CRT) that is the same game but with only bug fixes applied to make broken spells work and the like, but don’t tell anyone
Edit: All seems good on initial tests 
Only issue is that the famicom controller cord length is the most comically short thing I’ve ever seen, practically hugging my TV while playing, but I’ll look into extensions.
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I’m starting to understand the controversial reputation FF2 gets. Playing completely blind, the first few dungeons were ok but now I’m starting to really struggle. I feel like the enemies rank up faster than I do, and I don’t manage to train my stats effectively. I’m hard stuck on a dungeon right now where I just get bullied by the mobs.
I gave in and looked up a guide, apparently I’m doing things really wrong but in a way that’s absolutely not obvious to me and that the the game didn’t even attempt to explain. Time to completely change my strategy, then…
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Filthy preplayer..
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It’s club prep. Mom says it’s ok.
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I’m so grateful for all the work you’ve put in!
I get pretty frustrated when all I do is get murdered in games
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Incredible things are happening on backloggd.
I just wanted to be able to complain in this FF related space about what an awful, confusing choice this is; it was just changed to this. Apparently it’s the fault of whatever game database site they use insisting that when an English version of a game exists they will only use that version of the name/cover even when it is clearly an absurd choice.
Final Fantasy 3 is apparently so good we’re gonna play it twice.
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I was thinking the other day while playing FF2 that it used to be super confusing to talk about these early FF on the English internet because of the renumbering they did for the American release, but these days it’s not much of an issue since Squeenix has long switched to the original numbering in all ports and remakes.
I guess some people didn’t get the memo.
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I wonder why they use 正宗 here. Interestingly, we will encounter this word in FF1 in a few weeks…
EDIT: apparently 正宗 means “authentic” in Chinese.
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Since we’re less than a month away from the end of FF1, I have created the FF2 thread to discuss logistics:
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I just bought FF1 and going to play through the old weeks thread, maybe I’ll get it done before ff2 begins!!
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