![]() Technically, you're not supposed to know who's speaking right now, but he's going to introduce himself in the next few lines, so I'll just tell you it's our hero, Jonathan Ingram.Ī group of police officers trained as astronauts was charged with providing security for those expected to immigrate to the colony in 2013. The government won't start controlling our lives until like 2014! Class, why don't we put hard dates in our Sci-Fi? That's right, because then years later when the dates pass, we look like George Orwell, and he died wrong, wrong, wrong. ![]() See, Konami? This is why we don't put hard dates in our Sci-Fi. Mankind had completed its first space colony, Beyond Coast. It's quite relaxing considering what you were about to see probably involved giant robots and/or sexual deviancy. Apparently, back in the day, this is how a lot of movies started when you went to see them in the theaters in Japan. The game opens with this disembodied woman's voice, who tells you the above. (Is it bad that I wrote that without referring to my screenshots or anything?) If you prefer watching the video to reading screenshot stuff, search ahead for a *** Previous video covered up to here *** marker like that. Yes, Policenauts understood English and had that font on board, so there was no good reason they couldn't have.Ĭonsidering the nightmares we faced dealing with all the proprietary compression crap Konami did to fit all this shit on 2 CD-ROMs, I fucking hated it when they did wasteful crap like this. Note too, that the text that scrolls over it was stored as an image of white text on transparent background, meaning it just wastes a ton of space rather that encoding the text as. ![]() ![]() After Act 2, I'll post the whole thing if you're interested, since it spoils up to there. We didn't know exactly how to "translate" it, outside of fixing it, but since none of us particularly wanted it in there, Marc asked me to remove it completely. It's a small executable Konami threw into the PSX/Saturn versions that gives this Engrishy summary of the Prologue, Act 1, and part of Act 2. If you wait at the intro screen long enough, you see this: ENGLISH.BIN. ![]() I guess in order to be informative, I should tell you that this logo - which I call The Vitruvian Astronaut - is based on an actual logo found on EVA suits.īy adding a gun, the viewer's gone from thinking about astronauts to some portmanteau of "Police" and "Astronaut." Maybe we'll even find out what that is!īefore we start the game, I want to show you something that was excised completely from the English ROMhack: I, for one, would like to applaud Konami for their bold graphic design choice entitled: "Embossed Logo on Bathroom Counter-Top." ![]()
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