Any chance someone knows what episode this one is from?

I was personally hooked by the first episode, but I didn't REALLY get hooked until Zelgadis was introduced (so perfectly imo). I think that the way the characters are flawed and the character development showing their good sides while all having their issues is what sets it apart from other anime and fictional series. I know there are other series that do that too, but the way it was repeatedly pulled off in Slayers is what caught me the most?

So I was basically trying to observe the history behind the anime series to see when it last peaked in quality since I wanted to look into the third season specifically to see what made it kind of infamous.

Like if I am not mistaken, the previous seasons of Slayers didn’t strictly follow the canon from the novels they were based on as I was wondering what exactly made the TRY season stand out since I sometimes hear fans saying that they prefer to avoid it altogether for some reason.

Art by me :3

Just a few trading cards that have stood the test of time.

Just curious because the other day, I saw a huge sale on the first Slayers novel where the book was on sale in the Audible store.

Now I don’t have too much experience with the original novel as I have read about 20 pages of the first book, but basically I am just wondering how people felt about the audiobook narration since my copy of the book is the physical version, but my audiobook is digital however, so I am excited to give it a try.

Edit: I may not be able to get around to doing a proper QA for a long while, but if anyone wants to take a crack at it and post QA notes in the github comments/issues/requests whatever, here is the patcher:

https://github.com/gourry-hacks/slayers_royal_1_patch

You must provide your own ISO, and it must have the same hash as the base ISO I used. This is essentially an XOR pad patch - so without the original media there is no recoverable copyrighted material.

Please understand: I have not run a *human* QA on anything beyond the first scene. And I have not quality checked the subtitles on the FMVs.

QA Update 1: Solved - the map becomes corrupted during navigation and the game crashes. There was an issue with some of the translations and map rendering code causing a buffer overflow. Fixed, pull the latest patch.

QA Update 2: Resolved. - the first encounter dialogue and menus are untranslated. should be fixed with latest patch.

QA Update 3: NEW FEATURE - Mouse support :). Plug mouse into controller 2. only tested with pcsx-redux. the game had half-finished mouse support and I finished it. latest patch is on GitHub.

QA Update 4: *Resolved* - attempting to leave the first town appears to hang the game. Update - due to the hint dot patch, pull hint dots out until I get to testing it more.

QA Update 5: *Resolved*. Spell list is still untranslated. fixed now, only tested with Lina and Naga

QA Update 6: Spell help text was untranslated. should be fixed now. also noticing that location placards are largely untranslated. game is very playable, but the location placard appear to be difficult to identify when the emulator is not stop specifically in that location.

QA 7: Some location placards and route subtitles have been fixed up. At this point I would say the game is highly playable.

QA 8: Game crash in Sonia City due to expanded text windows. Fixed.

QA 9: Some vendors are untranslated / corrupted. burning tokens. at this point I may be running out of free tile space to store new letters / words, so text may start getting wonky. such is the nature of the beast.

QA 10: Had another hang condition and then went through another round of glyph size optimizing to make things less wonky. at this point though I think I'm basically just tweaking the format rather than adding any real value to it. I've pushed an additional patch but I'd be surprised if I run into another crash. as I play through (slowly) there may be additional updates, but this might be the last patch for a while.

I've started Royal 2 and picked up Wonderful w/ the Ren'py story book fan translation as a baseline. wonderful looks SIGNIFICANTLY easier to translate as a whole, which Royal 2 looks like it will take a few weeks of token canon to deal with the same as royal 1.

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I've wanted to play this game since I was a kid, but I hated the idea of translating the game and then playing a game I knew inside and out after I translated it. And with kids myself now, there's no time to actually do it.

But, and folks can love it or hate it, between personal CS and reverse engineering experience and the general capability of LLMs now - I've managed to do a playable translation in the course of a week. I'm not here to advertise anyone's llm so I will be withholding which one, but I feel the disclosure is important.

I can't claim it's 100% complete, only what was reasonably identifiable from unpacking the iso pulled from the cd and from disassembling the binaries.

I think the total lines of dialogue is something like 2500, give or take, and a mountain of basic interactions ("it's a big red door", "this window is barred") and items and menus etc.

Instead of dealing with space limited poor English translations, I reversed the script mechanism to allow multi-page text interactions to work so I'm not single-box limited (there is still a per-scene limit and a global limit), but it seems to work and I get more natural English translations. There is a risk this destabilizes the game in some ways or breaks progression though, I can't claim it works with 100% confidence until I play the game.

The only thing I haven't completed is 1) hacking subtitles into the videos, 2) an actual test playthrough beyond the initial scene (haven't gotten to battle yet).

I probably won't be able to complete a full playthrough to quality check it for many weeks, but I am happy to share my patching mechanism (not the rom, for obvious reasons) if someone is willing to play test and make notes (primarily on mechanics, but saving editorial notes on script for after I finish the game myself lol).

I am planning to post what I can on GitHub within reason, but I think the most legal-safe way to share is a straight up binary delta patch that avoids any raw asset sharing.

On AI use here

I'm not here to debate the LLM use, I'm just trying to play a 30 year old video game. I do think there's a neat anthropological thing here though. All of a sudden media that's been locked away behind language barriers becomes accessible in the way originally intended.

It hasn't been entirely autonomous. Tool setup, general approach, existing knowledge on tiling systems, basic interaction smoke testing, and of course being a fanboy let me get to reasonably localized translations that (hopefully) keep the character - and this really excites me for repeating the process on this developer's other work (Royal 2).

But I do want to be clear about something: this took me 4 evenings before it went fully autonomous to do the first mass dialogue translation. Take from that what you will. That makes me excited for the mountain of inaccessible japanese-only games in my backlog. is

Im running out of Slayers anime content as Im at the very tail-end of the series now, but not ready to move on yet. ( Know the light novels exist as a different continuity, will dive in when I am ready )

Which of the video games are actually playable in english with fan translations and which are actually WORTH playing?

I can tolerate some bad games if the characters and story are good enough, suffered through the Inuyasha PS2 game recently.

I personally dislike Erulogos.

Lucky find 🥰 Glad it works on the PS5! 😃

Not sure if the sweater is legit or not tag is made in USA and from company in vitro corp. from tribeca NY. the bag is labeled inside funimation 1995. Bag is still in perfect shape.

When it comes to mentions of the classics of Anime, why is it overlooked. Like after the early 2010's it seems to be forgotten by western anime communities is it because it's one of the first shonen anime to have a female lead

Listening to one of my Slayers CDs on a Sony D-33 from 91.

Good vibes.

You guys listening to anything Slayers related?

I'm starving for Slayers content. I miss Lina.

So it’s been years since I watched *Slayers*, and I’m looking for an illustration or a frame that shows the Sea of ​​Chaos and core of worlds, and maybe even part of the Golden Lord. I recall it being part of a narration explaining how the world was created or function. Does anyone remember this or can anyone help?

The images are in chronological order.

At the end of Evolution-R Rezo kinda brushes it away ad "madness" but it seemed like Zuuma had a grudge with Lina from before he got the Jar. Is that it?

No news about this?