Beyond the Camera's Lens, a fan translation site, has released their patch for Fatal Frame IV today. All survival horror gamers can rejoice, and be afraid at the same time.
The team behind the Fatal Frame IV fan translation has been toiling away at their pet project, and they've come to announce that they're now 99% done with the text translation. They'll soon be releasing the first patch to allow gamers around the world a chance to play through this installment. No homebrew or mod chips will be needed to play this translation patch. A copy of the Japanese version of the game, an SD card, and the patch is all you need to play it in English. Even more interesting is the fact that the team now plans to work on an English dubbing for the game as well. Optional, of course. Yes, this group of gamers will be putting together voicework for the game. It's not too often you see a bunch of fan translators going the extra step to do voicework!
Survival horror fans were more than a little disappointed when the overseas Fatal Frame IV release was canned. Fortunately enough, there is a fan translation underway for those who need their horror fix.
Kombo Writes: Immediately following the news of Fatal Frame IV likely never receiving a US release, we got in contact with Nintendo and asked several questions concerning the statements made by Tecmo about Fatal Frame IV, and whether or not more factors were at play in the decision. It's been a week now and we got an answer back from Nintendo on the subject.
IncGamers contacted Tecmo, who confirmed that the horror sequel will not be making its debut on Wii in Europe.
Seems Fatal Frame IV is finally being released outside of Japan. Now we will be clear Tecmo has not made any announcements about release dates or even it being released in Europe but it's hard to argue with the above print of the game in a magazine.
From the article: Gaming Target has recently heard from a video game industry analyst (who wishes to remain nameless) that Fatal Frame IV is coming to America in 2009, but it may not be released as Fatal Frame IV. Why any publisher would throw away the cult of popularity the series has gained over the years is questionable, but the desire to start fresh, and make Fatal Frame more than a cult series, could be the impetus behind that decision.
Reggie confirms that the rumors about Nintendo publishing Fatal Frame IV are untrue. More info within
A lot of impatient folk imported Fatal Frame IV when it came out in Japan this week, rather than wait around for someone to announce a US ship date, and they may be regretting it. The game shipped to stores with some crippling bugs unfixed. Most of the bugs are documented at the NeoGAF forum, the most severe causing the game to freeze and lock up. These sort of errors tend to be fixed before North American releases, but Tecmo has apparently released some extremely buggy DLC content for Ninja Gaiden 2 in the US.
Computerandvideogames.com writes Nintendo of Japan has updated its release schedule for the next few months, confirming the date for Fatal Frame IV, along with a number of titles including Wario Land Shake. Fatal Frame IV is the latest in the series known as Project Zero over here and is being developed exclusively for Wii. We like that a lot.
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