Want Fatal Frame 4? No Problem, English translation on the way!
June 16, 2009 by srfto
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.
Fatal Frame IV launched on the Wii July 2008 in Japan and sold approximately 75,000 copies up until the end of the year. While that may seem like a small number, it was the highest selling game in the series in Japan. So why doesn’t Nintendo of America allow the game to be officially released?
The survival horror genre has slowed down significantly over the past few years — gone are the days of Resident Evil and Silent Hill scaring the socks off of unsuspecting gamers. Today’s more action-saturated market just doesn’t seem to have any room left for slower, paranoia-inducing games. And really, that is what the Fatal Frame series is.
The fan translation, which can be found here, is approximately halfway done.
Those who want to play the game are going to have to dish out $70 to get their hands on the physical copy of the game and will have to get the Homebrew Channel on their Wii. It may sound like a hassle to most people, but others just want a type of game they can’t get their hands on anymore, plus a few ghosts.
Here’s an old gameplay video to refresh you of how scary the game is. It feels as if the game is scarier in Japanese because I don’t know what the hell they’re saying… and that just frightens me!
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YESS! Fatal Frame 4 in english! The price is kinda… Oh Well… I know I’ll end up buying it…-_- I remember them cancelling it. I dont think I’ve ever been so upset about another game not coming over. Well, Its like they get a juicy stake on a fishing wire, wave it in front of our faces, watch us get hungry… and then walk away. $%&@!!!
Well since I dont have an advanced game system such as ps3, 360, or the wii. It would hurt me very much. But I’m pretty disappointed to hear that it’s not comming out to the U.S. I was planning on buying the Wii just to get this game now. It make me doesnt really want to support them any more. In my opinin Fatal Frame is one of the best horror game, the only game that require me to play with someone. O well if i ever get a Wii I may have to do alot of things to the Wii to be able to play it. Also ordered over seas.
We are attempting to make it so that the homebrew channel will not be necessary. So far, moderate success!
So wait. You have to buy the Japanese version and then buy the homebrew channel on wii in order to translate it?
Way to go Nintendo. Thanks for the fan loyalty! As far as I remember, these games always sold better in NA than Japan, so it goes to figure they’d sell MORE here….oh well, they did come down on the price of the PS3….hmmmm (since everyone I know already owns a Wii you’d think they’d be trying to drum up more interest in keeping the system games selling….And the whole translation thing is frustrating. Much like Another Code.) Maybe my kid is right- we should just pick up an XBox instead……
ICK Xbox! The Patch is actually almost done… Homebrew is not required (from the last time I checked) and a Japanese Wii isn’t either. So, All you need is a Wii, the Game, the Patch and a good dark room to play it in (plus the SD card to transfer the patch to your Wii)
Don’t worry, I’ve forsaken Nintendo for this just reason. I’m a gamer, a person that lived and breathed games when anybody who played them was considered a “nerd”. But now? Everybody plays them. But this only goes to show how much the casual gamer market has F*@)$% us over, the real gamers! Yes, Xbox and Microsoft are a bunch of grubby little money hogs. But oddly enough, they get my support. Why? Because my Nintendo Wii system sits in my closet, weeping and crying that it will never be able to play a real game. There are a few, but you can easily buy better games for 20 bucks. (Except for Zelda, I’ll bring the Wii out of that dark abyss only to play that game.) Get an Xbox for your kid. Just.. take away the microphone and don’t let him play online, please?
Gotta say I’m very disappointed in nintendo. Fatal frame is a great game and the fourth one would be very interesting to play.. I mean with the wii it make it much scarier.. Although, why cant they bring the fourth one to playstation too? I’m sure they would love another fatal frame to be published under them, with how the first three were a success…
And for that matter, they released Fatal Frame 2 on the first Xbox. So it should be on EVERY damn console!!
where is the homebrew channal?