La Valeur box, manual, and disk scans

Very nice. Thanks for posting the scans.

Thanks Tom!

I have updated GenMSX. Compared to what we had this is a huge improvement as the images we had were postage stamp size. And it turned out that the complete cover image we had was not even from the MSX version, but due to its tiny size it was impossible to notice.
I also noticed the game supports MSX-Music, so I also added it to the DB.

I have to protect DJANGO a little bit here, often his translations are very short due to the limited space for text and can therefore not reproduce the content accurately. A workaround would be to introduce a non-proportional character set, which would surpass the usual amount of work. An example of this is the Oasis translation of SD Snatcher, which is very well done.

Yeah, I do understand the technical limitations, but... well, I worked as a professional translator and editor for video games for almost 9 years, so my standards are admittedly pretty high. And one thing I learned during that time is that even when working within limitations, you can deliver a really top-quality translation if you play the game to completion first so you fully understand all the context clues and terminology, try to understand the nuances of the dialogue, try to get a feel for the personality of each of its characters, etc. Limited space restricts you greatly, but with enough effort and attention to detail, it's still possible to do a really stellar job.

In a lot of Django's translations, I feel as though they're a first draft -- someone just rendering the Japanese into basic English on the fly, without having really played through the game first, but then stopping there, without going through and editing it afterward to ensure that all the gameplay clues still come through properly, all the story elements are presented in a smooth and believable manner, all the dialogue sounds natural, etc.

And again, I am by no means trying to put down Django here, as first draft translations are tremendously important, and represent the first step toward bringing a game to people in another part of the world that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Ultimately, the only reason I'm discussing any of this at all is because I was asked to justify why I'd consider working on a fan-translation for a game that's already been fan-translated -- but just as the Project Melancholia version of SD Snatcher greatly improved the experience of playing SD Snatcher over the previous fan-translation, I'd like to present the above-listed games to people in the best light possible, because I feel they're all games that deserve more attention than they get. (And only started with La Valeur, potentially, because I may have found a programmer willing to put the effort into it due to its relative simplicity compared to the other titles I listed.)

So, yeah. I hope I haven't offended Django, or anyone else. I'm also not trying to brag and say "I'm a better translator!" or anything -- I just really like those games, and am willing to put in the time and effort to really dig deep into them, *if* I can find help from people who'll handle the back end of such tasks.

-Tom