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 Policenauts is a cinematic adventure game written and directed by Hideo Kojima. Initially released for the PC-9821 in 1994 as a spiritual successor to Snatcher, it was eventually ported to the PlayStation 1, though it never received a release in America... until now. Policenauts.net’s translation project team, including Something Awful’s very own slowbeef, have been working long and hard to produce a workable patch for the game containing an English translation. The English release, started in 2002, is set to be released 8/23/2009 at 12:00PM EDT. "Beyond Coast. Where the heavens meet the Earth." The year 2010. The construction of the world’s first space colony, the O’Neill Cylinder type Beyond Coast has catapulted mankind into the true space age. Technology has evolved with the development, and mankind is slowly moving towards the stars. Jonathan Ingram, an LAPD police officer (and Mars Mission astronaut), is selected to participate as part of the colony’s first space police team, known as the Policenauts. The year 2013. While testing a prototype Extravehicular Mobility Police Suit, an accident occurs, and Jonathan is sent flying out of control into deep space, disappearing seemingly forever. Two and a half decades later, Jonathan is found alive in his space suit, preserved by its cryogenic processes. Returning to Earth, Jonathan finds that the world has passed him by. Things have changed. People have moved on. His wife, Lorraine, has remarried, leaving him all alone... and out of a job. However, it seems something strange is afoot on the Beyond Coast. Lorraine comes to Earth to ask Jonathan to help find her missing husband, leading Jonathan deep into a web of intrigue, full of vice, betrayal, and danger. "Why don't you show me?!" "Good answer!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ1FpvVZeVA "Space is a harsh environment." Policenauts English Patch v 1.00 Science Commentary (Do not read until after completion of game) "Hamburgers aren't the only thing I love..." I’ve had the distinct privilege and pleasure to be part of the beta testing for this game, as well as something of a science consultant for the team (I wrote the technical notes for the release (read them AFTER finishing!)). I must say that you guys are in for a great experience, well worth the effort that slowbeef and gang has put the effort in. It has tons of Kojima humor, tons of hidden stuff (you can literally play the game dozens of times without finding all of the little things hidden in it), and a great hard sci-fi plot to boot. It also includes what is quite possibly the best puzzle included in any game in existence. No joke. Spread the word! Get excited! Send slowbeef your praise and thanks! Send your accolades to Marc and the rest of the Policenauts translation project! Zorak fucked around with this message at Aug 23, 2009 around 17:53 |
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| # ? Feb 09, 2010 20:53 |
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Zorak posted:The English release, started in 2002, is set to be released 8/23/2009 at 12:00PM EDT. I'm hoping this is a typo or I've missed something. Cool announcement out of nowhere, I'm hoping this is as good as Mother 3 was.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:29 |
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I can't wait to try it. Hopefully Sony or Konami won't act like jerks and make you take it down or anything. Kojima should be honored.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:30 |
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John Wilkes Booth posted:I'm hoping this is a typo or I've missed something. Noon today. Zorak fucked around with this message at Aug 23, 2009 around 05:43 |
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Can I say I'm really loving excited to see this come to pass?
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John Wilkes Booth posted:I'm hoping this is a typo or I've missed something. Don't worry, you did. 12:00PM E: Beaten. Been waiting a long time for this release.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:31 |
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Oh ha, the poster/wallpaper threw me off I guess.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:31 |
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Goddamnit, between the new Layton game, Batman and this, there is almost too much good stuff coming out on the 24th/25th. Great job Slowbeef! To think this all started out as a LP! EDIT: oh poo poo oh poo poo it is out tomorrow Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at Aug 23, 2009 around 05:34 |
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What's the recommended PlayStation emulator these days? Any special plugins etc. needed?
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:46 |
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this is the best day of my life i love you slowbeef
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TheRedEye posted:What's the recommended PlayStation emulator these days? Any special plugins etc. needed? pSX is the easiest emulator to use. There are no plugins or complex configurations. Just set your resolution, configure a controller, pop in the game and play. ePSXe is still the best emulator that uses plugins. Pete's OopenGL2 plugin is the most technically advanced plugin that does all sorts of extremely fancy stuff that's completely pointless in an entirely static 2D game like Policenauts. Otherwise I recommend Pete's P.E.Op.S. plugin for easy to use software rendering: http://www.pbernert.com/html/gpu.htm
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 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, I need scissors! 61!
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 05:59 |
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The Policenauts translation is finally done, awesome! I can't wait to play it. Policenauts came out in 1994, KOTOR 2 came out in 2004. This means that Team Gizka's KOTOR 2 expansion will come out in 2021, right? Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at Aug 23, 2009 around 06:14 |
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Oh my god. It's finished?! I have to go get the import copy of Policenauts I have on my shelf, I imported it like a year ago (got these cool stickers too!) when I heard this was making headway. I love life.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:18 |
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Oh man! I've been waiting so long for this I completely forgot about it. I'm going to have a great week. Kudos to the wallpaper designer.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:26 |
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Policenaut posted:Oh my god. It's finished?! 'Sup import buddy. I'm gonna rip mine, patch it and convert it to eboot to play on my PSP to play on the go. 
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:29 |
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 I can't wait. There's never enough Hideo Kojima batshit craziness and cooky pseudo-science.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:30 |
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The recommended emulator is actually ePSXe, PSX has some issues with running it. The best way to play the game, though, is on a PS1. There will be a readme included with the release that will help you through patching/ running the game, including recommend emulators, settings, so forth.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:31 |
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Will this work on Vista 64bit?
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:33 |
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Oh my God, I've been wanting to play this game for as long as I can remember. I've been following the project for literally years, and now it's out in less than a day? And not to slag on any of the other people working on it, but everybody raise a mug or something to slowbeef, who helped get the ball rolling on this after a year long stumbling block.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:34 |
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Crappy Jack posted:everybody raise a mug or something to slowbeef, who helped get the ball rolling on this after a year long stumbling block. Funnily enough, he's in a bar right now.
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Mr Crossing posted:Will this work on Vista 64bit? The only problem I've had with running ePSXe on Vista x64 is that you'll need to exempt it from DEP if you put it on whitelist mode. (If you don't know what any of that means, then don't worry.)
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walldial posted:Funnily enough, he's in a bar right now. Somebody buy him something and I'll paypal you back. No joke.
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Technogeek posted:The only problem I've had with running ePSXe on Vista x64 is that you'll need to exempt it from DEP if you put it on whitelist mode. (If you don't know what any of that means, then don't worry.) I don't so awesome. Will be playing this 
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:42 |
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In the Let's Play thread slowbeef said that the mods said it was kosher to post the Policenauts ISO (i.e. it's not  ). Does that still stand?
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:42 |
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gently caress yeah! Congrats to slowbeef for finishing this up. Looking forward to playing this bad boy.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:47 |
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Well, I was not expecting this.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 06:50 |
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So can I ask nitpicky technical questions in this thread when the patch is posted? 'Cause I have a controller that's supposed to be a perfect PSX/PS2 PC controller and the analogue sticks respond horribly. I wanna say I'm not using the right joystick driver or something but I'm not sure.  Saving that for later though. This is exciting and I am very excited for POLICENAUTS FFFFFFFFFFFF
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 07:00 |
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Just wanted to say that the patch is NOT compatible with the PSN version.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 07:06 |
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This is amazing. I love you all, and appreciate all your hard work. [more details once patch is posted and played]
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 07:23 |
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Wow, awesome. My thanks to everyone who worked on this, I know I'm really no one of importance, but still, I really appreciate it when people get things like this done. I'm looking very much forward to trying this tomorrow.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 07:34 |
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Second post updated with a project team member listing, as well as a cast list. If you're familiar with japanese VAs you may pick up a few (Redwood's VA rules)
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 08:41 |
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A lot of Kojima's cinematic style developed directly in Snatcher and Policenauts. It's a shame Konami ignores any franchise that's not Castlevania or Metal Gear Solid. I'd kill for a remastered/reanimated blu-ray or something.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 08:52 |
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OMG OMG OMG I've been waiting on this, Snatcher is one of my fav games of all time and I'll be finally able to play this gem.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 09:51 |
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Wait.. what.. it's done!? Holy poo poo. Massive kudos to everyone involved. The current generation of PS1 fan-translations have really been above and beyond in terms of quality. And y'know what? It's only noon here, but I'm breaking open a fancy belgian beer - cheers, Slowbeef, and all the other crew on the good ship Policenauts.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 11:20 |
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awesome! been following this project for so long, and i can't wait to finally play policenauts. Thanks to the team who made it possible!
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 11:27 |
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Mr.Radar posted:In the Let's Play thread slowbeef said that the mods said it was kosher to post the Policenauts ISO (i.e. it's not
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Which emulator is recommended for playing this with? I've got epsxe setup at the moment because of it's mouse support but I seem to recall a bug that only affected certain emulators? Either way I look forward to finally being able to play through this game. Cheers to everyone involved!
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| # ? Aug 23, 2009 12:10 |
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I can't believe that I going to play Policenauts before KOTORII restored.
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