I only really know this game for its soundtrack, which I discovered through Panga's laundry basket segment from one of his level making vods, of all things. I wish Yuichi Ozaki had the opportunity to compose for more games after this, and boy do I wanna play it some day. It's one of my favourite video game soundtracks.
It's great to get a series focusing on this. I just started looking into the GB/GBC/GBA library and especially a lot of the smaller Nintendo games that later appeared as assists, music, trophies, stickers, etc in Smash Bros.
I can't believe I've never heard of this game. I always love learning about obscure Nintendo games! I would definitely be interested in playing it if it were rereleased in the west.
The theme of wananbe pirates and point-and-click adventure elements makes me wonder if the devs were inspired by Monkey Island, but I don't know how known western adv games were in japan
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love here. Both Tingle games are pretty clear attempts to revive elements of one-off franchises that got sort of absorbed into Zelda - the first game, Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, has the dustcloud combat and bodyguard system of Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, and Balloon Trip of Love has the party-based puzzle solving and blended action-adventure and point-and-click elements of Marvelous.
I haven't actually played Trip of Love yet (I own it though). It sounds similar though based on your description, I had just never considered it to be a potential spiritual successor.
I have never even known about this game's existence, which is honestly shocking for me, considering how long I've been a Nintendo fan. You've just got a new subscriber, o great chronicler!
This is an excellent concept for a series. I’ve always wondered about a lot of Nintendo’s more obscure IP’s and it’s a shame to see so many of them have sort of flown under the radar.
Hi, there. Thanks for raising awareness of this legend. I've known of this beast since 2008, and did my first rom ha-- er, graphics alteration on Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima, mostly to convert the basic non-kanji text into Romaji, and to turn that basic menu into English. All I really did was prove that this game CAN be cracked, and all it took was NOT using the popular emulator of the time, ZSNES. (It crashes/softlocks when Winky gets the keys on ZSNES.) It worked best on SNESGT in my experience, since it didn't make the ending flicker like SNES9X did. From there, I showed it off a bit on my TH-cam channel, and svambo noticed about 2010. (That video has been removed for reasons.) He apparently knew how to handle the text, but didn't know Japanese. Years later, around spring of 2012, Tashi, the guy most credited with translating the main text (and he certainly did), asked for help. Mostly, I QA'd that translation and figured out details involving the graphics, since I managed to beat that game untranslated. The only line I can say he made up was "Holy clocks, Batman!" as a way to express the fact that there were many clocks in one section. Also, in that early translation before the revision, the phrase "quite a pickle" kept popping up. I also pointed out that the name King Gingamu could mean Gingham, which made sense to me, and corrected him when he translated "bat" as "spider" when it's obviously a bat. So, yeah. QA, and translation corrections. Of course, other translators took on the job of finishing what Tashi started. I don't think I ever got credit, but I do have patches and notes from good ol' Tashi, and I'm willing to share them. (However, I'm not fond of the new translations' ALttP font, especially since the original font was using the double-resolution size.) Most of the new stuff is credited to DackR, if I'm not mistaken, and he did the GFX I couldn't touch. ...though, to be honest, all I really did in the efforts to translate this game was prove it was doable, point out that the compressed graphics (which was considered a giant hurdle at the time by rom people) were only as compressed as Super Mario World's, do some Romaji stuff, and find some unusual graphics, like "iikagennishiro!" (it was a graphic, and it translated into "get your act together") and "Benson Junior" (buried with the GFX of the gravestone). I just stopped because I was more focused on making my own games, and even some of those have been influenced by Marvelous. Oh, and there's a specific doorway near the very end of the game at the top floor that only Max can reach. Slightly above it (since the doorway is on the right side) is a tile that leads to a strange black void that you're not supposed to go to. I know it sounds like a creepypasta, but it's true. It even works in the unpatched version. So, where's the community for this game at, and where are they getting their artwork?
I'm currently updating the translation with DackR, I swapped the font with a more stylish font specifically made for this, and added a full VWF hack. This is just the beginning but things are going to make it even better and then go to BS Marvelous titles. I also provided rips of the early version of Marvelous's story pictures on this video and did some rips of those early assets recently dumped :) I could credit you now since it is based on Tashi & DackR's work.
Great to see more people talking about Marvelous! I absolutely loved the game when I played it a few years ago and would love to see it make a return in some form!
As soon as you mentioned this game on your Source Gaming video I came here and subscribed. I love the 'oddball' and 'one-off' games from Nintendo's catalogue such as this, For the Frog the Bell Tolls, Mole Mania, Sutte Hakkun, Panel de Pon, Joy Mech Fight, Drill Dozer, The Mysterious Murasame Castle and so on. This channel is right up my street.
I'm shocked I never heard of this game before despite how long I was in the Smash speculation scene, where every little game from Nintendo's history would be dug up as potential contender for Smash inclusion. Also, congrats on the new channel; looking forward to more!
keep going bro, i just discovered your channel when looking for reviews/video essays for many fan translated nintendo games!!! like this one lol, this is a niche genre of videos (the translated games) that you should definitly cover and capture that market altogether!!! when i found this video, i was afraid that you'd given up on youtube but i'm glad to have seen another recent video lately!! i love the way you cover videos, keep going man
This was incredible! Please keep this series coming! I’ve heard bits about this game in the past, but there was so much I had no idea about! If Famicom Detective Club can come back, why not this?!
I saw the Spirit in Smash and the designs piqued my curiosity, and now this video has piqued my interest! Might give it a go when I got a hole in my gaming schedule this year.
Man, I love this kind of content so much. The looks behind the curtains at some of the Nintendo IP frozen or lost in time makes me so nostalgic for a time period where I was discovering all kinds of content and experiences beyond what mainstream Nintendo was pushing at the time and developing love for entire video game genres and styles that I had no knowledge of beforehand. You've definitely made a subscriber out of me with this one! Shoutouts to finding out about the KyoAni bit for the first time ever today.
Fascinating video, & bonus points for the FE Cipher in the intro. Particularly interesting that this is where Navi Trackers came from, and it’s nice that it’s left a direct if small mark on Zelda. One minor question: do why know why Aonuma’s name has changed since then? Is Aonuma something like his wife’s surname?
If you want a future idea for this series, then i would recommend checking out Sutte Hakkun (Super Famicom, Satellaview and the unreleased Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions). Really fun puzzler that becomes harder as you progress. It was also Indiezero's first project that began its prototyping phase during a game jam as a Famicom title!
Haha, I played this game for the first time back before the full fan translation was completed and I'm pretty sure in that translation they called him Blue Bull instead of King Bull and it's always just stuck in my mind. It was only when I was looking up his theme to include in the video that I realised my mistake.
@@DeltathRiylaan It's really good. There's actually a new translation in the works by fans to fix a few things and add lots of QOL improvements which will make the game even better. So if your curious, I'd wait for that to come out and then give it a go.
Also this is one of those channels that grows with throw away accounts the numbers give it away. Along with the comments they all sound like the same person.
Love the concept for this series!
I only really know this game for its soundtrack, which I discovered through Panga's laundry basket segment from one of his level making vods, of all things. I wish Yuichi Ozaki had the opportunity to compose for more games after this, and boy do I wanna play it some day. It's one of my favourite video game soundtracks.
It's great to get a series focusing on this. I just started looking into the GB/GBC/GBA library and especially a lot of the smaller Nintendo games that later appeared as assists, music, trophies, stickers, etc in Smash Bros.
This series has a great concept, Never heard of marvelous before this so it’s interesting to hear about it. Can’t wait to discover more!
I can't believe I've never heard of this game. I always love learning about obscure Nintendo games! I would definitely be interested in playing it if it were rereleased in the west.
The theme of wananbe pirates and point-and-click adventure elements makes me wonder if the devs were inspired by Monkey Island, but I don't know how known western adv games were in japan
Really love the content so far! Thanks for this video!
I saw the characters and I totally remember seeing photos of them in Nintendo Power
MARVELOUS ANOTHER TREASURE ISLAND LET'S GOOOOOO
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ripened Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love here. Both Tingle games are pretty clear attempts to revive elements of one-off franchises that got sort of absorbed into Zelda - the first game, Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, has the dustcloud combat and bodyguard system of Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, and Balloon Trip of Love has the party-based puzzle solving and blended action-adventure and point-and-click elements of Marvelous.
I haven't actually played Trip of Love yet (I own it though). It sounds similar though based on your description, I had just never considered it to be a potential spiritual successor.
Very informative video. I had no idea Navi Trackers was a remake of a Satellaview Marvelous game
I have never even known about this game's existence, which is honestly shocking for me, considering how long I've been a Nintendo fan. You've just got a new subscriber, o great chronicler!
So much stuff I didn't knew about before. Like an Intro being produced for Marvelous blew my mind.
Excited to see more!
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This is an excellent concept for a series. I’ve always wondered about a lot of Nintendo’s more obscure IP’s and it’s a shame to see so many of them have sort of flown under the radar.
A very interesting video. I learnt a lot and you made a good point about Nintendo bringing back Famicom Detective Club.
Hi, there. Thanks for raising awareness of this legend.
I've known of this beast since 2008, and did my first rom ha-- er, graphics alteration on Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima, mostly to convert the basic non-kanji text into Romaji, and to turn that basic menu into English. All I really did was prove that this game CAN be cracked, and all it took was NOT using the popular emulator of the time, ZSNES. (It crashes/softlocks when Winky gets the keys on ZSNES.) It worked best on SNESGT in my experience, since it didn't make the ending flicker like SNES9X did.
From there, I showed it off a bit on my TH-cam channel, and svambo noticed about 2010. (That video has been removed for reasons.) He apparently knew how to handle the text, but didn't know Japanese.
Years later, around spring of 2012, Tashi, the guy most credited with translating the main text (and he certainly did), asked for help. Mostly, I QA'd that translation and figured out details involving the graphics, since I managed to beat that game untranslated. The only line I can say he made up was "Holy clocks, Batman!" as a way to express the fact that there were many clocks in one section. Also, in that early translation before the revision, the phrase "quite a pickle" kept popping up. I also pointed out that the name King Gingamu could mean Gingham, which made sense to me, and corrected him when he translated "bat" as "spider" when it's obviously a bat. So, yeah. QA, and translation corrections.
Of course, other translators took on the job of finishing what Tashi started. I don't think I ever got credit, but I do have patches and notes from good ol' Tashi, and I'm willing to share them. (However, I'm not fond of the new translations' ALttP font, especially since the original font was using the double-resolution size.) Most of the new stuff is credited to DackR, if I'm not mistaken, and he did the GFX I couldn't touch.
...though, to be honest, all I really did in the efforts to translate this game was prove it was doable, point out that the compressed graphics (which was considered a giant hurdle at the time by rom people) were only as compressed as Super Mario World's, do some Romaji stuff, and find some unusual graphics, like "iikagennishiro!" (it was a graphic, and it translated into "get your act together") and "Benson Junior" (buried with the GFX of the gravestone). I just stopped because I was more focused on making my own games, and even some of those have been influenced by Marvelous.
Oh, and there's a specific doorway near the very end of the game at the top floor that only Max can reach. Slightly above it (since the doorway is on the right side) is a tile that leads to a strange black void that you're not supposed to go to. I know it sounds like a creepypasta, but it's true. It even works in the unpatched version.
So, where's the community for this game at, and where are they getting their artwork?
I'm currently updating the translation with DackR, I swapped the font with a more stylish font specifically made for this, and added a full VWF hack. This is just the beginning but things are going to make it even better and then go to BS Marvelous titles.
I also provided rips of the early version of Marvelous's story pictures on this video and did some rips of those early assets recently dumped :)
I could credit you now since it is based on Tashi & DackR's work.
@@LuigiBlood Thanks. I look forward to seeing the new translation.
Great to see more people talking about Marvelous! I absolutely loved the game when I played it a few years ago and would love to see it make a return in some form!
Here from Twitter but certainly plan to stay! This was awesome, liked & subbed, here's hoping to see more!
As soon as you mentioned this game on your Source Gaming video I came here and subscribed.
I love the 'oddball' and 'one-off' games from Nintendo's catalogue such as this, For the Frog the Bell Tolls, Mole Mania, Sutte Hakkun, Panel de Pon, Joy Mech Fight, Drill Dozer, The Mysterious Murasame Castle and so on. This channel is right up my street.
I'm shocked I never heard of this game before despite how long I was in the Smash speculation scene, where every little game from Nintendo's history would be dug up as potential contender for Smash inclusion. Also, congrats on the new channel; looking forward to more!
keep going bro, i just discovered your channel when looking for reviews/video essays for many fan translated nintendo games!!! like this one lol, this is a niche genre of videos (the translated games) that you should definitly cover and capture that market altogether!!! when i found this video, i was afraid that you'd given up on youtube but i'm glad to have seen another recent video lately!! i love the way you cover videos, keep going man
Excellent video! I’ve been curious about Marvelous for a while, so I’m really glad you put this together. Looking forward to future chronicles!
I'm actually really interested in playing this game now, a great video!
This was incredible! Please keep this series coming! I’ve heard bits about this game in the past, but there was so much I had no idea about! If Famicom Detective Club can come back, why not this?!
I saw the Spirit in Smash and the designs piqued my curiosity, and now this video has piqued my interest! Might give it a go when I got a hole in my gaming schedule this year.
Absolute quality stuff. Looking forward to watching your other uploads
Excellent video and insights, looking forward to more in the series!
Man, I love this kind of content so much. The looks behind the curtains at some of the Nintendo IP frozen or lost in time makes me so nostalgic for a time period where I was discovering all kinds of content and experiences beyond what mainstream Nintendo was pushing at the time and developing love for entire video game genres and styles that I had no knowledge of beforehand. You've definitely made a subscriber out of me with this one!
Shoutouts to finding out about the KyoAni bit for the first time ever today.
Good luck with the series! I hope to see some more obscure series brought back to the light!
This series sounds right up my ally! I can’t wait to see where it goes, great work!
More videos like these. I rarely find any videos regarding obscure nintendo franchises.
Fascinating video, & bonus points for the FE Cipher in the intro. Particularly interesting that this is where Navi Trackers came from, and it’s nice that it’s left a direct if small mark on Zelda.
One minor question: do why know why Aonuma’s name has changed since then? Is Aonuma something like his wife’s surname?
Really cool video, can’t wait to see more from you!
This is a great video! Keep up the good work.
Fine video, I'd love to see more of this
If you want a future idea for this series, then i would recommend checking out Sutte Hakkun (Super Famicom, Satellaview and the unreleased Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions). Really fun puzzler that becomes harder as you progress. It was also Indiezero's first project that began its prototyping phase during a game jam as a Famicom title!
Yessir, I love this video. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
So.. where did you get the idea his name was Captain Blue Balls? 😅
Haha, I played this game for the first time back before the full fan translation was completed and I'm pretty sure in that translation they called him Blue Bull instead of King Bull and it's always just stuck in my mind. It was only when I was looking up his theme to include in the video that I realised my mistake.
@@NantenJex I was just teasing anyway. I've always been curious about this game. It seems great, though I've never played it.
@@DeltathRiylaan It's really good. There's actually a new translation in the works by fans to fix a few things and add lots of QOL improvements which will make the game even better. So if your curious, I'd wait for that to come out and then give it a go.
🌟 *love the video .*
*Please do more .*
*Edit : the majority of mainstream gaming journalists are trash .*
200th subscriber :O
You sound just like that guy from Source Gaming
Is this a joke?
@@DeltathRiylaan hi, this is Spazzy from Source Gaming. So yes. This is a joke.
@@8bitgallerycom Heh. Just making sure.
Funny, in the timeline that we got the CD cutscenes, Playstation might not exist either lol
Also this is one of those channels that grows with throw away accounts the numbers give it away. Along with the comments they all sound like the same person.