Update January 29th 2024 - New Year / Same Sean

Howdy friends,

I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and New Year's! 2023 feels so far away already, but that's the ever-marching passage of time for ya!

Anyway, since the last update. I managed to get out Obscure Vol.15, then two weeks later somehow deleted Obscure Vol.15 off my channel (they even put up a big warning that says, 'if you do this, the video will be permanently deleted. are you sure you want to do this?' and I still somehow deleted it) and then reuploaded it again, so that was fun. I also dropped the 2023 PS1 Fan Translation update as well which is always a good time to put together. Some really cool games in that one so definitely check that out if you're looking for some fun Japanese games made recently available in English!

As for the future, the plan is still the same. The early parts of the year are going to be taken up by the Capcom mega project. I'm probably going to hibernate and go radio silent on everything but Patreon while working on that video, because with 70+ games, it's going to need a lot of focus. But I'm very excited to dive in and get started on capturing each title. So many all-timers in this one!

Before that kicks into gear though, we've still got Japan Only Vol.15! Which I'm currently getting started on. The wheel has chosen the four games and just by reputation alone, I think we might be in for an all-timer episode. Four very different games, each one with star potential! So, that should hopefully make for a good watch.

As for smaller updates worth mentioning. I've appeared in another podcast this year. I chatted to the lads from A Link to the Cast about the channel, Robot Wars, Limp Bizkit, and Robbie Williams, so if you're into any of those, it's worth checking out.
(Orla listened to it and said it was good, and she's very hard to please.)

You can find it on Spotify, or on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/AuvoV4RDJUQ?si=fPBDgA5jil0qJZdc

I'm also continuing to slowly update my spreadsheet of every PlayStation game, and I've made it to the letter H in the Japanese library. Over 1000 games in and we've only just made it to H, crazy!

You can check the work in progress here if you like: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p3rcUuONYK8gh3PSUgBNNs5161-LsxOn9TzVnin2LEI/edit?usp=sharing

Also, it looks like a translation for Germs dropped a couple of days ago. I'm not sure if this is same patch that was announced in 2022 or a different one? But hey it's playable in English finally!
You can check that out here: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7187/

Anyway, that's it from me for now! Thank you all so much for your continued kindness and support and I hope to make 2024 a good year for people who like learning about weird old PlayStation games <3

Much love,
Sean

(Ps. Enjoy the cats)