Just remembered I never got around to mentioning it and a quick search through shows no one else gave folks here a heads up so...
Last year, around December, AGTP mostly-finished up their
Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden translation! The mostly finished isn't anything to worry about; more occasional hiccups with some peoples machines or game copy than anything with the translation itself, and AGTP's forum goes have cleared up most of the problems anyway. It's complete, fully playable, and
entirely delightful (Caveat: If you like the SRW games.).
It also marks the third SRW game AGTP's translated, with the SNES
Super Robot Wars 3 and the
original GB game preceeding it!
Does that sound like a bad commercial? Well, probably; I'll admit to being a bit of an AGTP fan, though their work largely speaks for itself. So far as the giant robot scene goes, beyond those SRW titles, they've also translated... well, a lot.
Just to list, their other completed mecha-related games include:
Accelebrid (A raceing type... thing. I've never gotten around to playing it, heh.)
Assault Suits Valken (A platformer/shooter released (and butchered) in the US as "Cybernator" which is pretty awesome.)
Cyber Knights 1and 2 (JRPGs, mostly, but with some interesting twists -- including giant robots.)
Front Mission: Gun Hazard (Akin to ASV above... but better. An SNES platformer/shooter/RPG made largely from win and awesome.)
Future Soldier: Lios (Strategy game; sorta' kinda' like Fire Emblem or its kin, just without the RPG parts and mix and match customization of units.)
Gundam Wing Endless Duel (2d fighter. Notable as being the only one of these I've ever managed to play that involved giant robots and
didn't largely suck eggs. It's pretty impressive, for its time.)
Jutei Senki (Strategy again. Bloody difficult the time or two I tried it, but fairly interesting none the less.)
Liberation Army (This hasn't been mentioned here before!? Top-down strategy/rpg/shooter/thing. It's freakishly awesome and totally worth a playthrough for anyone who's fond of giant robots and fairly massive (Often 2-3 hundred units on a single map) battles.)
Mobile Fighter: G Gundam (2d fighter. See the comment besides Endless Duel? This is one of the ones that suck eggs.)
and finally
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079! (SRPG lite, mostly. Supposedly fairly close to the series's plot, it's pretty easy and seemingly rather short for an SRPG. Still, it's not too terribly horrible and, hey, giant robots.)
Whoo! With that, I do believe my <insert appropriate time period> giant robot gaming service announcement is finished, though hopefully y'all folks have ran across some of these before. In any case, enjoy!
<aside>
Though part of me does wonder if it's entirely appropos to post all these
other games on GH's forums. On the other hand, giant robots! Any other awesome mecha gems out there?
