I have a foreign language DVD of a rare film called "Fox Hunt"(which was apparently also released as an FMV game with the same actors like Gary Coleman)because I couldn't find a version in English anywhere.
I was looking it up and I'm definitely going to assume it's NOT some Chinese film that popped up on Google. FMV game? Do you know what console? I assume it's not animated? Did it air on TV? I've never heard of it!
Definitely not animated and it did not air on TV, it was released on PC and PS1, there's a playthrough of it:
I was looking it up and I'm definitely going to assume it's NOT some Chinese film that popped up on Google. FMV game? Do you know what console? I assume it's not animated? Did it air on TV? I've never heard of it!
Definitely not animated and it did not air on TV, it was released on PC and PS1, there's a playthrough of it:
Thanks for sharing! Wow, I thought Sega CD or even the 3DO or CDI, not Playstation, normally PS1 (and even PC) is pretty easy to find with the sheer volume of inventory. Even if it has been uploaded there, it would nifty to have a physical copy. Hope an English copy turns up.
"Only German" DVD option is interesting, and makes me wonder if it was more "successful" there, sometimes games only get Euro releases for whatever reason (the Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue GBA game is an example), just because the property/actor/IP is just more valuable there. Even if there is an English translation, which H:RR had! Or alternatively, some European person just had a copy lying around, I know Lost Media will also find lost stuff in random languages, like Out of Jimmy's Head which had multiple episodes ONLY available in Romanian, for whatever reason.
Definitely not animated and it did not air on TV, it was released on PC and PS1, there's a playthrough of it:
Thanks for sharing! Wow, I thought Sega CD or even the 3DO or CDI, not Playstation, normally PS1 (and even PC) is pretty easy to find with the sheer volume of inventory. Even if it has been uploaded there, it would nifty to have a physical copy. Hope an English copy turns up.
"Only German" DVD option is interesting, and makes me wonder if it was more "successful" there, sometimes games only get Euro releases for whatever reason (the Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue GBA game is an example), just because the property/actor/IP is just more valuable there. Even if there is an English translation, which H:RR had! Or alternatively, some European person just had a copy lying around, I know Lost Media will also find lost stuff in random languages, like Out of Jimmy's Head which had multiple episodes ONLY available in Romanian, for whatever reason.
Yeah PS1 wasn't as infamous for FMV games as other 90s consoles but they did have a few, Star Wars Rebel Forces is another one that comes to mind. It's cruel when a lost show is found but it's only available in a foreign dubbed language, I was happy when English versions of Jimmy finally forced last month, it was lucky it was in Germany of all places as they generally aren't known for having English language options but luckily they did in this case.
The long-forgotten Nick show Noah Knows Best is another sad example, it's only available in a foreign dub as only two episodes have been found in English so far and it's one of the only Nick shows to actually have unaired episodes too, hopefully they aired in English overseas somewhere.
I have a Max and Ruby dvd in German. I got it as a gift because my aunt lives in Austria, i understand German a bit but not that much.
Very cute regardless! As another forum user put it here, "just looking cute" is enough get enjoyment out of a product sometimes. Does the DVD have multiple languages? I know sometimes European products will have a LOT of language options which is neat.
Yes, i've remebered it has in English and German. I remember watching the English version since i underdstand English MUCH more than German.
The nostalgia of navigating foreign language media in the pre-modern translation era is quite a journey! Back then, options were limited, from phrase books to fan communities. With today's advancements, AI translation has revolutionized the landscape. Have you explored the convenience of AI translation tools for a more accurate and immediate understanding of foreign media?
The nostalgia of navigating foreign language media in the pre-modern translation era is quite a journey! Back then, options were limited, from phrase books to fan communities. With today's advancements, AI translation has revolutionized the landscape. Have you explored the convenience of AI translation tools for a more accurate and immediate understanding of foreign media?
I'm personally trying to grow up in my own languages through "old fashioned" methods, but I'm sure others here could offer more insight into AI translation. I occasionally do default to Google Translate photos though, if I need something quick. I am fascinated by early language translation technology for sure. For example, that Hamtaro second movie title translation, done via Babelfish (allegedly) translated the title as "Princess of Vision" even though a better translation is "The Captive Princess." You start to wonder what happened there and such.
I believe I might've remembered a DVD in my childhood that probably came from Latin America & was probably in Spanish. I don't remember much of it(heck, I might've just seen the DVD case of it) & it was probably thrown out when or before my family left the old house. Yeah, sounds a bit more unusual than having any Japanese-language media, but I live in the USA & Mexico is just underneath.
Hey, my beloved Pokemon bootleg blog had a writer who actually operated out of El Paso, TX, and as the writer commented: "These little shops are full of treasures like you wouldn't believe (due to the closeness of Mexico)." I know that Mexico isn't as known for bootlegs as Brazil or China or Russia, but they definitely have a market for sure. Very neat story!
My own small foreign language library that I built up when I was younger is sadly mostly gone due to parents pressuring me to "grow up" (bleh).
Well I live in Tennessee, which is a bit more Northern(but not really close to Canada either(and even then, Quebec is on the far Northern side of Canada), so finding anything in French would also be quite unexpected), so how it ended up at the old house is anyone's guess(likely it came from a flea market which might be how I used to have a DVD of that CGI Strawberry Shortcake movie & a CGI Care Bears movie). We also had a few VHS tapes around, but I don't think I saw most(about 70%?) of them(the only ones I know I've watched as a kid were a tape with Disney's Aladdin & another that had some Ren & Stimpy episodes), so there could've been one also in Spanish, but like that DVD, the details are hazy.
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Back in the late 2000s-early 2010s, I was gifted my first MP3 player to listen to music. Since it was a cheaper option for my parents to buy at the time. I do not remember the model it was unfortunately, but it was small and it was colored black. It was as big as half an iPod (5th generation, look up iPod fifth generation and cut it in half, that's how big the MP3 player was). It could've been one of the Coby mp3 player models, but so far my searches on that have turned up nothing. I do own a Coby mp3 player, but it's bigger than this one and blue. It's still in my possession. But anyways, back to my first one.
I remember very specifically this player had a couple of videos preloaded onto it. Forgive me, this is where my memory gets a bit hazy. I may be misremembering some facts, as it's been a long time.
I don't remember the title of the first video file, but it was a music video. It was a music video for a band, I assume based in...Spain? The language used sounded like it's from South America/Spain/Mexico (one of these). I have no clue on what the lyrics could've been, but I still vaguely remember parts of the music video. I think one of the scenes was of the main singer, a guy, in the shower. I remember him doing a small punch to the shower wall as he sang. Towards the end of the video, I remember a dance off scene with the band and backup dancers. The melody of the song is quite difficult for me to describe, but I remember a prominent "bum bum bum" instrument part. It would go like: {bum bum bum} [singer will sing a lyric] {bum bum bum}. That's pretty much all I remember.
The last video file I remembered was the same band in what looked to be a behind-the-scenes sorta thing. This was probably where their names and band name would've been shown, but I can't even recall what their names could've been. It was all in a different language, and it left younger me confused as hell. Honestly, to this day, I still wonder what the hell these videos were doing on there. Is random media being on MP3 players a trend?
I have been trying to find this mp3 player, but sadly, I've been unable to track it down. It's frustrating, I just want this mystery solved, and I don't even know if I still even have it. I really hope my parents didn't toss it away or anything, I'll be pissed. Last time I used it, it still was working and functional. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it!
My uncle from Germany gifted me the limited edition Nintendo DSi Pokemon console, the one that came with the Pokemon: Black and White game, it had a very cool Pokemon print on it, it was amazing! The problem was that I was really young and the game was either in german or english, and english isn't my first language, so playing the game was a bit confusing. There was also a part that i couldn't get past by and whenever i asked my cousins to translate it for me they would say something like "oh it says that you have to visit the doctor before entering the area!" and that wasn;t helping me cause i never knew where the doctor was, SO my only solution was to reset the game, pick a new pokemon at the beginning of the game, play until i got stuck again, reset the game and repeat it until I got sick of it.
The best part about all of this was the fact that my cousins also had DSi's so we would always borrow games from eachother! I remember borrowing and playing a game about Hannah Montana, a Cars game, and probably my favourite: a game with fairies which I forgot the name of (no it was not a Tinkerbell game), but I do remember the artstyle and some of it's minigames, such as a potion making minigame and a fairy race one. I was not able to make much progress in neither of these games because, again, english is not my first language.
And it went like this for a while until I lost the console one random day and I haven't been able to find it since. But I still have Pokemon's game case still!!!
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that even a lot of the "popular" games can be more limited in the languages they offer. Not all languages are "super" global and so just defaulting to English or French or Modern Standard Arabic just makes more financial sense. In Japanese Pokemon Silver, we got stuck on the guy who kept trapping us in a city and trying to sell us those weird candy bars haha. They were so confused, English guide to the rescue!~ And wow, that's pretty crazy to keep resetting until you could "figure it out." I imagine you couldn't just look it up online, or wouldn't have known what to search for?
And aww, all of those sound super cute and provided a lot of great memories! Funny enough, when I tried to do that cool "Topps" thing where you chart your most iconic games, I had to leave a lot of games out sadly since they didn't offer a lot of options for licensed games!
Platformers, shooters, etc. would def be easier than text based games to progress in if the language wasn't yours. It's no wonder that so many heavy text-based games take decades to get localized abroad-it's often too much work for too little profit for even the bigger companies.
I ASKED MY GRANDMA ABOUT IT AND SHE FOUND MY DSI!!!!!!!!!! Apparently it was at her house in a drawer lol, now all that's left to do is to order a DSi charger online and find my pokemon game! I think my brother might know where it is, hopefully i can find it!! :D
Hey, my beloved Pokemon bootleg blog had a writer who actually operated out of El Paso, TX, and as the writer commented: "These little shops are full of treasures like you wouldn't believe (due to the closeness of Mexico)." I know that Mexico isn't as known for bootlegs as Brazil or China or Russia, but they definitely have a market for sure. Very neat story!
My own small foreign language library that I built up when I was younger is sadly mostly gone due to parents pressuring me to "grow up" (bleh).
Well I live in Tennessee, which is a bit more Northern(but not really close to Canada either(and even then, Quebec is on the far Northern side of Canada), so finding anything in French would also be quite unexpected), so how it ended up at the old house is anyone's guess(likely it came from a flea market which might be how I used to have a DVD of that CGI Strawberry Shortcake movie & a CGI Care Bears movie). We also had a few VHS tapes around, but I don't think I saw most(about 70%?) of them(the only ones I know I've watched as a kid were a tape with Disney's Aladdin & another that had some Ren & Stimpy episodes), so there could've been one also in Spanish, but like that DVD, the details are hazy.
Ah interesting! I would also assume flea market, unless Ebay was a thing then or you had foreign family (I have relatives who live directly in Europe, so we have some foreign media products hanging around one family house here in the USA). Spanish is really the only major other language spoken basically everywhere in the USA. I think Tennessee does have a decently big Arabic community somewhere, so I would think if you found anything in a thrift shop, it would be in that language. French is mostly New York, Louisiana, and California and a handful of towns/cities close to Canada I think.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that even a lot of the "popular" games can be more limited in the languages they offer. Not all languages are "super" global and so just defaulting to English or French or Modern Standard Arabic just makes more financial sense. In Japanese Pokemon Silver, we got stuck on the guy who kept trapping us in a city and trying to sell us those weird candy bars haha. They were so confused, English guide to the rescue!~ And wow, that's pretty crazy to keep resetting until you could "figure it out." I imagine you couldn't just look it up online, or wouldn't have known what to search for?
And aww, all of those sound super cute and provided a lot of great memories! Funny enough, when I tried to do that cool "Topps" thing where you chart your most iconic games, I had to leave a lot of games out sadly since they didn't offer a lot of options for licensed games!
Platformers, shooters, etc. would def be easier than text based games to progress in if the language wasn't yours. It's no wonder that so many heavy text-based games take decades to get localized abroad-it's often too much work for too little profit for even the bigger companies.
I ASKED MY GRANDMA ABOUT IT AND SHE FOUND MY DSI!!!!!!!!!! Apparently it was at her house in a drawer lol, now all that's left to do is to order a DSi charger online and find my pokemon game! I think my brother might know where it is, hopefully i can find it!!
Oh sweet, let me know how it goes! Would love to see the game
Oh, on another note, I own some random Japanese ESL games on DS that I found at a secondhand store. Nothing too special-one was honestly a ripoff (no, I don't need to learn how to sound out "WOMAN" or "CAT") but like the other one is actual "academic language" (like what you would see on an American SAT or ACT) so that one's been a bit more successful for me. And yes, I do use them to learn the way that's opposite of their intention (IE: use them to study JAPANESE instead of English).
I have some Japanese Pokemon cards from the 90s if that counts
That works! Did you ever try to play with them? Did you get them online or somewhere else?
I used to be next door neighbors with this guy that I went to high school with and he was the one who gave them to me since we both used to collect Pokemon cards. I've moved since then but I still have my old binder lying around somewhere haha
