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A new blog about toys
that aren't TransFormers

Now live, but not updating very often!

(what is it with me and blog backlogs?)

(As of) October 2021
Good grief! Two updates in a single year? What can this possibly mean? Well, it's not really much of an update, I just figured it was worth adding a link to my nascent YouTube channel. Also stuck another SAM Coupé demo up on the Downloads page. Probably not going to be much more in that vein for a while, as I'm trying to focus my efforts elsewhere.

The Policenauts section still hasn't been properly updated since I first created it (more than 20 years ago!) and you'd think that, with a copy of the English-patched version now in my possession, the COVID-19 lockdown presented the ideal opportunity to get it done... But I've had other things on the go - I've made a fair amount of progress learning Ren'Py and have a handful of visual novels 'on the go' and have been working on a couple of games for the SAM Coupé (since 2018, to be fair). I've also got some professionally-printed pixel art screen planners available on my Etsy store in small batches, as I figure out how postage is going to work.

I haven't even played Policenauts - or, sadly, anything on the Saturn - for quite a while now, though I am still tinkering with an overhaul of the section devoted to that game. In English, Policenauts is everything I'd hoped it to be - in-depth, atmospheric... and quite funny in places. Jonathan is... shall we say a little unreconstructed... and some of his observations are in hilariously poor taste. It's also been weird to see how much nuance was lost to me when I first played the game in Japanese - not least how angry Karen was to see Jonathan on her doorstep, and why.

For more details on The Policenauts Translation Project, have a look at their website and Twitter. A patch is available through the website, but the patched version will run only on an emulator unless you have a FreeSaturn cartridge (or equivalent) and a Saturn capable of running US games (the patch evidently changes the region protection of the game).

While I do still want to update the Resource, I'm not going to commit to a timeline: I'd never keep to it and, frankly, there are other things I'd much rather focus on for the time being...