ROM hacking. Japanese-to-English translation. Programming. Electronics. I’m Samuel Messner, obskyr online, and I do a lot of things – some of which you’ll surely want to check out! But more importantly, I’ve got a jammin’ personality, and I’m way approachable – so don’t hesitate to reach out if you feel like it. My main online presence is on Twitter, so head on over there!
Here’s a small sampler plate of my projects – for a full-ish list, see the projects page.
Boku no Natsuyasumi, the PS1 & PSP slow life game in which you enjoy a summer vacation in the 1970s Japanese countryside. Without so much as a single English release in the series’s two decades, I’m finally translating the PSP version of this classic.
The 1997 PC-98 adventure about death, family, and an otherworldly train. In English for the first time in over two decades. A flawed diamond, forgotten by time. With the translation comes a Player’s Companion, which offers context on the game’s development and explanations for cultural references.
Old video games’ save chips run on batteries… and when those run out, your savefiles are gone forever. This hardware mod I developed for Game Boy (and Game Boy Color) cartridges makes your savefiles immortal! Launched for purchase in January 2021.
I translated all of the text in this legendary leak, and did quite a bit of disassembly, hacking, and documentation work to boot. Cryin’ shame the team fell to pieces. Art by RacieB!
