Mobile Battleship Nadesico, The Games

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Ruri and Akito play a video game.

This is a little web page about my struggles to learn some of the Japanese language and play the three Sega Nadesico video games that I have obtained (two Saturn games and one Dreamcast game). Hopefully some of the information here will be useful.

Why Bother?

The Sega Saturn game "Blank of Three Years" continues the story of the Nadesico crew in the intervening years between the end of the TV series and the movie. I simply want to get as much of the Nadesico story as I can.

Japanese

The most useful starting point on the web for getting started learning Japanese: Teach Yourself Japanese

Very useful Japanese language software: Glenn Rosenthal Japanese Software Page

A free talking Japanese dictionary, of some use for learing pronounciation: www.euroasiasoftware.com

Monash University Japanese Language FTP site: Nihongo

Jim Breen's Japanese Page: Jim Breen

The Games

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Mobile Battleship Nadesico

This game is your basic Japanese dating sim. You play the part of Tenkawa Akito and attempt to build relationships with the female crew members. There are some limited frantic button pushing action sequences, played out with animated cut scenes.

Mobile Battleship Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years

This is more of an illustrated interactive audio novel than a game. It is chock full of Japanese text and speech and is very heavy going if your Japanese isn't up to speed. (You guessed it, I'm having a lot of trouble.)

Mobile Battleship Nadesico: The Mission

This is a Sega Dreamcast game, set in the time period after the Nadesico Prince of Darkness movie. It revolves around RPG style tactical combat.

Mobile Battleship Nadesico: Ruriruri Mahjong

This is a Nintendo Gameboy Colour game. You play Mahjong against the various Nadesico crew members.

Other Nadesico Related games

Super Robot Wars Advance

A mech combat RPG game for the Nintendo Gameboy Advanced. It includes giant robots from many Anime series. This one has some of our favorite Nadesico characters and of course many of the Aestivalis frame types.
A Super Robot Wars Advance web page

Super Robot Wars Impact

A mech combat RPG game for the Sony Playstation 2. It includes giant robots from many Anime series. This one has some of our favorite Nadesico characters and of course many of the Aestivalis frame types.

Game Guide Books

Playing Japanese Software on a Non-Japanese Sega Saturn

Sega Saturn consoles exist in 3 region types, USA NTSC, Japan NTSC and PAL. Games made for one type of Saturn will not play on the other types, without hardware modification or some type of region code defeating software cartridge. I have an Australian PAL Saturn. I use a ST-KEY cartridge to play Japanese games.

Playing Japanese Software on a Non-Japanese Sega Dreamcast

The Dreamcast is beset by similar region lockout problems as the Saturn. I use a boot disk to defeat the Dreamcast region code.

Tackling the Games

I have my Sega Saturn console hooked up my PC video capture card. I take screen shots of the onscreen Japanese text as I blunder my way through the game. I type the Japanese text from the screen shots into the JWPce Japanese word processor (this required me to learn the Hiragana and Katakana characters and develop a little skill at looking up Kanji characters) Once the text is entered in the wordprocessor I use the JWPce built-in Japanese to English dictonary function to do a rough literal translation of the text.

Game Screen Shot Pages

Mobile Battleship Nadesico

Blank of Three Years (no text) Gallery 1
Blank of Three Years (no text) Gallery 2
Blank of Three Years (no text) Gallery 3
Blank of Three Years (no text) Gallery 4

Blank of Three Years, set 1
Blank of Three Years, set 2
Blank of Three Years, set 3
Blank of Three Years, set 4
Blank of Three Years, set 5
Blank of Three Years, set 6
Blank of Three Years, set 7
Blank of Three Years, set 8
Blank of Three Years, set 9
Blank of Three Years, set 10

Game Bonus Sound files

Mobile Battleship Nadesico:

Ryoko
Ruri

Game Videos

Mobile Battleship Nadesico:

Ryoko End Game (6MB)
Ruri End Game (10MB)
Ruri Date (6MB)

MS-MPEG4 V3 format .avi, you probably need a recent version of Windows Media Player for these clips.

Blank of Three Years:

Opening movie from the game (21MB)
Converted straight off the Saturn disk to AVI with MP3 audio.

Demo clip from start of game. (9MB)
MS-MPEG4 V3 format .avi, you probably need a recent version of Windows Media Player for these clips.

Game Manual Scans

Blank of Three Years:

largish 300dpi scans of the manual pages

Nadesico the Mission:

largish 300dpi scans of the manual pages

Game Text Files

Mobile Battleship Nadesico:

Selected Ryoko Scene Text

Blank of Three Years:

Start of an attempt to understand the manual
Text from game screen shots

Other Nadesico Images

Misc. scans
Assembled Aestivalis 0G Battle Unit model kits.

My Nadesico Fan Art

Sketches

My Nadesico Fanfics

Don't bother reading if you haven't watched the 26 TV episodes of Nadesico. They won't make much sense. Also contain spoilers for the series and or movie
"Loneliness".
"Rings".
"Despair".

You can also find my stories here: www.fanfiction.net Greg OSullivan , where you can read comments people have made about them.

These stories just won a prize! Manifest Fanfic Competition

Kai-Lapis has translated "Loneliness" into Japanese and is working on "Rings", you can find them here: SpiralSky

Nadesico Links

Dan Kanemitsu's Otaku Culture Research Lab
Project Schiaparelli
Rurisue
The World's one and Only Ryoko Subaru Shrine (alas this site is gone)
Akito's Nadesico Shrine
Peaceful Days
Hikaru's Dojinshi
Happy Snow Grasshopper
SpiralSky, Japanese Nadesico fanfics

Other Anime Links

801 TTS Airbats

About me

Greg O'Sullivan:
A boring Unix systems programmer, rapidly turning into a complete otaku.
That's more than you needed to know.
Email: gjo@unimelb.edu.au
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