[RHDNBot]

Update By: Supper

A full English translation of the 1994 Game Gear RPG Moldorian: Hikari to Yami no Sister (The Sisters of Light and Darkness) has been released!

Moldorian tells the story of Navarre, a timid and ineffectual boy whose quest to prove his strength sweeps him and his childhood friend Miria up into a dark plot spanning the entire world of Moldoria. Largely a straightforward RPG, the game's biggest selling points are its detailed artwork, music by Hitoshi Sakimoto, and unorthodox combat system.

This release was the work of TheMajinZenki (translation), Supper (hacking), cccmar (editing and testing), Xanathis (testing and editing), and Filler (original script dump).

The team also took the time to translate the user manual and include it in both the patch download and the game itself. Players are highly recommended to read it before getting into a battle.

RHDN Project Page

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[mikeprado30]

Always is very nice to see a new translation for a GG game, especially if is for an RPG.

Thanks a lot to the team involved on this effort

Projects like this one turn on my hopes to see on a future finally translated Last Bible I for this console

[Lentfilms]

Man, you guys have been killing it this year with tons of different translations. This looks really interesting and I actually just finished Idol Hakkenden the other day. Thank you for all your hard work!

[Supper]

Always is very nice to see a new translation for a GG game, especially if is for an RPG.

Thanks a lot to the team involved on this effort

Projects like this one turn on my hopes to see on a future finally translated Last Bible I for this console

Thanks! This is a pretty straightforward game, which is probably why no one picked it up before now, but it's not a bad one.

Filler's been putting a lot of work into trying to get Game Gear games translated, so there'll probably be more of those coming soon.

Man, you guys have been killing it this year with tons of different translations. This looks really interesting and I actually just finished Idol Hakkenden the other day. Thank you for all your hard work!

Thank you! Mostly it's just been a case of everyone having time to work on things. It won't last forever, so enjoy it while you can. (And I hope you liked Idol Hakkenden, I think we all had a pretty good time with that one.)

For this game in particular, the stars really aligned to let us get it out so soon -- the script was already translated, the text display code was very centralized and easy to edit, and it didn't require any major art edits. Don't expect us to have another RPG out in a week

[aqualung]

I've just started with the game and I'm having a blast with it. It takes me back to my early teen years playing Defenders of Oasis, hehehe.

By the way, what I'm going to say cannot be considered a bug, but rather a warning to other players. I'm playing the game in Windows 7 with the Genesis Plus GX 1.7.4 f64e755 core of retroarch. I'm having lots of glitching problems when using savestates and loading from them (the graphics often glitch, specially inside of caves. When that happens, it's dangerous because you can walk through walls and end up stuck inside of solid rock and unable to move). I'm sorry if the explanation is not very clear, I'll try to record a video showing when this happens.

I've only tried this emulator, so I don't know if this also happens in every emulator with savestate feature included. So, be very careful when using them. Have always more than one savestate (or avoid using them except in cases of extreme necessity) and also use regularly the in-game save feature to avoid getting stuck in the game.

[noneother]

Glad to see the Game Gear get some love. I've been thinking of getting back into RPGs next year, so this is definitely one I'll try. BTW, the GDRI website links to a Japanese page with proper, non-pseudonym credits: http://park21.wakwak.com/~suka/sega/staff/f3_gg/moldorian.html Most of the graphics team worked on the Shining Force Gaiden games. They seem to have been part of a company called Rit's.

[cccmar]

Glad to see the Game Gear get some love. I've been thinking of getting back into RPGs next year, so this is definitely one I'll try. BTW, the GDRI website links to a Japanese page with proper, non-pseudonym credits: http://park21.wakwak.com/~suka/sega/staff/f3_gg/moldorian.html Most of the graphics team worked on the Shining Force Gaiden games. They seem to have been part of a company called Rit's.

That's cool, thanks! And yeah, you may likely expect at least a few more GG projects next year. Would be cool to deal with the majority of text-heavy games, at the very least. With Moldorian done, the only other RPGs of this type for the system are Eternal Legend (while we're at it, does anyone know if this game is any good?) and Last Bible I (the superior version of the game). Madou Monogatari games are all dungeon crawlers... either way, who knows what's gonna happen in the future.

[Lentfilms]

Thank you! Mostly it's just been a case of everyone having time to work on things. It won't last forever, so enjoy it while you can. (And I hope you liked Idol Hakkenden, I think we all had a pretty good time with that one.)

For this game in particular, the stars really aligned to let us get it out so soon -- the script was already translated, the text display code was very centralized and easy to edit, and it didn't require any major art edits. Don't expect us to have another RPG out in a week

Yeah, I realize that this release speed isn't something that can be done consistently but it is still impressive. And yes, I did really enjoy Idol Hakkenden. Made me laugh more than I thought it would.

[travel27]

Thanks a lot, few questions on gameplay
 I see party members come and go in this one.  I don't want to invest too much on equipment and magic if a member is going to leave so when do you get your final party, at what town or dungeon or point in the game?  What are the names of those party members so I can finally splurge on equipment and magic on them.

Also just got out of the mountain and gave that girl a medical herb and still don't get how to use items in battle. I have not purchased magic yet because again, not sure of end game party, so is it easy to cast?

Thanks.  Cool mid 90s handheld RPG btw, great translation!

[cccmar]

I see party members come and go in this one.  I don't want to invest too much on equipment and magic if a member is going to leave so when do you get your final party, at what town or dungeon or point in the game?  What are the names of those party members so I can finally splurge on equipment and magic on them.

Also just got out of the mountain and gave that girl a medical herb and still don't get how to use items in battle. I have not purchased magic yet because again, not sure of end game party, so is it easy to cast?

Thanks.  Cool mid 90s handheld RPG btw, great translation!

Hey, thanks for the kind words! Now, to answer your questions:

Spoiler:

So, question number 1 - the final party = main protagonist, Luthran and Seria; you're still not particularly close to that point, but don't worry, this game doesn't really get more grindy later - you can escape battles fairly easily.

Question number 2: You have to 'equip' spells/items in the equip menu, and then to use them -> hold Button 2 + arrow up/right/down (depending on which button you assigned a given item to) and for Spells -> hold Button 1 + arrow up/right/down/left, again, depending on how you assign them. I strongly recommend status spells, in this game they are very useful, because they work on almost all the enemies to my knowledge! Some healing/attack spells can also come in handy, especially those with the 'Freeze' status (it acts kinda like 'Sleep/Stun').

[Recca]

That's cool, thanks! And yeah, you may likely expect at least a few more GG projects next year. Would be cool to deal with the majority of text-heavy games, at the very least. With Moldorian done, the only other RPGs of this type for the system are Eternal Legend (while we're at it, does anyone know if this game is any good?) and Last Bible I (the superior version of the game). Madou Monogatari games are all dungeon crawlers... either way, who knows what's gonna happen in the future.

Thanks for all your hard work, it's nice to see Game Gear games getting some attention. I haven't been able to play much of it yet, but its' been pretty fun so far. Eternal Legend is another GG game that I've been interested in for a whlile now too. I can't really tell just how good it is since I can't read Japanese that well, but gameplay wise, it seems like it would be about as good as Moldorian. If Eternal Legend gets translated, I would definitely be interested in playing it as well.

[noneother]

I just hope Eternal Legend is more Defenders of Oasis and less Phantasy Star Gaiden in terms of quality, but it could go either way.