Konami's Rampart for Famicom finally has a stable English translation patch

[empsolo]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/05/famicom_version_of_rampart_translated_to_english

If you ever played the NES version of "Rampart" you know what to expect. A solid port of the arcade game with a functional 8-bit adaptation of the bigger, more powerful sibling. But this bread and butter conversion we got in the West pales when placed side by side with its Japanese counterpart thanks to Konami's diligent, magic touch. Unlike the original this Famicom version offers four distinct scenarios of increasing difficulty: an Army Boot-camp where you fight off tanks and soldiers for practice and tutorials, a Fairy Tale land where the Red Riding Hood must stop the Big Bad Wolf in the easy campaign, a more traditional Medieval setting where your Knight and Mages fight off Dragons plus magical tornados. The ultimate test of artillery / wall building (that still look suspiciously like Tetrominos) then awaits you in Edo Era Japan!

Every level is accompanied by some cutscenes, briefings and upon completion quite a bit of dialogue acting as a transition between the levels. All of those were impenetrable walls as hard as the ones represented in-game for Western audiences until recently, when the efforts of Magnus Nilsson, MrRichard999 and rainponcho resulted in a full English translation patch for this Japan-exclusive gem. You can check the end results in the following video.

 

 

I have always had fun with the NES release of Rampart but have always found the Konami version of Rampart interesting. I never understood how you could shoehorn RPG mechanics and storytelling into a very basic arcade game but Konami seemed to have found a way. This patch should be interesting, IMHO.

[Tanooki]

Same here. I owned it at one point pre-Retron 5 days using a honeybee. It drove me up the wall getting confused with some of the procedural stuff in it as I'd just get stuck as the online guides then (now?) were garbage. Konami made a really magic game in how they retooled Rampart from a solid hard quarter muncher into an excellent console game.