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After nearly 16 long years, the Telefang.net team is overjoyed to announce that the translation patch for Keitai Denjuu Telefang 1 (both Power and Speed versions) is complete!

Released in 2000 for the Game Boy Color, Keitai Denjuu Telefang is a game where you befriend sentient monsters called Denjuu. Riffing on Japan's unique Keitai culture at the turn of the century, Denjuu are called into battle using cell phones, when defeated share their phone number with you and further communicate via text messages. Despite initial infamy in the west for the unrepresentative bootleg releases titled Pokémon Diamond and Jade, the game has gained a cult following owing to inspired creature designs by Saiko Takaki, a killer soundtrack by Kinuyo Yamashita, its humorous monster-of-the-week story, and solid, if light, gameplay. No fan of Pokémon or Game Boy games should miss it!

Our translation patch features fixes for multiple bugs in the original game, longer nicknames, improved name entry, no-RTC mode (for RTC-less flash carts), restored and fully coloured SGB functionality (complete with original borders), multiple variable-width fonts, automatic text narrowing, and everything translated into English of course (including the title screen voiceover).

Read more and download the translation patch here! You can also join our Discord server to report bugs or just talk about your experience.

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i was talking to a friend about how parasociality (i.e. the audience is so "connected" to the performers they've been watching that they think they've become friends) is a horrible experience. it can objectify the performer into a "character". any move enacted by the performer that isn't "in character" is worthy of reprimanding by the audience because the audience believes they know the performer better than the performer does.

there's a character role the performer must follow. these expectations are often unwritten, bu the performer must regardless play alongside with the audience if they want to "succeed". this is debilitating and harmful for the performer.

and it reminds me of NonStories...

i get a little bit miserable thinking about how bad things are generally and unchecked, it can turn into me being a bit unfair towards other people. but then i remember i almost died and then didn't. and i reconsider whatever i'm mad at in the moment and usually calm down pretty quick. not to brag or anything but the near-death experience really did put a lot of things into perspective. it's pretty cool but i don't know if i'd recommend you seek one out for yourself. if it happens, it happens basically