INFORMATION
Happy New Year!
Welcome to month two of GOBLIN6 RAIDE MODE. As the new year begins, I thought it would be a good idea to play something "new" that I'm sure many people have never played before: Front Mission on the Super Nintendo.
From the Wikipedia:
For those unaware, Front Mission never received localization in the west. Luckily for us, the fine folks over at RomHacking.net have created an English fan-translation patch for the game.Front Mission (フロントミッション Furonto Misshon) is a tactical role-playing game developed by G-Craft and published by Squaresoft, and was released in Japan on February 24, 1995 for the Super Famicom. Front Mission is the first main entry and the first entry overall in the Front Mission series.[1] Front Mission is part of a serialized storyline that follows the stories of various characters and their struggles involving mecha known as wanzers.[2] A direct port of the game was released for the WonderSwan Color in Japan on July 12, 2002.
A port of the game developed by Square Enix Co., Ltd. was released for the PlayStation in Japan on October 23, 2003, titled Front Mission First (フロントミッション ザ・ファスト). It included new content and offered a new USN scenario to play through. The PlayStation version was then ported to the Nintendo DS with more additional content and was released in Japan on March 22, 2007. Only the Nintendo DS port, renamed as Front Mission, was released in North America on October 23, 2007. This release marked the third time that a Front Mission title was localized and published outside Japan. It was released as a PSOne Classic in Japan on November 12, 2008.
You can find the patch here.
As usual, you need to provide your own ROM file of the game in order to patch it.
RomHacking also provides an online ROM patcher utility here.
PLATFORMS
You can play this on your favorite SNES emulator of choice. I'll be playing on my PC via RetroArch.
Thanks to eelzap for pointing out that there is also a port of Front Mission for the Nintendo DS. Feel free to play on there as well.
LINKS
Front Mission Zaftra is the only decent fan-site I managed to find. (If you know of any other post-worthy fan-sites let me know)
VICE also wrote up an article detailing the history of the series, you can read that article here.
TIME TO BEAT
Front Mission game-play stats
EVOLUTION OF THE FRONT MISSION GAMES