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METAL SLUG メタルスラッグ First release: 29 June 2006 (PlayStation 2) "Metal Slug reborn, roll out at once!" "新生「メタルスラッグ」、直ちに出撃せよ！" To mark its 10th anniversary, Metal Slug makes the foray into 3D. Was it worth it?

Gameplay

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Story

激動の2030年代。世界は度重なる軍事侵攻により混乱の時代を向かえていた。 世界征服を策謀する独裁者、デビルリバース･モーデン ある時は正規軍の新型戦車を奪い、またある時は未知の生物の力を借りて幾度と無く戦いを繰り返すモーデンであったが、彼の野望は正規軍特殊部隊の活躍により、ことごとく打ち砕かれていった。 度重なる敗北により疲弊したモーデン軍の戦力は、各地に散ったわずかな残存部隊と本部都市を残すのみであった。 もはやモーデンに再び戦う力は無い。 正規軍の誰もがそう思い始めていたとき、情報部より潜伏中のモーデン軍発見の報告が飛び込んできた。 正規軍本部基地に程近い位置にある山村に潜むモーデン軍の中規模部隊。 この情報に対し、信憑性が低いと判断した指令部は特殊部隊ペルグリンファルコンズに再調査を命じた。 命令を受けたマルコとターマは直ちに輸送ヘリに乗り込み現地へと飛び立つ。 どうせ誤報に違いないと楽観視するターマ。 だがマルコは、再び動き始めたデビルリバース･モーデンの存在を直感し、胸騒ぎを覚えずにはいられなかった。

The turbulent 2030s. Morden's continuous military assaults had left the world in disarray. The dictator "Devil Rebirth" Morden had plotted attacks against the Regular Army several times already, including attempts to steal their Metal Slug technology, and even partnered up with alien lifeforms on occasion. However, every attempt had been soundly quashed by the four agents of the Regular Army. These failures had taken the wind out of the Rebel Army, leaving only a few small headquarters and handfuls of troops across the globe; Morden had lost his power and influence. Just as the Regular Army began to think Morden was done for, reports came through of Rebel Army outposts across the world, including one in a mountain village near Regular Army HQ. Believing the news to be genuine, the Peregrine Falcons were dispatched to scout out the area. Marco and Tarma boarded their helicopter, holding out for it to be a false alarm, but Marco had his suspicions Morden was on the move again.

from Metal Slug Official Website

Unused materials

Despite having full English voice acting, the game never saw release outside of Japan and it is restricted to Japanese subtitles only. However, the game has multiple translations buried in its data for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish!
You can access the translations using this PCSX2 cheat file by Mr_Beacon00 (信标先生); simply place it in the emulator's "cheat/" directory and enable cheats. By default it's set to English, though you can edit the file to change it to another language.

The translation includes cutscene subtitles and menu descriptions, modifies certain menus by omitting or rearranging options (Extras and Tutorial appear to be blanked), and it even claims to use X and Circle for confirm and Triangle to cancel, though the buttons remain unchanged from the Japanese version. The subtitles feature a few differences from the actors' delivery (including censoring "damn" to "nuts" with only one exception), and the script files even have a few lines of dialogue that aren't even used in the final game!

Either the translation isn't 100% complete or the cheat code doesn't tick all the flags, as some in-game text is still in Japanese (like because it's rendered as a texture), and the results screens for clearing missions uses an incorrect font or characters, printing garbage across the screen.

The cutscene dialogue is stored in variants of "m_caption.PAK" stored in the game's ALL.AFS archive. There are a number of other files are tagged the same way, but they appear to either be encrypted or unedited from the Japanese version. It seems like some effort was made into localising the game for international release.

Credits

DIRECTOR

HIROSHI HISHIKAWA

PLANNER

TATSUIO KAJIMOTO
HIJIRI ZUMI
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PROGRAMMER
MAIN PROGRAMMER

HIROSHI HISHIKAWA

PLAYER

HIDENARI MAMOTO

ENEMY

KURA
DSAISUKE KANEUCHI
HAKUHIN

MENU & DEMO

WORKRAM
K.K.

DATA BASE

GO MIYAZAKI

DESIGNER
CHIEF DESIGNER

HIROSHI KATOU

CHARACTER DESIGN

HAYA
HIROKAZU NISHITAKE
MASAKI HIROOKA

3D-CHARACTER

TETSUYA AKAMOTO
QON
ERIKO MORITA

MAP DESIGN

HIROMI SUGIMOTO
MIYAVI
MARIKO UCHIDA
MASUNARI HAYAMI
YUKI NAITO
TERUYO

MOTION DESIGN

YOSHIKAZU NISHIKAWA
SHIO SHIO
KOUTA HOSODA

MENU DESIGN

XU JINPEI

SOUND
STUDIO AQUA

TOSHIKAZU TANAKA

DEBUGGER

HIROYA ASAO
AKICHIKA MOCHIMARU

VOICE ACTORS

ERIC SUMMERER
DAN MCCOMAS
SUSANNA FERA
MELI EX
JESSICA WACHSMAN
STEVE HOOK
GLENN HAIG
BILL HERMBERGER
DOUGLAS JAMES
MARK RUDOLPH

MOVIE & DEMO CHARACTER

HIROSHI HIROKAWA
NORIHITO NAKANISHI
IKUNO NADA
SHIGETO HOZUMI
AKIHIRO MATSUI
HIROKI TOUGOU
SHINPEI NAITO
KEI WATANUKI
YOKO HAYASHI

SPECIAL THANKS

SHIGETO NAGASHIMA
KEIJI
WATARU KAWAHARA
MASARU NISIKADO
RYUTARO OOTO
KIICHI MIYAO
KOUSUKE OOKURA
FUJIMI
KEI NAKAJIMA
KOICHIRO HORIE
DAISUKE HIGUCHI
TOMOAKI KONDO
DAI IWASAKI
TAKASHI MATSUBARA
MASAOKI KANAKOGI
SHINYA YAMAMOTO
TAKEHIRO INOUE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

SOIMEN

ASSISTANT PRODUCER

MOTONORI TSUJIMURA

PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER

AKITO KADOWAKI

MARKETING ASSISTANT

YUZUKO

PRODUCER

KEIKO IJU

SNK PLAYMORE USA CORP.
PRESIDENT

BEN HERMAN

VP OF SALES & MARKETING

ERIC FEINER

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

MARK S. RUDOLPH

DIRECTORS OF JAPAN/US RELATIONS

YOSHIHITO KOYAMA
MIWAKO GOTOH