Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.

The stream had to be split into two parts due to YouTube's 12-hour limit. I tried to pick a spot where splitting it would make the parts about even in length without too severely interrupting an ongoing story situation.

Part 1: You're here
Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=4FvkXZNUeEU

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Emerald Dragon is an obscure RPG that was released on multiple systems, but never left Japan. Thankfully, the Super Famicom release has an English fan translation by Translation Corporation (hence the wacky intro). Much like Mystic Ark, I fell in love with the game's music and I simply had to try it out. The Field Battle theme still blows me away to this day.

It's a great game if you have enough fortitude for the battle system. Enemy encounters are random, very frequent and can contain an enormous quantity of enemies. Combining this with the fact that you are only ever truly in control of one single character in your party of up-to-five members, there's a lot of just watching things play out, even if you have the ability to tell the AI-controlled characters to target specific opponents. Some random encounters can actually last longer than some boss fights, which is crazy. The random encounter around 2:19:15 is a good example, lasting over 5 minutes.

Emerald Dragon is one of those games I had waiting as a to-do game for years and years; I still have one stray "part 1" from 2011 when I was planning to finally do a playthrough of it, which evidently didn't work out.

Stream title should be obvious if you're aware of the game. Live notification is was just something I wrote to keep it from being a generic live message, trying to imitate the all-too-familiar sound of missing every attack.

Added a basic thumbnail so it's easier to tell part one apart from part another.

Stream Date: 2024-08-31
Stream Title: Dragon Change!
Live Notification: HAA! *ting* HAA! *ting* HAA! *ting*
Stream Description: "A playthrough of the Super Famicom version of Emerald Dragon using an English translation patch. I don't have a clear estimate for the length, so I don't know if this will be a two-parter. I'll try to go through as much of the dialogue as I can, but I will definitely miss several chats, inn visits and NPC lines.

Considering the potential length of the stream (very likely well over 10 hours), I may take very short breaks."

Chapters (Unfinished):
0:00:00 Translation Corporation Intro
0:00:51 Emerald Dragon