Information regarding ROMs/ISOs in Russian

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

Disclaimer: I AM NOT ASKING FOR ROMS OR ISOS OR EVEN WHAT SITES HAVE THEM. I am instead asking whether they exist.

More specifically, I am planning on learning Russian in the future, so I decided to look for ROMs and ISOs in Russian. The problem, though, is that I doubt that there are that many. For example, I only found 3 Russian-language Pokemon ROMs. In fact, I found only one Russian-language site that hosted Nintendoo ROMs in Russian, but the selection is not that great. I read that Nintendoo did not go officially into Russia at first (hence the Dendy), alongside with the fact that Russians tended to prefer multi-use systems over the rather single-purpose GameCube/Wii systems. Another thing I read was that Pokemon games were sold in English in Russia.

What I am trying to say is: what Russian-language ROMs/ISOs exist? (More specifically, I am looking at games from systems that range between the 3rd and 6th generation regardless of company.) I am clueless.

 

[choconado]

well the site I use for any pre-GBA system (chronologically speaking) roms is Russian based, but even then I'm pretty sure that less then 1% of their site content is actually Russian roms...I think for the most part importation (especially through China) was their number one method in the past at least.

 

[FAST6191]

There are a handful of Russian language roms (I know because I broke the RSS feeds once when posting Cyrillic characters for one)
http://www.advanscene.com/ provided me with a nice list (do an advanced search and stick Russian in under the language search)
I have yet to speak to anybody about the quality of the localisations in question but looking at other languages outside the usual five (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian) and quite often including them as well the quality is often a bit lacking- almost certainly preferable to none but I usually find having to decode slang, misspellings and mistranslations the true test of how well you can do a language (Russian is pretty hard to begin with if you are not used to the way it works).

Spoiler: the list

5254 Hardy Boys - Treasure on the Tracks, The
4120 Successfully Learning Mathematics
3824 Disney Fairies - Tinker Bell
3645 Love is... ...in Bloom - The Flower Shop Garden
3392 Travel Coach - Europe 3
1367 Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End
3109 Ankh - Curse of the Scarab King
2787 Pro Evolution Soccer 2012
2758 EyePet Adventures
2753 Invizimals - The Lost Tribes
2751 Cars 2
2661 Buzz! Quiz World
2625 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean - The Video Game
2475 TRON - Evolution
2473 Megamind - The Blue Defender
2459 Split Second - Velocity
2456 EyePet Portable
2451 Michael Jackson - The Experience
2447 Michael Jackson - The Experience
2433 Invizimals - Shadow Zone
2426 Jungle Party
2418 God of War - Ghost of Sparta
2394 Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
2380 FIFA 11
2263 WALL-E
2262 Up
2261 Toy Story 3
2257 Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands
2251 IL-2 Sturmovik - Birds of Prey
2250 Hannah Montana - Rock Out the Show
2248 G-Force
2247 FIFA 10
2246 FIFA 09
2245 Dissidia - Final Fantasy
2244 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
2172 Pursuit Force - Extreme Justice
2167 Fat Princess - Fistful of Cake
2138 Echoshift
2026 Assassin's Creed - Bloodlines
2000 Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
1898 Soul Calibur - Broken Destiny
1879 Fading Shadows
1797 Buzz! Quem e o genio Portugues
1718 SEGA Rally
1684 Crash - Mind Over Mutant
1658 Loco Roco 2
1650 Need for Speed - Undercover
1513 Echochrome
1467 Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End
1386 Fading Shadows
1325 Crash of the Titans
1294 Syphon Filter - Logan's Shadow
1148 Ratatouille
1132 Eragon
1130 M.A.C.H. - Modified Air Combat Heroes
1125 Miami Vice - The Game
0772 Eragon
0741 Echochrome Micro
0740 Loco Roco - Midnight Carnival
0739 Eragon
0737 Arcade Essentials (minis)
0725 Killzone - Liberation
0710 Treasures of Montezuma, The (minis)
0704 Robin Hood - The Return Of Richard (minis)
0697 Treasures of Montezuma, The (minis)
0680 Killzone - Liberation
0653 Snowy - The Bear's Adventures (minis)
0650 Snowy - The Bear's Adventures (minis)
0643 Ape Academy 2
0593 Monochrome Racing (minis)
0591 101-in-1 Megamix
0576 Buzz! Quiz World
0514 Little Big Planet (v2)
0513 Assassin's Creed - Bloodlines
0470 Loco Roco
0421 Archibald's Adventures (minis)
0414 Urbanix (minis)
0403 Gran Turismo
0398 Supermarket Mania
0382 Mahjongg Artifacts
0377 The Mystery of the Crystal Portal
0354 Farm Frenzy
0346 The Mystery of the Crystal Portal
0342 Jewel Keepers - Easter Island
0279 Archibald's Adventures
0205 Aqua Panic
0170 Echoshift
0153 Super Stardust Portable
0016 Numblast
0009 Super Stardust Portable
0006 Syphon Filter Combat Ops

There are also some pretty good rom hackers coming out of Russia as well (certainly I owe more than a passing nod to some Russian hackers for some of the trickier things on the GBA and DS) and they have tried their hand at a few games (I have no links to patches right now for the GBA and DS side of things but older systems can be found http://www.romhacking.net/?genre=&platform=&status=&languageid=2&perpage=30&page=translations&transsearch=Go&title=&author= ) but much like those also without English as a first language they tend to fold into the English speaking side of things when it comes to rom hacking.

 

[Cyan]

Saying "ROM" has a piracy connotation. You had to make a notice to say that you didn't want a link, but only informations.

Instead of "ROM" you could have refereed to them as "Games" because that's what they are.
You want to know if there are Games in Russian language.
Do you want a topic title change?

FAST6191 gave you a nice list.
There are also 3DS games with Russian.


Not really a game, but a PC application, you can try Rosetta Stone.

 

[choconado]

This topic makes me curious--are there any console games that are Russian exclusive? I know there're many PC games, some of them mindblowingly unique (Pathologic, anyone? ) but I'm curious if there's any games for non-computer systems that are only in Russian...

 

[Jakob95]

Ti nekagda ne na uchesta kak gavarit na ruski yesli thi budish egrat ruskyi igree. Luchey ede e kupey kneagi na ruski shtop thi na uchelsa kak chetat snachala.

If you can understand what I wrote then you can ignore what I wrote on top.

 

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

Ti nekagda ne na uchesta kak gavarit na ruski yesli thi budish egrat ruskyi igree. Luchey ede e kupey kneagi na ruski shtop thi na uchelsa kak chetat snachala.

If you can understand what I wrote then you can ignore what I wrote on top.

Mi ne comprendas...