Translation description
Sweden is a small country, population-wise. Unlike Germany, for instance, the market has generally been considered too small to justify translating video games to Swedish -- especially as expensive-to-manufacture ROM cartridges.
Hence, most of Sweden's video games were in English in the 80's and 90's -- and today, for that matter. But occasionally, a game would be slated for release by Bergsala (the Swedish Nintendo distributor) that was text-heavy enough that a translation was considered indispensable. These games be counted on your ten fingers with a couple to spare.
The first two of Kemco's NES adaptations of Icom Simulations' MacVenture games were two of the most famous ones. Shadowgate and Deja Vu, with their cheesy, stilted translations, are treasured youth memories of many Swedes.
However, Sweden never got Uninvited, the third game in the NES series. Most likely, an important reason was that even the American version came out in 1991 -- rather late in the lifespan of the NES. PAL conversions and translations were usually very slow to happen in those days, so it's likely that a hypothetical Swedish version would not have come out until 1993, or possibly even '94 -- well into the age of SNES dominance, and thus probably too late to recoup the costs of such a relatively costly project.
Uninvited was released in North America in June of 1991. Now, twenty-five years later, in June of 2016, with no financial or technical barriers to worry about, the wrongs of the past have been righted, and what should have been done all these years ago has been done...
Presenting, for the first time in history: Uninvited in Swedish!
100% of the script, item and menu text in the game has been translated. The only untranslated text in the game is "THE END" at the end, and "LICENSED BY NINTENDO" etc. in the beginning -- this is intentional and in line with what would be expected of a Swedish translation from the 80's and 90's.
The script dumping and insertion tools were custom written for this release and will be released here for the benefit of the public as soon as they've been cleaned up and documented.
The translation has been tested on real hardware as well as on FCEUX and runs with no known issues. Please remember that although it's in Swedish, the game is based on the American ROM dump and is still NTSC.
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