This is a cyberpunk RPG set in Hong Kong after the year 2000. As far as I can understand, Hong Kong suffered a disastrous biological accident, leaving the city in ruins and creating many mutants that now attack any humans they find.

The game plays a bit like Phantasy Star IV; you walk around in the city, and I managed to get into a fight with some unknown soldiers who were trying to abduct a girl that was with my character. As usual, the language barrier got in the way. If you have a decent MSX emulator [or a real system], you'll be able to listen to some great tunes, which reminded me of many other Cyberpunk games like Shadowrun on the Genesis.

Due to the translation being released in pre-patched format, we at the Whirlpool have opted for posting IPS patches instead. Please do not redistribute these patches; if you can, use the files available at the translation site instead.

Anyway, this translation is very well done, but due to the fact that both the hacker and the translator are not native English speakers, the dialogue is very, very weird. It's understandable for the most part, until they start spouting random names. That's not their fault, that's the game's script, but still...

You'll need a very fast MSX 2/2+/TR emulator to run this game; according to the translation authors, at least a 7mhz MSX system is needed to run it properly... which explains why my playthrough was very slow and skippy. Hooray for fast-forward keys! Anyway, a new font has been hacked in and many graphics have been changed from their native Japanese. So while the game is very well hacked, it still has a lot to go before it's really finished.

Only the first six disks (out of eight total) are translated. Make sure that you use the TOSEC DSK images available on the internet. Other files may give errors.

Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 1 of 8).dsk
CRC32: ADA84EC2
MD5: 5540EE9D102669FFC18A4C40FFA79DCA
SHA-1: F1CEBD02BB01238B1D346838B162858AD1356D5B
SHA-256: D30A3774328ED27F1D107DAD661273B383106942692E22EB5A0EC81E1F4C547F
Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 2 of 8).dsk
CRC32: 69872539
MD5: 53BBE5F2DCB5E5126EB8B398721F2AB6
SHA-1: 4535B5A13A86537E363566BD2A864CBF17BCD2E7
SHA-256: 0B15D64C3FF77CD478A6095E1C4FC6B09806677056A7894A019FBF0B1DC923B4
Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 3 of 8).dsk
CRC32: 494A0DB3
MD5: 18E464821CF4779825B1AFC8CC7A28D4
SHA-1: AC94C9F5E735C935A5ED4FF47C9689E5E07AC266
SHA-256: CB6FBFD217FAC742591E85B3835A635204C6967191E6F16C985069853A157343
Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 4 of 8).dsk
CRC32: 9D31FE9F
MD5: B9BFA71A227BB6FEE64B0D09D9ACFA1F
SHA-1: DA08FD8C79EBB28A01232734BF607F576F7987CF
SHA-256: 706E5EF7CD82A4BED07248F5B30F15DF2D6BD30741D657D71AE38BB173BAD848
Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 5 of 8).dsk
CRC32: D8A0E0C8
MD5: 8A4A552880FE6DA56502EBD5D2C958CE
SHA-1: 5472F519F06212562D72F5BE229B74A4599F13C2
SHA-256: 1D55A9E933FFC3A2B4BADDCD92B5746ECD8F5145267CA51B1A95AB2566AFDD3D
Illusion City (1991)(MicroCabin)(Jp)(Disk 6 of 8)
CRC32: 5B89B23D
MD5: 106C8B56FF44F96263A61A36F53979F4
SHA-1: 1141F0B05250FFDE6CBD02A29041C4C520008267
SHA-256: 5575F2BB1D464EDE3FFBEA25CAE28B191024B834040148F8CE3D783489DD6491