La Mulana Translated to English

By: Derek Yu

On: January 27th, 2007

La Mulana, the sprawling platformer that bears a resemblence to the old MSX game Maze of Galious, finally has an English translation thanks to Aeon Genesis:

“The game is huge, with many different areas to explore and dozens of items and weapons to find. Each area has a large variety of puzzles and traps (many of them quite fiendish) and you need to solve the puzzles in each area to discover the Ankhs and Ankh Jewels, which allow you to fight the eight Guardians of the ruins. To solve the puzzles you’ll need to be able to read the tablets scattered throughout the ruins, which will require a Hand Scanner and translation software for the portable MSX that Lemeza has brought along on the adventure. Your Hand Scanner will also allow you to find items and search the bones of less fortunate adventurers.”

The game and the patch can be downloaded together from the AGTP site.

EDIT: FYI, the patch also translates the manual, included with the game!

Posted in Doujin, Freeware, Highly Recommended, Metroidvanias, Platformers, Windows | Tags: NIGORO

http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
-breathes-
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*downloads*
http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

Bah! Patch not out till weekend! Graham sad! :'(
Ooooooo

*Graham* sad?
Well, well.

The plot thickens.
And that’s not all. ;)
http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

Thickens? How so?
Derek

The patch is actually here now! Whups!
Dude

Lengthwise?
NHP

fucking long, like me.
Davide “Gendo Ikari” Mascolo

Erm, I still see no patch. What’s the matter? Taken down already?

Excellent news anyway, finally translated. I remember when I found La-Mulana and the talking started at the HOTU forums. Now that I think of it, I started seeing more interest for the game since then…
Dude

http://agtp.romhack.net/download/la-mulana-patch.zip

You are dumb.
Twisted Rabbit

I cry every day i dont see news on Limbo….. I could never get into this type of game, the graipichs just rub me the wrong way. Ill give it a try anyhow
Davide “Gendo Ikari” Mascolo

Yes, now it’s there, but I’m not dumb. Before refreshing one minute ago (and I did it lots of times before), there was no patch. Thanks anyway :)
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Woah, deja vu. ;)
negative zero

sweet, another kick ass find. i’ll try it out tomorrow
haowan

This game is awesome. Get it.
haowan

It’s harsh as fuck though.
jc

I tried playing Maze of Galious a while ago. I hope La-Mulana is better about giving you hints on what the items are supposed to do.
moi

I hop eit’s actually working this time ;)
Optrirominiluikus

Finally!
haowan

nearly as hard as http://blog53.fc2.com/k/king75/file/owata.html
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Awesome, been waitin’ for this!
Jimmy

Reading the manual is critical — what an obtuse game.
Jimmy

And by obtuse I mean abstruse, of course.
Sorry, English language!
negative zero

anyone know how to solve that star, moon, sun puzzle in the giants area? i don’t usually do this but it’s driving me insane!
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Gah! You’re way further than me! I’ve only completed a few puzzles in the main area and about one in the Egypty area. Is there a walkthrough anywhere for this game? :P
negative zero

lol, i’m not sure whether i outta jump for joy that i’m not alone or just run into a corner cos noone knows :[

the giants area is connected to the 1st level. try exploring the bottom left of the map.

already tried googling a walkthru. no luck. i’m pretty sure there are some forums that give out some hints, but those are in jap.
pragma

As others have said: this game is brutal. This has tricks and traps at every turn, with countless ways to use and interact with them. However, as the authors have stated in the manual, that was their intent and is really what makes this worth playing.

That said, I haven’t died this many times in a game since I last played nethack.

The manual is another nice touch. There’s just something about seeing the entire inventory of the game laid out over four pages that makes you want to jump in.
bio

I can’t run the translation patch, when trying to run the patch, it give the error “grahpicsthumbs.db: unknown version”, can anyone help please.
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I’ve been told on another forum where we’re discussing this that you can get the grail very early on which should alleviate a lot of dead-end woes as you’ll realise if you read it’s function in the manual. :)

I shall be grabbing it this lunchtime.
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Yes, khuhwftctn, I quite agree. :P
Ooooooo

The plot has thickened even more!
Derek

@bio: when you opened the graphics folder in WinXP it created a hidden file called thumbs.db in the directory that you need to get rid of. It’s a file that windows uses to show preview pics of images. Just copy the files (minus thumbs.db) to a new directory, delete the old one, and name the new one “graphics.” Run the patch again.
moi

some infos in the underdogs forum:

http://209.120.136.195/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44365&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=0145c8f8af476ccec1de70204945300e
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Nice link, Moi! Ta’.
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Don’t… know… what… to… click… first!
moi

SO where can I found the hidden shop in hall of guidance?
The japanese walkthrough says it’s in the room with the shield and sword but I can’t find it.

Can somebody delete the spam posts too?
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Spam makes the baby Mario cry. :'(
negative zero

wow, u rock moi. i swear, after reading through that guide i’d never be able to finish this game. ever. can’t believe how cryptic the puzzles are.

i’m sure u’ve found it by now, but i think the hidden shop is activated by touching that emblem thingy on the wall, but u need the corresponding seal first. it opens a passage to the next screen over where u can find the hidden shop.

just finished the Tower of the Goddess, ‘phew’.
moi

for the record the japanese walkthrough is there:
http://la-mulana.s13.xrea.com/x/index.html

Babelfish doesn’t help a lot :)
agv

english versions of the maps are here
http://files.myopera.com/White%20Knell/lamulana_guide/LA-MULANA_Guide.html
moi

I hope someone still read this.
How can I obtain the knife in the pyramid of sun?
walkthrough says to send a shuriken on the statue head that I cannot access and step on a switch that I cannot acces either.
yo

gotta jump up and throw the shuriken. there’s a gap between ceiling and that brick wall which is enough space to throw shuriken.
moi

Wow, why didn’t I think about that?
Many thanks!!