Sure thing. Let me know what you think after you've played it.
Looking pretty nice so far; I got a decent way's through the game using an older, semi-translated patch and VegitaBOD's FAQ, though any special moves I pulled off were entirely accidental. Seems like a pretty nice translation.
By the way, just as a bit of info, the Playdia version of the game preceeded the OVA release. The Playdia was a sort of animated "Choose your own adventure" with Dragonball Z characters; there were many ways you could go through the game, opting to use different moves and focus on different characters throughout the storyline (I think it was a brilliant idea myself; there must have been a large amount of labor involved). In any case, the OVA is nothing more than a splicing together of game footage (you might say it's really just some guy's playthrough of the game, minus the button menus, and with some added NES footage to limit the length of the movie).
That's what I was told on various sites, anyway. And it also makes sense, considering the OVA was never officially released (hence its cult name as the "Lost movie") and can really only be found on bootlegs and file sharing networks.
My understanding is that the two episode OVA was recently released in Japan in the DBZ Movie Boxset, albeit not remastered. Before this DVD release I think it was a VHS only promotional for the Famicom game, hence the sequences from the game, but I can't confirm this.
As for the Playdia version being released prior to the Famicom, that's wrong. I've checked a few Japanese sites and what the Japanese Wiki page for
Dragonball seems to be correct.
Specifically this is the part I'm talking about under the ゲーム section:
* ドラゴンボールZ外伝 サイヤ人絶滅計画
（ファミリーコンピュータ、1993年8月6日、バンダイ）
That's the entry for the Famicom (ファミリーコンピュータ) RPG with a release date of 8/6/1993 and then below you have this:
* ドラゴンボールZ 真サイヤ人絶滅計画 -地球編-
（プレイディア、1994年9月23日、バンダイ）
That's the Playdia (プレイディア) interactive game with a release date of 9/23/1994 -- more than a year after the Famicom RPG.
(Anyone care to tell me what 地球編 means? I imagine something like "interactive" or "revisited" or some such, but I couldn't get anything with a quick dictionary search.)
Most of this false information is propagated by fanboys who don't know what the fuck they're talking about (not meaning you, Aganar) and can't be bothered to do any actual research.
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