Personal background: Me and this game go way back. It's what made me decide to learn Japanese, what made me pursue foreign language studies, and what basically got me to pursue what I now do as career (translation). It's developed by Love-de-Lic, which has developed somewhat of a cult following. Moon is their magnum opus, so to speak, and has a bit of a following outside of Japan despite never having been released in English. I actually translated the game 100% and was working with a hacker to get that out some years back, something I need to follow up on since I think it's long overdue. Anyway, I've always been curious about the unreleased localization of Moon for PSX. I first learned of it from a preview in the September 1997 issue of Gamefan that claimed it would get a 1st quarter US release. That never happened, but apparently the game was already being prepared for localization as early as E3 of that year. The video below shows a small preview of an in-progress build with a localized Moon logo. Skip to 1:07:22 I spoke briefly with Mark Johnson, who was the producer for the game at ASCII's US branch, and he couldn't remember why it was cancelled anymore. I'm wondering if any of the sleuths here ever came across samples of the game, or if any materials involving its localization are out there. Since I am especially interested in any early versions of the game, finding a copy of any samples of it from during its early localization would be a dream. This may be too obscure of a title for many to know, but this is the home of the obscure...
I would love to see a translation of this game. I own it, but haven't been able to get into it due to the language barrier.