It’s been too long! Scanlating (translating a scanned comic) is a minor hobby of mine, and I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve done in the past. Now I’ve finished another, with the help of a new collaborator, Kasplat from the DKVine forums, who is a great guy and very easy to work with.

Some background for the comic: it’s by no means an official comic. In fact, Spain got a little bit shafted by Nintendo of Europe, which focused mostly on Germany and France. That’s my understanding, anyway, who knows if it’s accurate. Anyway the magazine Hobby Consolas covers Nintendo, Sega, everything, and has been doing so since the NES days. At some point they started running a comic contest: their readers would draw some pages, send it in, and they would pick the best ones. The first contest focused on Dragonball, which was absolutely huge at the time. Later annual entries expanded into general video games.

This comic comes from the 1997 1st Grand Concurso of “Mangas & Videogames”, the name of the contest and also the book that many entries were printed in, that the magazine sold separately. The comics are so wacky and crazy, no rules at all. Some even have gratuitous nudity, swearing, violence. Anything goes with these Spanish teenagers. I picked this one because it was centred around Zelda I guess.

It was done by Jose Luis Platero Pérez. Watch out for the many cameos, and some of the jokes of course have to be explained, thus ruining them. I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Incidentally, I found the Hobby Consolas comics generally through the Opentrain scanlation group. Their website is down right now, but Cryomancer told me they were working to fix it. If you like this insane crap, go give them a look and a nice comment. (EDIT: It’s back at a new URL.)

You can either download this scanlation in .cbz format for comic readers (it’s really small this time), or view a web gallery on Flickr (probably not the best image site just for viewing, but I like it, it’s easy to use). Thanks for reading and spread the word!

http://www.mediafire.com/download/248j7od9ens25h9

http://www.flickr.com/photos/miloscat/sets/72157635910236275/