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Come Watch E3 with us!

Although not strictly Ace Attorney related, at around this time of year a bunch of AA fans gather together to watch companies that aren’t Capcom showcase their latest offerings, all while asking each other where all the lawyers are.

That’s right, it’s E3 time, and as always Court Records will be hosting live viewings of each of the major conferences. While we don’t normally expect AA news at any of these except maybe Nintendo’s, it’s always a fun time chatting about the more general state of the gaming world with like-minded people, so please make sure to join us there.

Make sure to follow us on https://twitter.com/CourtRecords_ to see when we’re going live. As always, the streams will be hosted on http://cytube.court-records.net/r/CR.

Court Records is looking for staff!

Hey all, as you may know Court Records is in the process of a site overhaul, and we need some more support from the community to be able to get it up and running; specifically, we’re in the need of a new front-end developer, and new copywriters for the site’s various resources.

You can find out more about the developer job at https://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=33012, and the copywriter job at https://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=33011.

If you’re interested or have any questions, feel free to drop us a line at courtrecord@gmail.com

Thanks!

DGS Fan Translation released on 3DS

The ever hard-working Scarlet Study fan translation team have announced that all five episodes of their fan translation of The Great Ace Attorney (Dai Gyakuten Saiban) are now available on 3DS! You can watch a trailer for the release at https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=BQJ3aaHczuw here, and find out more details about the patch and how to download it at https://scarletstudy.gq/2019/03/30/3ds-only-full-game-release-android-slightly-delayed/.

They’ve also announced that work has started on translating the second game, and that the release of the finalised first game on Android isn’t quite ready yet.

This is an amazing effort by an amazing team of translators and programmers, and as Ace Attorney fans who are occasionally ignored by Capcom, it’s fantastic to see such dedicated and talented fans work on bringing the series to its fans outside Japan. A big thank you from everyone at Court Records goes out to them.

AA Trilogy Western Release Date

The Western release date for the HD remaster of the Ace Attorney Trilogy has been revealed as April 9th by Capcom. The game will be digital only in the West, and will release with English and Japanese language support, with French and German to be added in a post-launch update. April 9th will also be the first time the game will release on Steam, and it’s probably the delay in this version of the game that is causing a slight delay in the game’s Western release. PS4 and Steam versions of the game come with a pre-order bonus wallpaper.

You can read more about the game’s Western release from Capcom at http://www.capcom-unity.com/capkel/blog/2019/02/27/phoenix-wright-ace-attorney-trilogy-comes-to-your-favorite-platform-beginning-april-9th

Nintendo Direct 02/13

A new Nintendo Direct has been announced for air tomorrow, and as always Court Records will be hosting a stream of the Direct at http://cytube.court-records.net/r/CR. Although Ace Attorney news is unlikely, we may possibly see a release date announcement for the HD Trilogy in the West.

The Direct airs at 2pm PT, 5pm ET, 10pm GMT and 11pm CET.

In addition, if you don’t follow our twitter, you might have missed some smaller items of Ace Attorney related news, including the fact that the soundtracks for most of the games have been recently released on Spotify. You can find them by searching for ‘Capcom Sound Team’.

In order to promote the AA Trilogy remaster, Capcom has also released a remaster of an old Ace Attorney Investigations trailer, which features the Steel Samurai theme song with lyrics. You can find that here.

We hope to see some of you at the stream!

After first being teased way back in 2014, First 4 Figures has finally unveiled its Phoenix Wright statue, which opens for pre-orders on Friday 23rd November. You can find out how to pre-order the figure and watch a short video on F4F’s website here (but be warned, they’re usually on the pricey side). Even if you don’t preorder, I think it’s a promising sign that we’re finally seeing some AA merch widely available outside Japan.

Previews for this week’s Famitsu magazine are out, and reveal that the recently announced Ace Attorney Trilogy HD port for PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Steam will be featured in the upcoming issue. We’ll have high definition scans of Famitsu when it’s out. Furthermore, the English Ace Attorney twitter account has announced that it too will be sharing new details about the upcoming ports, likely the same as what will be shared in Famitsu.

For those in Japan, the release date of the port has been announced as February 21st and e-Capcom has also put up its limited edition versions of the game for Switch and PS4. Depending on which version you buy, it comes with a copy of the game, a soundtrack CD, a drama CD, a mini canvas art piece, a buildable Blue Badger kit and even some Steel Samurai trading cards. You can order them at https://www.e-capcom.com/shop/g/gC00003002/

One Hour Anime Special to be broadcast in January

A one hour long prequel episode to the current AA Season 2 is set to air on January 19th at 5.30pm JST. It will reportedly be based on Turnabout Memories. For those in Japan, a special cinema airing of the episode will be shown on the 17th, with special guests Yuki Kaji (Phoenix) and Aoi Yuuki (Maya) talking about the production of the show.

An Ace Attorney Orchestral Concert has been announced for March 30th 2019 in Japan at this year’s TGS.

Ace Attorney Trilogy HD port to be localised

The recently announced AA Trilogy HD port for PS4, Xbox One, Switch and Steam will be localised into English and released in 2019. You can watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYpTj_aUoA&feature=youtu.be