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Some old advice about starting big projects (game translation projects in my case, but a lot of it is probably universal)

#gametranslation

Looking through my old Wanderbar dev folders, I REALLY want to continue developing/streaming this stuff sometime

Right now I'm especially interested in doing a comparison of Working Designs' Lunar games for Sega CD someday

(for reference: legendsoflocalization.com/research/wan... ) #emulation

Wow, that's great! I'm glad it helped 👍

An image of a fake "Sweltering Snowman" encounter in the game EarthBound, made by Starmen.net users reidman and Tomato for an April Fool's 1999 joke.

You encounter the Sweltering Snowman.

Posted for no reason in particular.

(made by @reidman.bsky.social and @clydemandelin.bsky.social for an April Fool's 1999 joke)

Back in the day when we made this, I added a secret pixel in the corner somewhere as a "watermark" to prove it was fake and by us

Or at least that's what I vaguely recall

YouTube video by Clyde Mandelin "Fire / Shoot / Emit / 放射" in Choctaw, Chinese (Southern Min), and Japanese

The Choctaw word for "shoot / fire / emit" is super-close to Chinese (Southern Min) & Japanese - hear it for yourself!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQS... #放射

Chicago is mostly a huge tower dungeon

Legends of Localization: [Stream VOD] Tengai Makyō: The Apocalypse IV Translation & Analysis Let's examine Japanese stereotypes about America in this weird JRPG!

While studying Choctaw last year, I decided to revisit this comedic & stereotype-heavy JRPG about Native Americans

Unfortunately, this game remains Japanese-only after all these decades

legendsoflocalization.com/videos/tenga... #nativeamerican #retrogames

This is all so great, I need to learn more about the gaming culture of each region from the era now, I'll need to invent a new type of university where I can take such courses

Haha, Sans' origin story was Zelda III

Oh man, I forgot about the Finger ad for EB, what a weird set of ads they ALL were

Makes me wonder what ad ideas DIDN'T make the final cut

What the heck, that feels so non-Zelda in terms of vibe too

- "If the shoe fits..."
- "This game stinks"
- "More fun than a ferret down your trousers"

What are some other crazy game marketing quotes?

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I'm not sure, but I've asked Fangamer in the recent past to post digital versions of it and other "secondary" books that I've written, in order to avoid this exact situation

I'll continue to ask, but if you could ask Fangamer too that might help

(There are no actual fighting mechanics in this game though, because that's the hard part - I mostly just wanted to see how things would look/feel)

Years ago I made a bare-bones "EarthBound with Smash Bros.-style battles" game in a day or two - mostly to get it out of my system & to teach me basic Unity animation #gamedev #earthbound #smashbros

I don't intend to revisit it but here it is if you want to try it! tomatogame.itch.io/fartbound

If we check their hack maybe it'll have the secret ingredient we needed all along

I wonder what their Mr. Saturn text looks like too

whoaaa, that's gonna open up a lot of new potential for things in the future

also I saw that a Chinese team translated Mother 2 (M1+2 gba version) into Chinese thanks to your own English hacking, which is really cool to see and hear

now to remake mother 3 in mother 1's engine

Thanks, I've been trying to work on it for a bit now, these darn technical problems!

A while ago I posted this "What is Localization?" PDF thing

It's a full chapter from my Undertale localization book if you're interested!

cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00... #translation #localization #undertale

A true classic of #nostalgia

youtube.com/clip/Ugkxrao...

Witnessing how a massive epic gets translated in different ways across the lifetime of the original work is a blessing & will be immensely helpful for analyzing how other historic epics have transformed over time too

Who knows, maybe those old Babylonian epics were 4Kids-ified early on too🍭

I've been looking forward to the conclusion for a long time now & am glad to hear it's getting there

As a translator, I'm super excited to see how the patchwork of "chapter by chapter" concurrent translations eventually gets replaced by a single, uniform translation when the series is over

Upon further thought, I wound up making my own Poneglyph last year, better watch out for that Buster Call

#poneglyph #ポーネグリフ #ワンピース

We're watching One Piece on Crunchyroll via Amazon Video. But I'm sad & disappointed that the Japanese audio subtitles have SO many timing issues not present on the DVDs, and at some point Crunchyroll just uses the English dub subtitles instead. There is clearly so much more room for improvement 😔

I recently started watching One Piece with my wife, starting from the beginning, it's been fun revisiting the series and sharing memories I have from helping to officially translate it around 18 years ago

#onepiece #anime #translation

I've always wondered too, but any time I look I can never really find much

My gut feeling is that it might've come from a sudden common source in Japanese sci-fi or other entertainment, it faintly reminds me of how the word "mainframe" was suddenly used a lot in English stuff in the 80s/90s

I forgot about this, I wonder if it was the same in Japanese

#earthbound #mother2

Yuck, YouTube videos don't embed well in bluesky I guess, so here's non-YouTube, let's see how it embeds now