Becoming a Pro Translator (Part 1)

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | Japan Stuff, Translation | 19 Comments

The Road to Becoming a Professional Japanese->English Translator I’ve been a pro J->E translator for a good while now, and as time goes on I get asked more and more about how to become a professional Japanese to English translator, and more specifically, how to get into professionally translating stuff like anime, manga, games, and all that good stuff. So I thought I’d toss toget... Read More >>>

Translation Stuff

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | Translation | 9 Comments

It’s not completely done yet, but I’ve been working on a page listing all the professional and unofficial translations I’ve done in the past or am currently working on. I didn’t realize I’d done quite that much stuff. Crazy. My translations Someday, if I can find the time, I’d like to write tiny individual pages for each thing, the little descriptions there don&... Read More >>>

MOTHER 1+2 Translation

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | EarthBound Stuff, Translation, Videos | 57 Comments

A couple weeks ago I still had the itch to do some light GBA ROM hacking, so I gave the MOTHER 1 part of MOTHER 1+2 a look. It’s been a breeze to hack, and I got most of the hacking done in a few days. I plan to do a retranslation of the game from scratch, plus a few other improvements, some of which are already seen in these screens and video. Some of the things you can expect from th... Read More >>>

EarthBoundX

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | EarthBound Stuff, Games | 3 Comments

I just realized that it’s almost been a decade since I wrote my old EarthBoundX game. In late 1998, I had just gotten a book about DirectX game programming and wanted to make something simple to learn the ropes. Eventually I decided to do an Arkanoid/Breakout-style game, but I wanted it to be something more exciting. So eventually I decided to give it an EarthBound theme. Before long, I had... Read More >>>

Ninja Turtle Demo ROM

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | Games | 8 Comments

I found this in some old backups of mine. It’s a neat NES ROM, but never fear, it’s not a commercial ROM. I think it was created by sarsie in very early 2001. I can’t remember for sure, it’s been so long. Anyway, it’s just a tech demo showing off what can be done. Pretty cool for an old Nintendo console! Not to mention the rush of nostalgia that the song brings TMN... Read More >>>

Bahamut Lagoon Promo Video

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | Games, Videos | 4 Comments

I ran across this just now. It’s a shame Bahamut Lagoon never got an official translation back in the 90s. Square’s games back then had such a great feel to them. Their remakes and stuff nowadays feel so lifeless though. If I ever get the time, it’d be nice to go back and make a new version of the Bahamut Lagoon patch I worked on. I’m pretty sure I’m a much better tra... Read More >>>

A MOTHER 2 Debug Staff Member Talks

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | EarthBound Stuff | 3 Comments

The other day, while looking to see if any Japanese sites had any info on the MOTHER 2 debug menus (I couldn’t find any, incidentally), I ran across an old diary post on the Sarugakucho site. Sarugakucho is a company that assists game companies in various ways to make them better. Our King of Games friend who got us connected with all sorts of people works there, too. Anyway, I found this jo... Read More >>>

Round-up

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | EarthBound Stuff, Games, Translation | 11 Comments

Many things I should mention before I forget them. I dumped about 80-90% of all the text in Tomato Adventure. Also wrote an insertor for all the text. There’s just a lot more of it than I expected, like 400 KB. That’s not an insane amount, but it’s even more than Bahamut Lagoon had, for example. The main problem is that there can only be like 19 letters per line, and that’... Read More >>>