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Fans Are Digitising And Translating A Persona Trading Card Game From The Late 90s

In Real Life

5 months ago

Fans Are Digitising And Translating A Persona Trading Card Game From The Late 90s

Zack Zwiezen

New Phantasy Star English Patch Was 14 Years In The Making

Retro

6 months ago

New Phantasy Star English Patch Was 14 Years In The Making

Alexandra Hall

PlayStation

7 months ago

Cult 1998 PlayStation Game LSD: Dream Emulator Is Finally Playable In English

Alexandra Hall

Obscure game lovers got a surprising treat this past week when ROM hackers released an English translation of the cult-classic 1998 Japanese PlayStation exclusive LSD: Dream Emulator.

JRPG Publisher Removes Producer From New Game’s Credits Because She Left The Company [UPDATE]

In Real Life

1 year ago

JRPG Publisher Removes Producer From New Game’s Credits Because She Left The Company [UPDATE]

Zack Zwiezen

5

The Western Version Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Has Less Body-Shaming

In Real Life

3 years ago

The Western Version Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Has Less Body-Shaming

Heather Alexandra

34

Clyde Mandelin is best known for his fan translation of Mother 3 and maintains the website Legends of Localisation, where he looks at games’ original scripts and how they changed in the localisation process. He applied his expertise to examine how localisers got rid of some body shaming in The…

NIS America Is Redoing Ys 8’s Shoddy Localisation

In Real Life

3 years ago

NIS America Is Redoing Ys 8’s Shoddy Localisation

Mike Fahey

5

PlayStation

3 years ago

The First Few Lines Of Final Fantasy 7 Are A Little Different In Japanese

Tim Rogers

5

Developer Tries To Fix Switch Game’s Bad Translation, Makes It Worse

In Real Life

4 years ago

Developer Tries To Fix Switch Game’s Bad Translation, Makes It Worse

Chris Kohler

4

A month ago, we brought you the news that Vroom in the Night Sky, one of the few Nintendo Switch games currently available, would be losing its highly questionable but ultimately adorable bad English translation and getting a rewrite. That rewrite is now here, and it’s… worse, somehow.