Hey Someone, Localize Game Center CX - Kotaku Comments

Hey Someone, Localize Game Center CX

tkshredder — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:43:42 MST

@fuchikoma: Yeah, the problem is getting financial support to do something like this. Between my current job which keeps me busy, working on my own game, and playing the gazillions of new titles coming out right now, I'm booked until next year with stuff to keep me occupied!

Honestly speaking though, I am seriously looking for a job in the games industry right now - and I think translating something like this would be a really cool job and actually _could_ be a success with the proper marketing background. I mean, sure, it'd be hard pressed to sell more than 100K copies here in the US, but still I think there are 1) enough hard core fans that would go for it, and 2) retro games have a lot of potential in this market. it would just have to be at a very affordable price ($20 launch price or something like that).

tkshredder

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muu — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:22:49 MST

Sub the show, and watch it get spread around on torrents to half-interested folks that won't pay for the DVDs whether it was available or not? And then release a game on the show, which also gets warezed to hell?

Fansubs may have been great and all to catch the attention of bored adolescents looking for free ways to kill time, but it's long been way out of control. At least a few years ago people pretended to to want to buy DVDs when they came out...

muu

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denki — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:45:37 MST

While DS owners are a little more supportive of software for their system than PSP owners, the likelyhood of this game being ported is about nil to a million. Take, for example, Baito Hell 2000 for the PSP. Sold huge quantities in Japan, became a Greatest Hit title, known for its quirky nostalgic mini-game gameplay, great humor, etc. When it was ported over by D3 into WTF it had about as much impact as a fart in a hurricane. Even though by porting a game you sidestep a lot of dev costs, the amount of people that would buy this game stateside is so small that whoever ported it would make no profit. We'll see as ja.wiki lists that this game goes on sale today in Japan, so maybe if it breaks New Super Mario Bros in sales it'll get ported. Not likely.

denki

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marcus_ivo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:53:54 MST

Yeah I was looking for a subbed version of the show too

marcus_ivo

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sabishii — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:20:34 MST

I was surprised to find that there don't seem to be fansubs yet.

sabishii

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jacksinn — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:03:46 MST

I miss the 80s except pretty much everything about it.

jacksinn

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onomeister — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:07:01 MST

*drools* ...Oh man! Gotta get me this game... <---Child of the Eighties

onomeister

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Benjo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:34:53 MST

Nice, I really liked the Wired article on this.

Benjo

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fuchikoma — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:27:15 MST

@tkshredder:

You have the perfect combination of skills to do a ROM hack of it then... there are tool packs out there just for that purpose if you look hard enough. Don't know what it's like on DS though - if there's any encryption or something like that, but when I played with translating Gyakuten Saiban 3 on GBA it was pretty easy (stalled out though because the tool pack was incomplete and the guy heading the project vanished :/)

fuchikoma

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tkshredder — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:57:40 MST

Man I would love to work on a localization project like this. Seriously, I am a programmer / graphic designer / Japanese translator by trade, looking to get into the games industry. Would love to start by working on some zany project like this. Maybe I could too Arino-san? Anyway, great article about Game Center CX, Bash!

Word.

tkshredder

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DaiMacculate — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:14:03 MST

@Onizuka-GTO: *slow clap*

DaiMacculate

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Onizuka-GTO — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:02:54 MST

what??! mini-games again?

How DARE THEY!

When are they going to bring out REAL games?!

You need guns and blood, zombies and assassins, aliens! not these old childish games for childish people, which are not worth it because they aren't 1080p like XBLA!

daammn you nintendo, your making a mockery of us Hardcore gamers, you and your simple formula's and girl pulling money spinning advertisement filth!

*buys three copies*

Onizuka-GTO

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hondo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:02:18 MST

I would love it if someone subbed the show and brought over the game. It sounds like fun ^_^ I love retro stuff.

hondo