FODS exists but support is sparse... really I just want like, CSVs with rich text and maybe annotations.

Translators being part of a translation project's workflow makes crediting way easier.

That's awesome.

I've been curious about tooling for Wonderswan patches, how do you guys usually do your workflow? I've been meaning to dig into Medarot PE at some point.

Yeah, it feels like bolding or italics work better for emphasis in English. I'm also a sucker for text effects.

Breath of Fire 3's use of text effects made that game's dialogue feel so alive.

Been meaning to try Hyde with Arch. It looks so nifty.

Content is pretty subjective anyway though.

Working Designs Lunar? 🚮, the un-working designs versions were eye-opening.

The Dragon Quest DS SQEX localizations? Fantastic, made me fall in love with the series. From what I've been told, they've taken liberties (e.g., accents, naming)

On "anti-preservation", it kinda also speaks to the public perception impact of a first/most easily accessible translation of a release... if it's poorly done or riddled with subjective shenanigans, I'd consider that transformative (derogatory).

Good question tbh.

Whenever we did a release of the Medarot stuff, preserving the original Japanese terms for things, we also pushed out a Medabots version with terms from the prior localization work... is a loc like that transformative? Was the original preservation...?

Yeah, it seems OK for releases but I wonder if there's a good replacement for the forums as a hub for technical discussion.

Discord kinda sucks.

I wonder if foobar still works...

Wonder if Koei would give me Metamode.

Since he mentioned games being playable only on virtual console as sad, I saw it as a concern about the mediums constantly evolving/changing compared to film/video.

Just feels like a stance of "how to most effectively propel IP forward" and film being a more logical medium. IMO, both are great.

We, as a society, should've gotten everyone hooked on biometric secured hardware keys years ago.

Fuck, what do you mean I need to fight the fat bug again except this time with lava and adds that spit lava.

You could argue that a this isn't particularly valuable in GB games where you often only see two lines of text at a time and I would argue that you're just a hater who doesn't believe in aesthetics.

Medarot 1 and 3 actually did dynamic line breaks to handle variable text, and it somewhat defeats the purpose to assume the longest length string, so hmm, I may have to consider how to implement this...