A few weeks ago I got the urge to see how to program NES games. I only spent a couple hours on it but I managed to figure out graphics, sprites, palettes, and input. For a test, I made it so you can move a Sky Runner from EarthBound around: There’s not much to do [...]
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What Up With Bahumat?
April 29th, 2012
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I just realized it’s been like ten years since we released the Bahamut Lagoon translation patch. I haven’t played it in many, many years, but I know I could do so much better with it, what with my ten years of professional experience since then. Maybe one of these days I’ll do a detailed Let’s [...]
I Play Bunny Beyblade
April 3rd, 2012
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Many years ago I worked on a show called Beyblade, which, if you’re here, you probably know was a show meant to advertise toys to schoolchildren. My friends and I liked to make fun of it and its craziness, and somehow a weird combination of leftover Easter Peeps candy and Beyblade overdose led to this: [...]
Not Translating
March 9th, 2012
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For some reason Stevesesy made a post about me working on a new fan translation for a Super Famicom game (here), but it’s not true at all. I wish it was, but I have no time for big fan translation projects anymore, and if I WERE working on something I would announce it on here [...]
Shin-chan Snack for Sale!
February 19th, 2012
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Many years ago I worked on the Shin-chan anime for FUNimation. Throughout the anime there’s a snack called Chocobees that Shin absolutely loves. It even appeared in some of the episodes FUNi licensed: Eventually, they made this snack for real! I’ve been keeping one for a while now, but since I’m decluttering the place maybe [...]
Getting Rid of Stuff
February 11th, 2012
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I’ve been selling a lot of stuff of mine on eBay lately, but I have a bunch of stuff I know wouldn’t sell for very much and that I’d end up losing money on if I listed them. So I’m planning on either donating these or giving them out to anyone here who’s interested. If [...]
A Japanese ROM Isn’t Always a ROM
February 4th, 2012
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Some years ago, when I was reading the Mother 1 or 2 novel I think, I read in the afterword that the author had gotten an advance copy of the game so she could start writing the novel early on. I was confused though, because she said she had gotten a “ROM”. Given that the [...]
My Old Square Rejection Letter
December 31st, 2011
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The past month or two I’ve been decluttering my place and slimming down a lot of my merchandise collections by selling it on eBay (you can check out some of my stuff here!) While cleaning out one of my closets a few weeks ago I stumbled upon this – a rejection letter from Square. I [...]
Final Fantasy III (US) with FFII (US) Map Graphics
November 4th, 2011
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Over on the RHDN forums Zeemis posted a patch that changes all the map graphics in FF3us to look like FF2us. I love the FF2 map style so seeing the FF3 world map like this in that style is like, “Whoa, it feels like a totally different game now!” Here’s the thread with pics and [...]
Mario Contest Results!
October 21st, 2011
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A while back I posted a contest/drawing for a beat-up Japanese Super Mario Bros. manual I used for my SMB localization page. Basically, people who posted their stories about their first time playing Super Mario Bros. and one winner would be chosen (see here). Well, here’s the winning result, courtesy of Ms. Poe: I’ll contact [...]
