Besides articles and books, I also work on lots of side projects that combine my interests in translation, programming, and classic games.

Tech Projects

These projects involve custom software I designed, some of which is available for anyone to use. Some of these projects also include entertaining write-ups about the development process and how things work under the hood.

• Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment

  I Google-Translated an entire video game one day. The results were so surprising that I even wrote a book about it!

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – Live Japanese Script Viewer

  This custom tool displays the Japanese script live as you play the English game. You can try it for yourself!

• Tomato Adventure Fan Translation Patch & Tools

  This quirky JRPG is the spiritual predecessor of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. It's never been translated... until now.

• Wanderbar SNES, NES, and GB/GBC/GBA Overview

  I glued a Super NES and NES emulator to a web browser to create a useful tool for fans, students, and others.

• MOTHER 1+2 Fan Translation & Tools

  Years ago I translated the first half of this GBA compilation, then shared my tools online.

• MOTHER 3 Fan Translation Dev Blog & Tools

  I chronicled every step of this game's translation process and then shared our custom tools online.

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Video & Streaming Projects

These tend to be much more casual projects that are more fun and interesting than they are useful. For a full list of all our live streams, see here.

• Short Projects

  This is a big batch of smaller videos, usually related to Legends of Localization research I need to do.
  Videos: 28      Duration: 40 hours, 59 minutes

• Bad Translation Screenshot Hunt

  I play through a bunch of famous and obscure games to get specific screenshots of bad translation.
  Videos: 6      Duration: 12 hours, 32 minutes

• Misc. Mario-Related Projects

  Mario is a constant topic in my Legends of Localization research - including live stream projects like these.
  Videos: 14      Duration: 23 hours, 21 minutes

• Misc. Zelda-Related Projects

  I do lots of short Zelda streams and videos for Legends of Localization research.
  Videos: 50      Duration: 26 hours, 52 minutes

• Super Mario Collection

  I test out my custom emulator magic on the Japanese version of Super Mario All-Stars.
  Videos: 11      Duration: 20 hours, 14 minutes

• Historical Game Magazines

  I have hundreds of old Japanese game magazines - let's look through them together!
  Videos: 5      Duration: 9 hours, 33 minutes

• Lagrange Point Translation

  After 15 years, my very first translation ever was released. Let's take a look!
  Videos: 25      Duration: 9 hours, 4 minutes

• Legends of Localization - SAO Hollow Fragment

  Let's screenshot all of the bad translations!
  Videos: 15      Duration: 38 hours, 21 minutes

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Live Game Translations

Creating a single, complete translation patch can take a long time - sometimes it even takes several years. It's hard to find free time like that these days, so I instead prefer to translate games live while I play them. Here are a few such live translation projects.

• Final Fantasy VI T-Edition

  I live-translate the most popular Japanese hack of Final Fantasy VI. It's fun stuff!
  Videos: 251      Duration: 125 hours, 55 minutes

• The Legend of Zelda Prototype

  I play through a Japanese prototype of the first Zelda game while doing research for my Zelda book.
  Videos: 5      Duration: 1 hour, 49 minutes

• Weird Japanese Games About America

  To celebrate America's Independence Day, we play a bunch of weird Japanese games about America.
  Videos: 7      Duration: 3 hours, 10 minutes

• Tengai Makyō: The 4th Apocalypse

  I live-translate this big Japanese RPG set in a parody of America. Lots of cultural insight!
  Videos: 31      Duration: 58 hours, 31 minutes

• Yokai Watch w/ Live Translation

  We live-translate and localize this Japanese smash hit for the 3DS!
  Videos: 250      Duration: 86 hours, 31 minutes

• Tomato Adventure Live English Translation

  Made by the company behind Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga!
  Videos: 57      Duration: 21 hours, 24 minutes

• The Great Hamburger War

  A live translation of a Japanese RPG about religious hamburgers!
  Videos: 6      Duration: 1 hour, 56 minutes

• Action Mogura

  A fun and impressive Japanese indie game!
  Videos: 25      Duration: 8 hours, 57 minutes

• Mato Plays Japanese Games & Demos

  
  Videos: 7      Duration: 1 hour, 21 minutes

• Symphony of the Night in Japanese

  What's the Japanese one like? Let's find out!
  Videos: 9      Duration: 3 hours

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