• Final Fantasy IV Translation Comparison: Tower of Bab-il 2

  As Edge is reunited with his monstrous parents, we encounter some small localization changes.

• Final Fantasy Legend II’s Opium Replaced with Bananas in English

  This change was a result of Nintendo of America's content policies in the 1990s.

• Final Fantasy VI’s Secret “Scrap of Paper Scene” in Japanese

  Let's examine this lesser-known line in Final Fantasy VI's script.

• Final Fantasy X’s Weird Blitzball Kid in Japanese

  This little kid was weird in Japanese too... at first.

• Geno’s Introduction in Super Mario RPG

  This character's introduction in English was a little stranger in Japanese.

• Guest Article: Behind the Screens with Heroland’s Localizers

  Translators and non-translators seem to have very different definitions for the term "localization".

• Guest Article: How to Screw Up a Translation – A Postmortem

  Learning from others' mistakes can help you grow too.

• How Tales of Phantasia’s “Ragnarok” Became “Kangaroo” in Translation

  Rumor has it Microsoft Word's spell-check was the cause.

• Interview: Ted Woolsey (Super Play Magazine, Sep. 1994)

  Topics include Final Fantasy IV, V, and VI, Breath of Fire, and Secret of Evermore.

• Japanese Pop-Culture References in Cadash’s Secret Room

  The developers reference Japanese TV commercials from the 1990s and more.