• Classic Game Translations Keep Changing Quietly Over Time

  Classic games mutate slightly with each new port, remake, or update patch.

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

  I Google-Translated an entire video game one day, then wrote a book about it.

• Game Localization & Nintendo of America’s Content Policies in the 1990s

  Nintendo's content policies in the 1990s shaped an early era of game translation.

• Geno’s Introduction in Super Mario RPG

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

• Localization Oversights in PETA’s Parody of Super Mario RPG

  Any parody of a foreign, translated game is bound to be strange.

• Super Mario RPG Translation Comparison (Live)

  New technology lets us examine this translation in a new way!

• Super Mario RPG’s Culex in Japanese

  This secret Final Fantasy-themed boss was a bit different in Japanese.

• The Many Japanese Pop-Culture References in Super Mario RPG

  The Japanese script is filled with references that were lost in translation.

• Wanderbar (SNES, NES, & GB/GBC/GBA) Overview

  I glued an emulator to a web browser to create a tool for studying translations.