• 2 Japanese Games with Unexpected MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice References

  Japanese games are full of pop culture references - you just have to know where to look.

• A New Way of Playing Japanese and English Games Side-By-Side

  I worked some technical magic to play games in a weird new way. Here's how my prototype worked.

• Legends of Localization Projects in 2018

  New books, new software, new gadgets, and new discoveries are on the horizon.

• Link’s Gender in Early Zelda Games

  These are classic examples of how Japanese grammar and pronouns can have a profound effect on a translation.

• Localization Roundup #2

  Includes: Final Wii shop games, Zelda: LttP beta scans, 7 fan translations, Dragon Ball problems, voice recognition failure.

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Japanese / English) [SFC/SNES]

  Over 1500 organized screenshots from the Japanese and English versions of the game.

• 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!

• The Many Translations of the “Lost Woods”

  Zelda, Mario, Pokémon, and many other games have the same forest name in Japanese, but not in English. Here's why.

• Tricky Translations #1: Maou & Daimaou

  These two simple words are tricky to translate. Here's why, and how they've been translated since the 1980s!

• Video Games and Japan’s Three Main Writing Systems

  Japanese game text has transformed in a unique way since the 1970s. Here's a look at how and why.