About Legends of Localization
All Legends of Localization Books
Book 1: The Legend of Zelda
Book 2: EarthBound
This be book bad translation, video games!
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I'm Stuck in a Video Game
Informative / Educational Articles
Funny / Entertaining Articles
All 434 Articles (newest to oldest)
All Articles (by game series)
All Articles (by category)
All 18 Game Translation Comparisons
Super Mario RPG (live comparison)
All 24 Projects (by category)
Google-Translated Final Fantasy IV
Wanderbar Emulator Tool
Translation Cataloguing & Research
MOTHER 3 Fan Translation Process
All 136 Game Series
All 398 Games
Bad Translations
All 20 Bad Translation Pages
Games with Famous Bad Translations INTO Japanese
Bad Game Translation Hall of Fame
Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
Alice in the Heart ~Wonderful Wonder World~
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What personal data the site collects and why
When visitors leave comments on the site, the site collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
I don't pay attention to IP addresses myself but this site uses IPs to weed out spammers and jerks
IPs are also used here to redirect spambots to other spambot setups
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I've learned that people really want to know about Vivian
A speedy site is better than the most powerful trap card
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I don't use local cookies to follow or track you on the site
A simple counter cookie is used to tell if you're a new-ish visitor or not, but only to show an extra box that explains the purpose of this weird site
New Article Notification System
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I use Google Analytics to see site trends, never to do anything evil, if that's even possible with Google Analytics
Although I might use Google Analytics to determine who's a townsperson and who's a dog
Who I share your data with
I hate sites and companies that share users' data so I ain't gonna share anyone's data here. Of course, you can't even sign up for user accounts here like normal anyway!
Wait this isn't a messed up screenshot, oops
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If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the site can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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Always know your rights and always be caution
Attack your attacker and YOU become the attacker - and sometimes that original attacker isn't a tangible thing
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You know how when couch potatoes watch sports, some get angry and yell at players as if they were genuine super-experts who could do better? That same thing happens with translators all the time, so my hope is that the Legends of Localization series will help explain what it's like to actually be in the translation trenches.
- Clyde Mandelin
Twitter @ClydeMandelin
Learning Japanese
& Becoming a Translator