Game Crimes Episode 5 - Fan Translations Game Crimes Podcast

Episode 5 - Fan Translations

Description: Part 1 of our new 3-part series on video game communities, we explore the wild world of fan translations. What motivates someone to hack a video game into another language when it may not be legal to do so and how do game companies benefit from the exhaustive labor of fandom?

GAME CRIMES is a history project by Mike Bachmann (Greetings Adventures Podcast, Roll for Streetwise) and Jay Munford (SHU Podcast, Poor Skeleton Games) detailing the black market history of video games. Each podcast covers a single topic, provides some historical context and reviews a few games related to the topic. On the GAME CRIMES interactive streams, Mike and Jay answer questions, give how-to demonstrations and play these games for the first time.

Games Reviewed:
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure (Windows) by Kinotrope
LSD: Dream Emulator (Playstation) by Asmik Ace

Music:
First Step Towards Wars from Ys I + II by Yuzo Koshiro (NEC PC Engine CD-ROM)
Nostalgia from Final Fantasy V by Nobuo Uematsu, interpreted by Orchestral Fantasy (SNES)
Final Climax of the Fighting Queen & Magic Girl Part 3 from Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 by Toshiaki Sakodo, Masanobu Tsukamoto (MSX)
Gallant Battle (Guitar Version) from Valkyria Chronicles III by Hitoshi Sakimoto (Sony PSP)
Mimiga Town from Cave Story by Pixel (Windows)
A Miracle is Coming from Tobal No. 2 by Takayuki Nakamura (PS1)
Battle #58 from Ys IV: Dawn of Ys by Atsushi Shirakawa, Naoki Kaneda, Takahiro Tsunashima, Masaru Nakajima (NEC PC Engine CD-ROM)

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BIG THANKS to Steph, our (brave & intrepid) editor. You can find her at @StephOKingston

0:00
First Step Towards Wars from Ys I + II by Yuzo Koshiro (NEC PC Engine CD-ROM)

0:28
Introduction!

2:27
Nostalgia from Final Fantasy V by Nobuo Uematsu, interpreted by Orchestral Fantasy (SNES)

2:49
A Brief History of Fan Translations

10:52
Final Climax of the Fighting Queen & Magic Girl Part 3 from Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 by Toshiaki Sakodo, Masanobu Tsukamoto (MSX)

11:19
Are Fan Translations Legal?

18:18
Gallant Battle (Guitar Version) from Valkyria Chronicles III by Hitoshi Sakimoto (Sony PSP)

18:44
Reading Series - Excerpts from "A Peek into the Underground World of Fan-Translated Games" by Alexa Ray Corriea, available at https://www.polygon.com/2014/5/14/5335288/fan-translations-japanese-western-localization-translation-games

30:21
Gallant Battle (Guitar Version) from Valkyria Chronicles III by Hitoshi Sakimoto (Sony PSP)

30:55
Why is Fan Translation Necessary? Notes from Woosley

39:00
Mimiga Town from Cave Story by Pixel (Windows)

39:20
How to Access Fan Translations

46:43
A Miracle's Coming from Tobal No. 2 by Takayuki Nakamura (PS1)

47:06
REVIEW: Garage: Bad Dream Adventure (Windows) by Kinotrope

58:30
REVIEW: LSD: Dream Emulator (Playstation) by Asmik Ace

1:07:25
Signoff

1:09:15
Battle #58 from Ys IV: Dawn of Ys by Atsushi Shirakawa, Naoki Kaneda, Takahiro Tsunashima, Masaru Nakajima (NEC PC Engine CD-ROM)