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Have the articles and interviews here ever been translated to English? I'm using Google translate to read them, and they look really, really interesting, but it's also very frustrating, as most of the time I have to guess what they are really talking about. Being able to read the thoughts of the people who created Alex Kidd and other classic Sega games is fantastic though.

I guess making proper translations of all the interviews would be a very huge job, but I am sure many people would be very grateful if someone who knows Japanese did that job ...

http://www.smspower.org/uploads/Translations/PhantasyStar-SMS-EN-videofenky-inte...

Nice! Thanks! Let's hope someone takes it upon themselves to translate the rest of the stuff there.

We could set up some pages for collaborative translation work on those articles if people are interested in doing so. I don't have any ability beyond using a few translation services.

While we wait for that, I stumbled upon some other Sega 8-bit related interviews. Not sure if they have been mentioned on this forum before:

http://www.1up.com/features/yuji-naka-interview-ivy-kiwi
Yuji Naka on programming Girl's Garden (SG-1000) and Phantasy Star (SMS) - and other games. Seems he really likes Girl's Garden, maybe because it was his first game. I even saw another interview where he mentioned that "Girl's Garden" and "Phantasy Star", not any of the Sonic games, where his favourites amongs the ones he had made.

http://magweasel.com/2009/07/31/yuji-naka-discusses-sms-programming/
Yuji Naka on programming Space Harrier and Out Run for the SMS

That link also mentions this book http://www.gameforfun.com/en/product.asp?product_id=10460 which I would love to get my hands on. Anyone here who owns it? Too bad it seems to be in Japanese ...

http://www.g-wie-gorilla.de/content/view/161/18/
Rieko Kodoma about Phantasy Star

tommy1983 wrote

http://sega.jp/archive/album/

Strangely the page doesn't work anymore... :(

It works here. Although only some of the articles work. I guess we will have to use http://archive.org/web/web.php to find the ones that don't.

Well lets hope someone with the time or clout or ability will respond to this request and we can have a lot of stuff translated. I bet some of it makes brilliant reading.

David

tommy1983 wrote

http://www.1up.com/features/yuji-naka-interview-ivy-kiwi
Yuji Naka on programming Girl's Garden (SG-1000) and Phantasy Star (SMS) - and other games. Seems he really likes Girl's Garden, maybe because it was his first game. I even saw another interview where he mentioned that "Girl's Garden" and "Phantasy Star", not any of the Sonic games, where his favourites amongs the ones he had made.

A remake of Girl's Garden? That'd be interesting. I think I'm gonna play it now.

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tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	Translation help Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:53 pm
tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	http://sega.jp/archive/album/ Have the articles and interviews here ever been translated to English? I'm using Google translate to read them, and they look really, really interesting, but it's also very frustrating, as most of the time I have to guess what they are really talking about. Being able to read the thoughts of the people who created Alex Kidd and other classic Sega games is fantastic though. I guess making proper translations of all the interviews would be a very huge job, but I am sure many people would be very grateful if someone who knows Japanese did that job ...

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 8985 Location: London	Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:11 pm
	http://www.smspower.org/uploads/Translations/PhantasyStar-SMS-EN-videofenky-inte...

tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:27 pm
tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	Nice! Thanks! Let's hope someone takes it upon themselves to translate the rest of the stuff there.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 8985 Location: London	Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:50 am
	We could set up some pages for collaborative translation work on those articles if people are interested in doing so. I don't have any ability beyond using a few translation services.

tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:26 am
tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	While we wait for that, I stumbled upon some other Sega 8-bit related interviews. Not sure if they have been mentioned on this forum before: http://www.1up.com/features/yuji-naka-interview-ivy-kiwi Yuji Naka on programming Girl's Garden (SG-1000) and Phantasy Star (SMS) - and other games. Seems he really likes Girl's Garden, maybe because it was his first game. I even saw another interview where he mentioned that "Girl's Garden" and "Phantasy Star", not any of the Sonic games, where his favourites amongs the ones he had made. http://magweasel.com/2009/07/31/yuji-naka-discusses-sms-programming/ Yuji Naka on programming Space Harrier and Out Run for the SMS That link also mentions this book http://www.gameforfun.com/en/product.asp?product_id=10460 which I would love to get my hands on. Anyone here who owns it? Too bad it seems to be in Japanese ... http://www.g-wie-gorilla.de/content/view/161/18/ Rieko Kodoma about Phantasy Star

gallos_11 Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 105 Location: Greece	Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:35 am
	tommy1983 wrote http://sega.jp/archive/album/ Strangely the page doesn't work anymore... :(

tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:41 am
tommy1983 Joined: 18 Dec 2009 Posts: 89 Location: Norway	It works here. Although only some of the articles work. I guess we will have to use http://archive.org/web/web.php to find the ones that don't.

IPexpress Joined: 26 Jun 2012 Posts: 3 Location: Cramlington	Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:36 pm
	Well lets hope someone with the time or clout or ability will respond to this request and we can have a lot of stuff translated. I bet some of it makes brilliant reading. David

gregglesaurus Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Sydney, Australia	Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:47 am
	tommy1983 wrote http://www.1up.com/features/yuji-naka-interview-ivy-kiwi Yuji Naka on programming Girl's Garden (SG-1000) and Phantasy Star (SMS) - and other games. Seems he really likes Girl's Garden, maybe because it was his first game. I even saw another interview where he mentioned that "Girl's Garden" and "Phantasy Star", not any of the Sonic games, where his favourites amongs the ones he had made. A remake of Girl's Garden? That'd be interesting. I think I'm gonna play it now.

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