I'm happy EarthBound fans are still making a million cool things for other fans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_nJ... (MOTHER Direct) #earthbound

-BOUND TO THE DARK WORLD- A project 2 years in the making A ROMHACK of Earthbound that recreates Deltarune Chapter 1 in its entirety Experience Deltarune as if it were made in the 90's Available (for free!) October 31st, 2025 See you on Halloween

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Poemato CX fans, we're streaming later today! www.twitch.tv/clydemandelin Playing some of my old, weird, unreleased, and unfinished spooky games, including "Kowa Kowa 4" and "3.14"

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

I want to print this #Yakuza game image on a poster for my walls, is there a jpg or dumped file anywhere online? #newyorkstyle

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I updated my "Lost Woods" article! I've added more examples of how 迷いの森 (mayoi no mori) has been translated in many different ways into English legendsoflocalization.com/articles/los...

[From an old Japanese-to-English #translation contest some years back] We can see how often people translated しょうがない (shō ga nai) as "it can't be helped" during this contest - a surprisingly low 6%!

Old Poemato CX fans, we streamed yesterday for the first time in a long time! And of course it was #Zelda again www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6g...

It's the 17th(?) anniversary of the #Mother3 fan translation's release! Enjoy this video of our best development glitches! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fXe...

Current mood

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay, so I hope you'll play my work-in-progress game demo about #Choctaw language and culture: tomatogame.itch.io/halito-tomato OR if you'd just rather read about the backstory instead, it would make me very happy: halito.tomato.game/about/ Thanks for your time! YAKOKE!

From my book about #Undertale 's official English-to-Japanese translation I'd like to expand on this for an article on my site, so if you have any examples of "imprinting" situations in fandoms, please let me know Some quick examples include FF4, FF6, Trails in the Sky, what else?

Some old advice about starting big projects (game translation projects in my case, but a lot of it is probably universal) #gametranslation

Looking through my old Wanderbar dev folders, I REALLY want to continue developing/streaming this stuff sometime Right now I'm especially interested in doing a comparison of Working Designs' Lunar games for Sega CD someday (for reference: legendsoflocalization.com/research/wan... ) #emulation

You encounter the Sweltering Snowman. Posted for no reason in particular. (made by @reidman.bsky.social and @clydemandelin.bsky.social for an April Fool's 1999 joke)

The Choctaw word for "shoot / fire / emit" is super-close to Chinese (Southern Min) & Japanese - hear it for yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQS... #放射

While studying Choctaw last year, I decided to revisit this comedic & stereotype-heavy JRPG about Native Americans Unfortunately, this game remains Japanese-only after all these decades legendsoflocalization.com/videos/tenga... #nativeamerican #retrogames

- "If the shoe fits..." - "This game stinks" - "More fun than a ferret down your trousers" What are some other crazy game marketing quotes?

Years ago I made a bare-bones "EarthBound with Smash Bros.-style battles" game in a day or two - mostly to get it out of my system & to teach me basic Unity animation #gamedev #earthbound #smashbros I don't intend to revisit it but here it is if you want to try it! tomatogame.itch.io/fartbound

A while ago I posted this "What is Localization?" PDF thing It's a full chapter from my Undertale localization book if you're interested! cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00... #translation #localization #undertale

I recently started watching One Piece with my wife, starting from the beginning, it's been fun revisiting the series and sharing memories I have from helping to officially translate it around 18 years ago #onepiece #anime #translation

I forgot about this, I wonder if it was the same in Japanese #earthbound #mother2

Humanity's words for "bird" - we can faintly start to see underlying patterns as we plot them on a map 🍅 (this is from my halito.tomato.game - this Rosetta Stone wall of words is interactive, so YOU can make hundreds of your own maps too!) #linguistics #gamedev #nativeamerican

Back in 2018 I wrote an article about "political references added to video game translations" Then I did it again, a few weeks ago in 2025, so here is PART 2! legendsoflocalization.com/articles/pol... #translation #politics #翻訳

Every couple of years I get the urge to make more games again. Here are some games I made back when I was in high school - some games were for school projects instead of doing boring written reports #gamedev #nostalgia #gaming

Hey it's been like 7 years since my MOTHER 3 Timeline article: legendsoflocalization.com/articles/mot... Has any new stuff happened in the years since? I've been super out of the loop the past few years so I'm curious to know what's been going on in my old hometown of EarthBound fandom #earthbound

Testing testing, hopefully this works? I started to study the Choctaw language last year - it's fascinating how it seems to connect to ALL of the world's languages, stretching back 1000s of years. I hope to keep studying it in unusual, modern ways: halito.tomato.game #日本語 #choctaw #translation