akualung wrote:
Congratulations on this release! I'm so glad this project has taken flight, now finally the whole Shell Monsters saga is in English! (apart from the gameboy spin-offs that don't look very interesting) Also glad to hear from you again, Wildbill. Hope everything's ok.
Apparently this year has been good for the snes as well. Since that initial scare about Tom and DDS leaving the scene, they came back in the end, released the remaining snes Goemon games and started translating the Super Chinese World ones.
Yep, you good friends convinced me to release. I went through a major move this whole year and was prepping that place to sell all of 2019. I'm still sorting through lots of clutter. It's endless!
As for other people in the translation hobby who have attracted a handful of swarming crazies who create the cacophony of thousands, I'm pleased to hear they decided not to react. That squeaky wheel is best amputated, not lubricated. It's funny, but if I decided to build model ships instead of writing stories, and I painted patriotic symbols on their hulls, these efforts wouldn't induce far-flung enemies to come boiling out of the woodwork. The funniest part of most detractors is they don't know the difference between writers and editors. The latter is a failed writer, oftentimes, who works with writers and proofreaders to produce finished commercial content. Throw "translator" into the mix, and you have a complex process that in this hobby oftentimes ends up a product of multitasking by just two or three people with three or four more backstopping the whole works.
In history, book-burnings were a popular means of censorship. Nowadays, with digital content floating through the ether, a writer's work is potentially backed-up in millions of devices! Heh, not a bonfire, wailing banshee, or even an air burst by a powerful nuclear device can wipe it totally. As I always say, I'll repeat. If you don't like my stories, go somewhere else and read whatever suits you.
Anyway, do you have time to play through another game in the next month or so?