"I’ve always been fascinated by the topic of video game localisation; for pretty much as long as I can remember."
Me too, man, me too, since I was a young boy playing these games on PS1 and going from there.
Great interview, have loved these interviews with translators (especially the ones from Square) and hope you have more in the works in the near future!
@Daniel36 Anthology was handled differently in Europe. Us Americans got V and VI but you guys got IV and V. VI was also released separately alongside Anthology and came with a PS2 demo of FFX. Interestingly, these were published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
@Guru_Larry it very nearly was. I think Bandai had gotten as far as recording English voices. But I think it ended being a casualty of the Bandai Namco merger.
@KingMike yeah Sony Corp has their own disc manufacturing facility named Sony DADC, they used to make discs for Sony Music and Sony Pictures and they still make PlayStation discs, but the US manufacturing is now at their European facility in Austria. They also used to make Sega CD discs back in the day.
@-wc- I work for a company that does game distribution and also works with the major disc replicators for PlayStation and Xbox. So, PS1 discs are no longer able to be manufactured by Sony DADC, the company that does PlayStation discs. Many people don't know this, but it actually was still possible to get PS1 and PS2 games reprinted up until late 2019. For the last few years of that period, they were actually silver discs, and are actually mistaken for Hong Kong silvers, but they are the real thing. And that also goes for the Square Enix reprints they were selling on their online store for many years.
In any case, LRG couldn't get PS1 discs reprinted even if they wanted to. And they wouldn't dare make CD-Rs, not after the 3DO fiasco they had last year.
Would love for Reno to do his English dialogue this time around. For those who don't know, in the original game, Reno only did his French dialogue, then when his character starts speaking English, Paul Mercier from Resident Evil 4 voices him. So basically, he starts speaking with Leon Kennedy's voice.
There was a magazine preview of Syphon Filter that noted that Lian's name was originally Mei Xing, but was in the process of being changed due to the similarity to MGS's Mei Ling.
So yeah, they were really trying to sidestep any similarities between the two games.
@Zenszulu I had actually seen a 4 disc Xbox 360 case for a bundle of Forza Motorsport 4 and Halo 4. That was way later into the system's life cycle though. Wish they had those for Lost Odyssey.
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"I’ve always been fascinated by the topic of video game localisation; for pretty much as long as I can remember."
Me too, man, me too, since I was a young boy playing these games on PS1 and going from there.
Great interview, have loved these interviews with translators (especially the ones from Square) and hope you have more in the works in the near future!
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@Daniel36 Anthology was handled differently in Europe. Us Americans got V and VI but you guys got IV and V. VI was also released separately alongside Anthology and came with a PS2 demo of FFX. Interestingly, these were published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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@Guru_Larry it very nearly was. I think Bandai had gotten as far as recording English voices. But I think it ended being a casualty of the Bandai Namco merger.
Re: Limited Run Refutes Accusation It Violated GPL In Tomba! Special Edition
@KingMike yeah Sony Corp has their own disc manufacturing facility named Sony DADC, they used to make discs for Sony Music and Sony Pictures and they still make PlayStation discs, but the US manufacturing is now at their European facility in Austria. They also used to make Sega CD discs back in the day.
Re: Limited Run Refutes Accusation It Violated GPL In Tomba! Special Edition
@-wc- I work for a company that does game distribution and also works with the major disc replicators for PlayStation and Xbox. So, PS1 discs are no longer able to be manufactured by Sony DADC, the company that does PlayStation discs. Many people don't know this, but it actually was still possible to get PS1 and PS2 games reprinted up until late 2019. For the last few years of that period, they were actually silver discs, and are actually mistaken for Hong Kong silvers, but they are the real thing. And that also goes for the Square Enix reprints they were selling on their online store for many years.
In any case, LRG couldn't get PS1 discs reprinted even if they wanted to. And they wouldn't dare make CD-Rs, not after the 3DO fiasco they had last year.
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@RealBroosh Mesal Gear Solid with the real voices of Snake and Campbell would be great.
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Would love for Reno to do his English dialogue this time around. For those who don't know, in the original game, Reno only did his French dialogue, then when his character starts speaking English, Paul Mercier from Resident Evil 4 voices him. So basically, he starts speaking with Leon Kennedy's voice.
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There was a magazine preview of Syphon Filter that noted that Lian's name was originally Mei Xing, but was in the process of being changed due to the similarity to MGS's Mei Ling.
So yeah, they were really trying to sidestep any similarities between the two games.
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@Zenszulu I had actually seen a 4 disc Xbox 360 case for a bundle of Forza Motorsport 4 and Halo 4. That was way later into the system's life cycle though. Wish they had those for Lost Odyssey.