Translated by yours truly, it's FINALLY OUT! I shed tears *thrice* while translating the first chapter. Translating through tears isn't the easiest, but I'm getting used to it. Go read it! The first chapter is entirely free, with more to come! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

The emulation scene's obsession with "preventing piracy" feels like it exists as an arcane ritual to try to keep corporations away at the cost of making most tools useless and the entire sphere insufferable for anything released in the past 20 years

your favorite cute Japanese translator slash semiprofessional video game historian (me) is streaming some PC-98 horror/detective games! come hang out or you’ll be sad about it!

To Hamtaro, Earthbound and MOON fans: 🌟Danchi Days now has a Steam Page!! Come wishlist~🌟 It's a cute, "post-cozy" 2000s adventure about inviting 151 people to a summer festival in a Japanese danchi (housing complex), and surfing the internet! https://t.co/hdRLYYhjMf

📢 My game Starstruck: Hands of Time comes out *September 16*! ✌️ 🎸Play guitar and 🔨destroy everything as a 👋 giant hand! 👇 Wishlist on Steam: https://t.co/MNFO21n4Gr #BitSummitDrift

Nintendo's systemic policy of miscrediting is harming external translators External translators who've worked on major franchises including The Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing have been refused credits and locked into decade-long NDAs https://t.co/Xj7iITMhTz

A new TTRPG arrived from Japan! Pray by Letter is an epistolary game for 2 players in which you and your penfriend try to forge the future by exchanging letters. The English version is now available on https://t.co/jNBqMUIWOV! https://t.co/OGdbLfjCXd

Extremely cool news: This enormously unique indie TTRPG about writing letters was just translated to English. $6! (And at the time of writing, community copies still remain!) Y'all gotta support this 😭

something kinda odd/sad about how nations' major social quirks feel represented in their countries' most predominant game genres. USA with shooters/f2p skinner boxes... Japan and gacha games.. China and those empire-management sims

The first chapter of Professor Layton and the Mansion of the Deathly Mirror has been translated into English! @Lilli208969 and @NordicDestroyer did main translation, and @frigamarrymepls translated/edited assets using a tool by onepiecefreak! You can check it out below ⬇️

This is exciting news! The remake of Yuji Horii's Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin is going to have English language support! This title is considered to be a classic adventure game in Japan and this release will mark the first time it will be playable in English, officially or otherwise.

I am launching a double crowdfunding campaign for " Gregory Horror Show" on April 11 at 10:00 AM CST! We would appreciate your support in bringing "Gregory Horror Show" back to life once again! We also hope you will help us spread the word! https://t.co/Hd0I9Exdq4

Hot take: It's an *even cooler story* that Mario Maker had a single TASsed level. Team 0% set out to leave no level uncleared – but unbeknownst to them, in 2017, someone who didn't know what would happen seven years later snuck a *single humanly impossible level* past Nintendo.

The single best game over screen of all time (Bokosuka Wars, 1985)

The Power Pros world finals are live now!!! They've got a great commentator who's hugely knowledgeable about the game, so it's easy to follow. One American actually made it to the finals, and he's playing for 3rd at this very moment. https://t.co/FbYKyluUs5

Actually really exciting!!? The Power Pros series (i.e. the evergreen Japanese baseball game series with over a hundred entries but only three in the West) is having its first *global* esports tournament, and the finals are tomorrow. I know I'll be watching!!!

Sakura Note: The Future Connected to the Present ~ サクラノート ～いまにつながるみらい～ (2009) Developed by Audio Games.

the geniuses at Sunsoft are making Pop Team Epic/Nichijou-style short videos starring the Hebereke cast. this is the smartest thing anyone has ever done

Just released Red Viper, a Virtual Boy emulator that runs on the Nintendo 3DS. All official games run at full speed! https://t.co/YSP3f7Yd0X

Power Pros has two-part titles à la Monster Hunter or New Horizons, that the commentator says *out loud*. It's fun to find the dumbest combos, like “THE LATE MAN!” or “FRIEND OF 4,000 YEARS OF CHINA!”, but I've settled into the most accursed one… “Stepping up to bat: YOUR DAD!”

Since this is making the rounds, allow me to bring out my inner Soundcloud rapper: How's about a follow? Beyond tweeting about obscure video games and Japanese translation, I have an exciting long-term project coming up that channels *both*, which you might want to know about! 😊