Nintendo Voice Chat: The Fascinating World of Game Localization

Nintendo Voice Chat

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Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Special guest Mark MacDonald rejoins the cast of Nintendo Voice Chat to talk about the challenging process of translating Japanese games for the West. Host Jose Otero, Peer Schneider, and Mark trade impressions of Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars and Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Then, after the break, the crew tackles some of your queries once again on the Question Block. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.1	In tendo...
0:01.9	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of Friday, March 6th, 2020.
0:31.9	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of Friday, March 6th, 2020.
1:01.9	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of Friday, March 6th, 2020.
1:31.9	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of Friday, March 6th, 2020.
2:01.9	Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of Friday, March 6th, 2020.
2:31.9	The story is that Hachiko's master went off to war and Hachiko the dog went to the station every day, Shibuya station waiting for his master to come back.
2:41.9	I don't remember if even the good version of the story is that he never came back in the dog until he died or something like that.
2:50.9	So that's the great version of the story that's probably on the statue. But the version that I heard was that there used to be around Shibuya station just a lot of like yakitori, like fried chicken stands.
3:05.9	And you eat that on a stick and basically that Hachiko would go there to beg for food every day and that it basically died choking on a yakitori stick.
3:15.9	Oh, okay, I thought that's very sad, but I thought Hachiko became yakihachiko.
3:21.9	Okay, I could have been more lucky.
3:23.9	It could have been worse.
3:24.9	For folks who are still bringing down the podcast by the way, that's not, yeah.
3:27.9	Yeah, exactly.
3:28.9	No, but people who played the world ends with you might recognize the mention of Hachiko.
3:34.9	That's another good because that also takes place in the Shibuya like downtown area as well.
3:40.9	That's right.
3:41.9	You do work for a four localization company and you guys have worked on a bunch of games.
3:46.9	Most recently you guys put in some work on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
3:49.9	That's right.
3:50.9	And prior to that, I know a Fire Emblem Awakening.
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