a brief interview with Flyhigh Works' CEO Kou Seigai on the incredibly daunting ~3yr task of singlehandedly localizing Taiwanese indie Team9's "literal text adventure game" 文字遊戯 (Moji Yuugi / Word Game) into Japanese https://www.4gamer.net/games/703/G070344/20250722033/🇯🇵
for reference, the JP overview PV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUZmdpH8_TA
another interesting bit of info is that it's Udetsu who spearheaded the change in format
the points they bring up are more broadly pro-archival than anything really specific to Hamster or ACA, but some of the specific benefits of Hamster's weekly stream is that it allows the likes of Namco & Taito to commit to regular day-to-day archival work, and has also helped in locating, identifying or otherwise making/regaining contact with old devs whose stories haven't been documented
a couple summaries of Hamster's CEDEC panel, which focused on their weekly Arcade Archivers streams & saw prez Satoshi Hamada, Namco's Kazuhito Udetsu & Taito's Yuichi Toyama discussing the stream's pivot to profiling/hosting veteran devs & showing off old dev materials
https://www.4gamer.net/games/991/G999104/20250723063/ 🇯🇵
https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202507230062/ 🇯🇵
one interesting tidbit: most of Hamster's emulators are developed by their Sapporo team (staffed by ex-Hudson R&D folk) but their System 22 emulator is co-dev'd with Namco
Pixel Col. ltd's Bounty Sisters, out for Switch in Japan on December 18, Steam later www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLn... 🇯🇵
icymi, this game is essentially a repurposing of the assets produced by Pixel, ex-Konami designer Shuzilow.HA & others involved in the production of Steam Pilots, a game crowdfunded by ex-Konami composer Motoaki Furukawa but never delivered due to Furukawa stealing all the money & stiffing all the contractors https://go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20250107074856%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fcohost.org%2Fgosokkyu%2Fpost%2F7849954-pixel-s-mea-culpa-b
I also wonder just where the rights ended up for that game... it was specifically produced by Data East Pinball, not DECO proper; that company was sold to Sega and later sold by Sega to Gary Stern and became the modern Stern Pinball, and I've heard insinuations from both Stern and G-MODE (owner of the bulk of DECO's catalog) that neither party knows who owns it or believes that it's them
I can imagine all the digitised actors & other gfx pose their own hurdles as well… it can't be this simple
