These are the patch notes for beta release 116 of the Telefang Translation Project, a fan-made translation project to translate the Keitai Denjuu Telefang games into English. You can download the patch for Speed Version here, or Power Version here.

So, I happen to be a ROM hacker and I work on code and modifications for two Game Boy mongames. One of them is Telefang, slightly notorious in certain places for having been badly translated into Chinese and then English... and then marketed as "Pokemon Diamond and Jade". This is not an article about Telefang. This is, however, an article about Network Adventure Bugsite, which didn't have an English titlescreen until last month.

Last night I wrote a rather long rant about the effect bad translations had on my enjoyment of an adult male targeted comic book series called "Rozen Maiden". In the 20-odd hours since then, I found scanlations of that series and completed it. The translation quality was terrible, and I even spent some time shocking some of the Telefang translators as to what the fanbase does with clearly translatable vocal tics.

So, I need to confess something - I've been putting off work on the Telefang patches. I originally planned to release patches on a monthly basis, but after rolling out v111, I moved onto another Smilesoft game in need of hacking. I assumed other adjustments would come from other members of the project to justify v112 in July, but it didn't happen. Bugsite is it's own can of worms, but yet another thing has interrupted that project for something else.

The gaming legacy of the Nintendo Wii library is always going to be marred by the everpresent onslaught of shovelware. Every console has it's absolute garbage, but the Nintendo Wii was notable for having long droughts in between flagship Nintendo releases which were filled by mainly derivative schlock trying to get you to buy Wii Sports again. And it should be no surprise to you and anyone else who has owned a Nintendo Wii that Yu-Gi-Oh! 5DS Wheelie Breakers is... ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD?!

Wait, hold on that's not right.

A year ago (modulo some months) I made a particularly flippant comment about how, given it's slavish devotion to a specific brand of quirky humor and subversiveness; UNDERTALE could just have easily been passed off as a fan-made sequel to the MOTHER series it so heavily cribs from. In video games, we use the term "spiritual successor" to indicate this sort of thing. Part of my reasoning is based on the fact that the MOTHER series itself doesn't have a particular shared thread of character or setting.