stargood
The logical intersection of fan translation, ROM hacking, weird amateur music, and Japanese magazine statistics

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26 Jan 2025, 20:10

Somehow or another, seven years have passed since this site first launched. This time, aside from the usual news cleanout, I've chosen to celebrate by finally adding HTTPS support, which is largely meaningless but will have such beneficial effects as un-breaking all the links to this site from YouTube that suddenly stopped working last year. Real nice of them to do that.

Seven years is a pretty good while, isn't it? That's the point, maybe, where you can't really deny that been doing something for "a long time." Over the years, I've largely tried to keep this site what it's been from the beginning: a source for game translations, ROM hacks, and whatever random video game-adjacent bits have caught my interest. While I'm disappointed that this last year was the first time I didn't release any fan translation projects at all (sorry, we were all pretty busy!), I did get the opportunity to apply my skills to several officially licensed translations, an experience I never expected to have but am immensely grateful for.

I hope that we'll have more releases coming before too long, so don't give up on us just yet. Thank you to all of you, whether you've just found this place or stuck it out for all seven years (uh, anybody?), for being a weirdo who actually reads the news page. I believe that statistically, this puts you in the 99th percentile of web users by intelligence.

Oh, and in yet another one of those periodic fits of pique, I changed the site intro again. Gotta keep my image classy.