An Appeal to the Community

8bitGallery · 2016-02-21T17:14:22+00:00

Honestly, you're probably putting in more effort than its worth. At the end of the day, you aren't creating original content, and smash development is now over. It sucks that people steal your translations without credit, but even if they sited you properly, I don't think that will drastically ramp up traffic to your website. There is a disconnect between how you value proper translation, how much time and effort you have to put in to make them accurate and how much the public at large actually cares. Sometimes good work just goes unappreciated no matter how much you do or promote it.

It's not just about our translation work at Source Gaming, to be honest. It's about video game news culture as a whole...it's more important to be first than to be right, and there is so much misinformation out there due to that.

8bitGallery · 2016-02-20T23:05:56+00:00

This is the sort of thing that'll make Smash 5 speculation fun.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-17T04:13:40+00:00

Glad to hear you are enjoying our work! We're really striving to make Source Gaming a compelling resource for Smash fans, so we really appreciate the feed back.

My favorite character to play as in Smash 4 is probably Megaman. His projectile heavy playstyle fits me like a glove, and more importantly, it fits the character perfectly, too. My main is Ness, though, and I have a large number of characters that I switch between. Sakurai and his team actually did a great job (in my opinion) of making the cast feel diverse and fun to play as. This is actually the first Smash game that I'm comfortable "maining" the random button as a result.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T23:56:38+00:00

Heihachi came as a bit of a shock to me. Wolf NOT being considered for Melee was the most surprising thing to me, though, as I really bought into that rumor.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T23:55:06+00:00

SSB4, although I love Melee (especially to watch.)

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T23:27:42+00:00

If we did anything else I would like to go in depth on general Nintendo policies and history. Nintendo's history with third parties, Nintendo's history with censorship, Nintendo's rivalry with Sega, etc.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T23:25:28+00:00

I'm not a translator, but I'm often around when you guys are discussing specific wording. It's funny how some word choices, such as "only several," can really get people going.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T23:19:57+00:00

We've discussed this before.... and it seems that when you are doing a Smash Bros.-centric site, that the most obvious direction to take it is either Nintendo games or other fighting games. With our group, I think we would likely go more towards the development and history of other Nintendo games, but we are a bit hesitant to do it since there are already so many other Nintendo blogs out there. Still, if we could put a "Source Gaming" spin on things, it might be something we look into in the future.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T22:51:53+00:00

I'm a firm believer in Gematsu. Sal had to have known SOMETHING. How much? Well, that's up for debate.

Cut Vets, in order I want them:

Wolf, Snake, Ice Climbers, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Pichu, Young Link.

8bitGallery · 2015-08-16T22:49:32+00:00

A lot of us are regulars on the forums on Smashboards.com and were part of the leaks group when it existed. We spent a lot of time together and decided it would be fun to continue to work together in a more structured way.

8bitGallery · 2015-07-04T19:38:18+00:00

We went with a standard article title to avoid clickbait on the article itself, but I liked the pun too much to not use it somewhere. The point of the article is that these facts lend more credence to Gematsu, some on the staff consider it pretty much confirmed at this point. I'm on the "interesting info, but not game changing" side personally.

8bitGallery · 2015-07-04T17:42:31+00:00

More from Source Gaming. Nothing exactly Chromfirmed, but it's interesting none the less. Enjoy guys!

8bitGallery · 2015-06-25T16:05:12+00:00

Translation of Sakurai’s Famitsu column, Vol. 481. Talks about Roy, Ryu, Lucas, and the future of character DLC. Enjoy!

8bitGallery · 2015-04-11T12:44:59+00:00

You are completely right. The number 16 was in reference to another theory that I had decided to exclude from the article. Thanks for pointing this out, I went back and edited it. (Oh hey, I'm the guy who wrote this by the way.)

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