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Look the way she translates the opening versus other versions. It's incredible.

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Appreciate that this touches on how awful MTPE (machine translation post-editing) is, and glad that there are still some companies who refuse to use it. Also, reminder that contractors are far more likely to get shafted in the credits, either being reduced to a company name or nothing at all.

I was speaking to a localizer once of a well-loved series - to the point where the publisher knows full-well that localization is a big part of why it is successful in the west - and they remarked "What if [localizer] gets in a car wreck? They're the VOICE of that character. We'd be screwed."

A hidden terribleness about the AI translations of older games that keep popping up lately - in this case Tricolor Crise for the Dreamcast - is the way they knock the wind out of the sails of the people who are trying to actually do it properly. LLM version didn't even use the right character names.

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Haha, glad to be of service. I've been collecting video game localization-related interviews for a while now myself, so when I saw your post I was immediately like "I'm sure I have something..."

This is consistent with my findings. If anything, it seems like the people who worked on the GC version are lost to time. The in-game credits appear to be identical to the 1998 N64 release (even when playing in 裏 or Master Quest mode) and none of the GC manuals have credits.

Here's an interview with the other French translator, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, in which he seems to speak about his work on OoT (I don't speak French, so...): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VLl...

(Also all of the Japanese N64 speedruns seem to include all the people you mentioned in the in-game credits? So they were credited in the 1998 release, unless the NA version weirdly removed them? Haven't been able to find a verified NA N64 credit sequence.) www.speedrun.com/oot/runs/mrk...

French translator Julien Bardakoff says he worked on OoT on his linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/julien-ba... There is also an interview with him here where he seems to talk about his work on the game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N7b...

(Sorry for the reply spam) The German and French translators are shown in this video, which appears to be from the original N64 version: archive.org/details/Zeld... The German names are all also credited in the German strategy guide: archive.org/details/zeld...

Jim Wornell also talks about his work on the original Ocarina of Time in this interview. And the Japanese manual (archive.org/details/Ocar...) corroborates all those names except for Wornell and the NOA Support people.

On his linkedin page, Jim Wornell says he coordinated the North American launch for Ocarina of Time (and he joined the company back in 1994), implying he worked on the original: www.linkedin.com/in/jimwornell/

Dan Owsen definitely worked on the original Ocarina of Time, according to these interviews: web.archive.org/web/19990823... archive.thegia.com/features/f98... Don't know if that's enough for them, though.

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