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Oh my, seems the dear Fräulein was a bit of a miss in this case...

I love lazy translations, a source for memes and unintended humour.

Not a mistranslation, but rather a case of a translator doing his own thing is the German black & white Link's Awakening. The electric monsters that give you hints if you use magic powder on them actually say something about always using a condom in that version.

I remember being confused by that line as a child.

M. Moyse, the translator of that version slipped a few questionable things in there that went unnoticed. The DX version was cleaned up, of course.

He also had his own hidden song if you entered "MOYSE" on the name entry screen.

I sometimes use the boost mode clockrate on my second, hacked Switch to improve load times and frame rate in certain games.

It's safe to use but it drains the battery much faster. The chip was intended to be used at higher clockspeeds. The Switch actually operates underclocked outside of boost mode on stock firmware.

I know it's not his fault, please don't hate me for saying this, but I just can't listen to his voice.

The videos are truly fascinating, hats off to him for trying and figuring these things out, but something about the way he talks and the phrases he uses gets on my nerves...

The determination of some fans...
Hah, this is awesome! Let's cook some dubious food, yeah!

This is the kind of game I use emulators for without being ashamed of it.

Repro carts are neat, even more so if they are sanctioned by the original developer, but if the quality is this shoddy it seems like a wasted effort to me. This isn't any better than those bootleg carts you find on ebay all the time...

They even made a Mii for the canister...

This is so random and awesome, haha!
I'm crying from laughing...

Edit:
Hey, it's nice to see that blue nintendolife design again! It has been a while...

It's just cool to see game devs making levels in Mario Maker. I'll be sure to check them out!

Satoru Iwata - genius programmer and sympathetic corporate president. I still miss his Nintendo Direct videos.

I'm hoping for an official translation of the book. I'm sure it is an interesting read.

Someone's getting greedy, it seems.

This is just stupid.

People are always so negative about hacking related news.
That hacking = evil mindset seems a bit narrowminded to me.

I don't condone hacking when it's goal is to enable piracy or to cheat in online games but when it allows me to use a device in new ways and do things I was never meant to I find it fascinating.

I love 3d platformers, I know I'll enjoy this one!

All the best to him for the future. I always dreamed about working at Nintendo when I was a child...

It's none of my business, but I do wonder a little why he left.

@Shiryu
I totally agree! Complete with Spear of Destiny.
I wouldn't mind seeing The New Order ported either while they're at it.

Switch is just the perfect console for ports. I love having my favourite games on a portable.

@Shiryu
Pretty much the same "Elite Hans" Wolf 3D minigame was also playable in The New Colossus on Switch. It may look a a bit better this time, I'm not sure. It's been a while since I last played it, but I remember being slightly annoyed that they didn't display the game in fullscreen, that would have made it perfect.

I'll skip this one. I don't care about co-op and this doesn't offer the kind of singleplayer story focused experience I loved the previous Wolfenstein games for.

I like that headline.
Thanks for the chuckle, nintendolife! ^_^

I'm actually tempted by the extended battery life. Perhaps I'll sell my old Switch and get one of the new models when they arrive.

I haven't decided yet. I'm also interested in the Switch Lite.

For me the regular Switch is too heavy for extended handheld use, my right hand starts hurting when I've been playing for while. I broke my hand in a cycling accident three years ago, since then I have trouble holding heavier things for a prolonged time.

I've always been more of a handheld gamer, but the Switch isn't ideal for that.

I'll probably wait until the first reviews arrive. I really hope the analog sticks won't be as fragile as those on the joy-cons. The Lite would be more comfortable for me, but I'm scared of those sticks. It also depends on whether I can keep using my digital games (and save files) on both consoles or not.

Am I the only one who thinks that the Wii U gamepad was a lot more comfortable to use than the Switch, by the way?

According to wikipedia he's caused an NDA breach by revealing information about the game before he was allowed to and that was the reason his voice work was replaced.

That puts a different perspective to it.
Seems like he got a little too excited and couldn't keep quiet until the NDA lift date.

This whole abuse story must've added additional fuel to the fire and also factored into the decision to replace him. I can't decide whether to pity or condemn him. Perhaps he's learned his lesson and is trying to improve...

His asperger's shouldn't have been mentioned here, it's neither an excuse for his actions nor is it the cause of such behaviour. It only paints a bad picture for uninformed people as if we hadn't enough of that already.

Asperger syndrome is not an illness, it's a different way of functioning that causes people to percieve the world differently. Personally I dislike the term disability as well, I don't feel disabled, it's more like I don't really fit into a world that consists almost entirely of neurotypicals. If there were a "cure" for it I most certainly wouldn't want to use it.

@nintendolie
I agree! I find them distracting for the most part.

I actually played Fire Emblem Awakening with the Japanese voiceovers because they wouldn't annoy me as much as the English ones. I would have disabled them completely if that were an option.

I played Awakening in German, so the voices didn't even match the text that I was reading.

Hmm, looks like nintendolife might want to get their facts checked before they push out an article...

I have the red Joy-Cons from the Mario Odyssey bundle and recently the left anlog stick started to drift. Cleaning the stick has helped for maybe two weeks and then it started again...

I'd be more than happy if Ninty extended this service to Europe.
I bought a second pair of grey Joy-Cons shortly after I got my console and they are still working fine, so I guess I had bad luck with the red ones.

Now don't you go telling me that I should be taking better care of my controllers and that it's my own fault. I treat all my consoles like babies and my Switch+controllers are always resting in a carrying case when not in use, so it's not like they got dusty or anything like that.

The only consoles for which I experienced worn out analog sticks so far where my very first N64 controller (and I was probably less careful with my stuff as a child), the nub on my PSP and now on that red Joy-Con.

I'm really worried that the Switch Lite will have the same fail-prone sticks, because I was looking forward to getting one. The regular Switch is a bit too unwieldy for extended handheld play in my case.

@Doktor-Mandrake
So true. I don't understand the reasoning behind this. For a 20 year old port to a console that is also used as a handheld it makes even less sense.

Is there even support for online multiplayer in Doom 1/2 on Switch?

I'm up for some Doom 64, but not if it forces an online log-in on me...

This whole required log-in thing is just stupid. My Switch is mainly a handheld console and not always connected to the internet.

Despite my initial excitement I'll hold off from buying the games for now...

OHMYGOD...
That was way longer than I expected it to be.
Whoops
Guess that's another asperger's problem, they never shut up...

I won't do that again, I promise. °_°

That carreer is probably ruined...
I wonder why he decided to make an online confession.

He doesn't mention sexual abuse in his tumblr post.
I don't know what he did that was wrong, so I can't form an opinion on this.

As for me, I honestly couldn't care less about a replaced voice actor.
It won't lessen my enjoyment of the game.

I'm not sure I understand what's going on here. If he admitted to being abusive in the past doesn't that signal that he's realized his faulty behaviour and that he's trying to correct his faults?

Besides, abuse can mean many things, more context would be needed to form an opinion. We don't know what he actually did.

I'm not a fan of removing one's credit if the person did the work, that feels like erasing history to me. Perhaps Japan is more strict about these "clean image" things then us westerners, I don't know...

-A RATHER LONG TEXT FOLLOWS, you've been warned -

Now this has nothing to do with that voice actor, but after reading some of the comments here I felt compelled to write this.

Regarding the discussion about violent behaviour in relation to autism here, maybe I can provide a bit of context. I have Asperger's myself and I'm neither agressive on purpose nor abusive towards others. I don't have many friends, but those I have I value highly and I treat them with respect as good as I can.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was 21, so throughout my entire school life I had no idea why I was acting different from others in some regards, couldn't understand or explain my own behaviour and it caused me all sorts of trouble.

The main issue I had were sudden outbursts of aggressive behaviour which nobody understood because I'm usually a very calm and friendly person.

When I do get aggressive it's always caused by stress. For example, when I'm having a conversation and other people in the room are talking at the same time then trying to focus on the words of the person I'm talking to becomes extremely stressful for me. I can't do multitasking at all, I get distracted easily and I'm also a very noise sensitive person. Eventually I might just explode and start shouting because I can't take the stress any longer.

Other (non autistic) people couldn't understand my sudden outbursts. It was a regular occurence at school and at home with my parents. Before I was diagnosed I couldn't explain myself after an outburst because I didn't understand it either. They asked me "Why did you start shouting?" or "Why did you throw over your chair and slam the door?", things like that and I stood there and didn't know what to say, even though I felt bad and was sorry for my behaviour. At school I was told to seek aggression training more than once...

I never had aggression training and I don't think it would help in my case, but with the help of my autism therapist I finally learned to handle these situations differently. Instead of thinking "I'll pull through this", nowadays when I start to notice that something is stressing me I tell people "Hey, there's too much going on at once, I'm getting overwhelmed with all this input and I don't want to explode. I'll go outside for a few minutes to calm down, ok?" (Perhaps you could word this more elegantly, but you get the idea).

My coworkers know about my Asperger syndrome and the related stress problem. I've explained the cause of these outbursts to them and how they should handle these situations. People who know me understand when I tell them that I need a bit of quietness for a moment. If the situation allows it, they'll try to keep the noise down, if not nobody is angry with me when I leave the room and go to a quiet place to calm down.

If I do shout I'm calm again within minutes if people just let me be. It is important that nobody tries to reason with me while I'm angry, otherwise I'm getting more and more worked up and it keeps getting worse. That's something my parents took a very long time to finally understand.

Also, I never focus my aggression on people. Usually I'm shouting and I run away, in really bad situations I might smash the door or throw things through the room etc. but I don't project my anger on people.

I've been thinking a lot about this and yes, I am afraid I might actually hurt somebody when I'm angry and a situation escalates too much (although it hasn't happended so far, thankfully). It's simply not possible to avoid every single stressful situation in my life but I'm doing my best to pay attention to my stress level and tell people what's on my mind instead of ignoring it until it's too late and I loose control.

If any of you reading this finds him/herself within the autism spectrum I'm sure you can relate.

Now I realized that I've been rambling on and on and that I wrote a very long message. I apologize. It's a bad habit of mine. I often don't know where to stop when the thoughts start flowing...

Anyways, I felt compelled to share my personal experience after reading through this comment section. Again, I'm sorry for stealing your time with my way too long comment.

For those who were interested enough to read to the end, I hope I managed to help you understand people within the autism spectrum a little better. We are not more and not less agressive than the "normal" (Oh how I dislike that word, nobody is 100% "normal", the world would be dead boring if that were the case) people, it's just that many of us can't cope well with stress and that the world can be lot more stressful to us than it is to non autistic people because we tend to be sensible to various stimuli like noise, light etc. and don't take well to multitasking or processing spoken words.

That's all from me.
Have a great day! Life's too short, so stop fighting and start working together, ok?

Bonus fact, instead of "normal" we call the non autistics neurotypicals. ^_^

That's unexpected and cool, I'll be picking up Doom 3 for my Switch!