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Leung on what the Majora's Mask localization workflow was like, 2022.

Source: The Hyrule Journals (@javedlsterritt.bsky.social)

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PEOPLE: - Jason Leung. Majora’s Mask localization. - Bill Trinen, age 50. Majora’s Mask localization. QUOTE: Leung: That's how they did all the game text back then: they'd just export it and import it from an excel file. So it was just thousands and thousands of lines of dialog. I was working [on Majora’s Mask] with Bill Trinen who was in the localization team, and he's very fluent in Japanese. He went through all the different blocks of copy, and he just translated them from Japanese to English. And then I went in there and … I would go in line by line and try to extrapolate what the story is and what the nuances are, or just spice it up with a more conversational style. Come up with the different ways that the different characters would deliver their lines, different personalities, things like that.
July 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Linktober Day 10: Zelda
Aonuma & Iwata on "the Zelda cycle".

Via Iwata Asks, 2013

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People in quote: -Eiji Aonuma, age 50. Franchise producer for the Zelda series. -Satoru Iwata, age 54. 4th President of Nintendo. -Bill Trinen, age 41. Localization for many Zelda games, Product Marketing Director. Quote: "Aonuma: There’s a ‘Zelda cycle.’ Iwata: Yes. Bill Trinen-san at Nintendo of America—who always plays a big role in preparing the overseas versions of The Legend of Zelda games—always talks about the Zelda cycle. Aonuma: Basically, as time progresses, negative opinions about The Legend of Zelda turn into positive ones. At first, I wasn’t sure about that, but seeing the response to The Wind Waker HD, I think it may be right. Iwata: And it isn’t restricted to The Wind Waker. Every time a new Zelda title comes out, there’s no shortage of negative opinions, but a year or two later, people are revising their opinions, and its reputation goes up."
October 10, 2023 at 7:34 PM