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[liquidnitrogen]

... i was just looking at the list for NDS releases when i notice 12/13 - Jump Superstars in the North America side....

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/data/925599.html <-- this is the page it links to and although the japanese publisher is Nintendo, this one is Tommo...

hm... is this REALLY in english? (i havent played it yet in japanese...)

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[EDIT]
nvmd, after looking through some stuff, its basically importing the game for mainstream.... -.- ... no english localization

[roguefan99]

I believe that its not.  I reckon they got the link from here http://www.ebgames.com/search.asp?Ntk=TitleKeyword&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntt=jump&N=0&find.x=0&find.y=0&find=Search

It says Import there, but the date is the same.

[vlaflip]

this game is from japan
and there is no english release..

[uzumakishade]

i highly doubt that it will be released in eng considering half of the anime chars in the game arent on air in us/canada but who knows they might make an eng release, the only way to be sure is wait until then and see if an eng rom is dumped

[Hi]

Why doesn't someone just transalate the game already???

So many people seem to want to play it in english...

Infact, I'm suprised that NINTENDO isn't transalating it. It'd sell...

[Shinster]

The reason behind this is if they decide to release this in america it would be a licensing nightmare. Gaming license for each and and every franchise they would have to secure first.

[Koji]

To give a couple quick examples... Naruto's license in North America is owned by Viz. Meanwhile one piece is a property of 4kidz. Dragonball Z's north american license belongs to Funimation. Just those 3 licenses alone come from 3 different companies. They'd have to work out an agreement and all of them would want to get money for licensing the characters to a game. Taking all that into consideration, it'd be a huge pain.

This is a complete non-issue in japan because Shounen Jump owns the original licenses. Thus the game creators need only make one contract with them.

The problem isn't in the translation, but in the logistics of juggling all these different licensed properties. And yes, they would have to sign licensing agreements with ALL of these companies, or else they'd be infringing on the copyrights held by other companies. They'd be sued mercilessly for taking someone else's characters and making money off of them.

[Hi]

Okay, makes sence, but still, why don't WE, THE HOMEBREW COMMUNITY transalate it? People keep talking about doing it but no one does it.

[Koji]

I took a look at the game one time to see if I could make heads or tails of it. I honestly didn't spend much time because there really is little point. The story is dribble and the majority of the game can be figured out with simple guess and checking. The majority of the graphics were compressed and I have zero experience in arm assembly so I wouldn't have any idea at all where to even start on working on that.

I did hex edit the japanese harvest moon over a year ago, just as a concept test for myself to see if it was possible to work on a translation that simply. And indeed it worked, outside of a few mistakes. Would have taken ages to do a proper translation, but I did manage a few menu options which made me smile anyways.

The point is, it's not a simple endeavor and the work to reward ratio isn't very high imo. I'm sure someone will get around to it eventually. Absolutely no reason not to.

[Hi]

By the way, on that site linked on the first post, there is a jp under realise information.

Jp=japan?  :?

               :lol:

               :cry:

[roguefan99]

Originally on Gamefaqs they had 12/13 US release there.  They have removed it as the date passed and the game didn't come out.  This happens a lot on their website as they get the dates directly from EB games it seems.

They had Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for a 12/1 date there a while ago, but then when that date passed it was changed.

[unluckylink13]

I for one would like a homebrew developer to make a translation.  I've never played the games, but I don't want to have to go through learning by trial and error.  I'm still working on playing Pokemon Diamond in Japanese and accessing all the options and extras in Daigaso! Band Bros.