Back into the Groove

Things are going well. I have pretty much given up on all of my Japanese friends except for a couple. Like many American college students, I am a last minute kind of person. Japanese people are not. At the very most I may have something to do a week in advance but that is all. Whenever I ask someone when they can meet next they pull out a calender which is completely full and I get the answer; "next month"

Wow

So in any case I had a pretty good weekend. On Thursday Nathan came home with a DSTT and you can bet what we have been doing since ^_^ Gaming. Every night when we both come home we have sat down to a game of Bubble Bobble or Mr. Driller or any other random game that catches our eye. Today we spent most of the day playing Goemon 2 for the Super Famicom. It is really nice to finally have a gaming partner again. I am really glad of that because I actually look forward to coming home every night. It also means that my study of Japanese suffers a bit but hey, that is the way it goes sometimes.

I also decided that I want to work on the translations for Goemon 2, 3, and 4 for the Super Famicom.

Only the first game was released in the states and it is not very good at all. It relies on a password system for one thing, and it is linear. The other games feature a save feature, an overworld map, and the all important IMPACT robot boss battles! I was very impressed when we first ran into one. It is played out very smoothly. Anyway, for some reason unknown to me, nobody has done a translation yet >_< The game has very minimal text which makes it the perfect game for a beginner translation like mine. It is also on the SNES which makes hacking it much easier than any other system. I think there are more tools and FAQ's for snes hacking than any other system ever made. This is because there are so many good games that never made it to the states! If I find some time I will start on the initial text dumping so that Nathan and I can start working on the translation.

This weekend I visited the Pokemon Center in Hamamatsucho and grabbed myself some sweet pokemon merchandise. They had some really really cool shirts, but they were $45. I am on a budget... I picked up some folders, a sticker for my DS, and a lanyard for back home. Pretty good I think. They were also running this contest where after you buy something you get to do the slot machine. I won a tissue holder. Not much but hey it was free!

I guess I havn't really been up to much recently. Just going to school, gaming, and a little lack of studying. I picked up a box at the post office for mailing stuff only to realize that I don't have any tape to tape it up. I am getting ever closer to mailing my stuff home!!!