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Hello everyone.
Most of you have probably never heard of this book, but some of you really hardcore fans and game developers maybe have. There's this book called "Pokemon Story" by Kenzi (Kenji) Hatakeyama written in 2000. According to articles mentioned below it's about the formation and early days of Game Freak and the development of the original Game Boy games.
It was never officially translated to english and as far as I know never fully fan-translated either.
Some of you maybe have heard about it from DrLava in his online article "Translation: Satoshi Tajiri Cuts Loose (1997 Interview)" or Dogasu's pages about the book from Bulbagarden.
I don't know if I can post links yet with this brand new account, but if you google "Dogasu Pokemon Story", you will find their unofficial fan translations of around 50 pages of the book. The thing is, this book is >500 pages. I'm sure there's some interesting info about the studio and the development of the original games in these besides the few dozen pages already translated.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on one, wasn't cheap, it's a collector's item.
First thing I did was scan all of it. While I don't know japanese at all, AI translation systems, including Google's, seem pretty decent these days.
I've already spent hours carefully scanning the whole book. Before investing even more time on the machine translation and manual tidying of the output, I need some help.
The ISBN number of the book is: 978-4822241995
Right after buying it, I found 2* other variations of it circulating among japanese sellers, their ISBN numbers are different: 978-4043645015 and 978-4043645022 . Their covers are also different.
All 3 seem to be named the same, by the same author and the last two are part 1 and part 2 of each other. First one which I have is hardcover and released in 2000, while the last two are paperback and released in 2002.
I cannot find any info regarding if there's any difference between the first one I have and last two. It might be that the last two are the paperback issues of the original hardcover and since the original was >500 pages, they simply split it into two parts for the paperback version.
But it's possible the newer paperback versions also have new content.
They are not really cheap, so I rather not just buy them to find out.
At the same time, I rather not spend hours going through the translation process of the 1st version I have, if it has had revisions in form of the mentioned paperbacks.
This is what I hope I can get some help here. Maybe someone here knows japanese and/or can go through some japanese fan sites or online shops and check the descriptions of the last two books for any clues, regarding whether they have any new info compared to the 2000 issue.
Thanks
Most of you have probably never heard of this book, but some of you really hardcore fans and game developers maybe have. There's this book called "Pokemon Story" by Kenzi (Kenji) Hatakeyama written in 2000. According to articles mentioned below it's about the formation and early days of Game Freak and the development of the original Game Boy games.
It was never officially translated to english and as far as I know never fully fan-translated either.
Some of you maybe have heard about it from DrLava in his online article "Translation: Satoshi Tajiri Cuts Loose (1997 Interview)" or Dogasu's pages about the book from Bulbagarden.
I don't know if I can post links yet with this brand new account, but if you google "Dogasu Pokemon Story", you will find their unofficial fan translations of around 50 pages of the book. The thing is, this book is >500 pages. I'm sure there's some interesting info about the studio and the development of the original games in these besides the few dozen pages already translated.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on one, wasn't cheap, it's a collector's item.
First thing I did was scan all of it. While I don't know japanese at all, AI translation systems, including Google's, seem pretty decent these days.
I've already spent hours carefully scanning the whole book. Before investing even more time on the machine translation and manual tidying of the output, I need some help.
The ISBN number of the book is: 978-4822241995
Right after buying it, I found 2* other variations of it circulating among japanese sellers, their ISBN numbers are different: 978-4043645015 and 978-4043645022 . Their covers are also different.
All 3 seem to be named the same, by the same author and the last two are part 1 and part 2 of each other. First one which I have is hardcover and released in 2000, while the last two are paperback and released in 2002.
I cannot find any info regarding if there's any difference between the first one I have and last two. It might be that the last two are the paperback issues of the original hardcover and since the original was >500 pages, they simply split it into two parts for the paperback version.
But it's possible the newer paperback versions also have new content.
They are not really cheap, so I rather not just buy them to find out.
At the same time, I rather not spend hours going through the translation process of the 1st version I have, if it has had revisions in form of the mentioned paperbacks.
This is what I hope I can get some help here. Maybe someone here knows japanese and/or can go through some japanese fan sites or online shops and check the descriptions of the last two books for any clues, regarding whether they have any new info compared to the 2000 issue.
Thanks
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