From: thebobevil | #014
No, it really doesn't.
No game has ever taken that long ... they may have waited for various other reasons to release a game outside of Japan, but translation time has never been a factor.
I have translated, and helped translate, many things ... including games ... Tag Force 6 being one of them ;) ... so I know of what I speak
It does take some time, depending on how it is coded. Look at Mother 3's fan translation, though they are small and are fans, no where near as big as a real company which probably would have done it a lot faster. Never really paid any attention to Natume, how big is the company anyways? Smaller companies take more time to translate. Natume is generally lazy though, adding in glitches and grammar errors and what not.
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