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Translation ROM hacking has lost much of its glamour now that many of the most highly soughtafter projects have been completed, but Markus ‘KaioShin’

Hildebrand believes there’s still plenty of exciting stuff to come. “I believe it will only be a couple more years before everything [that was] formerly Japanexclusive for NES and SNES will have been translated,” he says. But he’s eagerly anticipating the crowdsourced translation for PlayStation strategyRPG Super Robot Wars Alpha and an on-again, off-again translation of infamous Dreamcast in-joke Segaga that showed new signs of life last year.