Mother 3 fan-translation dev discusses heading to NoA for a Nintendo Power interview

Coming from a Eurogamer interview with Reid Young, co-founder of Fangamer...

"We sat down in the cafe and were sitting next to Nintendo employees. We told them who we were and what we were up to and they were like, 'oh, so you guys are doing the Mother 3 fan translation?' It was kind of like going into the lion's den and I didn't quite know how to respond, and then they were like 'oh, don't worry about it. We're really excited about it. We can't wait to play it!' And that just knocked me flat. I didn't know how to respond to that because it was so unexpected!

The idea of them being excited about a fan translation was just so out of nowhere to me. That was the first time I started to open my eyes about what Nintendo is as opposed to what I saw it as growing up. I always imagined it as this monolithic company that knew exactly what it was doing and had clear responses to everything. And now that I run a business and just have experience being an adult, I realise that it's a massive company. And just because some people are excited by something it doesn't mean that the company is going to endorse it. There's all kinds of nuances and shades of grey."