But the real reason I’m posting in *this* outdated post is for the snake. Take your pick,

“Hardly Biting Snake”

“HARDly Biting Snake”

“HARDLY Biting Snake”

This pun especially assumes that the snake doesn’t bite all that often necessarily, but when it does, watch out! Since I haven’t played the game and am avoiding spoilers, I don’t know, but there’s my suggestion. Nineteen characters long, twenty with a terminating string if needed.

possible abbr. name:
“Hardly Bit. Sn.”

full description:
“The snake that REALLY bites when it bites–and doesn’t when it doesn’t. [blah blah blah]”

Hm? Hm? $:^ ]

As usual, you guys are still doing a fantastic job. (Am I the only one who is going to miss this updates once the translation patch is available? It sure is a lot of fun reading this blog. BEST BLOG EVER!).

But I will also recommend some of the others, or synonyms for Snake (i.e.: Fickle Viper, Fickle Slitherer, etc.)

David: I’m not sure what you mean. If you’re talking about the previous 8×8 font, that’s the 8×8 font that was originally in the MOTHER 3 ROM.

Stephen: That would require INSANE amounts of hacking and reprogramming. It’s a neat idea, but I don’t think even Nintendo would’ve tried to attempt that, and they’d have the source code

jack: That would be a ton of work, too.

pauyasfyla: Console/handheld games don’t use Truetype fonts or any kind of fonts that personal computers do, it’s just static data with no way to automatically enlarge or ensmallen. We *could* draw the font to be a little smaller, but it’d only save a few pixels in the long run, and we’d still have the same problems fitting stuff in the space allotted. Plus it’d make things look ugly and harder to read on actual GBAs/DSs.

Thug Life: word.

kalbtrombone: See the FAQ page.

The King and Queen of Cheese: Yeah, it’s a bunch of BS. It took me a month and a half doing it in my spare time. A Nintendo employee being PAID to translate it full-time would’ve taken even less time, I’m sure. It’s not any different than your regular RPG script these days.

A Fan: No, the programming wouldn’t have taken long, they got people working for them who do ONLY that kind of stuff. The amount of stuff we’ve hacked isn’t that much at all, to be honest, and it’s already come a really long way. Also, the snake is just a normal, early enemy, it’s not like the Rowdy Mouse. It can poison you sometimes, but that’s it really.

Failedlegend: The “use an extra line” thing isn’t really an option, and it’d take extra work. Plus we already got the abbreviations hack working anyway

Everyone else: Thanks for the suggestions! Feel free to keep posting them in this post if you want. As you can see, sometimes naming can be tough After some of these suggestinos, the name “Chompers the Snake” sounds like a funny nickname ala “Smokey the Crow”, but I don’t think it’d be a very good in-game name If it helps any, maybe try other words that means “snake” or words that are types of snakes?

Vorpal Snake or something like that might work, but I still have to go with Hard Bitin’ Snake, just because it feels more Earthbound-ish.

Tomato’s a professional translator.

Let’s trust his judgment about these kinds of things.