Quote Originally Posted by Bubba View Post
Decided to check out Ted Woolsey on Wikipedia (which I know is hardly a reliable source) but it says on there that the last game he translated for Square was Super Mario RPG? It says he left before the English localization of FFVII began?
I think he's actually dropped off the localization scene back in the 90s, actually. We owe a hell of a lot to him, with games like FFVI, Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana to his credit. I think all this is all the more impressive when you consider that he didn't even get a script of the games he translated - he just had to translate and jot down his translations in a notebook. And then he had to fit his translated text into the text boxes, adhere to Nintendo's policies at the time... With what little tools he had at his disposal, the guy did an amazing job and I miss him.

For other cool translator dudes, check out Alexander O. Smith, Richard Honeywood, and Tom Slattery