Hey everybody,
First off I'd like to give a huge thanks to Agent Unknown for making a thread and sharing these with everyone! I'm just a fan like everyone else, and always being interested in what things are like behind the scenes, adored Iwata Asks.
Next up I want to thank everyone who has any interest in them! I hope you all enjoy reading these as much as I did. Also, if you feel like anything was poorly worded or doesn't make sense please feel free to let me know - I'm only human, and translated all of these after a full day of work and childcare so they're not reflective of my best work...
Just to give you guys some background on how this came up - like some of you, I always wanted Nintendo to make a book with all of the Iwata Asks that I'd be there to purchase, day one. It occurred to me when Iwata-san died that there was always the possibility that Nintendo might remove those from the web, and so I always wanted to archive all of them as a collection of PDFs just in case.
Fast forward to a month ago - I finally realized I could save HTML files to my Dropbox from my iPhone, and archived all of them in English. Given the timing, I though it would be great if we could put all of them together to offer as a mega-PDF to share with everyone for archival purposes.
When looking into that I found that list on Wikipedia that indicated not all of them had been translated into English - so I immediately archived those files in Japanese as PDFs, and decided it would be amazing if we could get all of those into English, then offer those along with the officially translated ones as a free, comprehensive Iwata Asks PDF Collection. Doing it in conjunction with Nintendo World Report would mean we'd actually have people to edit my translations into something readable and maybe even have someone that could arrange the content into a nice PDF.
We're still working on that, but for now I thought it would be nice if we could start posting the translated ones on NWR to commemorate Iwata-san. I've already translated about 1/3 of the content based on what I found on that Wikipedia page (all of the "Other" and "Wii U" columns), and just started on "Kikitrick" last night.
Looking at the comments, I was unaware until now that at least some of them were already posted on nintendo.co.uk - I should go through those and see what else has already been translated.
I unfortunately don't get much time to read Gaf, but if anyone has any comments or requests please feel free to leave them here - I'll do what I can to address them. If you like what you've read please feel free to tell someone at Nintendo, like Bill Trinnen, that you're enjoying them! ^_~
Cheers,
M