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Hey, I saw you were interested in a Japanese translation for DLsite.

I do some translation work for DLsite (Japanese to English) and from what I've seen, you'd be able to upload an English-only version just fine, with the only issue being the loss of Japanese customers. They seem to be pushing towards getting a bigger foreign audience and started a big translation campaign to help with it. Also, I wouldn't mind giving a go at translating to Japanese but it would be my first time working on a game or translating into Japanese (as opposed to into English) and I'd probably need to double check a lot of things with you.

If you were to upload there, though, I think the game would need to be finished.

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That's the problem - uploading an English-only version to a website mostly accessed by Japanese folks would probably be somewhat of a missed opportunity. And yeah, I had assumed they required games to actually be done - which is fine, since I wouldn't want to translate new text every update.

Maybe when the game is deeper in production, you could swing by and see about helping translate. I would probably want at least 2 people to look at it - one of which hopefully natively speaking Japanese - to ensure the effect of the text gets across properly.