Games translated from Japanese to English then back to Japanese...

[bluaki]

Have you ever heard of anything like this before? :D

I was just randomly looking at Wikipedia:

When Nintendo decided to port Dōbutsu no Mori to the Nintendo GameCube system, the American version, Animal Crossing had much more than the Japanese version Dōbutsu no Mori Plus, in part because of the immense translation that Nintendo undertook when translating Dōbutsu no Mori from Japanese to English. Not only did thousands of lines of text have to be translated, but the translators had to create new holidays and items. Nintendo Japan was so impressed with the results of the translation done by Nintendo of America's Treehouse division that they translated NOA's version back into Japanese and released it as Dōbutsu no Mori e-Plus. Dōbutsu no Mori e-Plus was released in Japan on June, 27th 2003, and sold 91,658 copies during its first week of sale.

So basically, Animal Crossing was ported really quickly to the Gamecube after the console's release in Japan. NOA got their hands on the ported game and improved it a ton during translation, after which Nintendo translated the English version into Japanese :-\
If that's anything like internet online translators, you won't get anywhere near the same thing you started off with :P

[phatyo]

So they did a Japaneses version then a better English one then back into Japaneses ?

[bluaki]

So they did a Japaneses version then a better English one then back into Japaneses ?

Yeah, that's what I said

[phatyo]

So they did a Japaneses version then a better English one then back into Japaneses ?

Yeah, that's what I said

Yeah but it was a better Japanese one ?

[bluaki]

So they did a Japaneses version then a better English one then back into Japaneses ?

Yeah, that's what I said

Yeah but it was a better Japanese one ?

The final Japanese game was as good as the English one.

[phatyo]

So they did a Japaneses version then a better English one then back into Japaneses ?

Yeah, that's what I said

Yeah but it was a better Japanese one ?

The final Japanese game was as good as the English one.

How many AC where realest there ?