8-4

8-4
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Founded: 2005 Founder: N/A President: N/A Parent / owner: N/A Divisions / subsidiaries: N/A
Website: 8-4.jp/blog

8-4, Ltd. is an independent video game translation and localization corporation, founded in 2005 and based in Tokyo, Japan. 8-4 was initially founded by former Electronic Gaming Monthly editor John Ricciardi, the name being derived from the final level of Super Mario Bros. The company is largely contracted by other developers, including Nintendo, for translating games into other languages (mostly for role-playing games, as they are typically too large for an in-house translation team).

8-4 is generally involved starting midway into development, and frequently suggests changes to the developers to make the game more accessible. Richard Honeywood, the founder of Square's localization department, is said to be a chief influence for their translation style, in that they try to convey the same experience as the original rather than simply translating text.

Games published by Nintendo

Game	Developer	Year	Console
Mario Tennis: Power Tour	Camelot Software Planning	2005	Game Boy Advance
Baten Kaitos Origins	Monolith Soft	2006	Nintendo GameCube
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon	Intelligent Systems	2008	Nintendo DS
Glory of Heracles	Paon	2008	Nintendo DS
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation	Square Enix	2010	Nintendo DS
Fossil Fighters: Champions	Nintendo SPD Red Entertainment	2010	Nintendo DS
Epic Mickey	Junction Point Studios	2010	Wii
Fire Emblem Awakening	Intelligent Systems	2012	Nintendo 3DS
Shovel Knight	Yacht Club Games	2014	Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
Xenoblade Chronicles X	Monolith Soft	2015	Wii U
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games	Sega	2016	Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Intelligent Systems	2017	Nintendo 3DS

External links

• 8-4 on Wikipedia

References

1st & 2nd Party / Owned Internal divisions Nintendo EPD • EAD* • SPD* • SDD* Nintendo PTD • BDD • SDD* • IRD* • RED* • Nintendo Network Services R&D1* • R&D2* • R&D3* Subsidiaries Nintendo of America (Treehouse) • NST • NTD Nintendo of Europe • NERD Nintendo Australia Nintendo of Korea iQue Nintendo Leisure System Co., Ltd.* Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd. Nintendo Pictures Nintendo Systems Co., Ltd. 1-UP Studio • Mario Co., Ltd.* • Marigul Management* • Mario Club • Mobile21* • Monegi* • Monolith Soft • Nintendo Cube • Next Level Games • Project M* • Project Sora* • RandnetDD Co., Ltd.* • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment • SRD Owned / Affiliated Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc. * – Former / Defunct
3rd Parties / Partners 8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei * – Former / Defunct
Key employees Presidents Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi Successors: Sekiryo Kaneda • Hiroshi Yamauchi • Satoru Iwata • Tatsumi Kimishima • Shuntaro Furukawa NOA: Minoru Arakawa • Tatsumi Kimishima • Reggie Fils-Aimé • Doug Bowser NOE: Satoru Shibata • Koji Miyake Managers, etc. Internal Creative Fellow: Shigeru Miyamoto Technology Fellow: Genyo Takeda EPD: Shinya Takahashi PTD: Ko Shiota NST: Shigeki Yamashiro Subsidiaries NNSD: Yusuke Beppu Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo Retro: Michael Kelbaugh NERD: Alexandre Delattre