Pete wrote:
Seems to me he suffered from depression. His contribution to SNES-gaming is huge, especially his effort in creating accurate emulators like BSNES.
What I didn't like about him was his behaviour and the way he treated people. Always seemed arrogant to me and I think he had some serious mental issues. Furthermore, he tended to give promises he never kept. Like with Far East of Eden Zero, when he had promised for say 10 years he would do this game and so prevented others from tackling the project. In the end, of course, he never finished it. I guess he not even started it. Fortunately, the game was translated by Tom in the end in less then three years.
So, of course, huge contribution to the scene, but somehow a weird, strange and unfortunate person.
Well, I have to say that I partially agree on the part of not finishing translations (I also waited for his translation of the first Daikaijuu Monogatari, which was left unfinished until DD picked it up and took it to completion at last). But, as many people say, we need to have in mind that fan translation is an unpaid job and thus they owe nothing to anyone. And I'm saying this although I'm the first one who gets unreasonably angry and throws an internal tantrum feeling kind of "betrayed" when translators leave their projects in an unfinished state (Madara 2 comes to mind) but that's how things are in this circle and we can't take for granted other people's work unless we're paying them, that's a fact.
Whenever a new translation announcement comes up I always try to have in mind that there are some probabilities that it will never be completed, and come up to terms with that. That way, the disappointment is smaller if the worst case scenario happens.
I myself tried to start a translation for Jungle Wars 2 (only the text, as I don't have any rom hack skills), but had to quit as my Japanese knowledge wasn't good enough and couldn't find anyone willing to offer help steadily. I hope I haven't disappointed anyone who was looking forward to play that one.
That said (I always tend to long and boring rants), I hope the best for Byuu and I also thank him for all the work he has done in the emulation scene, which hasn't been a small contribution.
I hope you all people are doing ok.