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Posted February 15, 2014
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DProject: Who didn't read this in Mario's voice?
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geminidomino: *raises hand*

Whether Charles Martinet is "Officialy Mario" or not, AFAIC, "Mario's voice" always has, and always shall be, provided by Captain Lou Albano, or by none!
Oh I see someone else watched the TV show :D
Posted February 15, 2014
Personally, I have played games in English for such a long time that watching them localized in Greek would feel particularly awkward. Like someone modded the game or some kind of unofficial release.
Posted February 15, 2014
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geminidomino: *raises hand*

Whether Charles Martinet is "Officialy Mario" or not, AFAIC, "Mario's voice" always has, and always shall be, provided by Captain Lou Albano, or by none!
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JudasIscariot: Oh I see someone else watched the TV show :D
As I type this, I'm ripping DVDs of the Friday "Zelda" episodes to put on my HTPC. :D
Posted February 15, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It's the universal language. Even the aliens on Doctor Who and Star Trek speak it.

Besides, it's easy to translate English yourself. For German, change W to V, C to K, and "the" to "der". For Russian, add -avich to names, -ski to nouns, and toss in some Sovietness. For Italian, just add -a to every third word and end with an exclamation. Like so:

English: "Commander Shephard, where is the Krogan lubricant?"

German: "Kommander Shephard, vere is der Krogan lubrikant?"

Russian: "Comrade Shephardavich, where is the People's Krogan lubricantski?"

Italian: "Commander-a Shephard, where is-a the Krogan lubricant-a? Mama mia!"

Most companies don't bother because this can take a whole afternoon to do.
Well, that was highly educative, thank you. :D
Posted February 16, 2014
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JudasIscariot: We occasionally do add other languages to our games as the legal situation permits and we can find the original masters. See this post: http://www.gog.com/news/language_packs_update_10_classic_games

Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that Italian versions of games are sometimes the hardest to find :) Dragon Lore Italian was such a case. Ebay was literally swimming in German, French, and Spanish versions but Italian? Man, that's like winning the lottery :D
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rodrolliv: Can I send you guys my brother's set of the complete Commandos series so you can release the Spanish version here? ;)
That's not how it works, I'm afraid. Otherwise adding new games should be a matter of buying a copy from eBay as well.
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