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Localization of Japanese media in the 90s and (to a lesser extent) the early 00s was wild
Western arms of Japanese publishers (or even just random licensing companies) shipping the source code for a JRPG over to A Single Guy and saying "now fit your script in a 16 megabit cartridge, you have three months"
Translating stuff from out of context boxes on a spreadsheet is the ideal way to do it, of course.