Talk:SmileBASIC (Petit Computer 3)/@comment-75.143.146.100-20150221171703/@comment-14600979-20150221211552

It can't be too long now...

Part of the reason it takes so much longer is because it's much easier to get reports and patch the (MANY) bugs that it has in just Japan. Even though we could be reporting bugs too, it would be harder to release each update in all regions. So, part of it means we don't get as buggy versions. For that matter, one release didn't even work. We could have gotten that, and I feel we wouldn't be as nice about it as the Japanese users who have easy communication channels and all that with Takaki Kobayashi. It's like some of the comments we have here that don't give any detail except to rant in caps about a bug.

Anyway, enough passive-aggressiveness. The other part is that it does take quite a while to get software approved for other regions, and I suspect that Smileboom is trying to publish in both North America and PAL regions simultaneously. Oh, and the manuals and everything have to be translated. It's not like they could just say "awesome, it did well here, let's put it on the boat and dump it off at NOA" (DUNGEON TANKEN STOP).