NAMCO x CAPCOM
"Namco × Capcom" was announced in January 2005; at this point, the game was 70% complete. When first announced, "Mega Man" creator Keiji Inafune praised the initiative behind the project. "Namco × Capcom" was released in Japan on May 26, 2005. The game was never released internationally. Several outlets cited both its large amount of text, and a lack of worldwide recognition for a lot of represented characters as potential reasons. A fan translation was created by a group called TransGen, who also created a translation for the PlayStation 2 port of "". The team working on "Namco × Capcom" included ten people developing the patch itself, and thirty beta testers. The translation was completed over two years, releasing in 2008.