That brings up an interesting point. Since we know this guy is really just a crook I never really considered the economic breakdown of the price structure.
If his version of Startling Odessey II is worth $60...and the original game is only worth $10, and his bare-bones version is even cheaper than that, then that means the translation and whatever gilded bullshit adds at least $50 per copy to the game. The translators made this whole project possible, unfortunately.
Tobias would probably love to pay somebody somewhere something because as it is his costs are extremely small and margins super huge. He's transparently corrupt to anyone who isn't an idiot. He would love to "cover costs" so he could have some explanation for this carpet bagging bullshit price tag.
I really think it's a very very bad idea to take any money from this jerk. Furthermore, it's evidently time to do what anime fansubbers started doing in the early 90s when they realized con slugs were selling 10th gen copies of their efforts for $20 per tape: hardcode a message in the intro or title screen that says "This translation was a non-profit effort by fans. If you payed anything for it you were ripped off. To learn more email gundambob@compuserve.com". Something like that. Most of the time the pirates are way too stupid and helpless to remove the message. If you thread it deeply enough into the game there is no way he'll be able to figure the shit out.
The more I think on this I agree with the points that Professor brought up as well. After you mentioned that he is charging so much money for producing these, it became pretty apparent that he is not interested in selling these at slightly over cost giving you a fair deal. But let's say that even if he was being fair to you in your cut of each print/sale, you risk your name as being an accomplice should anything go down about his operation being illegal to the IP holders. There's just no good way to go about this unless say the print/cd pressing house you decided to do business with was only selling fan-developed manuals and fan-developed pressed discs that could still be written to in a CD-Rom burning software program, as then you would not be selling illegal bootlegs of software.
In any case I retract any statements that I may have made previously about it being something to even consider, especially in light of what he has been known to be doing in the past as far as illegal operations go and other games that he is selling pressed discs of, and the sheer amount of money that he is charging for some of these games. Also as one poster pointed out, how come there is a such a vast price difference between certain games if the process for printing and pressing the disc is the same?
-Thomas
