It's the same for every console - difficult. If there are no tools for a console readily available it might become a bit more difficult, but even if there are any it's still serious business.

Yeah, translation is probably the hardest things that any level of hacker can do, I think. I've never done it personally, but at the very least, you'd have to revamp all the characters that don't exist in the language you're going into so it isn't complete gibberish. And then you need to line it up right and everything. Not to mention, most every script that is untranslated is gigantic.

speaking of which... 

you should open a topic in the Personal Projects subforum sometime and show us some of your work so far.

And I'd say the same about reprogramming the Super Metroid physics engine.

C'mon. Let's not get condescending.

Translation is simply a specific piece of the ROM hacking umbrella. Like any ROM hacking task, difficulty varies greatly from game to game and from task to task. The same skill sets are involved, the same knowledge for the most part is used. There's actually few differences. The only real differences are dealing with another language and spending way too much time on text display and space constraints as opposed to most other ROM hacking endeavors.

If it's one thing this site stands for is that ROM hackers of all types have equal value when it comes to the ability to give valuable help each other and belong under the same umbrella. You take a seasoned veteran who does translations and a seasoned veteran who does modification ROM hacks and you're going to find much of their skills overlap. Much of their knowledge overlaps. There's no magical differences or walls that separate them.

For the same reasons there are translations that take a week and some that take years, there are ROM hacks that take weeks, and ROM hacks that take years. We're the same inside, we just have different skin colors.

'C'mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together and try to love one another right now'. 

And I've seen menu systems needing expansion far more intricate than physics engines. There's a lot more work that goes into a quality translation than just changing some letters around.

I will keep fighting you until you agree not to label one form of hacking superior in complexity to another. You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to disagree with it. From somebody who's been on both sides of the fence, there's tasks of equal complexity on both.