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TERU TAIMU DESU

>>5972459
I don't get. What's the change? It's a japanese game.

>>5972457
So this is that "100 gecs" band everyone has been going on about, huh?

>>5972575
probe entertainment is based in the UK, do you not understand localization?

>>5972459
why do japs love die hard so much?

lewd

>>5972936
oh japan, you so crazy

>>5972936
they like different angles i noticed

>>5972457
And sometimes better! This is why I prefer Japanese Neo Geo games over America's.

>>5972893
This isn't a localization. That's the original game, Dynamite Deka.

>>5972457
>>5972913
>>5972936
Where's the symbol for gaijin shit?

>>5972893
Retard

You know, japan is a country known for its xenophobia, do you have to wonder what kind of people willingly become localizers there

>>5973039
>ripto

>>5973056
Lmao

it is スパイロ wroten in some janky font.

not sure what they meant by this one

>>5973075
>The hell is an Einhander?
>Ein Hander
>A Hander
>One who hands
>Uhhh....
>Just a put a hand on there.

>>5973075
You're about to get a onehander.

Pandemonium

The Unholy War

very creative

>>5973105
My god, look at that blood...
What MSPaint could've done this...

>>5972457
Wow, the US release looks so much better. Never would have bought it with that cover back then. Any other US covers that are actually better?

>>5973081
One handed is a kind of sword grip.

>>5973049
As opposed to America, who elected some guy on the promise that he would build a wall to keep immigrants off.

>>5972575
It was the same development studio as Sonic 3 and Comix Zone, where it was an America-based studio full of Japanese developers owned by the American branch of Japanese company, but made primarily for the American audience. You can call it either an American or Japanese game and you'd be correct either way. Die Hard Arcade was the original game developed and Dynamite Deka is the localization, though.

>>5973093
It's no fair that they got the better version.

>>5973049
Publishers who think that it's cheaper than making a game from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvegHle8K4

Peak "weird Japan," their characterization of Abe in ads and on the box/title is incomprehensible. The box art doesn't have the girls, but it's still kind of wacky-looking and makes you think it's just some zany game with a Jar-Jar Binks-esque alien. Which it does have that aspect a little bit, but I think everyone can agree the tones are predominantly dark across the board in Abe's Oddysee.

What's just as funny though is that in the actual game, the localization is actually lovingly realized — the translations are accurate, the voiceovers are spot-on, and the new graphics look good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxM_6qZs8s

>>5973168
>localization
>"it exists"

>>5973271
didnt know they had circle-k in japan

>>5973271
This is apparently a girl group that never got off the ground; the ad makes it sound like this is their "debut" and it's no wonder why it fizzled, between the bizarre nature of the whole thing and, it must be said, the fact that only one of the girls is good-looking.

>>5973049
The PS1 must have been a culture shock, considering it had a HUGE library of western developed games and the console actually was popular there. I wonder if any Japanese people ever felt like Sony was "trying to get westerners to infiltrate Japan" or something equally bizarre like that.

>>5973049
>>5974132
Japan isn’t xenophobic, it’s nationalistic. There’s a difference. Post-WW2 Japan is really only adversarial with other Asian countries, and speaking about the U.S. at least, they are one of the few countries that more or less out-and-out LIKES us.

>>5972912
Same reason that everyone loves Die Hrad, because it's fucking awesome.

>>5973280
Japan ADORES convenience stores. 7-Eleven got bought by their Japanese subsidiary and Lawson's used to be an American chain but closed their local branches back in the '80s.

This thread reminds me of how I live in Japan. It's pretty cool. You know, I just walk out my room and I'm in Japan.

>>5974161
well, presumably your room is also part of Japan but yeah, it sounds neat

>>5974161
What's your localization like compared to JAP you? Sometimes you'll look cool but other times they'll make you super stinky and give you an outtie bellybutton.

>>5974175
True, but the outside is more Japanese-y.

>>5974161
How do you get through the depression?

>>5974194
Nice walks with a friend.

>>5974175
What if his room's an embassy?

>>5972997
Japanese game again
Why are u so dense

>>5973016
>>5973035
Same, japanese games

>>5973168
>>5973105
>>5973075
>>5973062
Fucking retards

>>5973084
It's Rayman! Electric Toon something something

>>5974227
Rayman! Save the Electoons!

>>5973056
>>5973063
makes me wonder if that's where the spyro 2 devs got ripto's name

First one was called Tomb RaiderS, they just called them Tomb Raider like the rest of the world for the sequels.

>>5974952
And the game was promoted primarily with anime art, like so

>>5974285
I think I remember an interview where they confirmed that's true

>>5972459
>>5972997
>>5973035
>>5973016
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>>5973075
>>5973105
>>5973168
Christ do you fucking retards not know how look up release dates and origins of games?

And you niggers act like you're better than /v/

>>5972893
Seems like you mixed up Die Hard Trilogy and Die Hard Arcade

>>5973160
>Die Hard Arcade was the original game developed and Dynamite Deka is the localization, though.
No, it wasn't. The game was always Dynamite Deka, then in the west they got the Die Hard License as the game is a complete Die Hard rip off.

>>5973434
That's peculiar, they didn't redesign the character or anything. I guess they thought fully rendered artwork is less appealing than anime-like lineart and flat colors?

>>5974960
Neat

>>5972457
I like how they added a ton of extra characters and stuff to the japanese SMB3 cover

>>5972459
>>5972997
>>5973016
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>>5973096
>>5973105
>>5973168
why are you guys doing this? is this a language-barrier issue or are you just trolling?

>>5974141
>waito piggu go home

>>5975026
Bitch, the game was literally put into production because Sega really, really needed a killer app that would increase sales of the Titan arcade board and already had the Die Hard license from a project that fell through a few years earlier. It was made as a goddamn Die Hard game that had to have the license removed for the Japanese release and not vice-versa.

>>5975220
Little Witching Mischiefs is the Japanese version of Unholy War, same engine, same base game, not sure why you're calling me out with the rest of the idiots just posting Japanese covers of Japanese games.

Toys for Bob even worked on the "localization" themselves

>>5975252
Oh, my bad. I just assumed it was like Super Heroine Chronicle or something. That's pretty hilarious.

>>5973096
>>5975252
That's crazy, since that game looks as far as you can go from "Magical Girl All-Stars". Goddamn Cutie Honey on the box and everything.

>>5975231
How did they make Plok look more horrifying than he already was?

>>5975231
This is some nightmare shit.

>>5975231

It's interesting how the Japanese version centered the marketing around Plok's powerups and limb throwing, but Western publishers had no idea what to do with him.

>>5975419

Speaking of which, anyone have a larger version of pic related?

>>5975419
>TERTIARY
>giant lip icon

>>5975026
>>5973160
Why do people call "ダイナマイト刑事" Dynamite Deka?

There are two, maybe 3 acceptable ways to render this name, depending on whether you're a retarded weeb or a sane person. Dynamite Detective is the objectively correct name of the game by any possible metric. If you want to stay closer to the crappy English localisation, you can go for Dynamite Cop, but that has obvious issues because they named the sequel that in the west.

And if you're an insufferable "nippon banzai" tier weeb, you can call it Dainamaito Deka. These are all of the acceptable ways to talk about this game.

"Dynamite Deka", though? Why? If you want to preserve the alliteration, Detective works better. If you want to be a dumb weeb, why not go all out?

>>5974180
I wonder why Japanese always portray Americans as aryans. Aren't blonde hair and blue eyes more prevalent in Central Europe than in the states?

>>5975260
Waitaminute
Menace Beach got retooled into a Peach game overseas?

>>5972575
>I don't get. What's the change? It's a japanese game.

It was actually co-developed by Sega of America's STI group and Sega of Japan.

>>5975456
Because it's the English word Dynamite and the Japanese word Deka put together, and it's only ever used when specifying the Japanese version of the Die Hard Arcade/Dynamite Cop series so it's not a big deal.

>>5974952
Dat butt tho

>>5975456
>日本語の「刑事」は一般には私服で犯罪捜査などに従事する警察官を指す俗称として用いられている。

>なお、英語のDetectiveの訳語に「刑事」が当てられることがあるが、Detectiveには私立探偵 (Private detective) の意味もある[2]。また、アメリカでは“Detective”が警察官の正式な役職・階級の名称となっている場合があるが(例:ニューヨーク市警察#階級)、厳密には職種は刑事に限られているわけではない(ディテクティブを参照)。

>>5975487
Nah that's a bootleg pr0n game

>>5975463
I think it's just because blond hair and blue eyes used to be prominent in Hollywood, which is the world's main exposure to the US.

>>5975504
>Because it's the English word Dynamite
It's not, it's a Japanese word ダイナマイト (dainamaito) which is a loanword from English.

>>5975870
No, it's written in Katakana. That's how they signify that it's a foreign word being spelt out phonically. It's similar to how if you write out the word "deka" with the western alphabet, it's not automatically an English loanword just because it's written in a way that's easy for English speakers to read.

>>5975870
derp derp

>>5975870
>>5975882
So it's important to note here that although yes, it is an English loanword and yes, katakana is used to approximate foreign pronunciation and general construction, the situation is (depending on your point of view) more or less complex than it seems on the surface.

ダイナマイト is not meant to actually evoke the word "dynamite" per se, that is, either the physical object dynamite or the JJ Walker variety. ダイナマイト is just one of many sensationalized Japanese phrases that has lost all meaning and is really just like a novel-sounding word that lends itself well to Japanese phonetics. So now it just kind of evokes "coolness" in a vague cringey way, sort of like how "ninja" is used in English in increasingly irreverent ways, like "lol im like a ninja" when you show some extremely minor level of skill.

>>5975463
Aren’t most Americans of German descent?

>>5975252
holy cow its true! and no other places on the webs redacts this! Not even gamefaqs!

>>5975456
Dynamite Dick. Maybe switch it around to Dick Dynamite. You have the detective reference and it's still short and punchy.

>>5976037
No, Mexican is.

>>5975204
It's pretty similar but it's not 1:1

The japanese one is shorter and rounder compared to the original one

>>5975456
>name LITERALLY reads as DYNAMITE DEKA
hmmmmmmmm really makes me fucking think why people call it that. DAINAMAITO is the word dynamite written out in the japanese alphabet, as another anon pointed out this is evident in the fact its katakana. You are so dumb it hurts, stop posting.
>HURRR WHY DONT YOU FUCKIN WEEBS CALL IT POKETO MONSUTA HUH???

>>5975456
It’s a spinoff from this.

>>5972459
What is bruce wilis doing there?

>>5976959
is that bean from sonic fighters

>>5973063
>wroten
this is a cursed thread and honestly I'm kind of afraid of posting in it

>>5977061
No, that's "Bin the Dynamite Duk". He's completely distinct from Bean the Dynamite from Sonic Fighters.

>>5974235
My bad, haven't played rayman in 20 years and didn't remember the character names. What kanji is that at the end? I don't recognize it at all.

>>5973084
を救え!
That's elementary school stuff.

>>5976037
Goes in waves of immigration, historically the largest groups were

>British, French, and German (earliest settlement)
>Irish and German (major immigration boom of mid-19th century)
>Italian and Slavic (major immigration boom of late 19th/early 20th centuries)
>Chinese and Japanese (same time but almost exclusively on Pacific Coast)
>refugees from Africa and Asia (sporadic but consistent over 20th century)
>Central and South America (mid-late 20th century to present)

Also include Africans, often forcibly brought over from the 1600s until the mid-19th century, who then have slowly assimilated into the rest.

If I were to guess, the most common heritage in the US is either English, Irish, or German, as they were the earliest and also some of the largest movements. I don't know the exact answer myself though.

tl;dr you probably aren't far off

>>5977103
Elementary accurately summarizes my current moon level. I'll keep working though. Thanks for the reading.

>>5975456
I say "Dynamite Keiji"

>>5977073
redrum

>>5975815
I can't remember any famous Americans who were blond and blue eyed. Marilyn Monroe is the only one that comes to mind, maybe also Ahnold if you don't consider him Austrian.

>>5973128
actually neat and way better than the other one. Where does the name come from? Roll away seems more obvious

>>5978219
The game was called Kula World everywhere else, only in burger land did they worry that people would get scared of the word "Kula".

>>5975212
ANOTHER FUCKING JAP GAME

THAT'S NOT A LOCALIZATION THAT'S THE ORIGINAL FUCKING GAME

HOLY SHIT DO YOU NIGGERS NOT READ THE THREAD? IT'S JAPANESE LOCALIZATIONS FOR NON JAPANESE GAMES NOT JAPANESE LOCALIZATIONS FOR JAPANESE GAMES BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

BAN ALL ESL NIGGERS AND ZOOMERS

>>5977078
Not completely distinct. Bin is Bean's alternate costume in Fighters Megamix.

Know as Rocky Rodent in the States.

>>5980418
>>5981035
Does it surprise you that much of /vr/ is illiterate?

>>5974152
Just 1 and 3. 2 (kinda) and everything else afterwards is terribad

>>5982624
I love Die Hard 2. Airports are fantastic settings for movies.

>>5982629
And so are hotels but then they wanted to make John into some sort of a special forces, international spy type character (despite only being a detective even in Live Free or Die Hard), but I guess you can't do the same thing 3 times in a row

>>5975948
ninja please