/vr/ - Retro Games

A bug.

A cyborg

It's a クワガタムシ

>>8194201
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwagata

It's a stag beetle but the translatorfag didn't know it and was too lazy to askjeeves, so you have kuwanga

>>8194252
This game came out in '93, my guy.

>>8194252
I'm sure translator-kun had a networked computer in 1990

It's a https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30436.0

>>8194261
Don't be so sure.

Over 30years old

>>8194252
So if he did his job properly, how is this boss should be called? Boomer Stag? Boom Beetle?
Boomer Stag Beetle is probably too long for a name, that's three words.

>>8194947
Call him Stab Beetle.

>>8194947
Boomerang Beetle would've been a simple solution.

>>8194256
>my guy
Kill yourself.

>>8194201
Boomer

>>8195125
Not right now, honey.

>>8194252
>>8194261
>>8194947
>>8195104
The "translator" was one of the Jap developers romanizing the game. Hence also "Horming Torpedo" and why both of these also appear exactly the same in the Japanese version, Rockman X.

>>8195125
This. Zoomers, being gay is not cool.

friendly reminder if you think this is the best song in the game you are cringe because it is the most stereotypically anime song in the game.

>>8194252
>>8194261
>>8194947
>>8195104
>>8195358
It also may be an intentional play-on-words by the developers: to make "kuwagata" rhyme with "boomer" or sound like "boomerANG-er" (rang-er: someone who throws a boomerang). Hence why the "n" in "kuwanger" is not found in the kana of "kuwagata".

>>8195382
define "stereotypical anime song", preferably using music theory terms so I can follow you, don't throw in "uuuh it just feels like it" buzzwording.

>>8195386
Had to scroll to far to see this. It's someone being cute with wordplay.
>boomeranger
>kuwagata
>rather than "boomeranger kuwagata" someone knew these names would only get worse in the future and had some romanji fun

>>8197386
>romanji
*romaji

>>8197573
You forgot to correct my "too" in the first sentence.

>>8197386
Or to make kuwagata rhyme with the -er in boomer, but perhaps they thought "kuwagatter" sounded stupid or "not English", so they added the wordplay of the missing part of "boomerang", -rang, from the first part of the name, boomer, to the second part of the name, "kuwagatter", to create "kuwangua" or kuwanger (ie, (boomer)ku((w)rang)er).

>>8197605
I interpreted that one as just a typo this time.

>>8194201
>They "corrected" it in the remake
>by turning "Boomer" to "Boomerang"
Useless fucks.

>>8197678
Okay, Boomer Kuwanger.

>>8197696
A BOOMERANG, A BOOMERANG
A BOOMERANG, A BOOMERANG
IN THE TOWER, THE METAL TOWER
KUWANGER SEEKS TO FIGHT

>>8195358
>>8195386
>>8197678
That is, "Kuwanger" is probably formed similarly to how they began naming Mavericks weird compound "English" names in X5-8 (eg, "Dinorex", "Heatnix", "Pandamonium", etc.). That would probably also explain why he's called "Boomer" (as a Japonism) and not "Boomerang", even though "boomer" is not really an intelligible word in English for any atribute they were trying to convey for his characteristic weapon or powers, I mean).

So, no, neither name Kuwanger nor Boomer comes down to the hasty meme conclusion of "the 'localization team' (even though this was actually the work of Capcom's own Japanese developers for the game, since this is also the same case in Rockman X1) accidentally named him 'Kuwanger' when they meant to put 'Kuwagata'" but rather an intentional creativity choice of the development team to (at least as they believed) make his name stand out better and sound cooler, just as in the case of the Maverick names in X5-X8.

The real question is why is Flame Mammoth's japanese name Burnin' Noumander or Wire Sponge being Wire Hetimarl

>>8194201
A mistranslation. His name should be Boomerang Beetle.

>>8194201
It's a corruption of stag beetle. He's the only one who didn't have his name translated so it stands out. In Japanese all Maverick names all weird (Chill Penguin is Icy Penguigo, Storm Eagle is Storm Eagleed, etc.)

>>8198274
>translated
localized*

>>8198274
It seems it was made so they'd be like "faux-names" for the characters with the second word being their "last name" so to speak, and this did carry into Zero and ZX, after they basically gave up on localizing names.

He even does the disco dance finger point like a boomer

>>8198190
>>8198274
>>8198278
See >>8195358 and >>8197730. "Kuwanger" is neither a localization nor a translation.

>>8198395
/thread.

>>8198554
Yes that's what I said

Is "TOPMAN" the man at the top, ie the leader? Is that why you need to use his weapon to kill the final boss?

Is "HARDMAN" supposed to be hard (difficult) to beat? I normally kill him with the regular gun though, so I don't think he's too hard. But maybe he doesn't have a weakness to any particular weapon and that's why he is called hard man (or does he have a weakness?)

>>8198583
>But maybe he doesn't have a weakness to any particular weapon
He's weak to Magnet Man's weapon, IIRC.

>>8194256
>i no vr mean dun deeder

>>8199290
Incoherent posts are against the rules

>>8199324
>i no vr mean dun deeder
I know what /vr/ means?
inb4
>game was made in 93

His stage music was great.

On that note, what the fuck is a Figgoru?

On that note, what the fuck is a Figgoru?

>>8194201
A kuwa(gata) that is the master of rangs.

>>8197358
Sure, let me get out my midi piano and find the famous "anime scale".