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Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:03:08 2014 No.2020472 [Reply] [Original]

>devisut

How do you fuck up this badly at translation? Who oversaw the western release for this and said "This is good"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:07:20 2014 No.2020478 File: 68 KB, 640x480, 31366-the-legend-of-zelda-nes-screenshot-the-opening-storys.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do you fuck up this badly at translation? Who oversaw the western release for this and said "This is good"?

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:07:43 2014 No.2020479

You know old games were translated by japanese people that had some english classes, right?
Look somewhere for the King of Fighters 96/97 endings, they have a lot of "cool" words that don't really make any sense where they are used. Things like "dweebenheimer".

Or Zero Wing.
Or Samurai Shodown. VICTOLY!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:09:42 2014 No.2020482 File: 233 KB, 640x480, dweebenheimer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:11:52 2014 No.2020485 Localization wasn't really a thing back then. They just sloppily translated them and sent them out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:12:02 2014 No.2020486 File: 70 KB, 500x375, victoly.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There's a CONGLATURATIONS somewhere, too.

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:14:08 2014 No.2020492
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Some new games fuck up from time to time, too. When Guy is defeated in SF4, he yells "MUNEN!". They translated it literally into English, which gave us the hilarious "PROFOUND SADNESS!".

Imagine someone shouting PROFOUND SADNESS when dying.

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:32:37 2014 No.2020525

>>2020472
Probably was overseen by someone who knew even less English than the translator did.

What I really want to know is why certain phrases are so common in Japanese. What's with the obsession over calling special punch moves '______ Upper' or '_______ Knuckle'? They sort of make sense, but not that much. Why not call it Uppercut, or any other complete fist-based move?

Similar one I noticed from Kingdhom Hearts 3D is calling sword attacks '_____ Edge'. Is that a common one?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:35:31 2014 No.2020530 >>2020492 >Some new games fuck up from time to time, too. When Guy is defeated in SF4, he yells "MUNEN!". They translated it literally into English, which gave us the hilarious "PROFOUND SADNESS!". That goes into the "awesome localization pile"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:37:28 2014 No.2020535 >>2020525 Wrestling lingo and tokusatsu. About KH, they're called Blitz in japanese.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 01:56:48 2014 No.2020569 >>2020525 >Probably was overseen by someone who knew even less English than the translator did. Or, they just didn't care, because asking for a correction would mean another 2 weeks of turnaround from Japan.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 02:17:14 2014 No.2020615 >>2020482 Yell that one's not so offensively bad, it's just kind of a weird thing to say

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 02:30:06 2014 No.2020627
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>>2020472
oh god this reminds me of blazing star
>when you collect only one of the lucky panels "collected all panels!"
>on game over: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough, see you next time, bye-bye!"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 02:39:17 2014 No.2020631 >>2020478 Someone who "liked" quoting "everything"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 02:46:15 2014 No.2020632 File: 337 KB, 1286x609, lolwut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2020615

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 03:00:22 2014 No.2020641 File: 14 KB, 320x224, 2deep4u.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 03:20:09 2014 No.2020651 File: 10 KB, 240x320, jam.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] DonPachi had a lot of translation errors but this one is probably my favourite.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 06:52:46 2014 No.2020806 File: 42 KB, 318x318, Charles-Barkley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2020651 Aw yeah.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 07:06:25 2014 No.2020823 >>2020482 In fairness people did talk like that in the 90s. Or rather, people in movies and tv.

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 07:29:37 2014 No.2020838
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>>2020486
>CONGLATURATIONS
Ghostbuters on the NES. Yet as horrible as our Engrishy ending text was, Japanese players had it even worse for their version of that game. Their ending text was glitched so that it became just two random Japanese letters. Pic related is all you got after breaking your thumb climbing those staircases.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 07:41:39 2014 No.2020843 >>2020838 >ri ri !??!!?!?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 07:46:37 2014 No.2020848 >>2020843\ >!??!!?!? Yeah, that abut sums it up. I imagine lots of Japanese kids threw their controllers at that point.

Anonymous Wed Oct 22 07:57:04 2014 No.2020857

>>2020631
It's common practice to quote for emphasis in Japanese, because bold and italic fonts don't work too well with kanji, and underlining will make half the words into other fucking words.

Some of the early games were translated by the Japanese, who had asked, like, a nephew who had English at school to translate for them, if even that (half the time they just used a dictionary). Funnier are modern fan-translators, who believe that it's an element of style that should be preserved and have characters all speak ironically. So you are "my beloved"? I "love" you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 08:27:25 2014 No.2020903 File: 74 KB, 320x240, dc4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love how seemingly self aware the engrish is in Bangai-O.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 11:01:25 2014 No.2021038 File: 191 KB, 1600x900, 2014-07-03_00001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Time for spangrish

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 22 22:42:39 2014 No.2022342 バンプ。

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 23 01:12:05 2014 No.2022605 File: 24 KB, 298x224, dl051.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2020472 This; and "Ohh shit I got the wrong way"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 23 01:24:58 2014 No.2022619 File: 133 KB, 640x448, 1405793225416.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 23 01:26:17 2014 No.2022620 >>2020478 GANNON BANNED FAGGOT

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 23 01:31:29 2014 No.2022626 >>2022619 >you will never play a game where a samurai fights alongside Irish nationalists

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 23 01:41:46 2014 No.2022637 Did anyone else play an Ecco 2 rom that ended with a wall of untranslated text then dropped you in another series of levels?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 01:04:35 2014 No.2024549 >ITT: "all ur base r belong 2 us" etc. Wat else is new

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 01:26:08 2014 No.2024591 >>2020651 Dear lord, that's beautiful. That's too fucking funny to be an accident, they could have copypasted the legal jargon from any hundreds of other arcade games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 01:29:24 2014 No.2024597 >>2022621 This is my new catchphrase I use when fleeing the cops in GTA.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 17:40:37 2014 No.2025739 >>2020651 >full extent of the jam. I lost my shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 18:43:08 2014 No.2025921 >>2020478 That was actually written by the Japanese devs though, like it's in the Japanese version of the game too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 18:54:42 2014 No.2025945 File: 211 KB, 945x485, happyened1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2020472 this is how you people make me feel

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 24 19:50:59 2014 No.2026020 >>2020848 Kinaman had video about this.

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