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7014074 No.7014074 [Reply] [Original]

This is a debate that needs to be had and settled.

>Mega Man

or

>Megaman

Which is correct?

>> No.7014081

>>7014074
mega sneed

>> No.7014082

>>7014074
It's fucking referred to by Capcom as "Mega Man" you goddamn idiot

>> No.7014095

>>7014082
Citation? Because of the, oh I dunno, 300 variations of cover art there is clearly no set theme. You find both Mega Man and Megaman. Officially. By Capcom.

>> No.7014106

>>7014095
All you have to do is go on Capcom's official website you fucking tool.
>b-but on this cover--
Who cares?
>b-but on the spine it says--
Who cares?
The official answer from Capcom is "Mega Man". Anything else was a mistake.
There is nothing else to discuss on this subject.

>> No.7014109
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7014109

>>7014074
>>7014095
/thread

>> No.7014131

>>7014109
>shows a list that someone had to type
>ignores that SEVERAL actual game titles in that image show "MEGAMAN" while the typed title says "Mega Man"

>> No.7014134

>>7014106
>anything else is a mistake
>even when the parent company names/titles/labels the game

>> No.7014147

>>7014131
Are you actually retarded or something?

>> No.7014151

Megaman was always a mistake or stylization, simply because the other Robot Masters are never one word. It's Guts Man, not Gutsman, Metal Man, not Metalman, Tengu Man, not Tenguman, etc. It only makes sense that Mega Man would follow that trend.

>> No.7014153

In my teens I parsed his name as Mega Man, but every robot master was a singular word like MetalMan and NapalmMan.

>> No.7014157
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7014157

>>7014109
lol nope

>> No.7014161

>>7014151
Mega man is Japanese game and the japs don't have spaces.

>> No.7014163
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7014163

>>7014157

>> No.7014164
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>>7014151
...you must not remember the boss intro screens well.

They were one word.

>> No.7014167
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7014167

>>7014163
The truth is, the official wording uses a space; but the official logo doesn't; but that logo was most likely done by Japs and they didn't want to use space either for consistency, or because they didn't want to have to redo MORE of the logo.

So, both things are official, I haven't checked but they probably got a coypright on both anyway, if you're going to write it and you're not Japanese, you should write it with a space.

>> No.7014170
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7014170

>>7014167
More logos they couldn't be bothered to put the space in

>> No.7014173
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7014173

>>7014170

>> No.7014179
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7014179

>> No.7014184
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7014184

You should get the point by now.

Now go check "Mega Man 8" cover. The only reason it has a space is because they used a different logo altogether compared to "Rockman 8" instead of readapting the same logo.
That, is a more expensive thing to do.

>> No.7014191
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7014191

>>7014184
See also, PAL cover.

If you still think either wording is the true official one and the other wording isn't correct, you're also still a retard

>> No.7014194

>>7014074
I just always assumed it was 2 separate words. And will continue to do so I guess.

>> No.7014197

It is Mega Man and Rockman

>> No.7014241

>>7014197
and yet
>Megaman 8
>Megaman X4
>Rock Man IV

>> No.7014246

>>7014241
The correct spelling is Mega Man 8.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP9000-NPUJ00453_00-0000000000000001
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302786/
Etc.

You. Fucking. Retard.

>> No.7014250

So, capcom confimed lazy?

>> No.7014252
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7014252

>>7014246
looks like the version I posted wasn't big enough

>> No.7014256

>>7014246
>>7014191
>>7014184
>>7014179
>>7014173
>>7014170
>>7014164
>>7014163
>>7014157

Don't get angry that you're wrong, learn from it.

>> No.7014320

>>7014106
>>7014109
This already BTFO the "debate", OP, there's nothing else to discuss.

>> No.7014340

>>7014167
>The truth is, the official wording uses a space; but the official logo doesn't
>So, both things are official
That's not how that works. Besides the fact we know the actual reason the logo is like that is because the Japanese name is "Rockman", all one word, the logo could very easily just be said to be stylized. By this logic of taking the titles on box art completely literally, the official title of the games should be "MEGAMAN & BASS", etc. in all caps.

>> No.7014361

>>7014250
No, Capcom only ever calls the game Mega Man. The font on the covers is sometimes inobvius, but the correct spelling is two separate words and none other.

>> No.7014363

>>7014340
>By this logic

Spelling and typography aren't the same logic. The logo literally is the name of the game, which is also the name of the entire brand.

They could have just as easily put the space in there and pay the extra half day work it takes to get new logos with the space. In fact, in some cases like for MM8 US, they did.

But in most cases they didn't, so that means the alternate spelling is more than okay by them, especially considering how many times it happened. If there was one or two examples you COULD argue "okay this one logo is stylized", but look how many times it happened. Not all of them were posted either.

If that spelling wasn't okay they would have fixed it by that time.

In fact, the contrary happened. The older covers, the one they had the less control of, were usually all 2 words, with "MAN" below "MEGA", even. With time and better quality control, they got what they wanted: a single word, on a single line, matching the original Jap name.

>> No.7014365

>>7014252
I guess it's true, the cover clearly says MEGAma8n, you're right, spelling does vary.

You fucking imbecile.

>> No.7014367

>>7014131
Yeah, you're a fucking retard.

>> No.7014370

>>7014363
>The logo literally is the name of the game
That's not how logos work, man. Your argument is fundamentally screwed.

>> No.7014380

>>7014157
The cover says Mega Man 11 in stylized font. Without stylization, it says:
https://store.playstation.com/ru-ru/product/EP0102-CUSA10738_00-MM11000000000000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7LNrTpqk4g

>> No.7014396
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7014396

The title of this game is "GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION "10 OUT OF 10" -GameInformer "5 OUT OF 5 ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME. PERIOD." -G4TV.com BATMAN ARKHAM CITY BONUS CONTENT INCLUDES: HARLEY QUINN'S REVENGE & Batman: Year One Download redeemable from Xbox Live® only. Expires March 31st 2013. Internet Connection Required. "5 OUT OF 5 ...A MUST OWN" - GamePro "GAME OF THE YEAR" - METACRITIC"

>> No.7014427

Megaman

>> No.7014428

>>7014396
This "Batman in such sharp light his costume looks white" is a good idea. Very expressive. Too bad the game is literally bamham.

>> No.7014441

>>7014074
It's literally in the image you posted

I hope you didnt get in a stupid argument over something so irrelevant and posted this thread for validation

>> No.7014445

>>7014074
Rockman.

>> No.7014453

>>7014074
The artwork also suggests he has a pistol instead of a hand cannon in MM2

you're a fucking twat and you need a better hobby

>> No.7014457

>>7014134
ya
The parent company makes mistakes, especially with artwork

how is that so difficult for you to understand?

>> No.7014463

>>7014453
>comparing bad, rushed art to official title

>> No.7014469

>>7014457
>the parent company that officiates all made several, countable mistakes when concerning the name

Whatever you tell yourself

>> No.7014573

It's Megaman. You can ignore capitalization, as I think that's OP's true question - space or no space.

>> No.7014590
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7014590

The real question is

>Mega Man 4
or
>Mega Man IV

>> No.7014595

>>7014074
Rock man

>> No.7014604

Copywriters>>>>Graphic designers
Follow this rule and you'll never get mixed up again.

>> No.7014606

>>7014595
You mean ロックマン.

>> No.7014630

>>7014604
Who do you think gives the order to graphic designers and decides which logo to use?

Interns?

>> No.7014713

>>7014590
Mega Man 4. Mega Man IV's reserved for the gameboy game.

Does anyone else prefer Mega Man being a realistic adult like in the American 1 and 2 artworks over the weird goblin look they gave him in 3, 4, and 5? It confuses me that Capcom of America thought people wouldn't like the bright cartoony anime look of Classic, but would enjoy that ugly design.

>> No.7014717
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7014717

>>7014095
Fucking retard

>> No.7014725

>>7014074
Meg aman. She's an Ethiopian woman.

>> No.7014790
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7014790

>>7014713
Yet NES 4 uses IV for the title screen and jap GB 4 uses 4 for the box

>> No.7014969

>>7014713
3 looks like a goblin and 4 is mildly better but he looks fine on 5 and 6's box art. I think by then it was the same artist who did X1-3, which looked good too.

>> No.7015431

>>7014717

>implying

>Mega
>Man

>isn't just
>Megaman

>split and enlarged for the box, no hyphen

>> No.7015445

>>7014074
Rockman

>> No.7015463
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7015463

>>7014074
I prefer it to all be one word, but I have acknowledged that I am wrong

>> No.7015482 [DELETED] 

>>7015463
Oh shit that they guy who sold out to the Chinese Communist Party in order to get funding for his aimless game company then proceeded to sue Apple on behalf of the CCP to allow Chinese spyware in the app store? Or that a different autist pawn?

>> No.7015550

This is easily the most autistic thread on the board right now.

>> No.7015561

>>7015550
It's not autistic to want to ensure accuracy or correctness...

>> No.7015569
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7015569

>>7014074
Mega Man for the capcom games
Megaman for the Sprite Comic and the Sprite Games

>> No.7015580

It's

Megaman

period.

>> No.7015585
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7015585

>>7014396

>> No.7015635

Why would anyone think it was Mega Man?

>> No.7015841

>>7015482
This is a Megaman thread

>> No.7015909

The true question is, other than typing it out, if someone said it out loud, would you know the difference?

>> No.7015912

>>7015841
This guy gets it

>> No.7016161

Megaman

>> No.7016215

>Mega "Man"
>Rock"man"

>it's just a kid

>> No.7016252

>>7014082
Indeed.

I just downloaded midi files to listen to and was all :O the other day when I had to use the query with a space to get them to show up on bitmidi.com

They were lacking in mega man midi files though in my opinion.

>> No.7016258
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7016258

>read this thread
>shrug
>bust out my old PS1
>we're talking..... 2nd year of release PS1
>insert MMX4
>start it up
>clearly hear (just like this):

>MEGAMAN

>X

>4

/thread

>> No.7016262

>>7016215
>doesn't know what mankind means

>> No.7016264

>>7016258
>PS1
IT'S THE PSX YOU FUCKING NIGGERFAGGOT

>> No.7016269

>>7016264
I know that nerds will argue over everything but we're already arguing about which word to use for megaman in this thread. Both psx and ps1 are fine. No one calls the n64 the reality project or something.

Hax0rs probably started this psx shit to try to avoid the feds. It's also why the isos are there rather than bin/cue files and why lakka to this day you have to find the psx bios for to get it to run. They are afraid of sony.

>> No.7016278

>>7016262
astroboy?

>> No.7016330

>>7014074
"MMEGAAN"

>> No.7016365

>>7016258
>MEGAMAN 8
You are rifght, they seem to embrace it in the PS1 games.

>> No.7016381

>>7016264
It hasn't been the PSX since October of 2000. Sorry you woke up from your coma now.

>> No.7016387

>>7014074
It's gotta be Mega Man because Megaman and MegaMan just don't look right.

>> No.7016608

>>7014074
Officially I think it's "Mega Man", but it is often stylized as "Megaman" and also written that way sometimes in dialogue. Personally, I prefer "Mega Man".

>> No.7017116

Megaman, simply because the correct way is MEGAMAN.

>> No.7017162

If it's
>Mega Man

then why is it
>Darkman
>Protoman
>etc

>> No.7017163
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7017163

>>7014184
>>7014191
>>7014246
>>7014252
>>7014365
>Clearly didn't play that game.
Anyway, the INTENDED spelling is Mega Man. The main reason it became Megaman in older games is because Rockman was usually one word and they simply swapped "Rock" with "Mega" in-game. That said, spacing is all over the place in the series if you pay attention, with Rockman being called "Rock Man" as recently as the Mega Man 11 credits. Don't take it too seriously.

>> No.7017171

>>7017162
>>7014164

>> No.7017301

MEGAMAN

So

Megaman

/thread

>> No.7017872

Megaman even sounds correct

>> No.7018110

Rockman

>> No.7018190

>>7018110
Another who agrees

Megaman

>> No.7018221

>>7018190
Nope.
>Rockman
>Mega Man

>> No.7018224

>>7018221
Oh, then another wronganon.

>> No.7018280

>>7016215
based

>> No.7018627
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7018627

Megaman sounds better, "Mega Man" sounds like a failed super hero concept.

Too bad that probably was the plan back in the 80s. Also, "Rockman" sounds like word salad.

>> No.7019010

How is this even a debate? It's megaman, always has been

>> No.7019031

>>7014074
its obviously
MEGA
MAN

>> No.7019038

MEGA
MAN

>> No.7019043

Should we do this by tallying? Take every single official Megaman box art, tally up how man are one name and two, and whichever is the most is the official?

>> No.7019080

>>7014074
DID YOU KNOW... In Japan, Mega Man was originally known as "Manga Man," but during translation it was decided that a Western audience wouldn't understand the reference, so they altered the name to reference Sega's Mega Drive instead.

>> No.7019490
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7019490

ロックマン

>> No.7020294

MegamegameGAmaaayun
He's up on the ef-fin roooof

>> No.7020496

>>7019490
Which translates to

Rockman

And therefor

Megaman

>> No.7020504

Its Mega Man, stylized as MEGAMAN

>> No.7020505

>>7020504
>stylized as MEGAMAN
no hombre, it's just spelled Megaman. The correct way.

>> No.7020506

>>7018627
Rockman was chosen after they ditched the idea of a rainbow color-switching power. It really is word salad.
Kinda saved by 2 and 3 adding Roll and Blues though

>> No.7020508

He's not Solid Snake or Miles Prower or The Prince or Simon Belmont or Master Chief. That's Mega Man.

He's Mario, Sonic, Wanda, Crono, Link, Alucard. He's Megaman.

>> No.7020537

There is literally no discussion to have. It's "Mega Man". It does not matter if you personally think it should be "Megaman". The fact is that it's "Mega Man". This cannot even be disputed because that's the official name given by the official source that holds the rights to the character.
This is like if there was a thread about how we need to have a debate over whether Mario's name is "Mario" or "Super Mario". There's an official answer already that's plainly easy to find by googling it for two seconds so why does this thread even exist?

>> No.7020545
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7020545

>>7014074

/thread again

>> No.7020556

>>7020537
You clearly haven't read the thread, much less have a solid understanding of the material. There IS a debate, because the official source of the character has had NO solid naming convention since its inception. From official press articles to title screens to box art to merchandise, it's not consistent.

>> No.7020559

>>7020545
>he caps a wiki article

>> No.7020567

>>7020505
>hombre
Based esl

>> No.7020574
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7020574

>>7020556
>You clearly haven't read the thread, much less have a solid understanding of the material. There IS a debate, because
When will this autism end. There is no debate.
>This cannot even be disputed because that's the official name given by the official source that holds the rights to the character.
All you have to do is google it for two seconds and see what Capcom's official stance is. It's literally right there as the very first link.
You are propping this nonsense up as "a debate" because you are too autistic to know when you are wrong.
>"but in the past--"
It literally doesn't matter. Capcom has an official nomenclature and it's right there in plain view for anyone to see.
>"but on the logo--"
It literally doesn't matter. Capcom has an official nomenclature and it's right there in plain view for anyone to see.
>"it's not consistent--"
It literally doesn't matter. Capcom has an official nomenclature and it's right there in plain view for anyone to see.
Just google for two seconds. Seriously.
There is no debate.

>> No.7020576

MEGA MILK

>> No.7020579

>>7020576
MEGA FAGGOT

>> No.7020583

>>7020574
>but muh magazines said PSX!

>> No.7020584

>>7020574
Yes, we get that the main Capcom website says Mega Man. That's precisely the point of the debate. Across the history and regions, that has NOT been the consistent naming convention.

>> No.7020589

>>7020574
And yet the Japanese naming is Rockman, literal translation.

Yes anon, it literally all matters.

>> No.7020592

>>7020584
>Across the history and regions,
>>"but in the past--"
>It literally doesn't matter. Capcom has an official nomenclature and it's right there in plain view for anyone to see.
>>"it's not consistent--"
>It literally doesn't matter. Capcom has an official nomenclature and it's right there in plain view for anyone to see.
Anything else?

>> No.7020596

>>7020592
>>7020589
Yeah, sure.

>> No.7020601

>>7020589
>And yet the Japanese naming is Rockman
Please tell me why this matters at all to what we're discussing here.
The purpose of this is "Mega Man or Megaman, which is correct?", right? Well, "Mega Man" is correct in every territory that uses that name instead of Rockman. That comes straight from Capcom themselves. What else is there to really talk about?

>> No.7020602

>>7020574
If it didn't matter, it'd be consistent. It's not. So, debate.

>> No.7020605

>>7020601
Since you said please:

Because the JP version is the origin. Since the original name is ROCKMAN (lit) then the correct anglo version is MEGAMAN.

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7020607

>>7020601
>>7020592
>>7020574

I love when these kinda anons show up.

He mad.

>> No.7020609

>>7020602
>If it didn't matter, it'd be consistent. It's not. So, debate.
It is. It says right there on Capcom's website, the official name is "Mega Man". That's the correct name. It doesn't matter how "consistent" it is, that's the official answer right there and anything else is a mistake.
>>7020605
>Since the original name is ROCKMAN (lit) then the correct anglo version is MEGAMAN.
Why do you think you know better than Capcom?

>> No.7020625

It's even said Megaman. No one says Mega. Man

>> No.7020635

>>7020609
Capcom created the ROCKMAN title.

>> No.7020680

>>7020625
Do you pause between each and every word when talking?

>> No.7020698

>>7020680
Americans tend to have an audible delay between a first and last name, typically.

>> No.7021036

>>7014074
Mega-Man

>> No.7021281

Megaman

>> No.7021283

>>7014074
Mega Man

>> No.7021285

>>7020602
>If it didn't matter, it'd be inconsistent
retard

>> No.7021349

>>7021285
I think he meant if it was consistent THEN it wouldn't matter

But your take makes even less sense.

>> No.7021397

>>7014630
Graphics designer here, never take our work as canon.

>> No.7021501

This is the worst Blue Bomber thread I've ever seen

>> No.7021872

Megaman. Anything different and you simply do not understand the franchise.

>> No.7022514

Megaman

>> No.7022741
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7022741

>>7015431

>> No.7022889

>>7014074
Both

>> No.7023390

Megaman

>> No.7023494

I like "Mega Man" better, cause if you apply the "Megaman" spelling to every other character then you get shit like Napalmman which just looks retarded.

>> No.7023543

>>7023494
>>7014164

>> No.7024168

Megaman

>> No.7024175

>>7014074
Why can't we just have sex instead?

>> No.7024987

Because accuracy must be determined

>> No.7025360

Mega Man
Rockman

>> No.7025732

>>7022741
>land of robot-like Humanoids created by the wronglypeformed experiments with human beings
What the fuck was Capcom of Europe thinking? Mega Man killing human mutants?

>> No.7025841

>>7014074
It's Mega Man.

>> No.7025917

>>7025841
It's Megaman.

>> No.7026969

MEGA
MAN

>> No.7027192

>>7024175
based

>> No.7028086

>>7014164
>...you must not remember the boss intro screens well.
>They were one word.
They were inconsistent there too.