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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Grandy on March 22, 2009, 07:19:44 PM

Title: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 22, 2009, 07:19:44 PM
The translation is... different than the one I had once played. We played togheter up towhen Lock (not Locke) first appears, before meeting with Tina (not Terra).

 And up until now Lock already called her an Empire Bitch, the word **** has been uttered quite a few times, plus a few other curses by Kefka (not- oh wait he's still Kefka). And we only got to like, 10 minutes of gameplay, laughing like madman each time a character says "****".

Anyone else saw this yet?
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Ben on March 22, 2009, 07:22:50 PM
Yeah, Ive played that one.
I have a couple of different roms for VI on my homebrew channel. One of them is this version.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 22, 2009, 07:27:17 PM
...wait you got it *inside* Homebrew Channel? He had to create a new channel especially for it.
 
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Ben on March 22, 2009, 07:28:21 PM
Yeah. An SD card, And some homebrew channel will not only save you money, but wii space
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 22, 2009, 07:48:40 PM
...okay I can get the Lock(e) or Tina being another translation for Terra.


 But why the hell is Sabin called Mash?

And I was wrong, Kefka now is Cefca.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Dragonium on March 22, 2009, 07:56:34 PM
Tina? Seriously? That's not her name. It doesn't even fit with the whole nature-themed naming convention of (some of) the series.

Also, Mash? Seriously? That's not his name.

EDIT: Cefca?!
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 22, 2009, 08:07:59 PM
Yes, Cefca. :(



EDIT: My friend just deleted it. Apparently he felt the swearing was getting annyoing. To quote him, "It was like as if Nobuo Uematsu made music for Pulp Fiction"
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Ben on March 22, 2009, 09:16:11 PM
Yeah they pretty much destroy the names.

If i remember correctly, it actually trasnlates Wedge and Vicks to the proper franchise names though, unless its another translation im thinking of. There are a few out there
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Archem on March 23, 2009, 03:28:42 AM
Wha-

I'm afraid Nintendo/Squenix/whoever dropped the ball needs to be deep fried, as that's the only way they can ever make this product seem even remotely attractive.





Unless I need a hearty chuckle.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Bluhman on March 23, 2009, 04:50:15 AM
Tina, Lock, and all those crazy misspelled names are the japanese version names, I believe.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 05:02:12 AM
You're quite right, Bluhman, but still, they sounded great for japanese people with that name, while for us the name change was better.

And Archem, I believe it was fanmade.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: fruckert on March 23, 2009, 05:15:34 AM
Cefca?!?!?!
I am now extremely irritated
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Archem on March 23, 2009, 05:24:53 AM
You're quite right, Bluhman, but still, they sounded great for japanese people with that name, while for us the name change was better.

And Archem, I believe it was fanmade.
Then it is clearly for comedic fail. Much love.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 07:13:12 AM
Then it is clearly for comedic fail. Much love.

No, they just wanted to stick to the complete original.

They don't swear that much in the original, or rather, they do. They say "kuso" a lot, it may be anything from "Doodoo" to "f*cking s*it hell"
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Archem on March 23, 2009, 07:14:26 AM
Japan is awesome.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 07:34:43 AM
Not really. But they do awesome games and tiny tiny tiny cellphones.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: ZeroKirbyX on March 23, 2009, 07:52:23 AM
Her real name is Aerith.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 08:03:03 AM
So said ZeroKābiiEkkusu
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: WarxePB on March 23, 2009, 10:53:06 AM
When FFVI was released for the SNES, the translation team, headed by a guy named Ted Woosley (or something), took some very "creative" liberties with the translation. For example, the name "Tina" sounds exotic to a Japanese person, but it's a common name in NA and Europe, so they changed it to "Terra" for the release here. The Cefca/Kefka thing is due to the difficulty of translating Japanese into English - there's several phonetic sounds in English that aren't used in Japanese, so letters like L/R and B/V are often mistaken.

As a side note, the Fire/Fira/Firaga scheme for spells has always been the norm for Japan, but due to limited text space in the ROM, they only had 6 letters to work with, so they had to use the Fire/Fire 2/Fire 3 scheme up until FFVIII, and they also renamed Blizzard to Ice, Thunder to Bolt, etc.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 02:39:42 PM
When FFVI was released for the SNES, the translation team, headed by a guy named Ted Woosley (or something), took some very "creative" liberties with the translation.


http://www.sonofasubmariner.com/
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Dragonium on March 23, 2009, 03:51:22 PM
They don't swear that much in the original, or rather, they do. They say "kuso" a lot, it may be anything from "Doodoo" to "f*cking s*it hell"

I can imagine Edgar saying "f*cking sh*t hell" a whole lot.

Sadly he probably isn't called Edgar any more.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Grandy on March 23, 2009, 04:51:08 PM
No, Edgar is still Edgar. He and Shadow are the rule's exception.
Title: Re: So my friend got FF VI with his Wii's Virtual Console
Post by: Archem on March 23, 2009, 05:10:44 PM
Every time posts surface, this thread gets more win.