After reading the "A winner is you" thread I figured this topic was inevitable. What bug or easter egg or mis-translation etc. do you remember best from the nes days that had you cracking up or sheilding your eyes?
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"If someone says you're ugly, tell them you're not an ugly human but a good looking ape with advanced speech skills."
Here are 2 that come to mind immediately. always good for a larf
Metal Gear - Uh-oh the truck have started to move! POW - Congraturation!
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Currently playing;
NES - WWF King of the Ring, Dragon Warrior IV
DS - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DK Jungle Climber
Wii - Link's Crossbow Training
Nothing beats the ending to Ghosts 'N Goblins. It's something like:
"Congraturation
This story is happy end.
Thank you.
Being the wise and Courageour
knight that you are you
feel strongth welling.
in your body.
Return to the starting point.
Challenge again!
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My mantra, as worded by SamSpade on 06/12/12:
I don't resell to fund my collection, I don't treat this hobby like a second job, I don't care if my collection is worth ten bucks or ten thousand because I never plan on selling it. Seriously, what does the value have to do with anything if you never plan on selling? Speculation doesn't mean jack shit to me at this point, I just want to play my nes games...
Being the fanboy I am, I would have to say "I am Error".
There's no problem with "I am Error", it's a common myth though. When you reach a later town, there is a character that tells you to backtrack and talk to Error of Ruto town or something along those lines to get a specific hint. It really only seems like a poor translation when taken out of context.
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Currently playing;
NES - WWF King of the Ring, Dragon Warrior IV
DS - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DK Jungle Climber
Wii - Link's Crossbow Training
^ Yeah it was probably supposed to be Errol, but you know how they can be with those R's and L's...
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My mantra, as worded by SamSpade on 06/12/12:
I don't resell to fund my collection, I don't treat this hobby like a second job, I don't care if my collection is worth ten bucks or ten thousand because I never plan on selling it. Seriously, what does the value have to do with anything if you never plan on selling? Speculation doesn't mean jack shit to me at this point, I just want to play my nes games...
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^Haha! Well if Engrish was supposed to makes sense, then it wouldn't be Engrish, now would it
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My mantra, as worded by SamSpade on 06/12/12:
I don't resell to fund my collection, I don't treat this hobby like a second job, I don't care if my collection is worth ten bucks or ten thousand because I never plan on selling it. Seriously, what does the value have to do with anything if you never plan on selling? Speculation doesn't mean jack shit to me at this point, I just want to play my nes games...
I was thinking today that pretty much all of Strider is shittily translated. A great game mind you, but if ever Ryu is receiving instructions or talking to someone, it's pretty hilarious throughout
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Currently playing;
NES - WWF King of the Ring, Dragon Warrior IV
DS - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DK Jungle Climber
Wii - Link's Crossbow Training
I was thinking today that pretty much all of Strider is shittily translated. A great game mind you, but if ever Ryu is receiving instructions or talking to someone, it's pretty hilarious throughout
Hahaha I was just saying that to myself about 15 minutes ago when I was rocking out strider on my GBA at work. I always wondered why they didn't just have a native english speaker translate stuff. Especialy since there's japanese words that can't even be translated in to english like "Senpai" which means mentor. When they have a japanese english speaker translate then Mentor etc. will be the translation which sounds totaly retarded in an english conversation. Same goes for Anime and CNN. There's plenty of native english speakers that can speak japanese that I know would be more than willing to be a game/movie translator.
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"If someone says you're ugly, tell them you're not an ugly human but a good looking ape with advanced speech skills."
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