billspreston
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Post by billspreston on Apr 28, 2017 22:17:26 GMT
I happened upon an image of the Japanese version of Future Cop LAPD for the Playstation 1, and I noticed it had an anime cover and they inserted anime profiles above the translated texts of the NPCs that talk to you during missions. It wasn't a major change but I love little touches like that. Then I started wondering if they did that to other games. I knew that in the West we sometimes got massively altered localizations (most notably Super Mario bros 2 and the Jetsons SNES game) but I had always assumed Japan didn't do much to translate Western games.
Does anyone know of any other interesting localizations, whether major or minor?
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billspreston
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Post by billspreston on Apr 28, 2017 22:17:52 GMT
Cervantes I know in Brazil they changed a lot of the Master System games.
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Apr 29, 2017 8:33:38 GMT
There was a Jetsons game for the SNES?
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Post by stratogustav on Apr 29, 2017 9:16:49 GMT
Call Of Duty is a Square Enix game and all the soldiers speak Japanese. Talk about alternative realities.
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Post by Balder on Apr 29, 2017 9:28:19 GMT
Call Of Duty is a Square Enix game and all the soldiers speak Japanese. Talk about alternative realities. The Japanese are weird about WW2. Like denying things they did like the Nanking massacre. |
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billspreston
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Post by billspreston on Apr 29, 2017 13:02:30 GMT
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Apr 29, 2017 14:32:54 GMT
billsprestonSay, that does look pretty decent. In fact, I demand more Japanese games to be reskinned with licensed American characters that I can recognize.
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Post by leaon79s on Apr 30, 2017 5:15:19 GMT
Do ya wanna knoew what the old X360 gheyme Crackdown looks liek in Japan...?    It looks very different!  |
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Apr 30, 2017 5:59:38 GMT
Hahaha
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billspreston
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Post by billspreston on Apr 30, 2017 13:43:14 GMT
Do ya wanna knoew what the old X360 gheyme Crackdown looks liek in Japan...? It looks very different! It's like Lupin and Akira had a baby. |
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Post by Cervantes on May 1, 2017 6:23:25 GMT
Cervantes I know in Brazil they changed a lot of the Master System games. Yes, we changed the hell out of them! The most famous case is the Wonder Boy series: TecToy, the brazilian arm of Sega, repurposed three games in the series to work as licensed Turma da Mônica's games (Monica's Gang). It's a very popular comic/cartoon series around here, though I don't know how well their strategy worked: I only heard once about these games when I was a child, when my cousin said he had seen the Mega Drive one. I've never seen them myself: but then, I grew up with a NES, not a Master System, in which these localizations were more common. This HG101 article about the Wonder Boy series comments on this. |
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