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Post by Leon on Oct 10, 2005 20:08:46 GMT -5
In your Fire Emblem 4 section you have the Englich name as Fire Emblem: The Ancestral Crusade. The real name is actually Fire Emblem: Geneaology of the Holy Wars.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 11, 2005 1:47:56 GMT -5
Well, I think different people have their own translation. I usually call FE4 the Geneaology of the Holy Wars, but (perhaps) Fryguy64's verion of translation have the same meaning.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 11, 2005 3:05:49 GMT -5
I made a decision based on what makes a good game name. It's near impossible to translate directly from Japanese, so I went for a slightly different translation to the norm, so "genealogy" became "ancestral" and "holy wars" became "crusade". In this respects, I hope it sounds a lot better... a more marketable name  |
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Post by Leon on Oct 11, 2005 21:05:24 GMT -5
True, it does indeed sound cooler, but the FE community generally accepts it as GotHW.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 12, 2005 3:28:57 GMT -5
No, I think you'll find if you put the name through a Japanese translator then it comes out with the name the Fire Emblem community uses... which is just lazy.
There is no single agreed upon use for the name. It's also a horrifically ugly name. Oh, and aside from a few lone Fire Emblem websites, there was no English-speaking Fire Emblem community when I did the translation.
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Post by Leon on Oct 12, 2005 18:48:32 GMT -5
Fair enough. I respect your opinion.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 13, 2005 3:00:05 GMT -5
And I respect yours. Just beating you down as I've done to some of YoungLink's "errors" in the past ;D
After all, when it's all down to semantics, it's hardly an error... more of a disagreement (but then, I suppose wars have been fought over less).
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 13, 2005 5:49:52 GMT -5
This makes me think of.... Earlier before I became a member here, I was pointing out some disagreement-rather-than-errors.
Just like the game genre arguments that I used to tell Fruguy about via email!
EDIT: Just a little thing to tell - I thought Fry WAS mad with me because of his "Don't sent me email like this" opinion. And, Fry, that's why you didn't heard from me since then for about a month or two. I was scared. Arrrrrrrrgh!
Well, it's hard to avoid such things like disagreeing, especially some information on NinDB are more opinion than fixed facts, for instance, game description.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 13, 2005 6:11:13 GMT -5
I think I snapped at you when you sent me an email called "error in Nintendo Database" (which is enough to get me worried), but the error in question was a single letter error that didn't actually matter all that much. I was also irritable anyway... But yes, game genre, aspects of a game's description, translations... these are more or less open for discussion, rather than right vs. wrong. Something that's clearly contrary to a game's content, official release or some important factor missing... now THAT is an error. I wish to be informed of these as often as possible!! ;D But no need to be scared. I just don't appreciate being told I'm wrong when it's merely a matter of preference. And I'd be no different if you met me in real life as well ;D EDIT: Oh, and in time, YL, I have come to respect and embrace your somewhat limitless capacity for pickiness. It's definitely done the site a lot of good |
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Post by greatlink on Oct 13, 2005 12:51:06 GMT -5
Ancestral Crusade is pretty much correct. "Seisen" ( 聖戦) means "crusade", and "holy war" would be incorrect because this combination of kanji means "crusade". "Keifu" (系譜) means "genealogy" or "lineage", but ancestral would also be correct.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 14, 2005 3:08:57 GMT -5
GREATLINK!!! You're back! Hooray! ;D
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Post by greatlink on Oct 14, 2005 12:19:10 GMT -5
Yep, I'm back. n.n
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