Translated FDS Castlevania II to English?

RGB_Gamer · Post by **RGB_Gamer** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:23 pm

Does there exist an english translated version of the FDS version of Castlevania II ?

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:52 pm

Probably not. Maybe you should make one?

Dwedit · Post by **Dwedit** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:07 pm

Was Castlevania 2 ever considered to be "translated" in the first place? Or should I go keep looking for that graveyard duck?

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:20 am

What are you talking about? You never found the graveyard duck? Man you're missing out.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:13 pm

Maybe the NPC was referring to the "dragons" in the catacombs in the Atari 2600 game Adventure?

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:09 am

Does the text make more sense in the Japanese version ? Should I keep looking for the River Bank ?

Dwedit · Post by **Dwedit** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:36 am

Looks like someone finally found that graveyard duck...

AWJ · Post by **AWJ** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:34 pm

Bregalad wrote:Does the text make more sense in the Japanese version ? Should I keep looking for the River Bank ?

The non-clues were like that in the Japanese version as well. The text in Simon's Quest was almost 100% directly translated from the original Japanese, except for one little bit of NoA censorship: "Believe in magic and you'll be saved" was originally "Believe in God and..."

Yes, the "clue" telling you to get a silk bag from a duck was in the original--it's not a mistranslation!

Also, the endings in the FDS version were in English... for a certain approximation of "English". They were cleaned up for the US version.

Here's a webpage with all of the text (townspeople, item-get messages, and endings) from the FDS Dracula 2:

http://www.adventureisland.org/dra2/kaiwa.html

Banshaku · Post by **Banshaku** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:10 pm

AWJ wrote:Yes, the "clue" telling you to get a silk bag from a duck was in the original--it's not a mistranslation!

It depends. Textually, アヒル(Ahiru) means duck but I found that it could mean a "hardhead" (english definition from your dictionary) when written in katakana (Japanese meaning from ALC dictionary). If written in kanji (家鴨), it means duck only. I still need to confirm with some Japanese people to know if they ever heard that word used that way. It could come from some dialect or something used before and maybe less today.

If indeed, the word could be used this way then the meaning makes more sense: Get a silk back from the graveyard's hardhead to live longer.

Just my 2 cents. Could be wrong thought. Still need to confirms it.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:53 am

Oh my. As if games in japanese weren't obscure engough, they need to be in japanese's obscure dialects.

rbudrick · Post by **rbudrick** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:21 pm

What the hell is a graveyard hardhead? I've definitely seen way more ducks in graveyards than hardheads.

-Rob

Banshaku · Post by **Banshaku** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:44 pm

rbudrick wrote:What the hell is a graveyard hardhead? I've definitely seen way more ducks in graveyards than hardheads.

-Rob

I don't know how common is the word "hardhead" since I'm not an english native. This word is very uncommon for me so maybe a proper synonym would be more appropriate.

But basically my point was that there is a good chance that is just a bad translation issue. When you look at the definition of hardhead, it say "a shrewd person, not easily moved". So it seems to be some kind of cold guy from what I can understand.

When you translate from one language to another, sometime you have to rephrase it a little bit to make it more understandable. During the Nes era, I don't think they invested must on translation since the video game market was not as big as today (Zero Wing's "all your base are belong to us" is a good example).

Post by **Memblers** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:09 pm

"Bullheaded" is more often heard, by me anyways, but maybe it's a little different.

This continues to be hilarious:
The Hardhead, Aytha australis is the only true diving duck found in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardhead

rbudrick · Post by **rbudrick** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:18 pm

Memblers wrote:"Bullheaded" is more often heard, by me anyways, but maybe it's a little different.

This continues to be hilarious:
The Hardhead, Aytha australis is the only true diving duck found in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardhead

Mems, you just made this way more complicated.

-Rob

Banshaku · Post by **Banshaku** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:44 pm

rbudrick wrote:
Memblers wrote:"Bullheaded" is more often heard, by me anyways, but maybe it's a little different.

This continues to be hilarious:
The Hardhead, Aytha australis is the only true diving duck found in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardhead
Mems, you just made this way more complicated.

-Rob

If a Hardhead is indeed a common duck in Australia, then this remove the credibility of the "hardhead" definition I found from the YourDictionary website. So the ALC japanese dictionary, who is a well known one, was just mentioning names of ducks then.

My possible lead was wrong. Only Konami really knows then.