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[tomokafinds]

[technologitouch]

Can You Play Your Nintendo DS Games On The Nintendo Switch?

[hellsite-yano]

Any game recs for a ds emulator? I know you've answered something like this before but I couldn't find the post. Thanks!

Try these fam:

https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_DS

[risingwinter]

Final Fantasy III Unused Text Translations (part 1)

So this is taking longer than expected and because I have a life, I can’t knock it out all in one go. But I wanted to share what I’ve figured out so far and once I’ve got it all done and smoothed over, then I’ll compile it into a master post.

I wanted to include the original Japanese so it’d be easier to compare, but it got hard to keep the formatting sane with it. Compare with https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_III_(Nintendo_DS)/Unused_Text.

(I only lived in Japan for a year and some of these didn’t translate quite as well, so I’ll take any pointers. I settled for summarizing in some cases because it felt translating it all across. Accuracy vs. natural-sounding is a constant struggle.)

Translations below the cut.

Shuyaku = leader. The % look like code placeholders. As shown, 1 ~ Luneth, 2 ~ Arc, 3 ~ Refia, 4 ~ Ingus. I went ahead and replaced the names further down.

%shuyaku1% Luneth

Can't go that way...

 %shuyaku2% Arc

That rock's in the way...

 %shuyaku3% Refia

That big rock's blocking the way...

 %shuyaku4% Ingus

That is an impasse..

   Obtained the summoning spell, Bahamur!

(original note from the wiki: Seems to relate to the rock blocking the way to Canaan. It is used in the Steam version. Also Bahamut for some goddamn reason.)

Floating Island(?)/Flooded Surface (f02_01)

Arc: We’ve finally reached land!

Refia: How’s your seasickness, Luneth?

Luneth: Hm? About that…I’ve been so excited that I haven’t noticed any seasickness.

Ingus: Well then, let us find the trail.

Arc: Finally, land.

(They repeat Refia and Luneth’s exchange, but this time with Aria present)

Refia: How’s your seasickness, Luneth?

Luneth: Hm? About that... I’ve been so excited that I haven’t noticed any seasickness.

Refia: You’re acting all strong because of Aria, aren’t you?

Luneth: Am not.

Ingus: Aria, isn’t that the temple of water?

 Aria: Ah, yes, we must get the shard to the Temple *cough cough*��With that, deep in the temple, we can enter the cave of water.

Refia: Alright! Then we’ll find the crystal fragment!

 Aria:  Please don’t say it like that… The crystals kept this power from humanity for a reason. (Note: This one got really clunky. She said something about hiding world-governing power for the sake of humanity’s heritage, but I didn’t get how it connected with the situation.)

 Refia: Oh, sorry…

 Aria: Let’s go. *cough cough*

Luneth:  Aria, don’t push yourself.

Aria: I can walk on my own.    Please, don’t worry.

Refia: Ouch, rejection!

 Luneth: Oh, shut up.

 ---

Luneth: (no Japanese text)    Is this the surface...? It's so...big!

 Refia: An ocean?  But with no waves?

Ingus: It doesn’t look like Earth.

Arc:The waves are stilled…? It looks like time’s frozen…

Refia:  How did we  find ourselves on such a different world?

Ingus: The tales from the Floating Continent were right all along

 Luneth: A whole other world… and it’s so big.

Ingus: Ah, so the place we lived in was but a piece of a greater whole. I understand now.

Arc: Looks that way. And I thought Kazus and Sasune were far…

Refia:    But we came this way for a purpose, didn’t we?

Ingus: It appears so.

Luneth: We can figure out why! Let’s find out why!

---

Aria: The temple of water is south-southeast from the boat. Speaking of, where does everyone come from…?

Luneth: From above… we come from the Floating Continent.

Aria: The Floating Continent… from  somewhere unfrozen in time…

Arc: Speaking of… how is the Floating Continent still okay?

Ingus:  We might learn eventually, but we should focus on reaching the temple.

Aria:  The temple of water is likely accessible south-southeast of here. 

Arc: Um, I’m Arc. Nice to meet you.

Aria: Oh, I’m sorry. We haven’t introduced ourselves. I’m a priestess of the water, Aria Benett. I was fifteen when time stopped.

 Arc:  Um, isn’t that your age, too, Refia? That’s weird to say, isn’t it… (Note: I think that’s what he’s saying about it being weird. It sounded like “that’s not very atmosphere of me” which is funny, but illegible. I’m assuming I’m missing something cultural here...) 

Aria: … (laughs)

Luneth: Aria… How’re you feeling? (Note: he asked about the “tune of her body.” That’s how I will now ask people about their state of health.)

Aria: I’m okay. Don’t worry about it.

Luneth: That’s okay, but…

Refia: Leave her alone. She’s stronger than any of us.

Luneth: …

(Original comment from the wiki: This is honestly a bit absurd.)

[siverwrites]

fortune-maiden replied to your photoset: I was shown the Game Informer review of Ghost...

wtf is that review o__o

BAD is what it is.

https://www.gameinformer.com/games/ghost_trick_phantom_detective/b/nintendo_ds/archive/2011/01/11/ghost-trick-review-life-after-death-isn-t-all-it-s-cracked-up-to-be.aspx

If I had to suffer

[superthatguy62]

Tidbits from Final Fantasy III’s Japanese deleted text (using online translators

Note that most of what I parsed was through an unorthadox method of using three translators (Excite Translate, IMTranslator’s Google Translate and IMTranslator’s Microsoft translate) and seeing what I got. If you’re curious as to what I got to draw my conclusions from, go here for some of them. If you know Japanese and/or would like to try out for yourself, you can go over to the TCRF page (and if you do, I encourage you to comment on if I got something incorrect or just anything you might have found that was interesting).

https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_III_(Nintendo_DS)/Unused_Text

- Most people assume that Luneth and Ingus don’t get along based on that one scene in the intro. However, it seems to be the opposite: Luneth and Ingus do lightly tease or annoy the other at times, but they also have the occasional scene such as Ingus saying that he feels Luneth grew somewhat during the Castle Hein incident (That’s another story) or when they talk in the Cave of Shadows about whether or not they could remember if they saw the mountain range with holes before. In fact, going with the Team Mom angle, Refia is the one who sort of butts heads with Luneth more often (You can see some of this in the final game during the scene where Luneth and Arc meet Refia or one of Refia’s quotes in Brave Exvius).

-There’s a scene in which Desch tries to cheer Arc up about his height by lying mentioning that he was even shorter when he was Arc’s age. During this exchange, assuming Desch is correct, we learn that Arc is 14.

- Luneth carries on the proud tradition started by Locke and Cloud of getting sick on airships. It actually comes up quite a bit in several different scenes (I did a write up of one of them here ;shamelessplug;) so it’s surprising that the final game only subtly alludes to it once (when it’s mentioned that the party might get another airship, Luneth mentions that he didn’t enjoy their first ride).

- Luneth also has a fondness of treasure and generally is more motivated when he thinks there’s treasure or some sort of reward. He’s initially uninterested in the dragoon tower in Saronia until Alus mentions there’s treasure for example.

- Refia’s team mom side also comes out a bit more. One of the best scenes is when the party informs Desch’s girlfriend of his disappearance and Luneth and Arc get jealous that Desch has a girl crying over him which results in Refia chewing them out. Of course, the scene ends with Luneth making things worse by bringing up how Ingus has a girl waiting for him.

There’s a lot more, but I’ll save it for later posts.

[mh6552j-blog]

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Spider-Man PS4 to Get New Game Plus - IGN Daily Fix

Spider-Man PS4 to Get New Game Plus – IGN Daily Fix

Spider-Man on PS4 gets a new game plus update, the delayed Nintendo Direct has a new date, and EA under criminal investigation.

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Nintendo Direct Rescheduled for Thursday http://bit.ly/nintendo_date

EA Under Criminal Investigation

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Spider-Man PS4 to Get New Game Plus - IGN Daily Fix

http://eleccafe.com/2018/09/11/spider-man-ps4-to-get-new-game-plus-ign-daily-fix/

Spider-Man PS4 to Get New Game Plus - IGN Daily Fix

Spider-Man on PS4 gets a new game plus update, the delayed Nintendo Direct has a new date, and EA under criminal investigation. Spider-Man PS4 Gets New Game Plus http://bit.ly/spiderman_update Nintendo Direct Rescheduled for Thursday http://bit.ly/nintendo_date EA Under Criminal...

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[tomokafinds]

[my-nichi]

[curiously-unbothered]

These big ass children!! Lol Manny & james -.- haha #NintendoDS #Nintendo_DS (Taken with Instagram)

[risingwinter]

Starting around https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_III_(Nintendo_DS)/Unused_Text/Dungeons#Argus_Castle.2FHein.27s_Castle_Assorted_Cutscenes and ending around https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_III_(Nintendo_DS)/Unused_Text/Dungeons#Unknown.2C_possibly_connected_to_Cave_of_Tides_.28d11_04.29.

There’s already a lot of translated text, so I took some of the stuff that hasn’t been put in there yet.

Unknown speaker: This way is King Argus.

Farubu: The enemy will attack in succession. This makes a fine stopping point. Bring your friends and don’t fight alone!

Farubu: Ugh… I ask… that you defeat Hein…

---

Farubu: This is a summon that will aid you in battle. With this, you can fight Hein.

King Argus: Hm… I expected such. Defeat Hein and save us!

Farubu: Please leave it to me! Take a chance… we’ll certainly…!

---

Luneth: The Crest of Bravery, I found it! That makes me pretty cool for doing it on my own, right?

Farubu: No… This isn’t for someone’s benefit. It is my battle to fight. After losing my home and family, I’ll do everything in my power for there is nothing else to be done.

Luneth: …

Farubu: (grunts) This is our chance!

Hein Soldier: No! They escaped! We have a jailbreak!

Hein Soldier: Follow them! Seize them!

Luneth: The lookout’s gone..! … I guess we have no choice but to run? Uh, Faburu?

Farubu: Ah. I’m ashamed… This is as far as I can manage…

Luneth: Come on, focus! Don’t you want revenge?

Farubu: Ugh… Th… this is…

Crystal piece received! Illusionist job now available.

Farubu: Please… instead of me, Hein…

Luneth: I understand. We have to win! So death isn’t an option.

(A/N: So does this Farubu die? And did he/she show up in the game? Cause I can’t remember. I got pretty confused during this.)

Luneth: … Was I the only one caught at Hein? Everyone must have left me. Damn it! We had to get to Tokkul Village! … It’s no use getting mad on my own. I gotta find a way out of here…

Luneth: Oh, yeah, I had power to call a summon, didn’t I? I wasn’t the intended one, but maybe I can still use it?

Luneth: It’s not for someone, it’s my own fight, huh?

---

Hein’s Castle

Refia: Hey, hey, the boss here, Hein – what kind of guy is he?

Arc: The Tokkul people we met at Dwarf cave, don’t you remember what they said?

Luneth: Yeah, Hein is like a mage and barrier change is a technique…

Arc: If you’re a scholar, you can detect weaknesses?

Refia: Scholar, huh… hehe, that might just be the right job for me.

Arc: Huh. You might be right…

(A/N: Isn’t it the perfect job for Arc? Whatever.)

---

(Already translated: Aria’s sickness shows, Luneth asks how she is, she says she’s okay, and then the translator gives up because this next one is kinda funky. I’m not sure if I got it right, but I think he references his time with Faburu and tries to share it with Aria?)

Luneth: Oh, that talk of determination really stuck me. For a long time, I pushed myself to the limit. The battle within myself…

(Arc urges them to hurry and Luneth laments that he didn’t sound very cool. Aria then says something like the following.)

Aria: … No, I think your thinking about that is very important. To clarify… for each to think in their heart about what’s good… isn’t that itself good?

(And then Luneth says something like, “Oh, yeah... I understand well <eria>.” The translator says it’s he punning on the Japanese pronunciation of Aria sounding like their pronunciation of “area,” but it seems weird to me that he would say he knows the area well after what she says. I think he might instead say he understands what she said with a hidden seriousness after what happens with Farubu? But it’s unclear and this whole exchange is frustrating because it’s so confusing.)

[superthatguy62]

If you know me from DeviantART, you probably know I’ve been doing a small thing where run the unused dialogue of Final Fantasy III for the Nintendo DS into three machine translators in an attempt to parse out what it says (and if you don’t, then check it out or head on down to the The Cutting Room Floor if you know Japanese and would like to help out). I’m preparing the Castle Hein ‘translations’ as they are probably the best example of giving an idea of where development of this remake was going at the time. There is one scene translated on TCRF’s page and it’s this scene, commonly mistaken for an argument between Luneth and Ingus:

　%shuyaku4% 「ん…？」

Ingus: Hmm...?

　%shuyaku1% 「さあ　ハインをやっつけに行こうぜ！」

Luneth: Come on! Let's go defeat Hein!

　３人を助け出し 　パーティーを再結成した！

3 people rescued! The party was united!

　%shuyaku4% 「%shuyaku1% 　なんだかお前らしくないな

Ingus: Luneth. It doesn't really seem like you.

　みんなを助け出したんだ　以前のお前なら 　そうとう鼻を高くしていたはずだが？」

You helped everyone out. If it was the you before then, I expected you would've been too proud?

　%shuyaku1% 「へへっ… 　うぬぼれても仕方がないって気づいたのさ

Luneth: Heh heh heh... So you've noticed I can't help but be conceited.

　自分の力を過信してたら 　油断して捕まっちまった…

I have too much confidence in my abilities. And was completely caught off guard...

　今の俺にできることは 　できる範囲で最大限の努力をする… 　それしかないのかな　って…」

I wonder if I... have reached the limit of my abilities within my efforts...

　%shuyaku4% 「ふぅむ　いい心がけだな 　ところで　助っ人って誰だ？」

Ingus: Hmm. It's good you keep that in mind. Incidentally, who was the one that backed you up?

　%shuyaku1% 「トックルのファルブって男だ 　今はひとりで闘ってる…　助けなきゃ」

Luneth: Falb from Tokkul said men should fight alone... without help.

Source: https://tcrf.net/Final_Fantasy_III_(Nintendo_DS)/Unused_Text/Dungeons#Hein.27s_Castle_Entrance.28d10_02.29

[tomokafinds]

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おじょうさまっぽいたてまきカールとふんわりしたピンクメイクがちょ～かわいいよね！

(Official English: Look super cute with girlie long curls and airy pink makeup!)