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Snot Man posted:Kid Kool looks so bad watching it was annoying. Obviously some care went into trying some unique and potentially fun gameplay mechanics, but it's all completely ruined by what looks like poo poo controls and stage design that seems to waver between sadistic and just plain bad. Constant huge leaps of faith that lead right into nearly unavoidable death traps is Sonic 2006 levels of bad. Spoiler on the Kid Kool ending: I hate to undermine the AD's efforts, but there are multiple endings. He got the "barely good" ending because he took so long. Here's a related video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuGU1Yt9Dc Thanks for the translation, as always. I rather enjoyed the episode. The Gameboy segment was my favorite just for all the Burger jokes and Arino's concept art.
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Meme Emulator posted:Where is Battletoads in your queue of episodes to translate, because Im heck of excite to see it. If the DVDs sell well enough for then to go and license more episodes, then I imagine SAGCCX would remove any conflicts. Until then, or in any case, it would be a troublesome conflict of interest if zari-gani was doing this for Fuji-TV.
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Meme Emulator posted:Where is Battletoads in your queue of episodes to translate, because Im heck of excite to see it. Not to speak for zari-gani but for a variety of reasons the GCCX license that Discotek has is limited; they can only use the same episodes that Kotaku had. We're already going through efforts to avoid stepping on the license. Also, the reason that zari-gani is doing the official translations is that she's been doing these translations. It's clear the Discotek isn't worried about any conflict of interest.
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Thanks for yet another episode. I liked that gameboy bit; I swear I remember owning Gargoyle's Quest on the gameboy as a kid. I KNEW it looked familiar when we saw the sequel! 
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Random Stranger posted:Also, the reason that zari-gani is doing the official translations is that she's been doing these translations. It's clear the Discotek isn't worried about any conflict of interest. Nor should they be, cos I mean, we're ALL going to buy this loving thing. e Random Stranger posted:(A Waste of Color is among my least favorite segments on the show). I think it's actually one of my favourites?  I like when Kibe gets to nerd the gently caress out over stuff he played as a kid. Kibe is seriously as nerdy as it's possible to get while still holding down a job and being presentable for tv.
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Thank you SAGCCX for another quality episode and for adding Kid Kool to my list of games I never want to play (it was kinda on that list after the AVGN video, but GCCX only confirms how brutal that game is).  I feel kinda bad for doing this since you guys always do such an awesome job, but I found an error in the subtitles (I'm not spoiling it since it has nothing to do with the main challenge). During the Castlevania 3 part of the segment where they show games that came out during 1989, the subtitle said that the hero was Simon Belmont when in fact it was his ancestor, Trevor Belmont. I don't know Japanese, so I'm not sure if maybe whoever originally wrote that script made that mistake or if Kan mis-spoke, but I assume it might've been something that happened on their side. But, it's such a minor thing and I can understand how hard it is to translate purely by ear. Like I said, you guys always do a great job and I hope this one minor issue doesn't mess anything up. So, keep up the good work!
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Obeast posted:I feel kinda bad for doing this since you guys always do such an awesome job, but I found an error in the subtitles (I'm not spoiling it since it has nothing to do with the main challenge). During the Castlevania 3 part of the segment where they show games that came out during 1989, the subtitle said that the hero was Simon Belmont when in fact it was his ancestor, Trevor Belmont. I don't know Japanese, so I'm not sure if maybe whoever originally wrote that script made that mistake or if Kan mis-spoke, but I assume it might've been something that happened on their side. But, it's such a minor thing and I can understand how hard it is to translate purely by ear. You are correct that the hero of Castlevania 3 is Trevor but the narrator says, "Simon". They've made that kind of error from time to time during the series and though it's been spackled over a couple of times it's not something that's consistently done. Now you can go, "drat it, Kibe! Get it right!"
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Obeast posted:... the subtitle said that the hero was Simon Belmont when in fact it was his ancestor, Trevor Belmont. In the Japanese version it's Ralph Belmont. 
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Apr 8, 2012 09:29
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Sweet William posted:In the Japanese version it's Ralph Belmont. Belmondo 
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Random Stranger posted:You are correct that the hero of Castlevania 3 is Trevor but the narrator says, "Simon". They've made that kind of error from time to time during the series and though it's been spackled over a couple of times it's not something that's consistently done. Now you can go, "drat it, Kibe! Get it right!"  Sweet William posted:In the Japanese version it's Ralph Belmont.  "You'll whip your eye out, kid!" 
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Kid Kool looks like an awful game to play. However, I have the feeling that it may have been a direct influence on whoever designed the time mechanic for Majora's Mask, so I will give it a pass. As for "A Waste of Color", I loved how during its debut, they go on a bit about black-and-white games that should be remade with color, and then they put whatever it was into the Super Gameboy, which did a somewhat decent job of adding color to the game, pretty much ruining the entire premise of the segment.
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Inferior Third Season posted:As for "A Waste of Color", I loved how during its debut, they go on a bit about black-and-white games that should be remade with color, and then they put whatever it was into the Super Gameboy, which did a somewhat decent job of adding color to the game, pretty much ruining the entire premise of the segment. I love how they cover things like Burgertime and (though I would say that a color remake of Mario Land would certainly be welcome) vvv Turns out I am wrong! Ah well. Burgertime still counts right? geri_khan fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Apr 8, 2012 |
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Apr 8, 2012 19:04
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geri_khan posted:I love how they cover things like Burgertime and Gargoyles's Quest... you know, games that were originally in color to start with. The first Gargoyle's Quest was Game Boy only
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If anyone is interested, I made some GCCX gifs the last few days. I am too lazy to rehost them so just go here and check them out if you want.
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GidgetNomates posted:If anyone is interested, I made some GCCX gifs the last few days. I am too lazy to rehost them so just go here and check them out if you want. This one is fantastic, I love Emoto now. He's just behind Inoko MAX. 
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Stoat posted:This one is fantastic, I love Emoto now. He's just behind Inoko MAX. Having seen so much GCCX now, it's impossible for me to pick a favorite AD. They all have their little moments.
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I love how excited Arino gets when he wins at gambling. Watching the Legend of the Mystical Ninja episode and he's so worked up he's yelling in english and japanese. Dude fuckin' loves gambling.
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Apr 9, 2012 02:26
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 this is a good title card.
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Well, well, well. Looks like I found an example of Nintendo's censoring machine at it again. Naked dragons are clearly unacceptable. We're not above penis jokes in this thread right?
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Xik posted:We're not above penis jokes in this thread right? I was waiting to see if Arino would comment on it but it never came up.
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I like the Waste of Colour segments because it's interesting to see the obscure Japanese Gameboy games I've never heard of.
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Wendell posted:I like the Waste of Colour segments because it's interesting to see the obscure Japanese Gameboy games I've never heard of. That segment has reminded me of two Gameboy games that I loved the poo poo out of back when I still had my brick. The first one being Dynablaster (I guess it only had that name in Europe.. it was called Bomber Boy in the segment) and the first Gargoyles Quest. I loved and played the crap out of both of these games and they were AWESOME. The segment as a whole I find kind of lackluster, especially compared to some of the better segments they've had before. In any case, it's not like I can ever get enough of Arino. Are we ever getting that Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts episode? (Or Super Ghosts 'n Goblins or whatever the hell, they're all the same to me!) It looked awesome and I love those games so much, despite their bullshit "Oh you gotta finish it TWICE and you better not lose that bracelet" mechanic
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Wendell posted:I like the Waste of Colour segments because it's interesting to see the obscure Japanese Gameboy games I've never heard of. Heiankyo Alien is not an obscure japanese game. It freakin' rules 
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Apr 9, 2012 18:56
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Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (which I mistranslated as Super Ghosts'n Goblins for some reason despite knowing very well it's supposed to be Ghouls'n Ghosts -- still beating myself up over that one) will definitely be done at one point. I know Nagoyan has his eye on it. However, the Ghouls'n Ghosts episode needs to come first, and Clover has been working on that one.
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It's kinda amusing that with seven minutes, Arino's fallen victim to a good number of the flaws the AVGN brought up.
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Uznare posted:Heiankyo Alien is not an obscure japanese game. It freakin' rules Lessee: -Released before 1980 -in Japan only -on PC It might rule, but it's obscure based on those three alone.
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Can someone explain what the joke is (if any) of Arino doing the shoulder touch thing during the waste of color intro?
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Stefan Prodan posted:Can someone explain what the joke is (if any) of Arino doing the shoulder touch thing during the waste of color intro? The title of "A Waste of Color" is taken from the (awful) 1985 song (sung by a bunch of teenage girls) that plays in the background called "Don't Take Off My School Uniform" by Onyanko Club ("Kitty Club"). There's a famous little dance that goes with this song, and that's what he's mimicking. Here's that song performed by AKB48, the group Male AD Takahashi -- and all of Akihabara today -- is obsessed with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwk9PzMe14E The movement Arino does can be seen at 1:37. He also mouths the next line in the song in the first episode of that segment, I think. And here's the original Onyanko Club performing the song in their 2002 reunion, 15 years after disbanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66FJjbDvbrw#t=5m00s Brief Japanese lesson: There's a line in the song that goes "'Cause it would be a waste" -- in Japanese it's mottainai kara. Kara in this context means "'cause," but they stretched it out so it sounds like karaa -- "colour". Hence the title of the segment, "Mottainai Karaa (Colour)". Any oddities like that during segments, it's usually safe to assume it's in reference to the song that's playing. For example the random stuff Arino says at the beginning of the "Sing About Whatever You Want" segments are actually lyrics from the song they got the title from, "Do Whatever You Want." zari-gani fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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redmercer posted:Lessee: GB version came out stateside in 1990. So I stand by my statement.
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Uznare posted:GB version came out stateside in 1990. So I stand by my statement. I actually bought the game for my friend about 10 years ago because it looked so strange. All the same, you can't really stand by a comment saying it's NOT obscure.
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zari-gani posted:Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (which I mistranslated as Super Ghosts'n Goblins for some reason despite knowing very well it's supposed to be Ghouls'n Ghosts -- still beating myself up over that one) will definitely be done at one point. I know Nagoyan has his eye on it. However, the Ghouls'n Ghosts episode needs to come first, and Clover has been working on that one. Well that's good news then! Greatly looking forward to that episode. But, and this might just be me being stupid, didn't we already get a Ghouls'n Ghosts episode? Or was that Ghosts'n Goblins? Man I always get these two confused but what was that game where he faced the Red Arremer the first time and just couldn't get past it till the AD of that time told him to run back and jump and turn around to shoot at him etc.
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Ghosts'n Goblins (Makaimura) was done by TV-Nihon. Clover has been working on Ghouls'n Ghosts (Dai Makaimura), and then I guess we're going to release Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (Chou Makaimura). The Japanese titles are more straightforward and easier for me to remember...
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Wendell posted:I actually bought the game for my friend about 10 years ago because it looked so strange. All the same, you can't really stand by a comment saying it's NOT obscure. I'm not disagreeing exactly, but it's un-obscure enough that I remember it from magazine ads: http://www.retroist.com/2011/04/06/heiankyo-alien-for-the-game-boy/
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abraxas posted:But, and this might just be me being stupid, didn't we already get a Ghouls'n Ghosts episode? There's three episodes all in all. Famicom version (Season 2), Ghouls 'n' Ghosts on Genesis/Mega Drive (Season 5) and then we have Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts on Super Famicom (Season 7). edit: techknight posted:I'm not disagreeing exactly, but it's un-obscure enough that I remember it from magazine ads: http://www.retroist.com/2011/04/06/heiankyo-alien-for-the-game-boy/ Wow, it's kinda crazy this game was even brought to west, much more considering it was actually advertised as being so Japanese. jyrque fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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jyrque posted:Wow, it's kinda crazy this game was even brought to west, much more considering it was actually advertised as being so Japanese. And it was published by Meldac, also responsible for Zombie Nation. I guess they had a different view than most publishers about what would sell in America in 1990.
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serialrobinson posted:And it was published by Meldac, also responsible for Zombie Nation. I guess they had a different view than most publishers about what would sell in America in 1990. I don't know, I think other publishers would have agreed about bringing it over. (for reference: the Japanese arcade version, which clarifies that particular timeline a bit.)
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techknight posted:I'm not disagreeing exactly, but it's un-obscure enough that I remember it from magazine ads: http://www.retroist.com/2011/04/06/heiankyo-alien-for-the-game-boy/ I want a tattoo of that, right now.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I love how excited Arino gets when he wins at gambling. Watching the Legend of the Mystical Ninja episode and he's so worked up he's yelling in english and japanese. Dude fuckin' loves gambling. I love that, in the South Korean trip, he lost a lot of money at the roulette with money provided by the show and later on, by the staff because he keeps betting on black, while red keeps coming up. The look on staff's face after Arino bet their last stack on black, even though they all said bet on red was priceless.
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I've got a cart of Heiankyo Alien, am I cool now? It came in a lot I bought at a garage sale, along with various football and wrestling games weirdly enough.
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davidHalestorm posted:I love that, in the South Korean trip, he lost a lot of money at the roulette with money provided by the show and later on, by the staff because he keeps betting on black, while red keeps coming up. The look on staff's face after Arino bet their last stack on black, even though they all said bet on red was priceless. I love the followup to that segment as well. Just in case you haven't gotten to that particular episode yet: the staff were especially annoyed because, after filming wrapped, Arino went back to the casino to play with his own money and found great success.
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