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[Firemander]

As for the grass type turtle one... it's second rocks but the third one , a wholetree and hills on the shell?!

When that turtle sits around the house, he sits AROUND the house.Also, I'm also fairly bummed that it's proving so difficult to play, but them's the breaks. At least I won't be able to hit myself with spoilers of all sorts until either the game comes stateside, or, uh, until the evil technology of playing DS games on your computer catches up. I'm still surprised at the sheer number of new evolutions for old pokemon they're cramming into this game, though; I hope it doesn't interfere with, you know, having NEW species of pokemon to toy around with.

[Firemander]

What other versions would they release in America? o__O

I'm guessing that he's talking about Nintendo ONLY releasing an English version of Diamond/Pearl in the US, as opposed to the vast amounts of English-speaking countries elsewhere that tend to get completely and utterly shafted in terms of game release dates (see Australia).EDIT: You're much faster with that Post Reply button than I am, young padawan.

Edited by Firemander, 27 September 2006 - 07:06 AM.

[Firemander]

Yeah, I figured that out a couple seconds after posting xPI wonder how much work really goes into the translating and fixing it for American audiences... 'cause it seems like waiting until spring for the US release is too long..

I imagine tearing out the entire freaking Japanese 'alphabet' system, replacing it with one that we Americaners can read, trying to think up portmanteau-style names for all the new Pokemon that don't sound horrendously bad, and making sure that these newfangled, never-before-seen-in-a-Pokemon-game Global Trade etc. systems that might REALLY be global don't fudge up and turn your DS into a block of cheese might take a while. Don't get me wrong, we can always hope for the best, AND I'm as antsy as anyone else, but I'd rather they took their time with this. The last time they tried to rush the localization of Pokemon games (that is, back in the days of Red/Blue), it... it would've been pretty horrible had someone with brains not stepped in to stop this travesty from ever occuring.Imagine, if you will, names along the lines of 'NY' and 'LA' (because Koffing is like a city with bad air pollution! And New York has bad air pollution! So are Weezing and Los Angelos!), or, say, Growlithe just being called Blaze.... yeah.

[Firemander]

See, I dunno a damned thing about how converting the game works.. I'd like to, but I don't.All I imagine is that they just have to edit it to have english words o__oUnless there's a chance that the Japanese version isn't exactly complete...I guess I'd have to see how the coding and such work to really understand.

I don't know how the coding works myself; I'm just making a guess here. Remember, Ruby/Sapphire's fonts were just all sorts of ugly until they managed to replace them in Emerald, so I imagine it's not quite that simple to do.

[zeroality]

Yeah, this all looks awesome. Can't wait until the US release.