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[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Stupid Question: What's an Hiragana?

Hiragana are basic characters for reading and writing Japanese. Since they're phonetic, they're easier to read than kanji, which are symbolic.

Here's "black magic" in hiragana: くろまほう

Ku-ro-ma-ho-u. Kuro meaning "black," mahou meaning "magic." All phonetic, all very intuitive.

Now here's the same phrase in kanji: 黒魔法

Not phonetic at all! If you hadn't learned which words these symbols represent, you'd have to consult a dictionary. And considering there are thousands of different kanji, most of which have multiple meanings and pronounciations, it can be hard to keep them all straight.

[Roto13]

黒魔法

I can't even pick that out.

EDIT: It grew. :P

[Siegfried]

Oh and the 1/20 Airship Blackjack was a miniature...not a part of the ship

That, too, was a Woolseyification. In the Japanese version of the game, it was actually a piece of the airship Blackjack.

Also, did you read my post Siegfried?

I wish you could buy the miniature Blackjacks in the WoR and combine them somehow to make the original Blackjack. It looks so much better than the Falcon.

Apologies all around...i spoke too soon

[Yeargdribble]

Not just the kids like the text simplified to hiragana.

QFT :P

[opiumcloud]

The new super-boss will be...

dun dun duhnnnn!!...

Mega leafer!

[KoShiatar]

Battle with Kaiser Dragon ('Czar Dragon').

I really can't tell whether this is fake or not.

As far as I know, the battle data, lines of text and sprite of the Czar Dragon are found in the original game data, but for some reason it has been left out of the game. It can be hacked back in the gameplay, I believe. I'm sure Kishi knows whether I'm correct or not.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Kaiser Dragon's sprite and the environment where he is found are new. This is an actual event in the GBA port, not abandoned content hacked back into the game by amateurs.

Defeating him yields the Diabolos magicite.

[KoShiatar]

I was sure that particular Youtube movie that was linked in the thread was hacked, since once it gets in battle the characters turn to Biggs, Wedge, Kefka and Leo...

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

His party is hacked, yes. But everything else is legit.

[Avarice-ness]

Dude, I seriously just teared up in saddness. WHAT DID THEY DO TO THE MUSIC?! It sounds almost like they took a normal WinXP synth and put midi's through it and put it on the GBA.

Each day appart of me is dying because they didn't screw with the others -this- bad. This is just wrong, so so so wrong. I don't even know if I want to play it now, I can't handle change, and a common concept is don't try to change a good thing. *goes back off to cry in the corner*

[KoShiatar]

Then I can't wait for it. But giving a brief look at the Japanese lines, isn't what the Kaiser Dragon says the same unused text that can be dumped from the SNES Japanese ROM? I cannot tell, since I've been waiting for those files for ages now.

[Avarice-ness]

DID SOMEONE ALREADY POST THE DAMN OPERA SCENE ADVANCE THING?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF417...elated&search=

What DID THEY DO?! Is that really what it's going to sound like!? *beyond unhappy*

[Flying Mullet]

Don't forget that the GBA's sound isn't as advanced as the SNES' sound.

I didn't think it sounded that bad though. *shrugs*

[Avarice-ness]

Don't forget that the GBA's sound isn't as advanced as the SNES' sound.

I didn't think it sounded that bad though. *shrugs*

I just don't like the fact that the music makes me feel like I'm listening to midi's. I don't like her synth voice, they changed it to the second synth voice (there's 2 voice patches the new one being the second)

Then that makes me wonder why they never did Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana for the GBA, their music would have been smashed to bits.


OHHHH NOOOOO. They used the square synth for the song in Zozo. It's more square-y then it used to be.

[Zeromus_X]

The synthesized voices sound better on the Gameboy Advance. And the Aria de Mezzo Carataire didn't lose nearly as much sound quality as the battle theme or the boss theme, among a handful of other songs. After listening to the soundtrack, I'm happy that they didn't ruin every song, though it seems odd that they'd put so much effort into FFV Advance's music and not really care about FFVI Advance's. :/