User talk:Swordzman0611

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FFV character names
Hi, I noticed your updates to the FFV characters page and I'm a bit confused as to what you consider the "official" translation. As far as I know there are at least three commonly used versions, one for the SNES, one for the PS, and one for the GBA, and they all differ from one another in terms of names. The one I was using when writing this guide was for the PS since that's the one I happen to own, and I assure you it's not a fan version; it's on an a original PS disk from the Final Fantasy Anthology series. I understand there were fan translations for the NES that appeared when the game was only released in Japan, and various other versions for emulators, but I don't think a guide needs to cover them. It's a problem to write a guide to be equally accessible to people using the various versions, when characters, items, enemies, and places all have different names depending on which one you're playing, and I haven't seen a good solution yet. What I've been doing is to use the PS version names for the walkthough and listing other names (when known) in other pages. Since I wrote about 80% of the FFV content here it seemed reasonable to make a preference for the PS version. In any case, it's going to be even more confusing if people keep changing names in the guide to whichever one they see in their version. --Zuke (talk) 18:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If only character names are different, the Characters page is probably a good place to mention it. Otherwise, maybe a "version differences" page would be useful. -- Prod (talk) 23:51, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * See Final Fantasy V/Armor for what I was going for. The first column lists all names according to platform when applicable. I just noticed though that you added a section under controls for mobiles; does that mean there is yet another translation? The differences between versions seem to mostly in translation with some extra stuff added for GBA, but see Final Fantasy V. --Zuke (talk) 14:37, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

@Zuke: The mobile versions had to be adapted for touch screens, before add-on gamepads seemed to take off. To adapt, they added strange buttons that aren't really self-explanatory at first glance. The translation is much the same as the GBA version. As to the topic of what's "official", I think the various releases speak to that. Personally, I find the PS1 release the most botched of the four. (Faris being a candidate for International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day and being called Salsa (yes, the condiment!) along with enemy names like Y Burn and PaddleThru? Bleugh!) RPGe, the fan translators, were still very literal, but much better than Square EA. With three versions since the PS1 using the same translation, I think it's pretty clear where SqEnix stands. Swordzman0611 (talk) 20:40, 20 June 2015 (UTC)