Legends of Localization DEV BLOG

I don’t even know what’s going on here.

Now this one makes sense. If you’re gonna steal the Mario brothers’ likeness and font, you might as well have their fictitious career.

If you have any funny bootleg Mario pics like the one above, please share them in the comments!

It’s easy to find bootleg Mario games, but it’s hilarious when you see small businesses using Mario characters and fonts to advertise their products. Let’s feature these blatant rip-offs all week!

First up is Super Mario Fried Chicken.

I like the addition of the chicken leg in Mario’s hand. I don’t think the Mushroom Kingdom even has chickens, though… Not gonna lie, I’d totally buy some chicken from this place.

If you’ve seen other bootleg Mario things like the above, please share them in the comments!

Had fun making this new thumbnail for one of Mato’s old Ghosts n Goblins articles :B

… my ン looks like a ソ 🙁 Time to practice my handwriting more!

I found this picture while taking another deep dive into Mato’s “misc mess” folder:

But what does it mean?

Whoops, YS VIII is goofin’ again. The Switch port releases next week and GameXplain did a really excellent review on it: watch it here! Their review is almost glowing, but then they point out the lack of localization polish…

Dang, what the heck happened? After all the fuss made over the PS4 version’s subpar localization (the president of NISA even issued a public apology) and the huge effort to rewrite the script and re-record all the voice acting, how did this happen?

I found this during my latest attempt to organize Mato’s giant folders of random pictures:

I don’t like this at all! Would you have found this appealing if you saw it as a kid???

A week or so ago on Twitter, I challenged people to come up with a localized English name for this prototype Pokemon from the Gold/Silver demo leak:

I received a lot of good responses! Here’s a short list of some of the most popular ones (based on likes) and also some personal favorites:

• Purrent
• Shockat / Shockitty
• Voltiger
• Amplidude
• Cirkitt
• Ampster
• Chubbs McFattybolt
• Tigawatt
• Wattashock
• Volcub / Circub
• Thunpurr / Zappurr
• Bob
• Amplirunt
• Tiger Electronics

Of course, I ignored the character limit for the best-of list 😉 That was fun, so I might do a few more in the coming weeks.

アイス (“ice”) is the word used to describe ice cream in Japanese. It’s another one of those false friends that can be confusing and misleading. So if you ask for a “vanilla ice” in Japan, you’ll get this:

But if you ask for a “vanilla ice” in America, you’ll get something else entirely:

This is not a mistake anyone wants to make!

We usually cover bad English translations, but yesterday Mato found a Switch game with a bad Japanese translation. It’s called NeuroVoider and here’s a taste:

See that text at the top? Instead of saying “Game Over”, it says Game Ōhā. Japanese gamers who saw this were making a lot of Shingo Mama “oha” jokes.

“Game Oha” was fixed already, but there are more problems throughout the game. I’ve been documenting them, so expect to see something on the main site about it soon!