Everything I’ve read has indicated that the Super NES translator had insanely tight deadlines and barely enough time to research simple Japanese words like “dinosaur”. I assume the name changed to “Tintinabar” due to name length restrictions, but I can’t help but wonder how it came about to begin with. Still, it’s surprising to me that the Super NES translation would use such a fancy bell-related word here. This is equally as mysterious to me, but viewers in the stream chat looked it up for me – apparently it’s a type of bell mounted on a pole that’s meant to indicate a church’s link with the Pope. Tintinnabulum photo by KiltBear - source, CC BY-SA 2.0The GBA translation appears to pull from the Super NES translation but changes the name to “Tintinnabulum”. The “bell” part in the name is specifically the little jingly kind of bell, and “Tama” is a stereotypical cat name in Japan, which is why the fan translation goes with “Cat’s Bell”. I was even more confused when I learned that it’s called the “Tama Bell” in Japanese. I never knew what this word was, where it came from, or what it was supposed to signify. In the Super NES translation, this item is known as a “Tintinabar”. What’s Up with the Tintinabar?Īfter doing a letter-mailing side quest, you can get a special accessory that restores a little bit of HP with every step you take. ![]() I’m somehow always fascinated by how punctuation gets handled by different translators from different times. The fan translation and machine translation go with “Catalina”.Īlso, although it’s not a very big issue, note the usage of ellipses in each version in the second screenshot above. ![]() The GBA translation follows the Super NES translation but cleans up the inconsistency problem by going with “Katarin” everywhere. ![]() In the Super NES translation, we first see her name as “Katrin”, but elsewhere she’s labeled as “Katarin”. In Japanese, she’s known as カタリーナ ( katarīna), which can be written out in English as “Catarina, “Katarina”, “Catalina”, and other variations. There’s an NPC girl in Mobliz who plays a part in the story later.
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