Japanese Speech Samples in Games

Ambassador (5671)

20-09-2017, 21:29

A few Japanese games feature speech samples, but - understandable for the technology at the time - they sound quite crude and I wonder if anything is actually said.

Eggerland 2, at the title and game start (second one does sound a bit like "Don't stop!" though)
Youma Kourin, before a stage boss loads (may just be some kind of growl)
Ninjya Kage at game start and at the end of each loop (pretty sure something is said)

I've collected and uploaded these examples, in this order, here:
https://youtu.be/TqcnDhxDgSw

By Manuel

Ascended (19462)

20-09-2017, 22:43

In Eggerland 2 you hear "Meikyushinwa!" (the Japanese title of the game, meaning something like Labyrinth Myth, or Labyrinth Saga) at the title.

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (5671)

20-09-2017, 22:53

Cool, thanks. It's actually easily discernable if you know it.

By ren

Paragon (1934)

20-09-2017, 23:02

In Aleste 2 the protagonist (what's her name again), calls out (the name of) the weapon you select (I figure) + there's some other speech right? Has this been translated and shared / written down somewhere yet?

Official Topic? (capitals)

By Imanok

Paragon (1200)

20-09-2017, 23:53

@ren: she says her name (Ellinor Waizen) and something else at game start.

Regarding other japanese speech samples, the ones from Madou Monogatari 1 2 3 are really fantastic

By wyrdwad

Paladin (934)

21-09-2017, 00:54

Lots of speech samples in Akanbe Dragon, though they're so compressed that they're nearly incomprehensible.

The clearest speech samples I can think of are in the Pac Man clone "Oh Shit!" (also called "Oh No!" after censoring, and released in Japan as just "Shit").

-Tom

By wyrdwad

Paladin (934)

21-09-2017, 00:56

Oh yeah, there's also a Donkey Kong clone called "The Apeman Strikes Again" that says "He is coming for you!" via speech sampling before each stage. For... some reason.

-Tom

By MP83

Master (232)

21-09-2017, 01:19

In Hudson Soft's Fire Rescue, there's a guy on the roof of a burning building shouting two lines in Japanese. One of them is clearly "Tasukete!" (Help me!), but I've no idea what the other one is supposed to be.

By wyrdwad

Paladin (934)

21-09-2017, 01:31

Whoops! Somehow failed to notice this was only for Japanese games.

Akanbe Dragon counts, though!

-Tom

By sd_snatcher

Prophet (3659)