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[Elpizo]

NOW, THE MOMENT YOU ALL HAVE NOT BEEN WAITING FOR, SINCE YOU'RE ALL PLAYING THE GAME YOURSELVES NOW, THE SCORE OF FFV ADVANCE'S TRANSLATION!

Yup, you pals got it right, I got the english ROM.
And I'm ready for another playthrough.

I'm not very far in the game yet but I can say so far, the translation is absolutely beautiful! So richely compared to the fantranslations! So funny even!

Galuf and Bartz (yes, it's Bartz now) have maned to make me smile so often even though I'm just at the Pirate's Cave now.

Check:

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Elpizo/Sephiroth/screen1.png

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Elpizo/Sephiroth/screen2.png

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Elpizo/Sephiroth/screen3.png

See? And the first few minutes are full of it! I won't spoil too much and let you all enjoy it for yourselves. Also in the menu and in battle the translation seems nice. But it's mostly the dialog we wanted better, right? Well, the dialog is good, what can I say? Lenna clearly speaks as a princess, Bartz has this care-free attitude, Galuf is the daring old man and Faris is Faris. Oh, no worries, Faris doesn't have a Pirate accent, but she doesn't speak normally all the time, either. Like, she called Lenna 'lass' when introducing Syldra (yup, it's Syldra!). Nothing special, but it sounds a bit more piratey. I like it.

I can say this: If FF V Advance wasn't perfect yet, with this new english translation (correctly this time) it certainly has become so.

Score: 10/10! Way to go Square!

EDIT: On topic of ExDeath's name, the official name of ExDeath is from now on Exdeath, thank you for your attention.

[Sephiroth1999AD]

Originally Posted by Elpizo ^

Galuf and Bartz (yes, it's Bartz now) have maned to make me smile so often even though I'm just at the Pirate's Cave now.

Can't you name Butz anymore when he meets Lenna? I still think the character portraits look bad, and Butz's portrait looks so much different from his sprite, so without the text box mentioning the names, I have a hard time recognizing Butz from the portrait. The line "Whoa! You're pretty gutsy for an old-timer" is taken directly from FFV Anthology, IIRC.

See? And the first few minutes are full of it! I won't spoil too much and let you all enjoy it for yourselves. Also in the menu and in battle the translation seems nice. But it's mostly the dialog we wanted better, right? Well, the dialog is good, what can I say? Lenna clearly speaks as a princess, Bartz has this care-free attitude, Galuf is the daring old man and Faris is Faris. Oh, no worries, Faris doesn't have a Pirate accent, but she doesn't speak normally all the time, either. Like, she called Lenna 'lass' when introducing Syldra (yup, it's Syldra!). Nothing special, but it sounds a bit more piratey. I like it.

I can say this: If FF V Advance wasn't perfect yet, with this new english translation (correctly this time) it certainly has become so.

Score: 10/10! Way to go Square!

EDIT: On topic of ExDeath's name, the official name of ExDeath is from now on Exdeath, thank you for your attention.

Those are good news (Syldra and Exdeath). Hopefully Cara will be something better than Vile-Krile and that Sarisa won't be Salsa. By the way, how do you know it's Exdeath? Are you that far already? You were only in the Pirates' cave when you first sent that post of yours.

[LostAmy]

Yep, I've been to Tycoon Castle and it's defenitely Sarisa.

Another one of my favorite changes so far is that the spell's aren't numered anymore like Fire 2, Fire 3 etc but instead they use the names from FFX like Fira, Firega etc...

[Elpizo]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth1999AD ^

Originally Posted by Elpizo ^

Galuf and Bartz (yes, it's Bartz now) have maned to make me smile so often even though I'm just at the Pirate's Cave now.

Can't you name Butz anymore when he meets Lenna? I still think the character portraits look bad, and Butz's portrait looks so much different from his sprite, so without the text box mentioning the names, I have a hard time recognizing Butz from the portrait. The line "Whoa! You're pretty gutsy for an old-timer" is taken directly from FFV Anthology, IIRC.

See? And the first few minutes are full of it! I won't spoil too much and let you all enjoy it for yourselves. Also in the menu and in battle the translation seems nice. But it's mostly the dialog we wanted better, right? Well, the dialog is good, what can I say? Lenna clearly speaks as a princess, Bartz has this care-free attitude, Galuf is the daring old man and Faris is Faris. Oh, no worries, Faris doesn't have a Pirate accent, but she doesn't speak normally all the time, either. Like, she called Lenna 'lass' when introducing Syldra (yup, it's Syldra!). Nothing special, but it sounds a bit more piratey. I like it.

I can say this: If FF V Advance wasn't perfect yet, with this new english translation (correctly this time) it certainly has become so.

Score: 10/10! Way to go Square!

EDIT: On topic of ExDeath's name, the official name of ExDeath is from now on Exdeath, thank you for your attention.

Those are good news (Syldra and Exdeath). Hopefully Cara will be something better than Vile-Krile and that Sarisa won't be Salsa. By the way, how do you know it's Exdeath? Are you that far already? You were only in the Pirates' cave when you first sent that post of yours.

You can still name him. But standard name is Bartz. Cara is Krile, which is good. And Faris is Sarisa.

Well, I editted my post later, ya know. On the first day I was playing this, I already got to world 2. Now I'm just in Bal Castle's basement training jobs before going to sage Ghido.

And no, the character portatraits are not horrible. Well, in my opinion. I can't understand how people can't recognize the portraits and the sprites they represent. They fit so smoothly in the dialogue, you're gonna love em.

I never played anthology, but this translation is still great and better.

[LostAmy]

So is there any new stuff to get in world 1? Because I'm almost dione with it and wanted to make sure I got everything before going on.

[Elpizo]

Originally Posted by LostAmy ^

So is there any new stuff to get in world 1? Because I'm almost dione with it and wanted to make sure I got everything before going on.

No new stuff in world 1 I'm afraid. Just getting Shiva and stuff. In world 3 however, you can get the new jobs (before you finish the game) Prophet, Gladiator and Cannoneer (or whatever their correct names are). And later, I'm not sure if it is after you finished the game or not, you can enter the HARD new dungeon and try to beat your way to the new superboss and the final new jobclass: Necromancer.

I'm doing well, I think ^^ In Bal Castle's Basement, I had Lenna master 4 jobs, Galuf master 3 jobs, Faris Master 3 Jobs and Bartz master 3 jobs. Took a loooong time, but it was worth it, at least I have 3 Freelancers now with good equipment and abilities that will get me through without any problems. I also discovered that I Karnak castle, there's a ribbon to get. You probably knew, but just be sure you get it.

Now, I'm past the Elder Tree in Moore forest, Krile just joined. The dialog between Galuf and Exdeath during their fight, well, I've seen it so many times before, but now actually being fully translated and correctly, I can say it touched me.

Oh well, on to Exdeath's castle. ^^

As a side-note, everybody seems to have problems with that Twin Tania boss in the Cleft of Dimensions... But, you can kill it with lv5 Death when it charges for that stronger version of Megaflare, right? At least, that's what the bestiary told me. You guys knew this, didn't you? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Martyr]

Are you serious? Killing Tania is THAT easy?

[Elpizo]

Originally Posted by Martyr ^

Are you serious? Killing Tania is THAT easy?

I'm not very sure...

*Checks Japanese Bestiary*

Yeah! It seems Twin tania has 2 forms. One form with lv39 and one with lv30. And a monster with lv 30 is good to Lv-5 Doom. I don't know when his lv is 30, but I think it's when he charges for that Gigaflare (?). After all, that book in the Cleft said somethign about him being weak when he charges, no?

So yeah, I think you can lv5-Doom him.