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Author Topic: Decipher the Horrible Recording Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2004 12:20 AM                        First up for you all to decipher is a voice recording from a videogame for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game system. The game is called Thunder Force II, and when you press the START button to begin the game, it plays this sound file and then the game starts. I can understand "Good Luck!" but that's it. The game was programmed by TechnoSoft in Japan, but the voice doesn't sound Japanese to me. Any ideas on what the hell is being said? Is it some sort of code telling their minions that now is the time to attack America?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-17-2004 12:36 AM                     The president of Sega orders soup from the Sega company cafeteria. The chef, who is partly deaf, doesn't understand the presidents cry for help as the steaming hot soup burns the flesh off the top of his mouth. "This is extra Heated!" cries the president. "Louder" the chef says, but then realizes that the president is probably asking about the flavor of the soup. "Good Duck." he says, knowing that Cambpels would want him to say the full name printed on the can. quote: "This is Extra Heated!" "Louder... Good Duck."  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-17-2004 12:48 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer The game was programmed by TechnoSoft in Japan, but the voice doesn't sound Japanese to me. Games targeted for the large US market or large English-speaking games market, often are voiced by talent in the USA. Somebody knows somebody else who knows somebody else with a studio & voice talent around in the US, email, audio goes flying around the world on .mp3's for a few weeks or months, somebody somewhere in France or Japan or wherever they're doing this one glues it together into that damn Halon 2 thing you people all get bent about. Sometimes the publisher or distributor of foreign games is in the US, or the game gets bought by another game company & issued under its label.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2004 01:13 AM                        Actually the game was programmed for the Japanese market way back in 1989. The rest of the voices in the game are from a very Japanese female. I like Mike's interpretation. Any others?  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-17-2004 01:34 AM                     I stretched it way out in CoolEdit. Sounds to me like it says, roughly: "Deh teh nate .. lo (or slo) gi net .. lou der .. good nuck" (I guess it must be 'duck' tho). Want me to send the slowed file to ya Joe?? Ron Yost .. not familiar with games at all.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-17-2004 04:52 AM                        The last three syllables of the first voice sound a lot like "sugite" which is a present tense form of "sugiru" and means "to exceed, to be/do too much". It is often attached to the stem of another verb to indicate excessiveness. For instance "Joe wa asobi-sugite" means "Joe is playing too much". Since it is at the start of a game, a wild guess would be that it means something like "this is too difficult, too tricky". But that is just a guess - I cannot understand the first three syllables at all. Maybe Mayer-san can hear more?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-17-2004 08:05 AM                        Dekinakkata ze! I couldn't make it out either. Will have more time later today to search around on some Japanese sites in search of the recording script. Already found all the music.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-17-2004 10:09 AM                     "Now you need defeat the.... HARBOR.... good luck!" =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2004 07:04 PM                        That is hilarious! Japan is always trying to slip in a Harbor reference. No thanks Ron, I don't need the stretched sound. I can do that here. I'm still not certain what language it's in.  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 11-17-2004 07:19 PM                        Joe, you and I think alike in terms of video games. I remember laughing for years about that voice when you press start. BTW I mastered that game and completed it on hard mode (which you have to do in order to see all the stages). Now though emmy runs can easily save-state their way to the end. Sort of cheapens the accomplishment.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-17-2004 07:33 PM                        Emulators can't emulate playing the real thing on the boob tube. I beat that game pretty easily back in the day, and loved every minute of it. Except this voice, which makes me lose sleep at night.  |  IP: Logged

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