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In FFVI advance they decide to along with a hard dungeon that separate is new secret boss, one so hard, so unique, yet suprising, u know who that is....


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Ted Woosley!

The infamous Localization guy behind the 1994 Translation attack, pictures it now, Terra Casts Ultima, he relocalizes it into a Protect for himself, Then Gogo attempts to Dispel it only to be localized into a Curaga.

I find it terribly ironic that you're commenting on poor English by way of making Ted Woolsey a villian.

Other than that, I'm not sure what to make of this idea. Obviously it won't be the case, so what are we discussing here?

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Personally I'd expect a King Crab/Lil Shrimp water based combo attack (call me nuts, I thought it was a very clever line when I first saw it), and of course a self help booklet as his ultimate attack.

This post has been edited by Narratorway on 25th October 2006 00:57

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Well, as long as it isn't 'Kefka EG' I'm sure we'll be happy with whatever superboss they choose, though Czar Dragon would make sense.

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The only superboss that would be a serious choice out of all the ones so far mentioned is the CzarDragon.

Another possibility is

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if Gestahl didn't die but will challenge your party before joining it. Of course, this'll lead us to another stupid Magus-like HP vacuum, and whatnot...bleh...and not like we'd really appreciate it plotwise either.

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A "Kefka EG" would be ridiculous.

Most of the people who got the Japanese version of FF5a got hope that FF6a wouldn't go downhill just as FF4a did.

If they are going to make the dungeon interestingly fun, it should be a warp point to 1000 years back in the War of the Magi. If the ending boss for it is "Enuo EG" I'd laugh: It's just a random battle monster!

Though CzarDragon would be insteresting.

If Ted Woosely was an FF6 Boss character, by Locke_Cole

I walk into the dungeon, and to my surprise
I see Ted Woosely, staring into my eyes
I cast Holy, he calls it Pearl
Gogo is a boy, he says its a girl
I get pissed, and attack with my X-Offering
My lightbringer crits, but he starts renaming
"It's Illumina now!" He says to me
"I can mistranslate everything you see!"
I cry as he renames my Mash to Sabin
I said "Come on, Ted, you must be playin'"
He tells me "No, I'm done yet! -
Do not worry, do not fret!
You know that spell, what-is-it, Death?
It's doom now!" (He says with one breath)
"Why?" I ask, "did they hire you off the street?"
"Haha, no! It was off a bar seat! -
My girlfriend just dumped me, I was just fired
and the old translator at square just retired,
they needed someone cheap - and fast!
So they turned to me at last!"
"I don't care about your sob story,"
I said, with a good deal of apathy.
"I just cast a spell, if you can't tell"
"Wait - I'm vanished, what the hell?"
He was surprised, but I just laugh
As I cast X-Zone, I'll let you do the math.


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"I just cast a spell, if you can't tell"
"Wait - I'm vanished, what the hell?"
He was surprised, but I just laugh
As I cast X-Zone, I'll let you do the math.

Ted Woosely gets the last laugh...I'm sure that bug will be fixed by FFVI Advance.


This post has been edited by The Ancient on 25th October 2006 20:52

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

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Keeping my fingers crossed for Ramza!

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As _I_ cast X-Zone, I'll let you do the math.

Ted Woosely gets the last laugh...I'm sure that bug will be fixed by FFVI Advance.

No, no, you misread, I won ;D

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Quote (NeoEx-Death @ 25th October 2006 15:26)

A "Kefka EG" would be ridiculous.

Most of the people who got the Japanese version of FF5a got hope that FF6a wouldn't go downhill just as FF4a did.

If they are going to make the dungeon interestingly fun, it should be a warp point to 1000 years back in the War of the Magi. If the ending boss for it is "Enuo EG" I'd laugh: It's just a random battle monster!

Though CzarDragon would be insteresting.

That would certainly be a great way to start it off. Why have a bonus dungeon when we can get an entire bonus world to mess around in, complete with monsters breaking the 16-bit HP barrier!

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Why is the Czar Dragon such a forerunner for the super-powerful boss? The game makes no mention of it, the number of dragons was eight and not nine. Anyone that had played the game would know nothing about the creature... indeed it's just some forgotten code dug out by ROM hackers.

Either do something with the storyline (say, fighting the Warring Gods when they haven't been subverted by Kefka; perhaps ome sort of super-Esper) or drag out some dream battles (Gestahl and Leo, along with a contingent of the Empire's finest), anything else would not have the same impact.

Or... they should take a page out of Lufia 2's book and get the weakest, lamest monster, blow it up to the size of the screen, give it magnitudes more HP than anything else in the world, and then put it at the bottom of an incredibly difficult dungeon. Now that's a WTF scenario.

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Quote (The Ancient @ 25th October 2006 15:50)

Keeping my fingers crossed for Ramza!

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As _I_ cast X-Zone, I'll let you do the math.

Ted Woosely gets the last laugh...I'm sure that bug will be fixed by FFVI Advance.

No, no, you misread, I won ;D

You misunderstood, I was implying that in the upcoming version Vanish:X-zone probably wouldn't work anymore.

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i hate ted woolsey and he doesnt deserve to have any mention in the game. they should completely redo the translation so he doesnt get any credit whatsoever. playing this game in japanese is so much better than playing it in english.

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i hate ted woolsey and he doesnt deserve to have any mention in the game. they should completely redo the translation so he doesnt get any credit whatsoever. playing this game in japanese is so much better than playing it in english.

I will disagree. For one thing, playing the game in English is so much better than playing the game in Japanese because I read English but not Japanese.

But back to seriousness, I really don't see what Ted Woolsey so royally messed up that he is now the center of hatred of some people. For that matter, I praise him for making inventive and simultaneously meaningful lines such as "son of a submariner". He did quite a good job with FFVI--at least significantly better than FFIV's translator did. The language flows much better, in my opinion.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 26th October 2006 21:25)

He did quite a good job with FFVI--at least significantly better than FFIV's translator did. The language flows much better, in my opinion.

Actually to my knowledge, Woolsey did 'em both.

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It'll probably be shinryu though...

if it does end up being ted woosely I'll lose all faith in square.

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 24th October 2006 19:42)

I find it terribly ironic that you're commenting on poor English by way of making Ted Woolsey a villian.

Other than that, I'm not sure what to make of this idea. Obviously it won't be the case, so what are we discussing here?

lol, it already got 17 replies

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That's completely besides the point, and your reply shouldn't count because it's spam. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 27th October 2006 09:12

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Quote (Zeromus_X @ 25th October 2006 07:56)

Adlai Stevenson?

Well, as long as it isn't 'Kefka EG' I'm sure we'll be happy with whatever superboss they choose, though Czar Dragon would make sense.

I hear you, man. Anything would be better than defeating Kefka again. COMON PEOPLE GET CREATIVE! ehem, i like the translator idea, though

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 26th October 2006 21:25)

He did quite a good job with FFVI--at least significantly better than FFIV's translator did.  The language flows much better, in my opinion.

Actually to my knowledge, Woolsey did 'em both.

As I recall, on this website that documented a lot of trivia about FFIV (including the existence of the "true" easytype, as well as tiles with hidden money and items, it was noted that Ted Woolsey actually did NOT translate FFIV, citing that it was against popular rumor or something like that.

I can't find the site via Google, but the Wikipedia FFIV page does mention that "[t]he game's original release was heavily criticized for the poor quality of its English language translation."

However, Ted Woolsey translated FFVI as well as Chrono Trigger, IIRC. Neither of those games has been. If not CT, then maybe Secret of Mana or something--he translated another major Square game. I've played FFIV, FFVI, CT, and SoM, and I can personally vouch that the English translation style is significantly different FFIV and FFVI, and that FFVI, CT, and SoM have smoother language, indicating a better translation job.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 31st October 2006 03:16

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Personally, I'd like to see the Ghosts of the Magi -- the souls of warriors from the old war, so heavily infused with magic that even death and a milennium's slumber weren't enough to keep them sealed once the world was ruined. They're angry to be awakened, and angrier that humanity never learned its lesson. Some would be nearly human (possibly a human-sheep hybrid named Woolsey?), others would have become incredible beasts (which is where the Czar Dragon might tie in).

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whoo hoo for the Woosly hate bandwagon? I seriously dont understand, really, the language was changed due to censorship(you can thank Nintendo for that one), some of the names were cut down to reduce size so they could be fully spelled out instead of being half of words (Atma, the hinduist word for "soul"), or a play on letters (fenix, sounds like Phoenix). Honestly, you people are too harsh on translators. You dont like their translation job, go get a Jap pack and play it, stop complaining.