Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Decipher the Horrible Recording

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 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?

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 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."

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 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.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 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?

Posted by Ron Yost (Member # 1850) on 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. [Big Grin]

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 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?

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 11-17-2004, 08:05 AM:

Dekinakkata ze! [Embarrassed]

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.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 11-17-2004, 10:09 AM:

"Now you need defeat the.... HARBOR.... good luck!"

=TMP=

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 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.

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 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.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 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.