hausen wrote:
Oh dummy me! I read that city name all the while as 洛陽 (Luoyang) and their merchs have nothing special to their dialogue. However while you got close in your translation it's referring to 陽翟 (Yangzhai) which is Han's capital, not Ji/Yan. The dialogue in merchants between Yangzhai and Ji seems very similar it actually makes the point either way. Thanks for the clarification
According to the guidebook they were to send copies of CDs with arranged music as prize draws for sending these quiz answers to the dev team in 1995. I'm curious if any of these CDs were handed out in the end. It'd be cool to find some collectors having them, I'd certainly buy one. Between the SFC cart and box, manual, strategy guide, a game poster ad, and even one tome of Watson's english translated 'Shiji' sitting on my desk, I'm amassing some hefty collection of junk related to this game
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Normally, we must employ numerous localization "tricks" to make these ubiquitous quiz show features work in games. I recall a traveler in Ji, the current site of Peking, musing about strange dialects assaulting his ears, but I'll mosey on over to Yangzhai, re-translate the shop there, and see if any "contradictions" I might have missed entered the plot. Most of the shops are "Hi, buy, equip, bye, later". That makes it easy.