saga name comparisons - summary
a summary of the changes in character and ability names between the gameboy (gb) and collection of saga (CoS) versions of saga; with some observations on the wonderswan color (wsc) version, and its ORIJINARU mode (orj).
this is the utf-8 kana version of the page. see also the ascii-only pseudoromaji version.
changes (CoS)
- char 29: gb ガネーシャ is now CoS クユーサー
- char 48: gb ねずみおとこ is now CoS ねずみおやじ (also in wsc/orj)
- char 4A: gb ねこむすめ is now CoS ねこおんな (also in wsc/orj)
- char 5F: gb ビホールダー is now CoS デスアイ (also in wsc/orj)
- char A9: gb ２８ごう is now CoS ２７ごう
- char AB: gb モビルスーツ is now CoS モビルマシン (but was モビルマシーン in wsc/orj)
- abil 2F: gb ライトセーバー is now CoS ライトサーベル (also in wsc/orj)
- abil 69: gb ねんぶつのほん is now CoS じょうかのほん
- abil EF: gb じょうぶつ is now CoS じょうか
changes (wsc)
(names that were changed from the gb version in wsc and/or orj, but which are the same as the gb version in CoS)
- char 1A: gb しおまねクィーン [with youon] became wsc しおまねクイーン (also in orj)
- char 3F: gb ラーバウオーム became wsc ラーバウォーム [with youon]
- char 40: gb サンドウオーム became wsc サンドウォーム [with youon]
- abil 09: gb ♥ became wsc ハート
- abil A4: gb めつぶし became wsc くらやみ (also in orj)
- abil BB: gb いなづま became wsc いなずま (also in orj)
- abil F8: gb ○まひ／ぶき became wsc ○マヒ／ぶき
comments
wsc changes the spelling of lavaworm and sandworm from ウオーム ("uoomu") to ウォーム ("woomu"); but abyssworm (char 41) was always spelt with ウォーム ("woomu"). so the wsc names are more internally consistent.
the heart item (abil 09), usually named with a heart symbol, is given an actual name in wsc. all ability names are prefixed with a symbol in wsc, which in this case just is a heart, so this change was presumably to avoid leaving the name string blank.
although ねんぶつのほん was changed to じょうかのほん, the fight text for when it fails still references nenbutsu. (うまのみみに ねんぶつだ！)
most references to paralysis ("mahi") in all versions of saga write it with katakana (マヒ), so the use of hiragana in abil F8 (○まひ／ぶき) is anomalous, and wsc saga was arguably right to change it.