Borp
Lakitu
I meant to do this way before Dark Horse released their English version of this book, but given the fiasco with it I figured I'd get back to working on it. I ended up taking way longer on this than I expected, but it's finally mostly done.
The purpose of this is to translate the terms used in the original Japanese book as they're supposed to be read, then use that as a baseline to talk shop about what to do with naming all of these bits of data.
Note on the format used:
[Japanese characters as printed]/romaji or Engrish/"actual meaning"
If the name is literally just English, the latter two will be skipped and the name will be displayed with no italics or quote marks.
If the name is a pun or onomatopoeia or some other thing that really only makes sense when spoken in Japanese, the "actual meaning" will be left out and only the italics will be displayed.
I will devote one post to each game's given section. Character, Power-Up, Item and object names will be displayed. Course names, if the Courses are named, will be skipped for now as all of those except for Mario Land 2's are readily-accessible within their respective games.
To kick this off, this first post covers Super Mario Bros.:
プレイヤーキャラクター/Player Characters
マリオ/Mario
ルイジ/Luigi
パワーアップ/Power-Ups
ちびマリオ/chibi mario/"Small Mario"
スーパーマリオ/Super Mario
ファイアマリオ/Fire Mario
無敵マリオ/muteki mario/"invincible Mario"
敵キャラクター/teki characters/"enemy characters"
キラー/Killer
クッパ/Koopa
クリボー/Kuribō
ゲッソー/Gessō
ジュゲム/Jugemu
トゲゾー/Togezō
にせクッパ/nise koopa/"fake Koopa"
ノコノコ(赤)/nokonoko (aka)/"Nokonoko (red)"
ノコノコ(緑)/nokonoko (midori)/"Nokonoko (green)"
パイポ/Paipo
パタパタ(赤)/patapata (aka)/"Patapata (red)"
パタパタ(緑)/patapata (midori)/"Patapata (green)"
パックンフラワー/Pakkun Flower
バブル/Bubble
ハンマーブロス/Hammer Bros
プクプク(赤)/pukupuku (aka)/"Pukupuku (red)"
プクプク(グレー)/pukupuku (grey)/"Pukupuku (grey)"
メット/Metto
その他の登場キャラクター/sonohoka no toujou characters/"other appearing characters"
ピーチ姫/peach-hime/"Princess Peach"
キノピオ/Kinopio
アイテムと仕掛け/items to shikake/"items and devices"
オノ/ono/"axe"
隠しブロック/kakushi block/"hidden block"
キラー砲台/killer houdai/"Killer battery"*
クッパの吐く炎/koopa no haku honou/"Koopa's flame breath"
コイン/Coin
ゴールポール/Goal Pole
ジャンプ台/jump-dai/"jump platform"
スーパーキノコ/super kinoko/"Super Mushroom"
スーパースター/Super Star
つるブロック/tsuru block/"vine block"
10コインブロック/10-Coin Block
てんびんリフト/tenbin lift/"scale lift"
土管/dokan/"pipe"
ハテナブロック/hatena block/"question block"
ファイアバー/Firebar
ファイアフラワー/Fire Flower
リフト/Lift
レンガブロック/renga block/"brick block"
ワープ土管/warp dokan/"warp pipe"
1UPキノコ/1UP kinoko/"1UP Mushroom"
*"battery" in this case refers to a gun battery, i.e. a cannon. This term will be consistently used throughout the rest of these posts.
If anybody has anything they'd like to ask or add, just say so.
The purpose of this is to translate the terms used in the original Japanese book as they're supposed to be read, then use that as a baseline to talk shop about what to do with naming all of these bits of data.
Note on the format used:
[Japanese characters as printed]/romaji or Engrish/"actual meaning"
If the name is literally just English, the latter two will be skipped and the name will be displayed with no italics or quote marks.
If the name is a pun or onomatopoeia or some other thing that really only makes sense when spoken in Japanese, the "actual meaning" will be left out and only the italics will be displayed.
I will devote one post to each game's given section. Character, Power-Up, Item and object names will be displayed. Course names, if the Courses are named, will be skipped for now as all of those except for Mario Land 2's are readily-accessible within their respective games.
To kick this off, this first post covers Super Mario Bros.:
プレイヤーキャラクター/Player Characters
マリオ/Mario
ルイジ/Luigi
パワーアップ/Power-Ups
ちびマリオ/chibi mario/"Small Mario"
スーパーマリオ/Super Mario
ファイアマリオ/Fire Mario
無敵マリオ/muteki mario/"invincible Mario"
敵キャラクター/teki characters/"enemy characters"
キラー/Killer
クッパ/Koopa
クリボー/Kuribō
ゲッソー/Gessō
ジュゲム/Jugemu
トゲゾー/Togezō
にせクッパ/nise koopa/"fake Koopa"
ノコノコ(赤)/nokonoko (aka)/"Nokonoko (red)"
ノコノコ(緑)/nokonoko (midori)/"Nokonoko (green)"
パイポ/Paipo
パタパタ(赤)/patapata (aka)/"Patapata (red)"
パタパタ(緑)/patapata (midori)/"Patapata (green)"
パックンフラワー/Pakkun Flower
バブル/Bubble
ハンマーブロス/Hammer Bros
プクプク(赤)/pukupuku (aka)/"Pukupuku (red)"
プクプク(グレー)/pukupuku (grey)/"Pukupuku (grey)"
メット/Metto
その他の登場キャラクター/sonohoka no toujou characters/"other appearing characters"
ピーチ姫/peach-hime/"Princess Peach"
キノピオ/Kinopio
アイテムと仕掛け/items to shikake/"items and devices"
オノ/ono/"axe"
隠しブロック/kakushi block/"hidden block"
キラー砲台/killer houdai/"Killer battery"*
クッパの吐く炎/koopa no haku honou/"Koopa's flame breath"
コイン/Coin
ゴールポール/Goal Pole
ジャンプ台/jump-dai/"jump platform"
スーパーキノコ/super kinoko/"Super Mushroom"
スーパースター/Super Star
つるブロック/tsuru block/"vine block"
10コインブロック/10-Coin Block
てんびんリフト/tenbin lift/"scale lift"
土管/dokan/"pipe"
ハテナブロック/hatena block/"question block"
ファイアバー/Firebar
ファイアフラワー/Fire Flower
リフト/Lift
レンガブロック/renga block/"brick block"
ワープ土管/warp dokan/"warp pipe"
1UPキノコ/1UP kinoko/"1UP Mushroom"
*"battery" in this case refers to a gun battery, i.e. a cannon. This term will be consistently used throughout the rest of these posts.
If anybody has anything they'd like to ask or add, just say so.
