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Originally posted by Darryn:
Yes, they delayed it to October 16th about a month ago..... :sigh:

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A month ago? Why am I always the last to hear about these things? ::sigh:: Well, I can always try to learn Japanese <G>

My idea, get Dragon Warrior Monsters, that should help the wait.

They probley have put it back so long due to 2 things:

1) Pokemon 2000: Get kids hyped up about new Pokemon, and then sell it to them.

2) LOTS OF TEXT. On my Rom, there is lots of text like:

Cell phone calls
Radio shows
Names
Moves
Text from almost 1000's of people
Trainers (In my 50%Trans. version, they mixxed up Fire eatter with Bugler)
Items
They have to change they amount of spaces for Pokemon/Player names.

think thats all off it.

:::::hears hundreds of ppeople rolling with laughter:::

::sigh:: I guess I'll just wait. I haven't heard of this Dragon Warrior Monster's game. I might check into it thanx!

I might have misspelled katakana, or missed the word all together, I gave up learning Japanese.

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"There WILL be poking!" -Me
"I like grapes!" -Anthrax

And do you want to know why they are releasing it then? So Nintendo can compete with PS2 (which might also explain why Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has been moved from November to October 26th).
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[This message has been edited by Crimzonite (edited 07-23-2000).]

But it's harder to note untill you learn a bit.

I can only read a bit of Romanji at the most, however. But I know how it can be.

At first it'll make no sence, untill you learn their structure...

Unless of course you know about specail noters like -za, and the like....

Seems like you don't though..

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Originally posted by Vandergant:

I can only read a bit of Romanji at the most, however. But I know how it can be.

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Romanji? Of course you can read that, that's Japanese written in English. Instead of "watashi wa dare da" written in hiragana, that would be "watashi wa dare da" written with English letters. The three Japanese alphabets are katakana (used for foreign words brought into Japan, among other things), hiragana (standard) and kanji (complex writting with roots in Chinese writting, last time I checked, there were around 1,450 kanji symbols). I have katakana down and I am currently learning hiragana. I'll never, ever learn kanji (it's so complex that some people in Japan graduate from college and can't read or write it. Many video games and manga are written in katakana and hiragana so kids don't have a hard time reading them. Though most of the time, corresponing hiragana is written above the kanji for non-kanji readers).

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"There WILL be poking!" -Me
"I like grapes!" -Anthrax

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Originally posted by TeeJay:
Yeah, I was looking at Gold the other day and I realized that I didn't see one Kanji character in there. They all looked like Katakana or Hiragana to me. I was wondering how they could create Kanji characters with that little resolution per character.

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*nods* But there are some video games (not sure about Gameboy ones though) that have kanji. I saw the Parasite Eve 2 opening, and a lot of the character's text was in kanji.

pre sells are out now... but you probably all know that.

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Originally posted by Crimzonite:
Umm, they've had a "Fall 2000" date for G/S for several months now. And they've announced October 16th a couple months ago. This is nothing new and nothing to be surprised about.

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Well, this is an old topic, I haven't check back here in awhile, but SHEESH Crimezonite, of course I knew the "Fall 2000" date and hope/thought it was September 2000 since September IS a fall month after all Its the fault of other websites for not updating their information...some still said September 2000 at the time I first posted that so I thought I'd check here to make sure. For some reason I just happend to hear about it later than others. ::shrugs:: Pokemon is NOT my life, in fact I don't even play video games that much in general, so I usually not perfectly up to speed on things like release dates.

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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.

The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

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Originally posted by TeeJay:
Yeah, I was looking at Gold the other day and I realized that I didn't see one Kanji character in there. They all looked like Katakana or Hiragana to me. I was wondering how they could create Kanji characters with that little resolution per character.

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They actually don't need Kanji to make sentences...
It's easier to compare Japanese writing to sign language than to English...
In sign language you have sign for each letter and number and you can spell out words "I w-e-n-t t-o t-h-e s-t-o-r-e" or you can use special signs that compromise of the entire word "I went to the store"
Japanese is similar - Think of Hiragana and Katakana as spelling the words out while Kanji is the "condensed" characters (AFAIK They're Kanji and it's Katakana/Hiragana equivalent are pronounced that same...)
-Givera