Games with Hidden Languages

Taiyz · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:28 am Post subject:

My point is that it sounds like there's some history behind Flamfas' comment and I'm giving Mr. Incorrect Subforum the benefit of the doubt. If it is indeed a joke based on MIS' posts in Tales subforums, then that's kinda uncool of Flamfas.
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Yume Hanabi · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 5816

Xillia subforum, the locked topic. I think you'll understand then.

As for hidden language, does the Borginian version of Ace Attorney count? XD
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rothcol_shepard · Joined: 13 Mar 2013 Posts: 473

I wonder what the reaction would be if the next PS3 Tales of game came out in Japan and US/EU within the same week, but was setup so regardless of what version of the game you buy, playing in US and EU consoles only gives English audio and subtitles, but playing in Japan/Asian consoles gives you the choice between any combination of Japanese and English.

I can already imagine tons of anger from people unknowingly paying $90 to import the game to get what is basically the US version, lol.

Taiyz · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:05 am Post subject:

My 360's region is set to Canada. You don't have to change the region to make a Japanese XBL account and access their Marketplace.
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rothcol_shepard · Joined: 13 Mar 2013 Posts: 473

Taiyz · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for not answering my question in any shape or form.

Yes, I have an NTSC 360 but I have both a Canadian account and a Japanese one, with which I download demos. I think for Vesperia I actually downloaded some of the free DLC thinking it would work here (and it probably would have, but I've since deleted everything and only downloaded NA content) so I'm wondering if somebody who HASN'T done that, sees Tales of Vesperia under Storage, or "テイルズオブヴェスペリア".

The region I mentioned previous sets the system language and certain other system-level things. For instance, if you set the region to Japanese and unlock an achievement, that achievement will be in Japanese on your list. If you recover your profile under a specific region, all achievements are refreshed to the language of the region your console is set to. There's never any reason to change this unless you want to specify regional match-making options.
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rothcol_shepard · Joined: 13 Mar 2013 Posts: 473

I actually had something similar happen with Soul Calibur V.

I had my PS3 system language set to Japanese when I first booted the game (only way to use the Japanese keyboard, which I needed to talk to people in certain online games I was playing).

As a result, it installed the trophies in Japanese. Even after setting my system back to English, the trophies for that game still remain in Japanese.

To answer your question though, yes, I have tried the USA Tales of Vesperia on my console before, and it showed up in English as "Tales of Vesperia". This was on a NTSC-J 360 with the language set to English and a Canadian XBL account.

Also, it is worth noting that Tales of Vesperia contains code to allow for multiple audio and subtitle tracks. I am under the impression that, at some point, the game was going to have both Japanese and English audio and subtitles and just let you choose between them, but they canned that idea at the last minute. The demo being multilingual is further evidence of this.

Also, if you rip the game onto your computer and look at the anime movie files, you will find that they have both English and Japanese audio in them.

I am thinking that certain remnants of the game's bilingual programming were left in the final game, and that is why the US version still has the Japanese title data as well as Japanese trophies on it.
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