Author Topic: The Y's/Ys debate.  (Read 1363 times)

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2008, 03:27:39 PM »
This isn't even debatable, since an apostrophe is clearly absent from all Ys logos (except apparently on the sega cartridge), and it is clearly pronounced by the narrator in the opening sequence of the game (Turbo Duo/CD Version).  So there's your proof if you run into a special kid who insists otherwise.





There's never been any debate or anything. Ys fans have known how to pronounce the title for over 20 years. Aside from the Turbo-CD version's voice, the SMS version attempts to describe how it's pronounced at the title screen.

If some non-Y's fans want to call it something else they have every right to do so. Since official releases have Ys spelled "Y's", they can spell it however they want too. Many series and main characters are pronounced differently by different people and there's nothing wrong with it. The PC Engine isn't strictly the "Peeshee Enjeen".

But even if someone wanted to be a pwnage nerd and try to trash people for mispronouncing the title of one of the cart versions... why should they know how to pronounce an unusual word like Ys if they've only played carts from the series?

This is what the real hero of Ys looks like-




But I don't think anyone's a noob for mistakenly believing that Adol Kristein has red hair or that he isn't 100 pounds over weight.


Ok 2 possibilities.

1. The most of CD labeling department of Hudson Soft had a serious flu outbreak that day so they called some of the American Hudson Soft staff to label copies of Ys IV.

2. CLASSIC ENGRISH!

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2008, 06:00:08 PM »
It seems like in Japan, Adol's name is always pronounced "odd-dull"  But, in the US, we usually hear it as "a-doll".  I think in Ys 6, they pronounced it that way, besides the 2 Turbo games.  I forget how it was pronounce in the anime english dub.

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2008, 06:45:58 PM »
you guys are all wrong about the Y's thing; its Ease dash!  :lol:

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2008, 07:56:22 PM »
Ha ha!  I LOL'd at that.

We all know the Japanese can't keep anything consistent, so that really is the best explanation.

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2008, 10:33:59 PM »
EVERYONE on this board knows the proper pronunciation of Ys.  I wouldn't expect any less from pcenginefx.com

That said, I was also guilty of saying "wise" until I played the Turbo CD version in the early 90s.  (I first played the SMS version)

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2008, 11:18:51 PM »
I said whys until I read EGM and they demanded that I pronounce it "ease" long before the game's release.  I still do, I don't do the quick decay such as east without the T.  To me it looks like Ys is plural, so that the way I pronounce it.  Looks like more than one Y.  Aw hell they should have just called the game something else.  Silly Japanese n00bcakes.
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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2008, 01:19:45 AM »
Aw hell they should have just called the game something else.  Silly Japanese n00bcakes.


You mean like Sword Battlin'?

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2008, 01:42:37 AM »
lolmax!! I love it!


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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2008, 02:47:07 AM »
To me it looks like Ys is plural, so that the way I pronounce it.  Looks like more than one Y.  Aw hell they should have just called the game something else.  Silly Japanese n00bcakes.

Yet they left 'Book' as singular - n00bcakes indeed.  :lol:
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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2008, 05:08:58 AM »
Aw hell they should have just called the game something else.  Silly Japanese n00bcakes.


You mean like Sword Battlin'?




LMAO  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Saddest thing is if Ys was renamed that in the US, the series would have been remembered by many gamers.
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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2008, 05:51:05 AM »
Saddest thing is if Ys was renamed that in the US, the series would have been remembered by many gamers.

The series IS remembered by many gamers.

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2008, 09:06:26 AM »
Saddest thing is if Ys was renamed that in the US, the series would have been remembered by many gamers.

The series IS remembered by many gamers.

From people like you who played video games since the 80s, yes.

From people like me  (which is a majority of gamers) who got into games during the Genesis vs. SNES wars? No.

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2008, 09:13:12 AM »
How are people like you a majority of gamers??  I never owned a Turbo ( besides a TE, and 2-3 games) bitd, yet I knew about Ys.   Ys games were on both Snes, and the Genesis so it was part of the system "war" as you put ti.
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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #28 on: June 25, 2008, 10:51:29 AM »
I never had a turbo back in the day, but I did have Ys3 for the SNES.

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Re: The Y's/Ys debate.
« Reply #29 on: June 25, 2008, 10:54:00 AM »
during the Genesis vs. SNES wars

Which is during the same time period that Ys was released on the TG-CD.  You do realize that the Turbo is part of the same generation as the Genny and SNES, right?!?  Anyways, considering that various incarnations of Ys have appeared on a dozen different systems, it's a sure bet that more than just us old folks have heard of it before, though I wouldn't argue that it's a household name (in the U.S.) akin to Final Fantasy.
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