[Pennywise]

Here's another Nekketsu game title screen courtesy of FlashPV. Don't really like hot-blooded as part of the title. Sounds clunky if you ask me. I'm open for other alternatives though.

[CyberFox]

Here's another Nekketsu game title screen courtesy of FlashPV. Don't really like hot-blooded as part of the title. Sounds clunky if you ask me. I'm open for other alternatives though.

How about Nekketsu High School: Battle Royale ?
October 13, 2013, 09:23:59 pm - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)

If you're going to use the Japanese title, for the love of god, translate 熱血. "Hot-Blooded High" sounds just fine in English.

~DS

I think Nekketsu High School has a better ring to the series than "Hot-Blooded High"
don't you agree?

[Vanya]

You could also try to match the localization of Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari and call it "River City: Street Kings" or "River City: Fighting Legend" or maybe even "Downtown: Fighting Legend".

[DarknessSavior]

I think Nekketsu High School has a better ring to the series than "Hot-Blooded High"
don't you agree?

No, I don't. Nekketsu is a Japanese word that has no place in an English translation. Aside from possibly having been told what it means, or recognizing it as "part of the name of the Kunio franchise", no native English speaker would know what 熱血 means.

If you're going to leave Nekketsu in, why not leave the whole thing and call it "Nekketsu Koukou"? Because 高校 means "high school", and no one would know what the hell it said.

~DS

[CyberFox]

No, I don't. Nekketsu is a Japanese word that has no place in an English translation. Aside from possibly having been told what it means, or recognizing it as "part of the name of the Kunio franchise", no native English speaker would know what 熱血 means.

If you're going to leave Nekketsu in, why not leave the whole thing and call it "Nekketsu Koukou"? Because 高校 means "high school", and no one would know what the hell it said.

~DS

No native speaker knows what Shin Megami Tensei means either

[Nosuch]

I dunno, I could see it go either way based on personal preference.  I mean, on the one hand, Nekketsu is treated as a proper noun within the series and so it seems like something that would be OK to leave untranslated.  Then again, "Hot-Blooded High" does have a rather interesting ring to it.

That said, I'm also thinking about other schools from the series for consistency.  If Kunio attends Hot-Blooded High, then Riki attends Flower Garden High, which is... interesting.  On the other hand, the green team is the Inter-School Union, which sounds fine.

YMMV?

(Disclaimer: I am not an experienced translator, just a fan.)

Oh, yeah, while I'm here...

not bad but logo needs some work

To be fair, that logo is from late '05/early '06 and I would do it differently if I ever restarted that hack.

[DarknessSavior]

No native speaker knows what Shin Megami Tensei means either

Yes, and that's also the series where they leave in all of the -sempai, -kun, -sensei, and whatnot. And where they've been leaving items randomly in Japanese (can you tell me what a "muchi" is?). Clearly that's the best place to take ideas from. Just because someone else has used a bad idea, doesn't mean you need to do so too.

And the whole point behind the names in the Kunio games is that there are meanings behind them. The fact that Riki attends "Flower Garden High" is supposed to be funny. But if you leave it "Hanazono" you don't get anything from it at all.

~DS

[Nosuch]

You do have a point.  I'd never thought about it before but I was rather struck by the image of the hero of Hot-Blooded High facing off against rivals from Cold Mountain Academy when I reminded myself what Reihou's meaning was earlier.

[CyberFox]

How about this title

Combat City Street Kings?

This could be a ringer due to what the Kunio games are mostly known for

[Midna]

Plus it's alliterative. You can never have too much alliteration.

[DarknessSavior]

Plus it's alliterative. You can never have too much alliteration.

So is Hot-Blooded High. >_>

~DS

[KingMike]

Apologies to FlashPV, but I've thought about going a different direction with the title screen than his earlier design.
I don't think it looks bad, though I only had a few tiles left. I thought about using those to try to add a couple lightning bolts down the sides, but I wonder if I should leave it to this?
And I will probably center the (c)KEMCO                                                         1987.

[DarknessSavior]

It's a little hard to read. I feel this is due to the font on top being small and italic, and the font for "INDRA" bleeding together too much.

~DS

[KingMike]

My plan was to put "The Light of" in white, but I hit palette issues (the trouble is having enough free tiles to extend a couple pixels up).
As to INDRA, maybe make the N a bit more distinct and widen the hole in the D, would that make it clearer?

[Vanya]

Plus it's alliterative. You can never have too much alliteration.

River City Rumble Royal?

[CyberFox]

Apologies to FlashPV, but I've thought about going a different direction with the title screen than his earlier design.
I don't think it looks bad, though I only had a few tiles left. I thought about using those to try to add a couple lightning bolts down the sides, but I wonder if I should leave it to this?
And I will probably center the (c)KEMCO                                                         1987.

I think the logo needs to be more flashy because it looks pretty bland

[DarknessSavior]

My plan was to put "The Light of" in white, but I hit palette issues (the trouble is having enough free tiles to extend a couple pixels up).
As to INDRA, maybe make the N a bit more distinct and widen the hole in the D, would that make it clearer?

I think that might do it. Any chance you've got palette data you can mess with to make the colors blend in with one another a bit less, too?

~DS

[Zynk]

I really did misread INDRA as IHORA. True story.

Maybe make the letters larger & use hard edged corners on the letters like the JP title.

[Pennywise]

Easier said than done. The tile limitation for the title is pretty tight to say the least.

[Midna]

The general design is good, but it does look more like "INORA" than "INDRA" to me... and maybe it's just me being anal, but "The Light of" looks kind of generic/stretched/Atari-ish. Was it like that before?