Ha, thanks. I've been editing the stuff I *can* see in Dragon Warrior 2 in the meantime. The system where the game counts the FF entries on the strings of names is about the same as the first game with one key difference. It appears that just like how the first game broke the item strings up into four segments, "items part 1 word 1" "Items part 2 word 1" "Items part 1 word 2" and "Items part 2 word 2", DW2 breaks up the monster list the same way into 4 sections around 2/3 of the way through the list. I have to keep poking around in the game until I find the exact monster where my naming gets screwed up, then I'll find the pointer and realign. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be hardly any empty space within that ROM bank so I don't have anywhere near the free hand for naming that I did in the first game. Still, there are plenty of improvements to be made.
September 24, 2018, 09:42:56 pm - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)
Ok, monster names are finished for DW2. I didn't have the extra space that DW1 afforded me so I had to trim the fat unfortunately. Hopefully I have the essence of the Japanese down pretty well. Here are some notes on where I had to diverge from the Japanese. Stuck with Zombie instead of Living Dead for the lowest tier ghoul type due to space. Went with "Hill Rat" instead of "Mountain Rat" due to space. Condensed "Armor Centipede" and "Helmet Centipede" into Armorpede and Helmipede respectively. Altered "Mummy Man" and "Mummy" into "Mummy" and "Greater Mummy". There are two different words for mummy in Japanese that were used for these guys but you can't really translate the distinction. Playing DW2 and DW3 in English, I could never tell whether "Mummy Man" or "Mummy" were the stronger ones so I decided to make that clear. Instead of changing "Titan Tree" to the literal "Human Face Tree", I went with "Grinning Tree" so it hopefully sounds less awkward. Went with "Reaper" for the old "Demighost" instead of "Deathgod Ghost" since the latter makes a rather weak enemy sound way too powerful in English, not to mention the space reduction. Had to chop down the literal "Messenger of Hell" to "Hell Priest" for the old "Evil Clown" due to space. For the "Liquid Metal Slime", the literal Japanese on that one is interesting: "Lost Metal". Anyway, let me know if anyone feels strongly about any of this.
Ah, one more thing. Notice how I changed "Healer" to "Hoimi Slime", and "Magic Ant" to "Rariho Ant" per the Japanese. It looks like I'm really committing us to the use of the Romaji spells names. Additionally, my modest increase to the overall monster list space was due to the Romaji spell list coming out shorter and giving me a couple extra lines to use for monsters. I hope these choices don't alienate half of my audience.

1. Slime
2. Big Slug
3. Iron Ant
4. Dracky (from Drakee)
5. Big Rat (from Wild Mouse)
6. Hoimi Slime (from Healer)
7. Ghost (from Ghost Mouse)
8. Bubble Slime (from Babble)
9. Army Ant
10. Mage (from Magician)
11. Hill Rat (from Big Rat)
12. King Cobra (from Big Cobra)
13. Rariho Ant (from Magic Ant)
14. Dracky Mage (from Magidrakee)
15. Armorpede (from Centipede)
16. Man O' War
17. Lizard Fly
18. Zombie
19. Smoke
20. Goblin Rat (from Ghost Rat)
21. Mandrill (from Baboon)
22. Maneater (from Carnivog)
23. Helmipede (from Megapede)
24. Sea Slug
25. Medusa (from Medusa Ball)
26. Shaman
27. Mud Doll (from Mud Man)
28. Baboon (from Magic Baboon)
29. Reaper (from Demighost)
30. Gremlin
31. Poison Kiss (from Poison Lily)
32. Mummy (from Mummy Man)
33. Gorgon
34. Saber Wolf (from Saber Lion)
35. Dragon Fly
36. Grinning Tree (from Titan Tree)
37. Undead
38. Basilisk
39. Muddy Hand (from Goopi)
40. Orc
41. Puppet Man
42. Greater Mummy (from Mummy)
43. Evil Tree
44. Gas
45. Corpse (from Hork)
46. Hawkman (from Hawk Man)
47. Black Mage
48. Metal Slime
49. Headhunter (from Hunter)
50. Devil Eye (from Evil Eye)
51. Hibabango
52. Bloody Hand (from Graboopi)
53. Gold Orc
54. Hell Priest (from Evil Clown)
55. Ghoul
56. Vampirus
57. Skull Knight (from Mega Knight)
58. Killer Tiger (from Saber Tiger)
59. Metal Hunter
60. Bevil (from Ozwarg)
61. Dark Eye
62. Gargoyle
63. Orc King
64. Vampirus Mage (from Magic Vampirus)
65. Berserker
66. Liquid Metal Slime (from Metal Babble)
67. Hargon Knight
68. Cyclops
69. Killing Machine (from Attack Bot)
70. Dragon (from Green Dragon)
71. Devil Priest (from Mace Master)
72. Flame
73. Silver Devil (from Silver Batboon)
74. Blizzard
75. Gigantes (from Giant)
76. Devil Lord (from Gold Batboon)
77. Archdemon (from Bullwong)
78. Atlas
79. Bazuzu
80. Belial (from Zarlox)
81. Hargon
82. Sido (from Malroth)