Secret Code?

[suiken]

I'm sure you guys know some NPC on Kukus and Forest Village giving you some kind of code.

It was like

"@^%^$@%^&(!(()$"

or something like that. Does anyone know what does that mean or it's purpose?

[Antimatzist]

It's non-translated text.

[suiken]

Can you post it's translations?

[Antimatzist]

It surely is something like "Did you know that Forest Village lies deep in a Forest?"

No, I can't, as I don't know the original text (and even then, I don't know Japanese).

[Punkaiser]

This reminds me of the first time playing, As I walked behind the counter in Matilda armor shop, the keeper also said #%$#^$ that made me think he was cursing.

[Pyriel]

http://www.herrvillain.com/codebreaker/ ... uwasa1.htm

This is only the first set. What the document shows is the Japanese text properly rendered. Well, it's my best guess at translating Suikoden 2's Japanese character set into Unicode, anyway. What you see on screen is Japanese text values displayed with a Latin (characters for English, German, Italian, etc.) font. In other words, what the game shows is gibberish to everybody, e.g., the Japanse text is ｢コボルトつてやっは{eol}ピカピカしてるもんが､すきだねえ｡｣ and what you see is more like "{Skull}{Acorn}A%.:**". I don't know how much value such a "translation" will have for you, as relating it to what you see on the screen would require you to install a Latin-alphabet Suikoden 2 font to see all the characters properly on your PC, and I'd have to give you the unconverted Japanese text data from the file.

Konami caught the oversight after releasing in the US, so an official English translation can be found in the European region's English version. That would be the text in the PAL(E) column. The Machine Translation is just funny, and the Proposed Substitution column is useless. It's outdated work for a bug fix patch.

[suiken]

I see...

So it's a trade rumors... That makes it useless in US release since you can't understand some crap.