Quick question to someone who knows Japanese and can play Zero Wing (JP version)

I've always been curious about the rough translation with the beginning text, and not the hackjob that happened in the PAL version. Does anyone have a rough translation of what the text in the Japanese version is?

 

Google cache of a translation here: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cach...lay.cgi?base.html+zero+wing+translation&hl=en
(the site itself is down).

 

You mean the infamous line in the U.S. version?
One of the FAQS at Gamefaqs stated that they really hired a japanese guy that was still learning English to translate the game or something.

 

Oh man, I love Zero Wing

My yearbook quote was "All your base are belong to us!", lol. I am such a dork ¬_¬

 

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

 

Damn, you beat me to it.

 

WHAT YOU SAY?

:-D

 

SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB (this thread) J/K

 

From what I understand, there is no US version.

 

You're right, no US version was released, although there may have been arcade cabs kicking around. Unlikely as it is, I did own the game before the whole "all your base" thing kicked off, I remember liking the object grabbing gameplay thing when I first played it. Later I completed it many times over on an emulator savestate, since it loops back to the start when you complete it and adds to the stage number and I wanted to see what came after 9 (it showed "a" if anyone's interested - I wasn't about to to complete it 26 times more).

As far as random webtrends go, that was quite a big one...

 

Shit, I only read this once, like 6 months ago.
Here we go, every thing you should know about this game, and how it got its status.
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/file/zero_wing.txt
It took people 9 years to notice it, though.

WARNING
stileproject.com
Dont go to this link in the FAQ, unless you like pr0n.