Ah, Star Blazers. That series rocked.

This wouldn't happen to be a battleship, would it?

Does anyone know where to find video/dvd of that classic series.

You'd do a lot worse than amazon.com and maybe eBay, in a pinch. Most of the first and second seasons are on DVD - I don't think they include original Japanese subs.

Back on topic: I want a Yamato in FL

<snicker>

This is not a thread about that awesome show, unfortunately.....

However...I, for one, would love to fly around in MP with this: Argonus--Starblazer

That just sounds cool (Works for any name by the way)

Wonder if there's an info card burried in the game for it.....

Anyone know the original name for that show? I do....lol

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Opps.

Alliance Fire & Rescue

Argonus;

You mean.....

<drum roll >

Space Ship Yamato?

<crash of cymbals>
B>

Don't think the poor navies of the new Alliance would really apprecaite the Kusari having the Yamato - the Kusari would rule the new Alliance witht hat ship! B>

That would be an awsome import!!!

Alliance Fire & Rescue

Close......

The FULL name was..........

Space BATTLEship Yamoto. (Or Yamamoto...I am not 100% positive on that part)

Anyway...

Is that ship worth readding to the game, or is a standard weak old Liberty fighter?

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I saw this about Starblazer and so I went hunting the ship and found the model and some other files relating to it. I tried to get it up and running but had problems so i changed some things in the starflier in shiparch and such using those files I found. Well it worked well enough but it looks like the first ship only now instead of starflier it says starblazer and the background pratrol station talking actuallly says " Starblazer patrol " hehe. gonna give this another wack at making it completely on its own. Hope the ship turns out to be differently looking . If not then I can probably see why they just ommited it. Still want to see. Don't have any way of looking at the cmp file in the models section as yet.

The difference between the Startracker and the Starblazer is, the SB has two "teeth" under the cockpit.

If you look close to the screen of the landing pad of a planet, you can sometime notice that a Starblazer is flying in this city. That's why the model is used in the game

"Yamamoto" - Yamamoto Isoroku was the commander in chief of the Nihon Kaigun from 1941 until his death in April of 1943 when the Mitsubishi G4M bomber ( Allied designation, "Betty" ) that was transporting him on an inspection tour was shot down over Bougainville by US P-38's.

The original name of the show was "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" which does translate to "Space Battleship Yamato".

When the show was first brought over to the US, a few of the translators thought that "Senkan" meant "Cruiser", which resulted in "Space Cruiser Yamato".

Part of their confusion may be due to the fact that there is another Japanese word, "gunkan", which means "battleship" or "warship". I think (my grasp of Japanese is really poor, which is lame since I'm a half-breed, so bear with me please) that "gunkan" is archaic usage because it is not specific like "senkan" and can be used interchangeably between "battleship" or "warship".

Translation flubs were very common back in the 80's. Companies like Harmony Gold got around this by rewriting a story, stealing a name from the plastic model company owned the copyright and trademark, packaging it in a wussy form that "Moral Majority" and "American League" right-wingers wouldn't immediately scream at the television networks about, and setting it loose on unsuspecting American children.



Edited by - Gai Daigoji on 05-04-2003 19:13:11