Final Fantasy IV Translation Guide ***************************************************************************** System: Super Famicom/SNES & PlayStation ***************************************************************************** By Joseph Witham ***************************************************************************** Email: josephcwitham@hotmail.com ***************************************************************************** Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/jwfaqs ***************************************************************************** Version 2.0 - 10/5/2001 Contents ~~~~~~~~~ I. Opening Copyright Notice II. Version History III. Translation notes IV. Magic 1. White Magic 2. Black Magic 3. Call Magic 4. Ninja Magic V. Items VI. Closing Copyright Notice ============================================================================= I. OPENING COPYRIGHT NOTICE ============================================================================= This guide is Copyright 2001 Joseph Witham(josephcwitham@hotmail.com). Anyone who desires to reproduce, distribute, or use this guide on their web site has the author's permission under the following conditions: 1. It must not be altered in any way. 2. It must not be used for profit, it must be distributed freely. 3. Any and all credit must be given to the author, Joseph Witham. 4. It must remain in its entirety, with every part intact. All information in this guide, unless otherwise noted, was compiled and written by the author. You may not reproduce any information from this guide and use it in any other publication without written consent of the author. ============================================================================= II. VERSION HISTORY ============================================================================= 2.0 - 10/5/2001 -Descriptions and costs added to each translation. -Fromat changes. 1.5 - 4/20/2001 -Mistakes corrected. -Romaji removed. -Format changes made. 1.0 - 9/24/2000 -Initial Release. ============================================================================= III. TRANSLATION NOTES ============================================================================= JAPANESE TEXT: A EUC-JIS shift program is required to view the Japanese text in this guide. You can download one directly from NJSTAR's web site here: http://www.njstar.com/njstar/japanese/download.htm Save this document to your hard drive and then open it through NJStar Japanese WP. The document is best viewed and printed in Courier New point 10 font. TRANSLATION: Most of the Katakana in this guide was translated phonetically. The only exceptions were words that wouldn't have made sense had they been translated phonetically. All of the Hiragana in this guide was translated as directly as possible from their Japanese names. Some of the names are based on the official US translations of Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy Chronicles. ============================================================================= IV. MAGIC ============================================================================= 1. WHITE MAGIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ケアル - Cure DESCRIPTION: Restores a small amount of HP. MP: 3 ホールド - Hold DESCRIPTION: Stuns enemy, disabling commands. MP: 5 ライブラ - Peep DESCRIPTION: Views target's HP and weakness. MP: 1 スロウ - Slow DESCRIPTION: Decreases speed. MP: 14 サイトロ - Sight DESCRIPTION: Gives a wider perspective of overworld map. MP: 2 レイズ - Raise DESCRIPTION: Restores life. MP: 8 ケアルラ - Cure 2 DESCRIPTION: Restores a medium amount of HP. MP: 9 プロテス - Protect DESCRIPTION: Increases Defense Power. MP: 9 シェル - Shell DESCRIPTION: Increases Magic Defense. MP: 10 サイレス - Silence DESCRIPTION: Silences target, disabling the use of spells. MP: 6 エスナ - Esuna DESCRIPTION: Cures all status ailments. MP: 20 ディスペル - Despell DESCRIPTION: Removes status increasing spells. MP: 12 バーサク - Berserk DESCRIPTION: Increases Attack Power. MP: 18 テレポ - Exit DESCRIPTION: Warps party out of dungeon. MP: 10 ブリンク - Blink DESCRIPTION: Increases Evade. MP: 8 コンフュ - Confuse DESCRIPTION: Confuses target, causing it to attack enemies. MP: 10 ケアルダ - Cure 3 DESCRIPTION: Restores a large amount of HP. MP: 18 ミニマム - Minimum DESCRIPTION: Causes Mini status. MP: 6 ハイスト - Haste DESCRIPTION: Increases speed. MP: 25 レビテト - Levitate DESCRIPTION: Causes target to float, protecting against earth attacks. MP: 8 リフレク - Reflect DESCRIPTION: Reflects magic attacks. MP: 30 ケアルガ - Cure 4 DESCRIPTION: Restores a very large amount of HP. MP: 40 アレイズ - Arise DESCRIPTION: Restores life with full HP. MP: 52 ホーリー - Holy DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of divine damage. MP: 46 2. BLACK MAGIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ブリザド - Blizzard DESCRIPTION: Causes a small amount of ice elemental damage. MP: 5 サンダー - Thunder DESCRIPTION: Causes a small amount of electric elemental damage. MP: 5 ファイア - Fire DESCRIPTION: Causes a small amount of fire elemental damage. MP: 5 スリプル - Sleep DESCRIPTION: Causes target to fall asleep. MP: 12 ポイズン - Poison DESCRIPTION: Causes a small amount of poison elemental damage. MP: 2 デジョン - Warp DESCRIPTION: Warps back one floor in dungeons. MP: 4 トード - Toad DESCRIPTION: Causes Toad status. MP: 7 ストップ - Stop DESCRIPTION: Stuns enemy, disabling commands. MP: 15 ポーキー - Porky DESCRIPTION: Causes target to turn into a pig, decreasing speed. MP: 1 ブリザラ - Blizzard 2 DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of ice elemental damage. MP: 15 サンダラ - Thunder 2 DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of electric elemental damage. MP: 15 ファイラ - Fire 2 DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of fire elemental damage. MP: 15 バイオ - Bio DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of poison elemental damage. MP: 20 アスピル - Aspell DESCRIPTION: Absorbs MP. MP: -- ドレイン - Drain DESCRIPTION: Absorbs target's HP. MP: 18 ブリザガ - Blizzard 3 DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of ice elemental damage. MP: 30 サンダガ - Thunder 3 DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of electric elemental damage. MP: 30 ファイガ - Fire 3 DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of fire elemental damage. MP: 30 クエイク - Quake DESCRIPTION: Causes earth elemental damage to ground targets. MP: 30 ブレイク - Break DESCRIPTION: Causes Petrify status. MP: 15 トルネド - Tornado DESCRIPTION: Greatly reduces target's HP. MP: 25 デス - Death DESCRIPTION: Causes immediate death. MP: 35 フレア - Flare DESCRIPTION: Causes a very large amount of fire damage. MP: 50 メテオ - Meteor DESCRIPTION: Causes a very large amount of damage to all enemies. MP: 99 3. CALL MAGIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ チョコボ - Chocobo DESCRIPTION: Causes a small amount of damage to one enemy. MP: 7 ドラゴン - Dragon DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of damage to all enemies. MP: 20 シヴァ - Shiva DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of ice elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 30 イフリート - Ifrit DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of fire elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 30 ラムウ - Ramuh DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of electric elemental damage. MP: 30 タイタン - Titan DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of earth elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 40 シルフ - Sylph DESCRIPTION: Absorbs HP. MP: 25 オーディン - Odin DESCRIPTION: Automatically kills entire enemy group. MP: 45 アスラ - Ashura DESCRIPTION: Casts a random curative spell. MP: 50 リヴァイア - Leviathan DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of water elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 50 バハムート - Bahamut DESCRIPTION: Causes a very large amount of damage to all enemies. MP: 60 ゴブリン - Goblin DESCRIPTION: Causes a very small amount of damage to one enemy. MP: 1 ボム - Bomb DESCRIPTION: Causes a large amount of damage. MP: 10 マインドF - Mind Flayer DESCRIPTION: Causes a medium amount of damage. MP: 18 コカトリス - Cocktrice DESCRIPTION: Causes Petrify status. MP: 15 4. NINJA MAGIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ かとん - Flame DESCRIPTION: Causes fire elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 15 すいとん - Flood DESCRIPTION: Causes water elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 20 らいじん - Blitz DESCRIPTION: Causes electric elemental damage to all enemies. MP: 25 かげしばり - Pin DESCRIPTION: Stuns enemy. MP: 5 けむりだま - Smoke DESCRIPTION: Allows party to run away. MP: 10 ぶんしん - Image DESCRIPTION: Increases Evade. MP: 6 ============================================================================= V. ITEMS ============================================================================= ポーション - Potion DESCRIPTION: Restores a small amount of HP to one character. COST: 30 ハイポーション - HiPotion DESCRIPTION: Restores a medium amount of HP to one character. COST: 150 エクスポーション - XPotion DESCRIPTION: Restores a large amount of HP to one character. COST: -- フェニックスのお - Pheonix Down DESCRIPTION: Restores life to one dead character. COST: 100 テント - Tent DESCRIPTION: Restores most HP party on overworld. COST: 100 コテージ - Cottage DESCRIPTION: Restores all HP and MP to party on overworld or save point. COST: 500 エーテル - Ether DESCRIPTION: Restores a small amount of MP to one character. COST: -- エーテルドライ - HiEther DESCRIPTION: Restores a small amount of MP to one character. COST: 10000 エリクサー - Elixer DESCRIPTION: Completely restores HP and MP to one character. COST: 100000 ばんのうやく - Remedy DESCRIPTION: Cures all status ailments. COST: 5000 じゅうじか - Holy Water DESCRIPTION: Cures Curse status. COST: 100 どくけし - Antidote DESCRIPTION: Cures Poison status. COST: 40 めぐすり - Eye Drop DESCRIPTION: Cures Darkness status. COST: 30 やまびこそう - Echo Herb DESCRIPTION: Cures Silence status. COST: 50 ダイエットフード - Diet Food DESCRIPTION: Cures Piggy status. COST: 100 きんのはり - Gold Needle DESCRIPTION: Cures Petrify status. COST: 400 おとめのキッス - Maiden's Kiss DESCRIPTION: Cures Toad status. COST: 60 うちでのこづち - Hammer DESCRIPTION: Cures Mini status. COST: 80 ぎんのリンゴ - Silver Apple DESCRIPTION: Increases max HP by 50. COST: -- きんのリンゴ - Gold Apple DESCRIPTION: Increases max HP by 100. COST: -- ソーマのしずく - Soma Drop DESCRIPTION: Increases maximum MP by 10. COST: -- ギサールのやさい - Gysahl Vegetable DESCRIPTION: Summons a Fat Chocobo in a Chocobo Forest. COST: 50 ギサールのふえ - Gysahl Flute DESCRIPTION: Calls Fat Chocobo. COST: 20000 いびとのパン - Miniature Bread DESCRIPTION: Zooms out when used on overworld. COST: -- ひじょうぐち - Emergency Exit DESCRIPTION: Warps party out of dungeons. COST: -- ダークマター - Dark Matter DESCRIPTION: Protects against Zeromus' attacks. COST: -- ============================================================================= VI. CLOSING COPYRIGHT NOTICE ============================================================================= This guide is Copyright 2001 Joseph Witham(josephcwitham@hotmail.com). Anyone who desires to reproduce, distribute, or use this guide on their web site has the author's permission under the following conditions: 1. It must not be altered in any way. 2. It must not be used for profit, it must be distributed freely. 3. Any and all credit must be given to the author, Joseph Witham. 4. It must remain in its entirety, with every part intact. All information in this guide, unless otherwise noted, was compiled and written by the author. You may not reproduce any information from this guide and use it in any other publication without written consent of the author.