Puyo Pop (Game Boy Advance)

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The first Puyo Puyo game developed by Sega after Compile sold the series to them. Although the fifth game in the "main" Puyo Puyo series (not even counting however many side games and ports), it's only the third to receive a proper localization. The voices are still in Japanese, but considering how the English voice acting in the arcade game turned out... that's definitely for the best.

Unused Sounds#

All voice samples in the game are from Puyo Puyo Sun, which also includes the characters yelling the name "Puyo Puyo Sun" on that game's title screen, which is obviously unused in this game. It appears to be at $3349F8 in the Japanese version.

Incubus's voice pattern has an oddity: the game plays one of his fifth chain voice lines when he loses instead of the lose clip. The clip is of Incubus saying "Oh my god!", and it is still in the ROM, so it's likely this was censorship.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Japanese	English

End Match Screen#

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Japan (Japanese)	Japan (English)	International (English)

The Japanese version of the game can be played in English. This option can be chosen on first boot, after which the language can be changed at any time via the Options menu. The English translation in the Japanese version is in a very early and unpolished state. Most notably, Carbuncle is referred to as "Cakkun" (likely a transliteration of a nickname used in Japan, translated as "Carby" in later games), there are assorted grammatical errors ("What's could this be?"), and, as shown above, the text shown on the loser's side of the screen when a match ends bafflingly says "BABA BING." The translation went on to be completed and refined for the international releases.

The international versions change the title screen based on the language. The Japanese version's logo is unaffected when set to English.