Dragonball Z: Legendary Super Warriors Blog

[AlexFili]

DragonBall Z: Legendary Super Warriors is a Turn-Based Strategy game based on the hit anime series Dragonball Z for the Gameboy Color, the game was released on June 30, 2002 and is available in US English, EU English and JP Japanese. It is a very popular game with the Dragonball Z fanbase, in particular because of the complex and intricate sprites which have been copied and used in many different spritesheets.

Last week I started a blog about the game, and I would love if every Dragonball Z fan who enjoys the game would 'follow' the blog and even contribute a few funny stories or information about the game. As a participant of the blog, please feel free to post any LSW related material, tips, tactics and ask as many questions as you’d like. We’ll be posting character information monthly, along with player progress.

I am AlexFili, the main administrator of the DBZ LSW Blog. Kevtrev is another DBZ LSW player who will also be contributing to this blog.

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Thank you!

DBZ LSW Interview with VenomSymbiote
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[VenomSymbiote]

Legendary Super Warriors is by far my favorite DBZ game. I actually wrote a write up myself on it quite some time ago, to help Kanzentai out with their video game guide. Hujio still hasn't updated that particular section of the guide just yet (not that I am going to pressure him to do so), so, seeing as how you're site looks halfway decent, would you like the writeup I wrote? I basically covered the game in its entirety, and I wrote it with nearly 10 years of experience playing the game (I still have my copy, and it works!)

EDIT: I have a question- what exactly is the source for some of the things on the website? For example, the post regarding Tiers of characters in Random Battle mode- the explanation makes sense and all, but in all my time playing the game, I've never once come across this tidbit.

Also, I should point out that most of the translations "oddities" are mostly from the European version of the game. That's not to say that the American version is devoid of any problems (for instance, the "Neptune" line is present in both, among a few others), but generally speaking, the American version is written a bit better. That's something you might want to note.

[AlexFili]

I'll be happy to answer your questions. I wasn't aware of a guide, except the one at the RPG Shrine website.
If you'd like to send me your guide then by all means do so. It would be a pleasure to read more about this game that me and my friends enjoy.

The explanation of tiers comes from personal experience. I noticed when I was playing Battle Mode you were only allowed to fight similar opponents. For example, if you selected a base Saiyan, you would only ever fight someone as strong as Ginyu. Or for example you selected Super Saiyan Vegeta, you'd only ever fight another Super Saiyan, Semi-Perfect Cell, Freeza etc. Following that discovery I made several linking diagrams between character portraits. With this information I was able to form these "tiers" (the kind you find in fighting games such as Smash Bros or Street Fighter). Without direct contact with the game developers it's hard to know the exact nature of the game, but as far as I know, the tiers seem to make sense.

My friend possesses the European version of this game, so he knows the most about the 'lost' phenomenon. The American translation is indeed more accurate, although still with a couple of oddities. I have never once in my life seen a story where the yell "Aaaaarrrggghhh!" is rendered as simply "A!"

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

I never gave this game a second thought. Glancing over your blog, it sounds like this must remedied.

[Rocketman]

"Neptune" is because the real planet Neptune is called "Kaiōsei" (Sea King Star) in Japanese, the same spelling as how King Kai's planet is called.

[TrunksTrevelyan0064]

"Neptune" is because the real planet Neptune is called "Kaiōsei" (Sea King Star) in Japanese, the same spelling as how King Kai's planet is called.

Never knew that, interesting.
One other translation goof is Trunks calling his father "Baba" for some reason. It's a stretch, but I guess baba = dada = daddy.....?

Anyhow, I submitted an article on Burter (I'm the Kevtrev guy) who is possibly my best character.

[AlexFili]

Thanks for the praises. Here's a picture of the 'Baba' incident.

[TripleRach]

One other translation goof is Trunks calling his father "Baba" for some reason. It's a stretch, but I guess baba = dada = daddy.....?

Kid Trunks always calls him Papa, and "papa" (パパ) is just one diacritic away from "baba" (ババ). Maybe the translator had to work from tiny out-of-context text dumps, which could also explain the Neptune thing.

[AlexFili]

Text dumps would also explain the find 'die' replace with 'lost' tactic too.
Apparently things like Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs are still used by translators today.

[VenomSymbiote]

I'll be happy to answer your questions. I wasn't aware of a guide, except the one at the RPG Shrine website.
If you'd like to send me your guide then by all means do so. It would be a pleasure to read more about this game that me and my friends enjoy.

The one on RPG Shrines is great. And yeah, I've never actually distributed the guide I wrote before. Would you mind linking it on your blog? That'd be pretty sweet (just be sure to note I wrote it).

Anyway, here it is. Hope it's enlightening in some way!

http://pastebin.com/jhnuNH9k

The explanation of tiers comes from personal experience. I noticed when I was playing Battle Mode you were only allowed to fight similar opponents. For example, if you selected a base Saiyan, you would only ever fight someone as strong as Ginyu. Or for example you selected Super Saiyan Vegeta, you'd only ever fight another Super Saiyan, Semi-Perfect Cell, Freeza etc. Following that discovery I made several linking diagrams between character portraits. With this information I was able to form these "tiers" (the kind you find in fighting games such as Smash Bros or Street Fighter). Without direct contact with the game developers it's hard to know the exact nature of the game, but as far as I know, the tiers seem to make sense.

Ah, I see. Very clever! I always suspected such a thing, but it never occured to me to explore it further. Nice job!

[AlexFili]

I'll check out the link soon. One other mistake I noticed was that Vegito was spelt incorrectly in some cases. Raditz was also accidently spelt Radditz in the EU version.

[DBZ Mick]

I liked the game but was terrible at it. Got stuck against Freeza as a SSJ, I always got so close to beating him...

I'll read your blog for sure. Because as a whole I love the whole gameplay, sprites and tactics ie.

[AlexFili]

It was a tough game. I remember playing it once before and having to use cheats because I found the game so hard. Now I can beat it. Still hate doing the first story playthru without any characters or cards. Second time around is more fun since you unlock all the bad guys.

[Gyt Kaliba]

It was a tough game. I remember playing it once before and having to use cheats because I found the game so hard. Now I can beat it. Still hate doing the first story playthru without any characters or cards. Second time around is more fun since you unlock all the bad guys.

Which is why I still think my copy is glitched or something. Every time I started the game anew, it just deleted all of my old save file and wouldn't unlock villains for me, no matter what I did.

[VenomSymbiote]

More than likely what happened is that the internal battery for the game is dying. That problem affected my copy of Pokemon Crystal, which is why I can't play it anymore. It happens, and it'll happen more and more often as these old Game Boy games age.

[AlexFili]

Hopefully the digital age will stop hardware failures like this from happening. I remember when a friend's copy of Mario Party 64 did that and wiped all the data. Sad times. I've added a short podcast to the blog for everyone to check out.

[Gyt Kaliba]

Ah, I didn't know about that being why old games started dying.

That's the weird thing though, it's always done this for my copy. Ever since I bought it, brand new. So I guess I got unlucky and got a faulty copy. Maybe I should try to find a new one somewhere for cheap.

[AlexFili]

If anyone wants to take part in the DBZ LSW interviews then let me know. At the moment I don't know how to record a Skype conversation but I'm open to ideas if anyone has some.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

I played the crap out of this game back when it was released, hell preferred it over (IMHO) the GBA RPGs which were to bland and no thought or work put into it.

LSW was at least different and a lot more fun to play!

[AlexFili]

I definitely agree. LSW certainly won in terms of tactics, multiplayer action and versatility of the characters.
To have characters like #19 and Burter, optional missions, secret items and cards... it was a cut above the rest of the games.