Proto:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask/Preview Demo/Text differences

Global changes

 * Princess, King and Royal Family have been changed in all messages in the final version to say princess, king and royal family, respectively.
 * For the Curiosity Shop owner, I'm serious! has been changed to I kid you not! in all his messages. The former text was used by the fisherman in Ocarina of Time, whose model was used for the Curiosity Shop owner.
 * In all messages where Darmani is called after you have beaten Goht, his name is printed instantly in the final version as a kind of exclamation. In the preview demo, it flows in like all the other text.
 * For the four Giants messages, the actual text of the Giants is colored white in the prototype but blue in the final (same as the Tatl text).
 * The Post Office was called Post House in the prototype version.
 * The name of a Clock Town character was misspelled as Muto in pretty much all the prototype messages. It was fixed to the correct name Mutoh in the final.

Individual changes
A simple change - the exclamation mark is no longer colored purple. This way, it looks like all the other rupee messages.

You found a Stray Fairy ! This is your ?th one!

In the preview demo, you had to close this text box using A. This was probably irritating because it's too easy to accidentally press A while this textbox appears. Therefore, it has been set to disappear on its own in the final.

Looks like the two shields were confused in the preview demo... It was corrected in the final. Additionally, a typo was fixed in the Mirror Shield message.

It's hardly visible, but these two lines start in a space in the preview demo. This was corrected for the final version.

These messages were changed because in the preview demo, the third line is too long and overflows out of the text box background.

This message was changed to be more exact. New users may have been confused when they found out that holding B would not shoot the bubble.

Someone really messed up the sentence in these messages. It was corrected in the final release.

It's easy to see how this was changed. "Lottery Tickets" is a really unclear name.

The sentence order was altered. The one of the preview demo sounds a bit awkward.

This was changed because the former sentence looks very weird.

A spelling error was corrected in the final version. This also necessiated the shortening of the line.

This message was changed to add a pun to the Daytona 500 race, which is the biggest race in NASCAR.

The former sentence does not really make any sense. No wonder the translators changed it.

"Cucco" is not a proper noun, and so lost its capitalization.

This question was shortened a bit for the sake of clarity.

Another small change for grammatical reasons.

An erroneous space was removed here.

Another capitalization error was fixed here.

Spoken by the monkey. Apparently, the speech was simply not "monkey-like" enough for the translators.

This time, the punctuation was altered slightly.

Another grammar mistake was fixed here.

Besides the capitalization change, "keep his calm" became the more grammatically pleasing "keep his cool".

The word "princess" was outright removed here to avoid a repetition.

This statement was reversed in the final version.

A comma was missing in this message, it was added in the final version.

The sentence sounded a bit weird in the preview demo, which is why it was altered a bit.

Another missing word that was caught and fixed in the final version.

Have you seen an old hag named Koume who looks just like me? She hasn't come back from gathering medicinal herbs...

This message is completely missing from the preview demo! Odd.

"Did" became capitalized.

This message was changed to be slightly more polite.

Changed for unknown reasons.

"Bam!" became capitalized for emphasis.

Fixing up a tense error.

The comma was out of place here, so it was removed.

A run-on sentence was split into two, although the question mark at the end remains unchanged.

Yet another small punctuation change.

The sentence in the preview demo did not make much sense, seeing as the hag is already old. Therefore it was altered for the final release.

As always, another capitalization change.

...a hidden Pokemon reference? Could have just been chance. But in any case it was a bit inappropriate, so it was changed.

A vocabulary change. "All of you" isn't exactly wrong, but too easily misunderstood here.

Easy to see why this was changed. It had a totally unintended meaning in the preview demo.

Yet another punctuation change.

And of course another capitalization change.

A small grammar change.

Well, the sentence wasn't quite clear enough, so it was changed for the final version.

The former sounds like "they can't hear us", which is clearly not what the translator team intended. Therefore the sentence was fixed.

The sentence structure was fixed in the final.

A typo ("incribed") was fixed in the final version.

The word return was superfluous in this sentence, so it was removed in the final.

It's hard to see, but there's an extra space in the preview demo's message which was removed in the final.

A small spelling mistake was fixed.

Another spelling mistake was fixed here.

Various fixes were done to these messages.

Another punctuation fix, as always.

The word girl was specified a bit here.

Another typo snuck in there. It was corrected in the final version.

The sentence was a bit odd in the preview demo. It was fixed in the final version.

A typo was fixed here.

Again, various fixes were done to this sentence.

This sentence was fixed as well.

Again, just a punctuation change.

Some spelling fixes were done here.

Originally, it was just a spelling mistake. But it looks like the translation team also noticed the "s's" problem, so they rewrote the sentence to avoid it.

Another punctuation change.

The abbreviation "p.s." was removed, probably because children may be unaware of its meaning.

The line was shortened to avoid overflow issues.

A punctuation error was corrected here.

And a spelling error here.

Yet another spelling error was corrected here.

Probably changed to help people like French Canadians, who may read "oi" as French.

Again, a spelling error has been done here.

A grammar error this time.

Another typo.

Another spelling mistake.

This message was reworded. The main reason is that in the prototype, the text box cuts off right in the middle of the sentence which is very inconvenient.

Various fixes were done here. Most notably, another case of sentence cut-off was avoided in the final release.

The word "saw" in this context implies the dad watched a bad horror movie or something... Needless to say, it was fixed in the final version.

Looks like the translator team insisted on using the s-plural for the word "Garo". Technically, both variants are correct.

Possibly a translation error (using "valley" in some places and "canyon" in others), it was changed to the latter in the final version.

Once again a simple typo that was fixed here.

No real reason to change this, but why not?

An obvious mistake was fixed here.

That hint of Tatl is rather... unhelpful, to say the least. In the final version, it actually tells you what to do.

As always, another grammar error was corrected.

The erroneous space was removed in this message.

Another case of the valley vs. canyon confusion. Also, some punctuation was added here.

And another capitalization fix.

Possibly changed so this message doesn't needlessly take up four lines.

Again, no real need to change this.

Obviously changed because the former would have led to a total mispronunciation.

The forgotten punctuation was added in the final.

The former sentence is a bit awkward, so it was changed.

In the prototype, Cremia emphasizes that Madame Aroma is her aunt, while in the final version, she just refers to her as "some middle-aged woman".

Another example of Engrish was fixed.

More bad grammar was fixed here.

The sentence sounds much better in the final, it's easy to see why it was changed.

Easy to see why this was changed, if you consider that the Postman is talking to a woman here.

A small typo was fixed here.

Another grammatical fix was done here.

Again, the sentence was cut off right in the middle in the prototype.

Another grammatical fix.

Pretty much the entire Guru-Guru text was rewritten for the final release, fixing grammatical errors and such.

And as always, another grammatical fix.

...and again.

The prototype's speech had a much more serious tone to it, while in the final it sounds more like casual speech.

The sentence in the prototype doesn't really make a lot of sense... It was changed in the final.

Another spelling mistake.

Another case of the translator team insisting on the s-plural.

The erroneous quotation mark was removed here.

You'd be able to hear it if the show wasn't canceled. It's such a shame.

This message is completely missing from the prototype version. It was probably added because without it, the conversation seems to "skip" noticably.

The name of the manager was not mentioned in the prototype version, while it is in the final.

The sentence sounded a bit ungrammatical in the prototype version, it was fixed up in the final.

That comma was rather out of place. It was removed in the final.

Another really badly written sentence was fixed up in the final.

And another spelling mistake.

A very simple punctuation change was done here.

Even if the road to the ranch is blocked off, you can purchase Chateau Romani from the store, so the message in the prototype was a bit misleading.

A small typo was fixed here.

Some very minor fixes were done here.

A very odd one. The Indigo-Go's were called "Dull Blue" in the Japanese version, but it's obviously a leftover since the localization team thought of a better English name.

Another minor punctuation fix.

And another punctiation change.

A rather typical spelling mistake was fixed here.

The message was a bit misleading in the prototype. Since you cannot use up your ticket at night, it's good through tonight and not through today.

Another rather bad sentence was fixed up.

Well, a song can't smell... Therefore, this was corrected in the final.

Another punctuation fix.

And another badly written sentence was fixed.

Another spelling fix.

More punctiation fixes were done here.

Another punctuation fix.

And another spelling fix.

This was simply changed for some more atmosphere.

Another spelling fix.

A grammatical fix.

This sentence was totally rewritten for some reason.

Another bad sentence was fixed up.

Looks like in the prototype version, the emphasis was on Cremia making it through, rather than you. This was changed in the final to credit your effort.

A small fix.

The sentence was corrected, because it's not the person Romani but the drink Chateau Romani that's expensive.

This sentence was again changed due to overflow issues.

Various fixes were done here.

Another grammatical fix.

Some small fixes.

Another punctuation fix.

This entire speech was rewritten a bit for the final release.

A small fix, to match the area name.

All her winning messages were rewritten for the final.

A small grammatical fix.