Misread sprites in retro games. Everyone has them.
Time to be quirky and pretend to misread things for upvotes!
>tfw the fucking translators don't actually do their job and decide to misread a sprite insteadthanks, Moyse
>>12436179not sprites, but as a kid my dad insisted that the monkeys in super monkey ball wore diapers due to their asses being lighter-colored and smeared over composite. now that i think about it he might've just been fucking with me the entire time
>>12436187obsessed
>>12436189explain?
>>12436312The thing is a Myconid but the translator instead called it "leaf-vulture" because he thought that the hair made of leaves was a wing and the hand of the raised left arm a beak.
>>12436316i forgot that they called the first form a myconid. i was under the impression that myconids were specifically mushroom people. maybe that is a mistranslation/misunderstanding in some way. but regardless, i find it to be a pretty awful sprite read to think that thing was a bird and not a little swamp-man raising his arm. first time hearing about this one.
nes monster party. probably the most universal one. EVERYBODY thought this thing was a crumpled up dead spider.
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I still have no idea what this was supposed to be and why it was in the game.
>>12436187Do you really live your life in fear of doing something reddit?
>>12436778Considering the carnival aesthetic with the ferris wheel I'd say it's a tent.
>>12436778Some type of cake below a glass bell?
>>12436737Spiders, famous for having lizard heads and fingers and toes.
>>12436786>zoomer has nothing to add so he miraculously sees the image properly after already knowing what its supposed to be
these guys in a link to the pasti still have to concentrate to not see an angry guy with big lips
>>12436801Well, what are they?
>>12436829snek
In Star Ocean 2 I always thought the back of Claude's sprite looked like a weird island native kid>tan jacket is the brown skin, white pants not wearing a shirt, looks like he's wearing sandals
>>12436737It was a weird thing, before seeing that toy art I could only see an apologetic mangling mess, and the game was already weird so by filling the spaces a spider was the closest thing possible (the bad quality of my older TVs didn't help)
>>12436801They do turn around you know.
>>12436778I'm seeing a bouncing castle surrounded by some energy wave. Still it makes no sense.
>>12436875It's a little super saiyan house.
For me it's those cave parrots in Mario World. I simply can't see them as bats.
>>12436778Does this have a file name attached to it in the game rom?
>>12437665while i can actually see where you're coming from, his animations make it clear that he's a little man/doll thing with arms and hands.
>>12436870It doesn't look anything like a spider though.
>>12436179All these threads are is retards bragging about what a bunch of blind morons with shitty tvs they are. Or liars.
>>12438162And a bunch of angry morons and posting meaningless shit to kill these threads.
>>12438153this is trying too hard.
>>12438162>blind morons with shitty tvsB-but everyone says any CRT is good...
>>12436179The orginal texture looks ridiculous. It barely makes sense to read the 'background' as her hair, and either way it's a floating blob head with no neck despite there being hair/background where that should be.
>>12439373mogs u
I still have no idea what they were going for here
I had to go the /vp/ archive to look for this image that I posted 3 years ago. I was very lucky that I named the image corsola.png. Found it in 10 seconds, I'm actually amazed
>>12441860I can't see the dog, it just looks like Articuno to me
weird cyclops nigga
took me way too long in Tales of Destiny to see the queen in her bed as the intended middle one instead of the right one
>>12436786Because there existed no clear picture of that graphic for the longest time, only a fuzzy little scan from a Japanese magazine, which DID have pics of an earlier version of the spider boss.People were kind of obsessed with Monster Party for quite a while, because the first level was dark and weird, and stood out, but then people found scant evidence of a beta build with weirder and darker styling over all.People speculated about it a lot, until finally a dump of the beta became available.
>>12443598>Because there existed no clear picture of that graphic for the longest time,The in game graphics are plenty clear
>>12443508>first thing I saw of Earthbound was the final boss on YouTube around 18 years ago, because of one of those "TOP 10 SCARY BOSSES" videos on there at the time>actually thought Porky was a weird blue cyclops alien
>>12436801LttP for me is Aghanim
>>12443691Everybody saw it like right and I was never able to trick my mind into seeing him as the official art, partly because colors don't match.
>>12441860Yeah I see how you can kind of get a snout and whiskers out of that sprite. That sprite gives Articuno like no neck so the beak being right next to the chest tuft looks weird.
>>12438153lol ridiculous
>>12442002I don't understand this one at all
>>12443903The combined horn and eye/mouth form are the kiss
>>12436801Coincidentally I'm right in the middle of a LttP playthrough and just realized I always mistake the snake's orange underbelly for its open mouth. I always thought they were intimidating because they were coming at you with this gaping maw ready to bite, but they actually look kinda cute when you see them the right way.
>>12443691His sprite is kind of baffling even if you're looking at it correctly. What exactly are the pixels beneath his eyes supposed to represent? It almost looks like a weird Shredder / Darth Vader mask, but it's not. Odd way of representing his little face scarf. I don't think it looks bad, but I fail to see how it reflects the concept art.I also saw him as a green-haired wizard with round bangs, it always struck me as such a memorable, odd design, I almost prefer it to the real one. He also looks way more diminutive when seen 'correctly,' almost chibi
this is a case where i saw correctly but now am doubting both my interpretation and the alleged correct version. a big-eye cyclops bat makes a lot more sense than a derpy bat who looks like the blanket from The Brave Little Toaster
>>12441856The "hair" you have labeled is clearly the horns and the pig is laying on its back with mouth agape.
>>12444227>bat???
>>12443691I think if the headband weren't so fucking huge and if the hood weren't a different color from the rest of his robes it wouldn't be so easy to misread it as a face. I feel like you don't actually have to change that much to make the sprite work.
B E A K P E O N
>>12444465500 hours in ms paint
>>12436179I dont think I've had that issue. Most of the low bit games I've only started playing recently. I played a few MS-DOS games as a kid but I dont think I was ever confused on what certain graphics were suppose to represent.
>>12444574Had my fair share of DOS sprites, too.Like, what the fuck were those guys here in Dark Ages?
>>12444550Unironically much better, I actually notice his proper face here.
>>12444575or those fuckers from Xargon
bowser's nose looks like a woman's ass
>>12436189The game wasn't even released in Europe.
>>12445892That was the first game.
>>12445892It was in a few countries. And yes, it's Lufia 2, not 1.
>>12436179I saw the same thing honestly, didn't realize till way later what it was supposed to beFor me, DKC, the lives icon. Thought it was a weird ghost or something.
>>12441856Kind of looks life ALF
>>12443691you can be forgiven for this. the sprite is a mess
>>12445975The J coinsSMW was my first Mario game and I didn't know English (game was not localized, that bit of English did not hinder playing a platformer, so they didn't bother), so while I had no idea what J could stand for it could have stood for something so I had no problem accepting it.
>>12445946>>12446064you should have adjusted your tv
>>12445946It makes a balloon popping sound when you lose one, should be pretty obvious.
>>12443691Did they ever use him again in a later Zelda? Feel like he was such a big part of this classic but I don’t think I’ve ever see him even mentioned in another game. At least not a retro one, maybe he shows up again in some non retro Nintendo thing but I haven’t seen any.
>>12436179im actually glad someone else saw this like I did as a kid, except I thought it had two eyes close together.
>>12436179as a kid i thought this pokemon was supposed to be kinda offputting and ugly like jynx
>>12446176What are you whistling so insuspiciously about?!...
This one is infamous. The orientation makes it look like a tower when it's supposed to be a Star Destroyer.
>>12436737That's what I saw too. But who's talking though? The fly?
>>12446137>AghanimHe made it into DotA and retired from Zelda. But Zant in Twilight Princess is pretty clearly the same character archetype under a different name.
>>12436179>what it is>what I sawI thought this was the villain and this being the wanted posterwtf lol. childhood ruined
>>12446176>>12442002I dont get this confusion. There was a cartoon and a trading card game with better detailed illustrations to figure out what the pixel art was trying to interpret. This isnt like some game like Metal Walker for GBC.
>>12446176Cannot unsee now
>>12443691Looks like Porky Minch if he was an evil sorceror.
This guy's stupid fucking face. I still can't figure it out even knowing what it's supposed to be.
>>12446557That drawing reminds me of the last Monkey Island game
>>12436179that one enemy from kirby's dream course
Dawn's front-facing sprite looks like a big-nosed pink-faced ogre with a thick grey beard.
>>12446671I can see the funny mouth, but no the longass nose.
>>12446176Male are attractive one
>>12446515Given how it explodes, I guess even some of the devs weren't really sure.
>>12445843RE6 logo look like giraffe having blowjob?
>>12442002I somewhat saw the same as a kid iircexcept that the 3 mouth looked just like another coral to me, so it was just a clump of coral
>>12440657roots
>>12445747Hell, what even are the episode select pictures for 1 and 3 supposed to be?
>>12446814...and after over 30 years I finally noticed that "Reality" seems to be spelled wrong.
>>12446558By Gen 3 quite a lot of people didn't watch the show or collect the cards anymore, but still played the games, and the Gardevoir one is more of a "once you see it you can't unsee" it kind of thing, so if that happens to be your first impression of the sprite you're fucked.
>>12438162>self-conscious insecure weenie can't handle a little fun remembering silly childhood timesThis is why you didn't have any friends growing up
>>12436778It looks like a cake under a glass dome.
>>12437665
>>12446558Ignore >>12446829 it's just forced memes. It's like the "uuhhh did anyone else think Diglet's nose was a MOUTH with a TOOTH in it?" meme that only works if pretend a single image of Diglett was the only thing that existed and also are retarded.
>>12446971>>12446558during gen 3 i only played ruby version, i never watched the anime, no one at school liked pokemon anymore, never had any other exposure to pokemon until i started browsing the internet in like 2005 and then realized what it was supposed to look like. why is that so hard to believe?
>>12446971Most people's first encounter with any particular Pokemon is going to be the in-game render, retard. Just because they'll likely see what it's actually meant to look like later doesn't mean they won't necessarily misinterpret the sprite when they first see it.The Diglett mouth-tooth thing is retarded, though, nobody mistook it for that.
The old Super Robot Wars sprites made it look like as if Getter 1 is shooting its Getter Beam from the finger tip instead of its belly.Rumors have it that this inspired Shin Getter Tarak's finger beam.
i always thought this thing was supposed to be a platypus but recently i found out it's supposed to be a hippo, which frankly I'm still struggling to see.>>12446847also what the fuck do you mean those aren't supposed to be weird bearded cats.
>>12436179
>>12447996Its color scheme makes me see it as a pug dog
>>12446869Right makes me think of the door guard in Usavich
>>12443598And then the people just kind of forgot about it because outside outside of the 2nd spider-boss glitch the released version is generally more polished and the alterations elevate the game's weirdness
Oh look, it's the weird goblin creature that lets me build cities and roads
>>12436781Sometimes I wonder if these types are like this even irl, like every action they take there's a little voice in their head telling them to make sure it isn't reddit
>>12448348Yeah I remember being excited when the prototype released but it was ultimately underwhelming since the parodies/references were more obvious and thus detracted from the released version's surreal quality
>>12438153>>12440657forced meme
>>12447943I like when random things like that lead to other things. The character Ripto got his name because the Japanese rendition of Spyro looks like Ripto.
Here's 1 I never really got. Just wtf is this post of Tengu Man from Mega Man 8 supposed to be??He just suddenly turns into a penguin with a long beak.
>>12448736A Tengu
Also, is he eating something here?
>>12448736His hand is under his chin.
>>12448294Why the fuck would you think you are collecting potato chips in the monkey racing game?
>>12446661Looks more like a dwarf to me but I see it
>>12448751Huh? I can't see it.
>>12448767In England, Bananas are called chips which are called crisps.
>>12436179In SMB3 I always thought Mario was taking a strange posture when he ducks with one arm stretched across the top of his head. Didn't know until a couple years ago that he's pulling his hat down tight over his head.
>>12438153Captain Vidya, reporting in!
>>12440657>>12449202tru oldfigs know he is the Vidya Viking
Rare misinterpreted 3D model: Until I got a good look at them I thought the Tentacles had Vortigaunts riding on them.
>>12446869Courage, the cowardly dogs doing in there ?
>>12444227I also thought it was a cyclops bat. I also thought the regular fish enemies in it were wearing a big monocle.
>>12436179i guess it's not a sprite misread but a texture misread is close enough. i still can't see these fuckers as not having fur.
video games give me a boner
>>12446515The tower interpretation doesn't really work given the thrusters at the bottom. Their angle doesn't make any sense for a vertically oriented tower. Also the shadow. Honestly a lot of you are visually retarded and I don't like you.
>>12449856Unironically a controversial subject, answers differ depending on dev asked.
>>12449856I personally never saw it as fur myself, more like diseased flesh.>>12450149It's weirdly funny to me that this is the case. Maybe if Quake 5 ever happens, we'll get a proper answer.
>>12438153>>12440657So, what kind of super powers does Captain Vidya have?
ledges in Pokemon. i get what they're going for, but they could have made it a gradient or something.as it is, they're stone walls that you can only hop over in one direction for some reason.
I haven't been in one of these threads in years but:>same old images>same old postersReminds me of those miiverse threads on /v/, it's always the same shit and same circlejerk of retards saying the same things over and over.It started off as a benign concept maybe even humorous, but that wore away quickly and it just became pretending to misinterpret sprites just to keep the circlejerk alive. Hope you anons find meaning in your lives and move on.
>>12449856I always remember them looking much whiter than they actually are. In my head they are big Yetis.
>>12450187There is no sprite-misinterpreting cabal. It's a fun /vr/ related topic to post about.
>>12449856I always assumed it was a dirty, bloody body suit with a hood.
>>12450124>>12446739
>>12450172They make sense in my head
>>12450172They're heightened platforms. You're jumping down from above. Don't you see the side shading in the screenshot you even posted?
>>12451856NTA, but I grew up on these games and I don't see it either. Just memorized that those things are one way moving from top to bottom.
>>12450187>e-celeb reaction imageGo back to /v/
I like the ones you know are wrong but once you see it you can't unsee it
>>12451867rlmfags are the dumbest people on this website
>>12446515>>12450124What had me interpreting it as a floating tower was the part in the middle, which kinda looked to me like an alien face with squinting but menacing orange eyes, kinda like pic related. Also the fact that it's said to be part of the Ocean Palace, so it made sense to me that it would be a structure like a tower rather than a spaceship for whatever reason.
>>12448604I used to think he looked like a mole.
>>12449856I always saw them as bald skin much like the barons of hell in doom 3 or other quake 2 sprites so the fur theory was a surprise for me when i learned of itI did make this goofy ms paint drawing because of it to please both sides.
>>12452851Huh, so Felicia had one too many snacks after midnight
>>12443691
>>12450187Part of this website is the community faggot not just content.
I thought Heretic undead warrior corpse was a koala.
>what I sawa jacked guy>what it wasa guy in a jacket
>>12436179 fake >>12436737 real >>12436778 real >>12436801 fake >>12436860 fake >>12437665 fake part 1
>>12438153 fake >>12441856 real >>12441860 fake >>12442002 fake >>12443508 real >>12443574 real>>12443691 real >>12444227 fake part 2faggot ass spam filter
>>12445946 fake >>12446064 fake >>12446176 real >>12446515 real >>12446557 real >>12446617 real >>12446650 real >>12446661 fake >>12446667 real >>12446671 fake part 3
>>12455261Dawn guy here, not fake.
>>12455252>>12455254>>12455261schizo>>12455262not schizo
>>12446137>>12446546Wasn't the twist of ALttP that Agahnim was just Ganon in disguise? There's not really been any reason to use him again. At least Zant was his own thing.
i thought gohma opened its mouth and had buck teeth
>>12436179I thought Starman from Kirby's Adventure was supposed to be like a round thing wearing an oversized cowboy hat and his eyes are shadowed but he has a body and feet sticking out. Actually I have no artistic talent to convey what I saw so I gave up on drawing it partway through but I'm posting it anyway. I never found out what that enemy was called and obviously Starman has a much more clearly defined sprite in his other appearances so I just straight up didn't recognize it as the same enemy any of the other times I saw it.It actually wasn't until recently with Starman being playable in Air Riders that I finally figured out that he was the cowboy hat enemy from Adventure.
I knew a guy who claimed Rayman is a banana for some dumb reason. I mean his har might look a bit like a banana peel if you have bad eyes and way too much fantasy, but come on man lol.
It's a bottle of foamy liquidNo I didn't watch the cartoon or gamble the trading cards
>>12455597It finally clicked with me on fr/lg with the added animations. Same with tms being discs.
This is the only one I can think of.
Another DOS one:I always thought that the bee enemies in Jazz Jackrabbit had giant eyeballs like Moskito from Rayman. Turns out what I tought was the sclera was indeed just the head.
>>12441856>>12444256Holy shit, i never knew i was misreading this sprite.
>>12455597I STILL see the foamy drink first any time I see this sprite. It doesn't help that it's called a potion which evokes the visual of a healing drink, though the JP is a bit clearer and makes far more sense as something you spray. I know it's for localization consistency because Gen 1 had no item visuals outside of the TCG, but still.
>>12455972It was actually in the TCG from the very first set.
>>12455597Well that's a really shitty sprite. The shading is the issue.
>>12455979I'm aware. But was the localization team at the time? Probably not.
Never saw the "SEX" written on the wallI did see "BUBY" written with the stones
>>12436737I never saw the lizard until three seconds ago. Definitely misread.
Dude is seen on the title screen but as a kid I still couldn't make out the sprite's facial features. Actually prefer the misread look.
The elf's head looked like a swollen and big-nosed human head.
>>12445843please for the good of all that is good and holy in the world, get laid
>>12455597>>12455979Apparently these were modelled after a generic type of spray bottle that was common in Japan in the 90s, so if you were a Japanese kid you probably instantly knew what the sprite was supposed to be.I can't seem to find any pictures of the actual thing though, google has no fucking idea what I want when I'm trying to search for vintage japanese disposable spray bottles.
>>12436778I see a fountain, like one you'd see in a garden or shopping center, it's 3 tiered, a spout at the top, and water cascading on both sides
>>12455597IIRC it wasn't till gen 3 that inventory items even had sprites?My mental image of a potion in the old games was... actually now that I think about it, I literally just envisioned the potion from SMB2. So by the time they made the spray bottle sprite my mental image as too established to care about what this was.
>>12455996This predated any of the items having sprites. It's pretty clear that it was used as a reference for the sprite.
>>12455996As aware as the anime version dubbers were with donuts.
>>12455625Yo.
>>12436179Same. I thought it was one of Crashs animal buddies.
>>12458004Unironically they were cooking with that one, rice with jelly inside sounds bussin'.
>>12455979To be fair 傷薬 can apply to any kind of healing substance, applied or ingested.
>>12448401> weird goblin creatureI can't see the goblin.But it always puzzled me that there would be a chariot before the invention of the wheel.
>>12458802The blue part is a goblin head with goblin ears.The little dots at the bottom of the blue are his shifty eyes.The black part is a mask covering his lower face up to the bottom of his eyes.The wheels are logs that he's carrying under each arm.
>>12455272He wasn't physically Ganon in disguise
>>12455272>Wasn't the twist of ALttP that Agahnim was just Ganon in disguise?No, he was just Ganon's pawn. When you beat him, he says pic related and then dies. Nothing in the game suggests that Agahnim is Ganon, he was just an evil wizard helping Ganon invade and conquer the Light World.
>>12443691no one will ever convince me that he isn't a green haired porky minch
>>12448604i used to think his hand was his cheek
>>12448723tbf that jp font is retarded
>>12448723Why is there randomly an English P in the middle of the moon runes?
>>12451947thing is the ear is the same color as the background. no one would see it this way accidentally. i prefer when the incorrect interpretation is more believable.
>>12459869パ
Saw this on /v/
>>12460090I like it. Can I keep it?
>>12460090I knew I couldn't be the only one. They look like disembodied heads ffs
>>12460090Goddamnit, now I can't unsee that.
>>12459869It says ㇲパイㇿ, su-pa-i-ro.The handakuten ゚ making "ha" into "pa" combined with the right side of ha forms the P.
>>12455314You might have got confused by that duelling game. He has a cowboy hat there.
>>12460471Unlikely because I just looked it up and he has a truly odd-looking Sherlock Holmes hat in that which is hard to mistake for a cowboy hat, I remember this now but I also thought this was an entirely different character from Starman all this time. He's just so featureless that a slight change makes him look like a different character. I think because the NES sprite was kinda white is why I mistook the top of his head for a Doug Dimmadome looking hat. Although this was long before I even knew Doug Dimmadome existed.
I'm honestly shocked by how dumb many of you are
>>12448716Forced on your mother.
>>12460496Meanwhile I'm never surprised to see 89 IQ non-comments like yours in this shithole.
>>12446671Xenogears a shit
>>12460662is the*
>>12460496This is a true...>"Heh, chuds, you know wrestling isn't real, right?" ...comment.The vast majority of these kinds of threads and discussions mostly involves people actually understanding intellectually what a graphic is intended to be (more or less), but because of the displays used, or maybe an actual failing of the graphic itself, doesn't read 100% as intended.Nobody ever ACTUALLY thought Aghanim was fucking Pokey, you stupid faggot, but the way that his in-game sprite is drawn, DOES make him look kinda like Pokey.I'd say the only major exceptions to this is when the perspective or distance of something gets misinterpreted, usually when people are really young.
>>12458259I remember this one, me and my friend at the time both thought the placement made it look like he's wearing one of those British beefeater hats.
>>12450097and thats the legend of how you became a furry
>>12450306Vaguely like the original story that the name for the Shambler comes from, if I recall it right.I think it was that a guy had managed to acquire the dead body of a supernatural creature he dubbed a Dimensional Shambler, which he then skinned and made a body suit out of. Disguised as the Dimensional Shambler, its hide let him slip into other layers of existence at will, which he then used to gather sacrificial victims for to resuscitate a dormant god he had found on an expedition.
>>12450157He can 1cc all arcade and arcade style games ever made.The NES Zapper simply just works for him, even with modern flat screen TVs.He can recharge dead save batteries and clock batteries, AND recover the data they held.He will only pay $40 for a legit and complete copy of Earthbound.He can make the Sonic & Knuckles lock-on cartridge work with non-Sonic games, like Michael Jackson's Moonwalker or Contra Hard Corps (including the SNES version).The laser on a PSX will work for him, even if the console isn't upside down or on its side.Tapes and floppies will load in just seconds for him on the Commodore 64, unless the games have a cool loader music track/sequence, which he will then enjoy while eating his breakfast.
>>12461373The X-Band modems still work for him.
>>12443691I am convinced one of the artists here was red-green colourblind
>>12461373He deactivates cheater's aimbots in Counter-Strike.Any version of NES Punch-Out!! will automatically be Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! when he plays it, and he's actually managed to beat it with the Powerglove a few times.He puts two quarters into a Time Crisis or House Of The Dead machine and uses both guns at the same time (he's strong and fully ambidextrous, capable of tracking and engaging multiple targets at once).
>>12456370kek
>>12448348I forgot, was there anything more interesting in the beta which would have been cool in the finished game?>>12449325Quality drawing, I can imagine this if you just caught a quick glimpse of it.
>>12461373Captain Vidya repairs N64 controllers and resells them at a cost.
>>12436187You’re quite miserable in life, huh? Keep it to yourself, boss.
Took me years to find out the texture didn't have solid cheeks.
>>12461263>i was just pretending to be retardedSure bud
>>12460717A
>>12462126
>>12438153a classic
The undefeated champion of misunderstood sprites
>>12463815Kek, that's the same as this>>12442002
>>12463779couldn't resist
>>12463776>Xenogears is the AActually it's the X.
>>12446847I saw the same thing
>>12463912Looks just like me.
How has no one posted Dr. Wily's toes sticking out of his UFO yet?
>>12465221Why don't you?
>>12465265Can't find the pic that shows the drawn "X-ray", but here's the sprite in question.
>>12465278How does that look like toes to anyone?
>>12466646The toes are on top.
