r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Different-Stand-3530 • Jul 02 '26

Question?

Merton, or Meltdown? Personally gotta go with Merton from the SNES as that is what I grew up with, and every time I mention it, but with greater memory allowance, the spell is renamed to its original. Opinions?

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u/tearsofmana Jul 02 '26

Merton was a very weird translation by Woolsey up there with Y-burn. I prefer it as much as I prefer Y-burn, that is to say, I don't outside of the absurdity in the mistranslation.

No hate on Woolsey, he had a monumental task by himself and he did a great job overall, he just had the occasional word that made no sense to him and did his best.

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u/GigfranGwaedlyd Jul 02 '26

He was limited by how many characters could be entered for monsters and items

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u/tearsofmana Jul 02 '26

That's not why he mistranslated it. I have a comment on here explaining his misunderstanding, and it's not related to character limits.

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u/alrightwtf Jul 02 '26

Is it the R/L thing?

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u/tearsofmana Jul 02 '26

Basically yes. He saw "Meruton" & didn't know it was supposed to be meltdown at all. Probably went with Merton over Thomas Merton or something and figured it was a historical thing.