Talk:Comet Medal

Metals??
Are you sure they are metals?? because they look like medals to me, just without the string that you can put it around the neck. 19:29, 23 April 2010 (EDT)


 * Medals don't have to have a string though...but, the website states it as MEtal, so let's leave it ATM. --
 * And the japanese websites say MeDal. 12:20, 25 April 2010 (EDT)


 * It actually says "medaru", but we need further info to move this. Nintendo will probably leak more info in about a week or so. --

Source?
Ok, so we know they exist... but where does it specifically say that "they unlock new galaxies", as opposed to "unlock harder stars within galaxies"?--TheUltimateKoopa 09:03, 25 April 2010 (EDT)


 * Nintendo Power Issue 254, SMG2 Edition, May 2010 and at the official Nintendo of America website. --
 * By "harder levels with even more challenges", does "harder levels" refer to "galaxies", or "stars in an already visited galaxy"? And respectively, does "even more challenges" mean "even more stars" or "even more challenges in the already visited galaxy"? For example, if it's the latter, the "harder levels" could refer to something like "Fast Foes of Toy Time" in Toy Time Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy, and the "even more challenges" could refer, for example, to the turning ? switches from blue to yellow with the "even more challenge" of much faster enemies.


 * They seem like Star Coins to me. I actually think that they both unlock harder levels and new galaxies. --

They are Medals
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/sb4j/adventure/adventure9.html

See the large text near the top of the page in the link? If you don't know what one I'm talking about, here it is: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/sb4j/adventure/images/adventure_9_title.gif

Now, that text, in text form is 彗星メダル.

Using Google Translator, to translate from Japanese to English: http://translate.google.com/#ja|en|%E5%BD%97%E6%98%9F%E3%83%A1%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB

It clearly says Medals, doesn't it?


 * sounds good. --

Translated literally, it does say medal, as that is what the Japanese text says (「メダル」medaru is the katakana transcription of the word "medal"). However, we can't simply make our own translations of terms and label them official imo. Is there any proof at the moment that Nintendo is not intentionally referring to them as "metals"? Japanese names in Mario games are very rarely translated literally. I personally don't think we should use an unofficial translation of a Japanese name to refer to these if we have an official English term (Comet Metal) available, unless "Comet Medal" (in that exact spelling and language) has officially been used as well.--vellidragon 20:32, 26 April 2010 (EDT)

Agree with Vellidragon. According to an old proposal, the first official english name should be kept in the article, and in this case, despite a potential mistake, the "Comet Metal" name will stay here until more information from (only) english sources, specially from NOA -that will be the first country to release the game- come out and may change this.