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The island that debuted in ''Super Mario World'' was named ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' in the original Japanese version. The etymology for this is most likely combining Yoshi's name with "Easter" (as in "Easter Island"), with "Tou" being the Japanese word for "island". When ''SMW'' was released in English, NoA decided to localize the island's name as "Yoshi's Island". | The island that debuted in ''Super Mario World'' was named ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' in the original Japanese version. The etymology for this is most likely combining Yoshi's name with "Easter" (as in "Easter Island"), with "Tou" being the Japanese word for "island". When ''SMW'' was released in English, NoA decided to localize the island's name as "Yoshi's Island". | ||
Next, we have | Next, we have a different, much larger, and visually distinct island that debuted in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', which was named ''{{hover|Yoshi Island|ヨッシーアイランド}}'' in Japanese. This is literally just "Yoshi" and the English word "Island". This was ALSO localized as "Yoshi's Island", hence the confusion. We now have two islands with very different Japanese names who both have the same name in English. | ||
From the N64 era and onwards, the island with the most appearances would go on to be ''{{hover|Yoshi Island|ヨッシーアイランド}}'', appearing in many other ''Yoshi'' series games, as well as some Mario spinoff games as Yoshi's home stage, such as ''Mario Golf'' and ''Fortune Street''. This isn't a case of ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' just being replaced by or changed to ''{{hover|Yoshi Island|ヨッシーアイランド}}'' though, as ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' has made several appearances afterwards, most notably in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series and ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time''. As stated in the proposal, they're also listed as separate locations in Yoshi's trophy description in both ''Super Smash Bros. 3DS'' and ''Wii U''. On contrary, there are no in-game sources which state they are the same outside of the shared English names. | From the N64 era and onwards, the island with the most appearances would go on to be ''{{hover|Yoshi Island|ヨッシーアイランド}}'', appearing in many other ''Yoshi'' series games, as well as some Mario spinoff games as Yoshi's home stage, such as ''Mario Golf'' and ''Fortune Street''. This isn't a case of ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' just being replaced by or changed to ''{{hover|Yoshi Island|ヨッシーアイランド}}'' though, as ''{{hover|Yoster Tou|ヨースター島}}'' has made several appearances afterwards, most notably in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series and ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time''. As stated in the proposal, they're also listed as separate locations in Yoshi's trophy description in both ''Super Smash Bros. 3DS'' and ''Wii U''. On contrary, there are no in-game sources which state they are the same outside of the shared English names. | ||