Trivia / Romancing SaGa 2

• No Export for You: SaGa is fairly good at getting across the pond, but this game never made it at first. It was re-released on the Virtual Console in Japan only. A Fan Translation by Aeon Genesis was in the works, but never made it out of Development Hell due to unique technical issues related to the game’s fixed-width font. It finally left Japan with the iOS/Android remaster in 2016, over twenty years after its initial release.
• Remade for the Export: The iOS/Android port, as well as subsequent ports to platforms belonging to The Eighth Generation of Console Video Games.
• Theme Naming:
  • The Male Light Infantry units are named after The Presidents of the United States.
    JAMES Madison/Monroe/Polk/Buchanan/Garfield, JOHN Adams/Quincy Adams/Tyler/Kennedy, RICHARD Nixon, HERBERT Hoover, HARRY S. Truman, RONALD Reagan, DWIGHT D. Eisenhower, FRANKLIN Pierce/Roosevelt
  • The Female Light Infantry units are named after famous actresses:
    LIZA Minnelli, JESSICA Lange, SHIRLEY MacLaine, AUDREY Hepburn, JUDY Garland, GRACE Kelly, INGRID Bergman, GRETA Garbo
  • The Male Ranger units are named after royalty and so are the Female Ranger units:
    Henry of England, Louis of France, Charles of England, William of England, Philippe of France, Edward of England, Alexander of Russia, Friedrich of Germany
    Marie THERESE of France, Mary of England, Agnes of Poitou, Catherine of England, Anne of England, Juliana of Netherlands, Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth of England
  • The Male Court Mages are named after constellations, while the female Court Mages are named after gemstones.
  • The Male Mercenary units are named after people found in Classical Mythology and the same goes to their female equivalents:
    Hector, Orion, Jason, Theseus, Achilles, Ulysses, Perseus, Hercules
    Andromache, Side, Medea, Hippolyte, Deidameia, Penelope, Andromeda, Deianeira
  • The Male Mage for Hire units are named after stars:
    Regulus, Algol, Polaris, Canopus, Procyon, Rigel, Vega, Sirius
  • The Female Mage for Hire units are named after flowers:
    Rose, Lily, Daisy, Iris, Magnolia, Hazel, Ivy, Windseed
  • The Male Imperial Guard units are named after great generals of the past, while the Females are named after Roman goddesses:
    Wallenstein, Tancred, Davout, Marlborough, Hannibal, Epaminondas, Gustav, Belisarius
    Minerva, Luna, Juno, Ceres, Aurora, Fury, Victoria, Diana
  • The Strategists are named after... yes, strategists from Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
    Shigen (Shiyuan), Yak (Boyue), Tanpuku (Yuanzhi), Zhongda, Gongjin, Boyan, Moutoku (Mengde), Kongming
  • The Levante Guards are named after famous samurai:
    Yagyu JUBEI Mitsuyoshi, Yamaoka TESSHU, SHUSAKU Narimasa Chiba, Sasaki/GANRYU Kojiro, Hijikata TOSHIzo, Yagyu RENYA Toshikane, Tsukahara BOKUDEN, Okita SOUJI
  • The Desert Guards are named after characters found in the Arabian Nights tales:
    Sharrkan, Neman, Dandan, Shahryar, Abu Hasan, Marzawan, Armanus, Suleiman
  • The Amazons are named after powerful, heroic women of the world:
    Jeanne, Kriemhild, Ekaterina, Theodora, Agrippina, Artemisia, Bukou (Wu Zetian), Tomoe
  • The Male Nomads are named after rulers of Mongolia:
    Altan, Galdan, Batu, Esen, Dayan, Aguda, Abaoji, Bokutotsu (Modu)
  • The Crusaders are named after saints:
    They are all good with the exception of Irvine which should be Urban and Kristof is Christoph.
  • The Divers are named after singers.
    NATALIE Merchant, MARIAH Carey, JANICE Robinson, OLIVIA Newton-John, KATE Bush, SARAH MacLachlan, DEBBIE Gibson, LINDA Ronstadt
  • The Armed Merchants are named after famous navigators:
    Infante Henrique of Viseu, Ferdinand MAGELLAN, Vasco da GAMA, Alfred Thayer MAHAN, John FISHER, Alfred von TIRPITZ, Teiwa (Zheng He), Francis DRAKE
  • The Saigo Clansmen come from Nordic history:
    Eirik, Harf-agre, Palna, Arinbjorn, Egil, Olav, Sigurd, Snorri
  • The Brawlers bear the names of wrestlers:
    KARL Gotch, FRITZ Von Erich, The DYNAMITE Kid, Terry FUNK, BRUISER Brody, Big Van VADER, Hiroshi HASE, Jushin LIGER
  • The Male Vagabonds are based on birds, while the Females are based on mammals.
  • The Salamander names are based on volcanoes:
    Kelud, Tambora, Galunggung, Awu, Marapi, Agung, Soputan, Papandayan
  • The Nereids are named after... Nereids:
    Thetis, Pherusa, Lysianassa, Melite, Amphitrite, Nausithoe, Sao, Galatea
  • The Iris folk have wind- and sky-themed names:
    Windy, Cloudia, Skya, Breezia, Gale, Air, Stormy, Nadir (Nadir is the opposite of Zenith)
  • The Diviners are named after Japanese scholars or onmyoji.
    Abe no SEIMEI, Kibi no MAKIBI, Kamo no TADAYUKI, Abe no YASUCHIKA, Abe no YOSHIHIRA, Shigeoka no KAWAHITO, Ashiya DOMAN, Abe no NAKAMARO
  • The Seven Heroes are named after Japanese train stations. See the characters section for more details.