Editing Koppaite text

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Throughout {{p3}}, there are pieces of '''Koppaite text''', or text written in the language of [[Koppai]]. The language is a symbol substitution cipher—characters in Koppaite can be mapped to Latin letters, and with that, a direct English message can be obtained.  

Because most players do not know the cipher, sometimes the content of the text is secretive and special. For instance, on the [[area selection menu]], when the player clicks an area, some mysterious text will appear on the top-left, with what appears to be comments from the developers. The information behind some texts does not seem to match up with reality, indicating that it was true in [[Pikmin 3 prerelease information|prerelease versions]].

Each character in the Koppaite language can be mapped to one or two English letters. There are only characters for the 26 English letters plus an extra, unknown one. This unknown character only appears on the [[Mission Mode menu]] and [[Bingo Battle menu]], and does not appear in {{p3d}}. While its meaning cannot be decided from the context alone, it's possible that it's some kind of placeholder character, considering the same symbol (〓) is used to indicate missing characters in Japanese.

! Koppaite || Latin || rowspan=8| || Koppaite || Latin || rowspan=8| || Koppaite || Latin

! Latin || Koppaite || rowspan=10| || Latin || Koppaite || rowspan=10| || Latin || Koppaite

==Instances of Koppaite text in ''Pikmin 3''==

The following is a list of instances in which Koppaite text appears in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'', and their translations.

! [[Area selection menu]] – general

# Alphs grandfather

! [[Area selection menu]] – [[Tropical Wilds]] selected

! [[Area selection menu]] – [[Garden of Hope]] selected

! [[Area selection menu]] – [[Distant Tundra]] selected

! [[Area selection menu]] – [[Twilight River]] selected

! [[Area selection menu]] – [[Formidable Oak]] selected

| Top-left corner. The names of the Formidable Oak and [[The Final Trial]] – {{j|哀しき獣の塔|Kanashiki Kemono no Tō|Tower of the Wretched Beast|f=tp}} and {{j|最後の試練|Saigo no shiren|Final Trial|f=tp}} respectively – are not similar at all. This indicates that the Formidable Oak's name was different [[Pikmin 3 prerelease information|during development]]. It may only be a reference to the {{p1}} area, however.

# Below the area's name. It is not a word, since it has 7 characters in a row that are mandatorily consonants; one possible transliteration is "Arsdgrgmarrde".

| Inside a ring shape to the right. The texture resolution is too small to decipher, though the last character is the unknown {{kt|-}} symbol.

# Kokomadido{{sic}}

# [[Go Here!]] button. From {{j|ここまで移動|Koko made idou|Move here|f=tp}}.  

! [[Pause menu]]

| Repeated several times, and segmented in most of them. "Hokotate" with a K is the standard romanization of {{j|ホコタテ|Hokotate}}.

! [[Lock-on]] (Original ''Pikmin 3'' only)

| Bottom-right corner. "PPAD" is an [[Pikmin 3 prerelease information|early name]] for the KopPad, so "PIPAD" might be a romanization of it.

# Bottom-left of the scan reticle, below a cat-like icon.

! [[Gear]] analysis

! [[Mission Mode menu]] and [[Bingo Battle menu]]

| Bottom-right corner. The unknown symbol has been replaced with a space in {{p3d}}.