* AscendedFanon:
** Some dialogue and bookcases reference ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' despite WordOfGod saying they weren't intended to be linear sequels. Despite even in the original [[spoiler: the Disk One BigBad from ''DQIV'' is the {{Superboss}} at the end of the BonusDungeon, and Zenithia, Zenith Dragon, and the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Zenithian Sword]] all carry over from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'']].
** At one point in the game you run into a scholar who's studying evolution. He calls himself a psarologist. Psaro was the BigBad of the fourth game and was searching for the Secret of Evolution.
** The DS remake of ''DQVI'' has an NPC in Reaper's Peak explicitly state that ''DQIV'' is the near future of the same world, and ''DQV'' is the far future of it, and the Zenith Dragon hatches from its egg in the ending of that game.
* FanTranslation: Prior to the Platform/NintendoDS {{Remake}} this was the only way to play ''Dragon Quest V'' in English. In 2002, the final [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] translation patch was released and received with much joy, and in 2010, what many thought to be impossible happened: the [[Platform/PlayStation2 PS2]] version got a ''complete'' translation patch, an achievement to be proud and thankful of, due how ungodly hard and time consuming is to translate and patch a [=PS2=] game. No wonder ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' for [=PS2=] remains as one of the very few, and well known, originally [[NoExportForYou Japan Only]] [=PS2=] games to ever be graced with a translation patch.
* NoExportForYou: The original SNES version didn't get an overseas release, due at least in part to the fact that the game's programming was such a mess that it wasn't considered to be worth the effort and money to localize it for a market to which the ''Dragon Quest'' series was still relatively obscure. At that point in time, ''Dragon Quest'' had consistently floundered in competition against ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' overseas, while in Japan, it triumphed over ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' quite a lot. Then comes the [=PS2=] {{Remake}}. While the franchise had managed to gain some ground outside Japan at this point, the [=PS2=] remake of ''Dragon Quest V'' still didn't get an international release. Only in 2008 could the rest of the world (legally) enjoy ''Dragon Quest V'' in non-Japanese languages with the release of its Nintendo DS remake.
* RemadeForTheExport: The Nintendo DS remake was the first version to be released outside of Japan.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda:
** A popular rumor among Japanese players at the time of the game's release was that [[spoiler:Estark]] would join the player's party if he was defeated within a certain number of turns. While this isn't true, it eventually led to two cases of AscendedFanon of sorts, with [[spoiler: the {{Superboss}} of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' teaming up with the heroes if defeated quickly enough]] and [[spoiler: Estark's son Starkers becoming a recruitable character after Estark is defeated in remakes of the game]].
** For many years there was a persistent rumor on the internet that on original game on the Super Nintendo (which [[NoExportForYou never made it out of Japan]]), that if the player chose "wrongly" in the LoveTriangle by marrying Nera instead of Bianca, various characters would be hit with DiabolusExMachina -- Bianca's ill father will succumb to DeathByDespair, Bianca herself would be forced to eke out a living as an abused barmaid, Nera's UnluckyChildhoodFriend Crispin would be miserable, and that Nera is near-useless in battle on top of this (Can't level up past LV 10 and is uncontrollable during the second generation in the SFC Version). This myth went un-busted until September 2014, when Dragon's Den, the largest English-language ''Dragon Quest'' fan site, tracked down a video of a play-through where the player marries Nera and none of this happens. Dragon's Den proceeded to trace the source of the rumor and found it originated as a [[BlackComedy dark joke]] in one of the first online [=FAQs=] for the game, which predates even the first fan translation; since this FAQ was many Western players' first experience with ''DQV'', [[http://www.woodus.com/forums/index.php?/topic/30585-just-need-something-cleared-up-dqv-related/ it was taken at face value, and thus nobody married Nera to verify the claim for years.]]
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