@Lucky Shot  
1: No, your assumptions are just that: assumptions. Literally nothing you have given is actual evidence towards the manual AND the official guide getting it wrong, and the burden of proof is on you, not me. Heck, you haven’t even proven that Ricky’s gender was left unknown in the original instruction manual.
 
2: Over every single thing, no, but that’s different from them having lists of translation-related questions and tacking on minor ones like “what is Ricky’s gender”, which does happen in localization. No one implied that they phone called up NoJ just to ask them that.
 
3: Unless contradicted later, instruction manuals are always canon, as they are official supplementary guides for the game in question. Who specifically writes them is irrelevant, as they are given official permission to write said information.
 
4: I literally named all the examples in the link I showed you. Just because you think I didn’t know of those examples before giving you a link (as it was much more expedient way of answering your question), doesn’t mean I actually didn’t.
 
5: My point is that your claim that a Nintendo game did it accurately before means that this one also did it accurately; you pointing out that Capcom (and not Nintendo) created the character makes your claim even weaker, so thanks.

this is oddly adorable

@Lucky Shot
 
I’m partially responsible for this. I apologize.

This is overall a waste of my time. I won’t be accused of presumption and ignorance on a brony site.

@Fwelin
 

@Lucky Shot  
So, you’re assuming that the original instruction booklet didn’t specify gender, AND that the NoA localizers made his gender up (when they could have easily just asked NoJ if the original manual didn’t specify), AND that the NP writers also got their information from the instruction book only? That’s a ton of assumptions with nothing backing them other than “it’s happened in other games”.
 
It’s not even actually relevant, as the English instruction manual stating it means that regardless of whether the original states it or not, until it’s contradicted in a future English Zelda game or official source of information, it’s still canon to the English version of the franchise.
 
As for male kangaroos with pouches, this page names several, as well as other examples of authors mistaking or ignoring gender specific features in animals:
 
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimalGenderBender
 
Also, Kangaskhan was created by Game Freak, not Nintendo.

@Fwelin
 
Ricky is referred to as male in the English-language game manuals, which can be hand-waved both as the reason for the English Nintendo Power’s portrayal of the character as male, and as a translation issue; the Japanese language frequently either uses gender-neutral pronouns, or excludes them from sentences completely. As another consequence of this, the horse Agro from Shadow of the Colossus is canonically female but referred to as “he” in the English game’s tutorial hints because the Japanese game gave no gender at all.
 
As for other male fictional kangaroos with pouches, can you name one? The only rideable male kangaroos I can remember are the critters from Bomberman, but you ride on their backs.
 
Nintendo has also otherwise recognized that only female kangaroos have pouches - Kangaskhan are female-only.

@Lucky Shot  
I’m not talking about Prima; I’m talking about the official guide by Nintendo Power. They were of much higher quality than Prima and didn’t make mistakes of laziness like that back then, and had a direct information line to Nintendo of America for the purpose of said guides. Even if that doesn’t convice you, both instruction manuals for Oracle of Ages and Seasons also state that Ricky is a male.
 
Male kangaroos having pouches is quite common in fiction, so that doesn’t really mean anything.

@Blissey1
 
I know that; I was just stating that I owned and liked the game.

@Dirty Bit  
He said the prima guide for it was bad, not the game itself

@Lucky Shot
 
Hey, I own Tales of Zestiria :U Not a bad game.

@Fwelin
 
Nintendo doesn’t make their official strategy guides; they’re licensed out to Prima.
 
And Prima is well-known for varying wildly between actually decent proper guides, and completely awful guides laden with misprints, mixed-up information, and in some cases, consistently giving the wrong solutions to parts of the game.
 
Examples of really bad Prima guides:  

@Lucky Shot  
Ricky wqs stated to be @Lucky Shot  
The official OoA/S strategy guide by Nintendo called Ricky a guy.

@Lucky Shot
 
Hmmm, true. I keep forgetting about that part.

@Dirty Bit
 
Ricky’s gender isn’t bluntly stated IIRC, and she has a pouch, which only female kangaroos have…

@Dirty Bit  
Oh. I never picked up on that.

“But I book from there!”
 
”Not right now ya don’t.“

@Officer Hot-Pants
 
Ricky’s a dude in Oracle of Ages XD
 
And I think it was just a cave or something. Been a while since I played the game.

@Js T. Guy  
We’re CLEARLY not looking at the same pictures.
 
 
@Dirty Bit  
I’m glad that reference wasn’t for nothing. Couldn’t remember which temple you needed her to reach but meh. The spirit of it was there.

@Salamenace
 
Ha

That book’s gonna feel very damp and slimy. Case in point…

@Officer Hot-Pants
 
I thought of Oracle of Ages, myself XD

I want to take those books and burn them

@Lucky Shot  
Lol! And I did not think of that. XD Nice shot!
 
I am certain of she enjoys when books rub her boobs, while she’s jumping.

ah, the classic story of dot and the bookroo.