Dreamer RD
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Star Ocean Last Hope has different chars portraits, and not only that game I guess. Probably some Tales of.. game had the same.
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Awesome regional differences in games
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RockmanWhore
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Bankoiia said:
That reminds me that I'm always disapointed that there aren't some "japanese ratchet " skins in the Ratchet games, even tought there are always tons of skins to unlock. Maybe we should start a petition or spam Insomniac's twitter. It's such a shame, J-Ratchet looks so funny.
Dreamer RD
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Marrshu said:
Wow, didnt knew that, thanks.
About Xenosaga - there is a lot of differences indeed.
My personal "favorite" is in EPisode 2. When Albedo shoots his head with pistol in Jap version, while in EU/US just with some kind of energy ball. Overall Xenosaga censorship is ridiculous :|
Dreamer RD said:
It's not just censorship. They changed lots of stuff. For example. Tech Attacks were originally Deathblows, and the items followed the same naming scheme as Xenogears. Aquagist, Rosegist, and Zetagist instead of Med Kit, Ether Pack, and Revive.
Roto13 said:
Ma Belle Pêche. Some minor spoilers for Xenosaga 1 in the video.
The scene in question is actually censored in the Japanese version too, just not in the same way. In the US version, they removed his knife (he chops off his head and hand), but in the Japanese version, the angle is... awkward when he cuts his head off. The video in question is the pretty much the closest to uncensored the scene gets.
Crispin Freeman's performance is so awesome.
Diablohead
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Same I think he does it if you stand still for a few seconds in the PAL version, otherwise he just stands there happy.Professor Beef said:
Saying that and looking there is a difference, Ristar when standing there has a
sort of face instead of a :| one.
Yep, the entire Xenosaga series was butchered to hell in America. Albedo breaking the arms of the 100 series Realians (who look like little girls) and tossing them around, then pulling out a knife and cutting off his own arm and head. Later he fishes around inside MOMO's abdomen for data.Roto13 said:
In XS2 young Albedo pulls out a gun and blows his head off (in the US version its some kind of energy orb).
In X3 there is a scene where where Shion is cupping her hands full of someone's blood. In the US version all blood is removed from the entire game. That scene just has her staring at her empty hands.
Dreamer RD said:Star Ocean Last Hope has different chars portraits, and not only that game I guess. Probably some Tales of.. game had the same.
In the case of Tales of..., The only one with anything like this was Tales of Hearts for DS (only released in Japan), which offered an anime version, and a CG version. The CG version flopped big time, as far as I'm aware.
The PAL version of Digimon World 3, known as Digimon World 2003, lets you continue the game after the ending. Specifically, it "allows the player to vist a BETA version of the Amaterasu Server and challenge the four real Amaterasu Leaders and the Server Champ." (via) The US and JP versions do not.
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Dreamer RD
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True. + jap songs replace in openings.Rarutos said:
Marrshu said:
WTF they were thinking %]
And yeah, that ma belle scene is amazing. Freeman perfectly fitting the character.
In 3 episode they removed all blood, right? Not to mention some scenes, including Shion shower.
Luigi87 said:
Exactly. Forgot that game.
Professor Beef
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I still haven't beaten that game, and it's been nearly 5 years. I keep getting lost and forgetting where I'm supposed to go, and it doesn't help that there's no quick-travel of any kind.salromano said:The PAL version of Digimon World 3, known as Digimon World 2003, lets you continue the game after the ending. Specifically, it "allows the player to vist a BETA version of the Amaterasu Server and challenge the four real Amaterasu Leaders and the Server Champ." (via) The US and JP versions do not.
Dreamer RD said:
No clue what they were thinking, and yeah, all the blood is gone from the US version. Makes a certain scene extremely jarring in the English release. Albedo blasting himself with ether in the US version was actually an improvement, given where he got the gun from in the Japanese version made no sense.
Gvaz said:
Probably because they're both Square Enix/Mistwalker games respectively, with a different developer. =P
I actually like the color scheme of the English Star Ocean TLH better myself.
Dreamer RD
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Marrshu said:
Nigredo also got a pistol somewhere. Remember his threatening Yuriev scene?
Rhazer Fusion
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Surprised no one mentioned Streets of Rage 3/Bare Kunckle 3 on the Genesis/Megadrive.
There were a lot of UNNECESSARY changes in that game. Main characters outfit's colors were changed for some peculiar reason. The controversial first mid boss was deleted instead of being altered which also translated into one less playable character, female enemies were censored, some enemies and characters names were changed and the storyline was drastically changed. Overall, the US version was great and all, but the Japanese version was definitely the better version.
There were a lot of UNNECESSARY changes in that game. Main characters outfit's colors were changed for some peculiar reason. The controversial first mid boss was deleted instead of being altered which also translated into one less playable character, female enemies were censored, some enemies and characters names were changed and the storyline was drastically changed. Overall, the US version was great and all, but the Japanese version was definitely the better version.
Why would you do that?
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I remember reading that the Famicom's audio pins are in the cartridge slot. At first, only the FDS used the pins for enhanced audio (the FDS's BIOS is in a cartridge called the RAM Adapter and has the audio generator in it) but later, regular cartridges took advantage of the audio pins.PixyJunket said:
However, the NES's audio pins are only in the expansion slot on the bottom, presumably because Nintendo thought they'd release the FDS here, moving its BIOS into the base unit (instead of having both a cartridge and a base unit), and I guess they didn't anticipate regular cartridges with extra sound channels. But of course, since no peripherals that used the expansion port were released here, no Western games had enhanced audio.
I'm a little curious as to how you hooked up the extra audio pin. Did you go all out and do it internally?
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Japanese Metroid, but didn't know the Japanese Kid Icarus used it, too. Time to do some listenin'...PixyJunket said:
Sengoku Basara/Devil Kings
Capcom basically removed all the Japanese influence in the western version. You're fighting in a "demon world" instead of the Sengoku era, all the historical figures got name changes (Masamune Date is Azure Dragon, Nobunaga is Devil King, etc.) and they added DMC's battle music in certain battles.
Capcom basically removed all the Japanese influence in the western version. You're fighting in a "demon world" instead of the Sengoku era, all the historical figures got name changes (Masamune Date is Azure Dragon, Nobunaga is Devil King, etc.) and they added DMC's battle music in certain battles.
JP - Donald Duck | EUA - Snoppy
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But nothing beat the Crazy Castle series !
Specialy the Game Boy version !
Garfield Labyrinth in Europe
The Real Ghostbusters in the USA
Mickey Mouse IV: Mahou no Labyrinth in Japan
And on a little more "patriotic" note ...
Somebody had the crazy idea to take a popular Brazilian children comic books and put it into the insanely punishing and cruel "Monster boy in Monster Land" !
But nothing beat the Crazy Castle series !
Specialy the Game Boy version !
Garfield Labyrinth in Europe
The Real Ghostbusters in the USA
Mickey Mouse IV: Mahou no Labyrinth in Japan
And on a little more "patriotic" note ...
Somebody had the crazy idea to take a popular Brazilian children comic books and put it into the insanely punishing and cruel "Monster boy in Monster Land" !
UncleSporky
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Also, in the US version, fleamen looked like this:Lucky Number Seven Force said:For a rare audio example, the US version of Castlevania III lacked the VRC6 chip that the Famicom version had implemented. The added sound channels make the tracks in the Famicom version sound better than the ones in the NES version.
Here's the NES version of the Stage 1 theme:
...And here's the (superior) Famicom version
Castlevania III in general had some subtle differences between the US and JP versions, this being one of them:
They animated constantly as if they were wiggling and it's kind of hard to tell what they are. The sprite doesn't read well.
But in the Japanese version, they were small gremlin creatures, and instead of wiggling all the time they had a standing pose and a jumping pose:
Also, here's a little localization change in the game Faxanadu that I always thought was funny:
As usual, they removed the crosses from the game...but the idiots left the shadow behind!
Zoramon089
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Roto13 said:
They made an entirely new version (Blue), which all the worldwide versions were then based on instead and Green, thankfully, faded into obscurity
The mini games in Red Dead Redemption were pretty much unplayable on a japanese console. Every time you hit X to confirm something you backed out of it and made the 'quit?' prompt appear, eg. for every new round of poker. Arm wrestling was impossible to beat due to you having to mash the X button.. They later fixed this with a patch even though the game never were released in Japan.Clipper said:
GillianSeed79
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There's some cool differences between the Sega CD version and the Japanese version of Snatcher it was based on.
Probably the most well known is that one character, Katrina, is 14 in the Japanese version while she's 18 in the US version. Why doest it matter? Because there's a nude shower scene in the Japanese version. There's a shower scene in the US version, but I believe there's no nudity. I'd call that cool because in the US version you aren't a pedo. There's also a porno, no video just sound, in the Japanese version. Ironically, while a lot of the nudity and sex-related stuff was edited out, you could call a phone sex line in the US version that was hilarious.
Probably the most well known is that one character, Katrina, is 14 in the Japanese version while she's 18 in the US version. Why doest it matter? Because there's a nude shower scene in the Japanese version. There's a shower scene in the US version, but I believe there's no nudity. I'd call that cool because in the US version you aren't a pedo. There's also a porno, no video just sound, in the Japanese version. Ironically, while a lot of the nudity and sex-related stuff was edited out, you could call a phone sex line in the US version that was hilarious.
UncleSporky said:Also, here's a little localization change in the game Faxanadu that I always thought was funny:
As usual, they removed the crosses from the game...but the idiots left the shadow behind!
Interesting to see a kanji font in a Famicom game... most of the games I've seen have strictly kana fonts.
It was different in the marketing, but the ingame models were the same. The picture of JP Crash you quoted is from the Japanese version of Crash Tag Team Racing (compared to this).Ratrat said:
Crash Boom Bang, the shitty DS party game also used a different in-game model for Crash, but only him. Though, being made by Dimps, everyone by default had their JP designs. Crash himself was the only one that changed.
R_thanatos
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Actually the European version went and did a mix of both ..Roto13 said:Dragon Ball/Dragon Power (Famicom/NES)
Yup. That's Goku.
The best part is where they change Master Roshi and his love of panties into a different old man who totally digs sandwiches.
Roshi is back BUT without the panties ( and with dialogs that probably went JAP>us> EUR [french in my case]
RESULT : everyone except GOKU have changed names and the balance of the game ( horrible in jap ) is even worse .. and thanks to the NTSC > PAL conversion , the music became crap. the timer was even faster .. yeahhhh
I'll forget that part where GOKU has to go on the MOON ( on a rocket if my memory serves ) instead of going into the dragon ball tournament .
Super Mario 64.
The Japanese version doesn't have Voice Acting for Peach and Mario has way more lines in the American Version.
Not to forget,the Red Coin sound effect rises in pitch with each coin collected,while in the Japanese Version,the pitch stayed the same.
There's also a different Painting.Left Version is the Japanese orginal,right is the American version.
SM64 was also rerelased in Japan,with the changes from the american version and rumble pak support as the "Shindou Editon"
(Source:TMK)
The Japanese version doesn't have Voice Acting for Peach and Mario has way more lines in the American Version.
Not to forget,the Red Coin sound effect rises in pitch with each coin collected,while in the Japanese Version,the pitch stayed the same.
There's also a different Painting.Left Version is the Japanese orginal,right is the American version.
SM64 was also rerelased in Japan,with the changes from the american version and rumble pak support as the "Shindou Editon"
(Source:TMK)
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Do tellMarrshu said:
Barrow Roll
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I think it's about 50/50 on which has better sprites. I mean, look at R/B Blastoise. And what's the deal with upside down Koffing?Ultratech said:
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Some cool replies to this thread, thanks a lot guys. Clipper, I knew about the X/O switching on PS3 regions but hadn't heard that Bloodstone was unbeatable due to it. That's really hilarious.
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I actually prefer Green's sprites to RB's with a few exceptions. As a whole the sprites look so fresh compared to the set in stone style we have now and a lot of them have much more interesting poses and dynamic. They're genuinely creepy/threatening looknig too.