/vr/ - Retro Games

Most likely censored. Australia tends to be more hardline about censoring than any other country in the world.

>>4750006
The controls are inverted, of course.

>>4750008
games weren't subject to censorship in this country until ~1994 when the film classification board, run by the govt, started to regulate games as well

They are occasionally superficially different to the regular PAL release because we don't require languages other than English.
I suppose for archival purposes that's enough to qualify as a separate release.

>>4750117

>>4750008
Haha we have so much stuff in common with Germany. I bet you thought concentration camps were the extent of it. Nope! Shameful videogame bullshit, too!

>>4750006

Two of those games I recognise are roms of piggy-back carts by the company HES so the Australian versions are actually significant.

Sidewinder is one of the few carts I still have left.

>>4750693
Interesting. I didn't know that.

>>4750006
I don't think any of these games were released in Europe, making these the sole PAL release.

>>4750849
Possibly.

>>4750876
TMNT2 is the only one of those I recall getting a European release, and it was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 2 here, so I assume the Australian release kept the "Ninja" name.

>>4750008
Incorrect

The games graphics are redrawn to be upside down

>>4750846
yeah, the first game to get refused classification (banned) here was Phantasmagoria iirc

>>4750006
>dats not a noif

>>4752278
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=315K79PJ_KE

>>4751034
Only UK has the hero turtle title. I played tnmt2 pal as a kid (finland)

>>4752306
>NAW IM NOT FECKIN SCARED IM JUST CONFUSED
KEK

>>4750008
Australia does censor stuff up the ass, but I can't imagine something called Pinball Quest would be victim to censorship

The Australian censorship policies contrast so heavily to the rowdy Australian stereotypes you come across that it's comical.

"Oi, ya fuckin' cunt, nix that bloody gore, you can't have that shit here, and watch yer fuckin' language while yer at it."
*downs entire beer can in 5 seconds*

>>4752928
Only because of >>4750693
If it had been released after that point, who knows.

>>4752947
>We can't let children see this hardcore violence. Now if you'll excuse me I have to shoot up in public.
https://uniting.org/who-we-help/for-adults/sydney-medically-supervised-injecting-centre

>>4752618
And I played TMHT2 as a kid in Norway. "Hero" was the European title.

Seems like a good thread to ask. What are all the b, o or p versions supposed to be? There's others too. Just some modified roms?

>>4750006
The data is not exactly the same, hence the ROMs have different names. There may be no difference for people who simply want to play games in most cases.

>>4753126
b = bad dump
o = overdump
p = pirate

>>4753126
[b] stands for bad dump, [o] for overdump and [p] for pirate cart.

The purpose of the goodtools were to index all existing roms so you could use them to find out which version of a rom you had and replace crappy dumps with better ones, it's a relic from the era when there were tons of rom sites and tons of rom dumpers all over the internet and common carts got dumped a dozen times by people that may or may not know what they're doing.

>>4753167
Okay thanks

>>4753126
[a] Alternate - [a] This is simply an alternate version of a ROM. Many games have been re-released to fix bugs or even to eliminate Game Genie codes (Yes, Nintendo hates that device).

[p] Pirate - Usually reskinned official titles

[b] Bad Dump Probably won't boot and even if it does, in game crashes are likely

[t] Trained - Means it has those gay ass technicolor menus on boot that often have cheats or something you can turn on

[f] "Fixed" - Modified ROM for janky emulators to be able to play a game "correctly"

[T-] OldTranslation

[T+] NewerTranslation

[h] Hack

(-) Unknown Year

[o] Overdump - ROM image where the person dumping did it wrong and there is more data (useless data) than is *actually* in the game wrong. Usually harmless, but technically not an accurate dump.

[!] Verified Good Dump

(M#) Multilanguage (# of Languages)

(###) Checksum - If you don't know what this is, ignore it and never boot it

(Unl) Unlicensed

>>4753170
Fairly interesting. And yea have some ancient goodset collection. Makes sense then.

>>4753193
Goodset collections are mostly just a result of rom sites missing the point entirely. The reason Goodtools recognize shitty dumps is so that you can realize you have a shitty dump, then delete it and go download a better replacement, not so that you can collect every shitty dump some retard made in order to have a "complete collection".

>>4750117
Underrated post

>>4753209
Thank god for No-Intro.

>>4750006
>Ninja Turtles
>not Hero Turtles
From this I am assuming that the Australian versions are uncensored PAL speed alterations to differenciate them from the supposedly modified (E) versions. Euros had to put up with Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, we didn't. Makes sense to me at least.

>>4752947
We play up the stereotypes because we'd rather be seen as that than the bloody poofter softcock nation that we have truly become.

>>4754360
It's literally the most obvious joke you could make.

>>4750006
>What is the point of this? Are the Australian versions of games different somehow?
Funny this is here. I had a real question about AUS hardware. Does an AUS memory card for PSX differ from the Americas version? I was looking at clear orange ones, and they seem to only be available from AUS, and I don't mind waiting.

>>4750117
Goddammit, you made me laugh

>>4753167
>>4753179
"Overdumps" aren't exactly all "overdumped" ROMs. If you artificially expand a ROM and just fill it with random words and sentences, you could send it off to the NonGood section of ROMShepherd, and it'll be noted as an (o) if that Cowering pleb ever actually updates anything. (He's probably dead, and I don't care.) Many hacks are listed as (o) when that's the intended hack. Open a SMB (o) with a hex editor, on of them has some sentence about a lamppost or something.

Someone needs to fully take over that retard's shit. I like my hacks, but no one uploads anything except for pakkie.

>>4759073
All of our existence is fake. This "century" is an idea that has persisted for thousands of "years".

the "super nintendo" is a philosophical experiment for galactic minds to dream into

nothing more.
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