/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5757514
Burger kids don't read, anon.

why beyond oasis was called The Story of Thor in Japan and Europe

>>5757524

>>5757514
I know right? The story isn't important but you at least know why Dark Demon literally hijacked the show.

He's actually the smiley face medal around his neck. He was meant to be an award for the best puppet but he thought that meant he was the best puppet

why Bare Knuckle was renamed to Streets of Rage

Honestly the dialogue is shitty and irrelevant. It's a game where you beat the shit out of things with your face. The only questionable changes are characters turned into robots.

>>5757538
>The only questionable changes are characters turned into robots.
Violence against women. Same for this >>5757530 and Poison (a burger feminist association threatened to sue them until they did that)

It's not questionable either, it's how REAL LOCALIZATION should be done, clearly.
Things came full circle as the practice is now part of Sony of California's guidelines today. They were the party that demanded women NPCs in Assassin Creed be invulnerable.

Dynamite Headdy is the golden standard for modern game localizations.
>burger team hates the immature story so they make up something different (usually edgy or serving a greater cause™) for shakespearian audiences
>burger team hates spending money so they cut as much as possible from the work they're hired to do to minimize "expenses"
>burger team loves money and despise the playerbase so they make it as tedious as possible to finish so that it's rental unfriendly
>burger team hates chinks so they completely redo any packaging that's too "different" or "foreign" looking, even if that means getting people who can't draw to do it, or hire the first homeless person they see on the streets to do the artwork (Phalanx)

>>5757524
>Beyond Oasis
But they made it more diverse! Leo became Ali, despite the medieval setting. To compensate, the clearly black character in the sequel is now caucasian on the american package art (which has 100% less anime too!) Don't you love it when localizations "mix up" stuff?

>>5757514
Honestly, it improves pacing and also enhances the golden age cartoon feel. DH was the original Cuphead

>>5757538
Except the difficulty changes, I prefer what they did to the western release of Dynamite Headdy. Those pieces of dialogue slowed the pace of the game and didn't add anything of susbtance (an you could read the story in the game's manual anyway). The robots were good designs which fit the artstyle of the game. And the addition of the H letter inside the spotlight made much easier to know your enegy level.

Also, the puns of the stage names were funny and more memorable than the japanese titles.

Yeah, why did they change Cosmo Gang The Puzzle to Pac-Attack?

>>5757743
there's text in cuphead tho

And why did they change Akashiyaki to Neo Kobe Pizza in the localized SEGA CD version?

>>5757514
Its just way cheaper to scrub the text than to translate it

>>5758614
Maybe because Americans wouldn't have had any idea what takoyaki was back then? I certainly wouldn't have.

Also another thing is that why did they change Bikkuri Nekketsu Shin Kiroku! Harukanaru Kin Medal to Crash 'n' the Boys Street Challenge and making all the environments from stadiums and track and field to ghetto urban places

Too Headdy for murrika

>>5757743
>the original cuphead
Get the fuck out of here with this shit

>>5758624
Stop you're making me hungry.

>>5757514
They did this in Clockwork Knights as well.

>>5757514

The palette changes in SOR3, I know about the "gender neutral" excuse, and it still makes no damn sense.

>>5758626
They americanized it. Even if it doesn't make any real sense why this big athletic competition is taking place in back alleys and abandoned lots.
American Technos was trying to make Crash 'n' the Boys a franchise, the whole thing clearly crashed and burned though. Since Ice Challenge, Soccer League, and the SNES Baseball one never came out.

Castlevania 3's NES version changed a rabbit monster into the flea men from the first game

>>5758912
Spearow

>>5757724
honestly, the good part of learning Japanese is just being able to play the real thing. No wasting time on someone else's idea of what the thing is, just read/listen and you know.

Granted I'm one to talk since I'm barely able to do either, but still...such thoughts are my encouragement to keep going. The more I see that I can understand, the better I feel to keep going.

>>5759075
They should have tried harder to market Kunio-Kun himself as an American teenager. River City Ransom is fondly remembered, they could have gone with that and tied it all together, but no, they had to fuck it all up.

That one Ranma 1/2 game that got localized as Street Combat. Why would you even bother localizing the game if you're going to overhaul it that much? It's not like it was a very good game in the first place.

>>5759606
I definitely don't understand why they tried to "reinvent" Kunio in the states, RCR had enough recognition I'm sure.

Calling it River City Street Challenge, or something might of led to more sales. Maybe we would've gotten more Nekketsu games that way,

>>5759569
i think it was because in japan hunchbacks were banned for a period since it was people with malformations.

>>5758626
>Bikkuri Nekketsu Shin Kiroku! Harukanaru Kin Medal
I mean it doesn't exactly roll of the tongue to an English speaker. Better question is why didn't they keep the River City name choice from the previous localization?

>>5758601
Who?

>>5759750
>Better question is why didn't they keep the River City name choice from the previous localization?
Same reason they call that one "River City Ransom" and not "Renegade 2: Downtown" I guess?

Crash 'n' the Boys Street Challenge was actually when they started treating the series as a franchise and not as a bunch of unconnected games that looked kinda similar, it's just that their plans to localize the hockey games as Crash 'n' the Boys Ice Challenge never came through.

>>5757724
>They were the party that demanded women NPCs in Assassin Creed be invulnerable.
I would, unironically, do this, but also make them so they can attack the player and "promise" to fix it Soon™ and then remove all women from the game instead.

Everyone loses. Players get fucked, game gets review bombed, hits the news and people start squabbling, players in pro-consumer countries are entitled to refunds, and women don't get represented.

>>5758624
It takes literal seconds to explain a common food item. SECONDS. "Teriyaki, grilled meat marinated in a sweet and tangy sauce" LITERAL FUCKING SECONDS and I don't even LIKE Japanese food.

>>5758601
>Yeah, why did they change Cosmo Gang The Puzzle to Pac-Attack?

To be able to sell copies if given a recognizable name like Pac-Man for the western markets

>>5759629
>>5759606
>>5759750
>>5759980
From my understanding, River City Ransom underperformed in sales back in the day and only became a cult-classic after the fact when it was memed during the early years of the internet.

That's why they never made River City brand until recently when they started localizing the newer Kunio games on the DS and 3DS for brand recognition purposes (they sure as hell stopped trying to Americanized them anymore).

>>5759980
They had big plans for Crash 'n' the Boys, not just Ice Hockey, but the second Soccer game, and the Baseball game on SNES too.
But Street Challenge completely tanked, not too hard to imagine why either.

>>5760537
Oh I know RCR wasn't exactly this run away success or anything, but it was still a known game, and it certainly would've did better than trying to reinvent the IP... again.

>>5757514
Americans like action not convo.

>>5760449
And those are a few seconds taking away from the game's plot or gameplay. I think it'd be fine in a manga/anime, but in a game you don't really want TL Notes (and the majority of people dislike those even in manga and anime).
Admittedly I haven't played the game, though. Is the fact that this place sells teriyaki important, or is it just important that this is a restaurant?

>>5760624
>Street Challenge completely tanked, not too hard to imagine why either.
i can't, why

Vegas Stakes to Las Vegas Dream.

>>5759585
it was literally designed by ken sugimori

>>5761263
heck even that fish looks like basculin

>>5757514
>American version

Anerican versions of 90's games were absolutely undesirable. Censored, shitty covers, unfathomable name changes, and all too often getting the short end of the ugly stick. Even their consoles got the ugly treatment.
America was a mistake.

>>5760903
>And those are a few seconds taking away from the game's plot or gameplay
Yeah it's not like we have like 3600 of them in an hour or something

>>5761412
It's about pacing, anon. Stopping the game in its tracts to explain a nonimportant aspect of Japanese culture is disruptive. If it's important to the plot then you have to do it, but if it's a trivial change then there's no reason not to change it in localization. Americans know what a pizza place is like, they instantly get the meaning of the area just like what it was in Japanese, even if the actual type of restaurant changed. That's what localization is.

>>5761274
It looks like an odd cross between Magikarp and Basculin.

>>5760449
It's not teriyaki, it's takoyaki

>>5761530
>t. klansman

Why did they remove the references from Monster Party? Isn’t parody protected by law?

>>5764171
YOU BLEW IT UP

This one still pisses me off because you have to actively be looking for things to censor. No normal human would have even noticed this, let alone been offended in 1990.

can't believe the NTSC release censored so much of the comedy from this game

>>5764171
Try uploading one millisecond of a big label song or hollywood movie online and see how much the fair use law protects you. Spoiler fair use doesn't exist.

>>5764481
They literally had people looking for things to censor, yes.

>>5764481
>>5764856
The thing was that the game had to be sent in to NoA for approval, and if they found something "offensive", they'd send it back and tell you the game wasn't approved. Not getting your game approved would cost you considerable time and money, so companies scrubbed the games really hard to make sure nothing an NoA guy would potentially not approve of remained. It was better to go overboard than to take risks.

>>5764171
Why is he a furry

>>5758601
Same reason Puyo Puyo got changed to Kirby's Avalanche and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine: take an unknown game (in the US) and slap a well-known franchise on it

>>5762470
T. Weaboo autist.

>>5765695
and Panel De Pon became Tetris Attack.

>>5765695
Inversely, Magical Hat became Decap Attack (which is actually superior)

Hey Gang! Just eatin’ my hamburger!

>>5759601
I hope you understand how rare you are. Most people on here would rather get a terrible or spotty translation so they can rage about it, then demand someone else do a machine translation so they never have to put any work into playing the "superior" version.

Its the same with everyone who thinks localization=facist censorship. If you want to play the original so bad, learn the language and import it.

>>5766145
But... that is a hamburger. You can see the sesame seeds on the bun and the lettuce poking out.

>>5759980
Downtown Renegade would have sounded too lame and Cannon Films for the 80s.

>>5766163
> Looks at a bowl of rice and all he can see is a hamburger

Seriously, you Americans

>>5766163
>>5766170
Or was I?

>>5760449
You've ever read a Japanese novel translated? Having translator notes for every fucking meal is a chore. And in old videogames, adding text boxes wasn't always possible, so there's that too.

>>5766175
Eat your hamburgers, Kidd

>>5766165
Anon, the point was that them not keeping the River City name wasn't particularly weird because River City Ransom didn't keep the Renegade name anyway. There wasn't anything about River City Ransom that made it the game that SHOULD have been the one all the others got named after.

>>5760449
>>5761854
The "Akashiyaki" in Snatcher is actually almost certainly a reference to okonomiyaki. I said takoyaki before because I incorrectly remembered a character from Ranma having been in Sailor Moon and couldn't find her until I searched a little harder

>>5760903
It really only matters to the game that its a restaurant and okonomiyaki is fairly similar to pizza (a round bread disc with toppings) so "Neo Kobe Pizza" is a perfectly apt translation

It's also worth noting that in all this time, in this thread full of smug weebs none of them pointed out my mistake until I had to do it myself. I submit that this is proof positive these changes actually sacrifice nothing and are only protested as an act of mental masturbation.

>>5766403
"Japanese pizza" at least used to be a somewhat common name for okonomiyaki.

>>5760903
>And those are a few seconds taking away from the game's plot or gameplay.
Not a problem in a Kojambo game.

>>5766403
Was she autistic? Imagine being so obsessed with one thing (cooking) that you wear a bandolier full of spatulas.

>>5766524
Why wouldn't you put weapons in your bandolier?

>>5766524
>/a/ck/vr/asp/toy in one character
>one thing

>>5758624
America is proof that multiculturalism is shit. They have immigrants from literally every place in the world, all with their unique cuisine, yet the average American doesn't know anything other than burgers, pizza, donuts and sugar-frosted cereals. When you mix different cultures together, people are not "enriched," everyone just gets dragged down towards the lowest common denominator.

>>5766594
You're retarded. Literally every American has a particular cultural cuisine that's their favorite. Do you actually think if you ask a random American "Do you like Mexican or Italian food better?" they'll say "durr I only eat burgers"?

>>5766524
She was a master of okonomiyaki cooking style martial arts. Those spatulas are her weapons.

>>5766618
Americans think pizzas and chimichangas are american food

unironically

>>5766318
I had to grow up with your American cartoons and had to learn what sidewalk, jaywalking, root beer, and dollars were. You can learn some fucking snacks.

>>5766649
I don't think you know what Americans think unironically

>>5766594
>Why doesn't everyone always eat onigiri, the system is broken!

>>5766654
I still don't know what the fuck jaywalking actually is

Is it just crossing the street, is that really illegal over there?

>>5766724
Yes, you're supposed to cross at the corners. It's safer.

>>5766724
As an American I actually don't know what it is either. I'm not sure if it's crossing an intersection diagonally, or just crossing in general anywhere there's not a crosswalk. I never see it enforced regardless.

>>5766649
Chimichangas are Tex-Mex, dumbass. And pizza as Americans make it is considered a novelty in pretty much any other part of the world. I wonder, do you think sesame chicken is really from China?

>>5766724
Blame Big Automobile lobbying.

>>5765678
Planet of the Apes.

>>5766175
Damn that burger looks really good

>>5757514
Didn't they also recolor Maruyama and pretended he was a bear for absolutely no reason?

>>5766789
Most of the rest of the world call it American style or New York style pizza, and most pizza places serve both Italian pizza and American style.

>>5761278
Don't throw stones from a PAL house

The Peace Keepers

>>5767460
jesus fucking christ. what the fuck were they thinking dude?

>>5766160
Your comment is so specific it's obvious you're the weeb-hateboner reseteratard from the PC-98 machine translation thread and others, stanning for all bad translations under the sun to "own the weebs".
Still cant let it go?

>>5766594
Generally correct. It's also why regional dialects and even foreign culture is starting to decay with the rise of the internet in western countries. Everyone is slowly gravitating towards the American cultural influences without even realizing it because of the promotion of the culture and the fact that it fits the lowest common denominator, but minor quirks will always still surface before either fading away or being devoured by a ravenous mass who will proceed to strip any unique value it had and integrate it with everything else they know.

This is simply inevitable, however -- the same thing has been happening throughout time when smaller groups come in contact with larger ones. They might fight assimilation, but the more the two stay in contact, the closer they're going to draw together. Generations later, the two become mostly indiscernible from each other unless one specifically tells you what differences exist, which are now assuredly minor.

>>5766618
Thing is, american "chinese" food is not real chinese food, american "italian" resutarants don't serve real italian pizza and so on.

Americans ruin everything. Thankfully some PAL games were saved from the abyss.

>>5769906
Real Italian pizza wouldn't have tomatoes, bitch.

>>5760443
we get it, you're the most spiteful of the spiteful incels.

>>5758838
I will fucking rape you carlos

wow good fuckin' thread guys i liked the part where that dumb weeb shit on america the whole time for things that we dont even do

>>5770036
Filtered

Changing the music in Sonic CD.

Among all of the weird shit they changed for their bastardized rom hack that Sega of America made, the one thing that still baffles me the most is changing the color schemes on Axel, Blaze, and Skate's for "gender neutral" colors.

>>5769906
And both of them are still better than the "real" thing. I'd rather have sweet and sour pork with ketchup and pineapple sauce than authentic fried rat tails drenched in sewer sludge.

>>5766724
It's walking across the street outside of the crosswalks. Generally, it's only enforced if it's a busy street and you're trying to run across the middle when there's a crosswalk not too far away, so the cars have to stop for you.

>>5770062
This one boggled my mind too. I hate Axl's shirt.

>>5769926
What did he actually mean by this

>>5770062
The difficulty changes made to nearly every late Mega Drive release by Sega of America were far more egregious. Like imagine shitting all over the devs and completely ruining games in some cases just because Blockbuster existed.

>>5770191
I prefer the American version in that case. I thought the original was too boring.

>>5770005
Not sure how that makes one an incel.

>>5770198
I imported the Japanese version of Devil May Cry 3, the normal mode was trivial, and hard mode was easy.

>>5770592
No, what makes you incel is your hideous face, no need to thank me.

>>5770592
>>5770608
That's how you know the person you're speaking with is an SJW from resetera who is defending shitty translations out of spite to gaaamerzzz weebs or to "subvert" them with new more "correct" messages".
As you're against him, you're a thorn in social justice's side and thus he needs to combat your toxic masculinity at display (internalized if you're a girl) by telling you you're unfuckable and thus worthless.
Don't you just see reason and admit already unfun burger edits of games are the best because the games are already shit so the shittiest version that makes you shitstains hate yourself the most is the best thing to grace existence? Learn empathy already you incel.

>>5758614
Because they were fucking based

>changing Al Capone to “Vicente De Marco”

>>5771080
Take your meds, psycho

>>5767428
This is actually a really big compromise, the reason localized natsume games had the small static logo is because they were saving as much space on the cart as possible in order to ensure the text localization can actually fit since any language that uses a non-asian alphabet usually requires a lot more characters to represent the same words in Asian characters.

>>5764856
they couldn't censor Hitler's exploding head in Bionic Commando

>>5766724
Are you retarded? I'm not even a bloody seppo and I know what it is, maybe in your Somalian shithole you don't have laws

>>5773037
Yeah I don't understand why (((they))) would have left that part in.

>>5764171
Slavery is a contentious issue in the US.

>>5773392
Not really. Nobody gives a fuck since it last happened 150 years ago, well before even our grandparent's lifetimes. The only ones who still harp about it and act wounded are ghetto blacks who want a handout as compensation despite the fact they get to live in a first world country and receive all the benefits that come with it thanks to their ancestors being slaves. You'd think they'd be happy.

they replaced the robot lady's voice over with a harmony tune

>>5773368
(((What)))

>>5773741
He's saying that the Jews let them keep in Hitler dying. But they already changed his name to Master D.

>>5774086
Why would a Jew not want to see Hitler die

>In the Dragon Warrior games all references to religion or christianity were removed.
>Crosses were replaced with pentagrams, because christianity in a medieval church is too much for americans, but satanic stars are A-OK.

>>5774103
That's why I don't even bother with western games, seriously. You get worse boxart, censorship, and pointless localization changes like Bill Clinton jokes

>>5774103

>>5774107
In the original Japshit you get gay fuckbois, sluts that still act frigid and snore inducing "story" with 17 quotes.

>>5761278
>PALfag talking any shit on American versions pre-6th gen

>>5774107
Hey I did not have relations with that girl.

>>5774103
All the better to serve the spawns of Moloch

>>5760449
Why would a character explain something that the other character would already know about? That's absolutely retarded. This isn't one of your japanese mangos *EDITORS NOTE* shit doesn't work.

>>5774157
I dunno, why does Quistis explain to Squall how to use his Gunblade, and why does everyone in Metal Gear Solid explain shit a special forces infiltration specialist would know? Stop being a faggot.

>>5766403
Ukyo the best

>>5770005
Don't get so asspained over a shitpost. Just have sex.

>>5766175
So it was originally a jelly doughnut? Weird change.

>>5764506
That's not parody, though. Recreate the scene as a humorous one yourself and you're fine.

>>5774228
Nope, hollywood will still demonetize you.

The New Generation was a fitting name for the Euro version. Things like blood in video games or fighting back against the destruction of their ancestral homelands are too scary for any European born after WW2.
They're much more comfortable sitting at home, whining about irrelevant things that some Americans do from what they've heard. As long as they can do this, they will feel vindicated and self-righteous enough to continue doing nothing about the destruction of their countries. Arrogantly, they will continue down a path fit for cabbages - cheering passionately every time more of their freedoms are stripped away, probably on reddit.

>>5774310
BUT AMERICANS WEAR THEIR SHOES INSIDE THE HOUSE

>>5770046
That was because some copyright infringement on the music:

https://youtu.be/Vjb2asrjv-o

https://youtu.be/Jff1rZDh1VY

>>5758912
>tfw the second game was never released

>>5760449
>>5758624
Do they depict the food at all in this scene? If the player can see it they'll likely understand it's food no matter what they're looking at.

>>5766175

>>5774310
>self-righteous enough to continue doing nothing about the destruction of their countries
ironic

>>5774103
what's weird is how sometimes the crosses still show up, like in Zelda or Castlevania 3
I don't fucking understand how these decisions were made

>>5773735

DO AMERICANS LITERALLY

why the Jetsons Invasion of the Planet Pirates was reskinned to Youkai Buster Ruka no Daibouken. Did they not have Cartoon Network JP when this game came out?

>>5774727
Be careful, anon. That meme might violate Article 13.

All of the English voice acting in Clock Tower 2 is different from the NA released version (Clock Tower) despite it being the exact same dialouge. Never understood why they would redo it for the Western release. And it's not just the intro, The WHOLE GAME was completely redone.

https://youtu.be/90Z5XZOFcPg?t=155
https://youtu.be/f6wqsTTu0yg?t=239

>>5774712
It's fully playable and available as a rom, a very fun game.

>>5766403
>Akashiyaka
>takoyaki
>okonomiyaki

>>5766724
crossing the street by foot at an inappropriate place, one that would impede vehicle traffic unnecessarily. That kind of thing is illegal here, though if you dig beneath the surface, you learn that it really stems from the auto industry lobbying to lock out other forms of transportation.

You'll also find that actual jaywalking charges are rare. It's usually only in a place where the police policy is to be a hardass, most cops don't give that many shits. It's a pretty stupid law anyway.

Now then, I gotta address how absurd the bomberman series is on Game Boy. In Japan, the first GB game is called Bomber Boy, but in the US, it was turned into Atomic Punk, and has this horrendous artwork added for those good old-fashioned "american stylistic sensibilities" (notice the abbreviation of that phrase). Then, Bomberman GB gets released in Japan, and in America they pull a fuckin tectoy and turn it into a Wario game called Wario Blast (TCRF comparisons are amusing here). Then, they finally bring an unedited bomberman here, Bomberman GB2, but since we never got the first one (by its own name anyway) it gets renamed to Bomberman GB, aka the first game's actual name. Then Bomberman GB3 didn't even come out in the US. At least they finally fixed shit on the GB Color.

When was the turning point exactly, where US localizing companies stopped trying to change every fucking thing to appeal to "Americans"? Was it the success of Pokemon? Or maybe FF7 telling everyone it was okay to play it straight on releases?

>>5773037
story I always heard was that they never mentioned it and that the ratings board wasn't good enough to get that far. From the fact that it wasn't a big deal, I assume not many home players got that far either.

>>5774731
that's the only part that really confuses me, like why the half-steps at very obvious points? I get so many things, but that one stands out as confusing.

>>5774941
You know what else, when in Japan, the game "The English of the Dead" was created (an English-teaching game for Japanese based on House of the Dead 2) they rewrote the English script for the game, redubbed the game based off of the new script, and the dialogue is still bizarre as shit. You would think that almost 10 years later, especially in the late 2000s, when bilinguals were no doubt more common, that they would have done a more reasonable script. Maybe it was just meant to be bizarre though.

>>5757514
>tfw took forever to find this rom as a 13 year old because of American name change and I kept spelling it as 'Soliel'.

>>5757530
Because Streets of Rage sounds better

>>5757514
"Mario and Sonic don't have words so neither should our game!"

This confused me so much when the N64 games came out with better localization.

>>5759675
I believe 360leo, the guy who's been sharing anecdotes about working with Hitoshi Akamatsu, mentioning something about that.

>>5775383
Konami's localized manuals were filled with all kinds of nonsense back then.

>>5774796
Hahaha! I had to check out both versions to see if this was actually true. Seems like it's a reverse case of Super Mario USA, with a game perhaps too burger for the japs that they had to completely reskin it into something more eastern-friendly.

>>5774796
>Did they not have Cartoon Network JP when this game came out?
They did, but they had been contracted to make a Yokai Buster Ruka game, so they chose to just reskin their Jetsons game instead of making a new one and release the Jetsons game as is.
It's not all that different from how a lot of Japanese Mickey Mouse games got reskinned into Garfield and Bugs Bunny and whatnot for their western releases.

>>5775460
>perhaps too burger for the japs
Hanna Barbera are probably more popular in Japan than in the US, dumbass.

>>5775480
you mean they got a lot of Mickey Mouse games?

Why the fuck would they change grey children into mumblers in euro/jap Silent Hill?
They changed textures, Larval Stalkers and some sound effects before release, because it reminded people of actual children, but this regional difference makes no sense to me.

Also there are a bunch of nonsensical text changes between the NTSC/PAL versions, even some that are just minor punctuation:
>The door is locked! - NTSC
>The door is locked. - PAL

>>5776141
Kemco's Mickey Mouse series got localized as such:

>Japan: Mickey Mouse
>US: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
>Europe: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle

>Japan: Mickey Mouse 2
>US: Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2
>Europe: Mickey Mouse
>Germany: Hugo

>Japan: Mickey Mouse 3
>US: Kid Klown

>Japan: Mickey Mouse 4
>US: The Real Ghostbusters
>Europe: Garfield Labyrinth

>Japan: Mickey Mouse 5: Magic Wand
>US: Mickey Mouse: Magic Wand
>Europe: Mickey Mouse 5: Magic Wand

>>5775460
>Seems like it's a reverse case of Super Mario USA, with a game perhaps too burger for the japs that they had to completely reskin it into something more eastern-friendly.
It's not the first time Natsume did something like this. Apparently Shatterhand was the original version of Solbrain and not the other way around as it is generally assumed. The game was supposed to be titled Metal Commando K in Japan, but they slapped in a toku license when Natsume licensed the game to another publisher.

I've also learned the other day that the Game Boy Kunio-kun game that was released in the US as Double Dragon II was the reskin. According to Koji Ogata, a veteran pixel artist, the Double Dragon version was the original.
https://twitter.com/food2han/status/1110714469464723456

>in the Japanese version you start in America
>in the American version you start in a different country
I don’t get it.

>>5757724
>Poison (a burger feminist association threatened to sue them until they did that)
Back when beating trannies to death with a lead pipe was socially acceptable

>>5770158
Presumably that tomatoes come from the New World?

But what I want to know is who messed with the special move inputs for Splatterhouse 3 and why, it's so dumb

AvP on SFC had this sort of urban nightclub/restaurant area that was changed to a kind of generic ?? industrial area for the international release.
great thread

>>5777161
I would cut Kemco some slack on this one. They did many attempts to bring it unmodified to the West. An unedited translation of Mickey Mouse 3 was leaked as a prototype.
The one game that got out intact took the involvement of Nintendo as the publisher, and released for the original Game Boy in 1998, five years after the Japanese version (Kemco seems to have just given up on that series by then)

Disney was just a bitch to work with and had so many conditions about everything, down to which death animations are allowed, and that's just the Japanese version. For America it was compounded by more compliance scrutiny, and complicated exclusivity contracts (Maui Mallard in Japan was by Eurocom/Disney Interactive, published by Capcom, under license from the NA publisher Nintendo, just like Eurocom could not release their version of Aladdin on SNES but could on NES and the Game Boy Color)

I love how they continued Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle to its fourth installment on its own, then a fifth game with yet another swap, Woody the Woodpecker.

This is worth its own complicated chart just like series like Adventure Island and Falcom's Legend of Heroes.

>>5777559
What's weird is that Madrid is the capital of Spain (and the flag is the same in the game), so I don't know how they thought americans would get that better.

>>5777559
>>5777980
I've played this in an actual arcade and I'm sure it's still set in America. Were you using an emulator? Maybe you set your Neo-Geo to European setting.

>>5777929
>I love how they continued Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle to its fourth installment on its own
"Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3" was originally released in Japan as a Kid Klown game, but after they released it in the west as Bugs Bunny, they rereleased it in Japan as Bugs Bunny as well.
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4 and Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5 were then released in all regions with the same name and license.

>>5778057
I play this game on MAME and definitely it starts at Madrid Airport, but I remember, as a spaniard, being quite surprised when I saw screenshots of the game in magazine reviews back in the day and it showed the Madrid Airport pic.

I suppose It's one of those weird things of some Neo Geo games, like Metal Slug having spanish signs in the background, for some reason.

>>5774803
>implying that actually gets enforced anywhere
Get your head out of your ass

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PRvPg0FSzIg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-CMMjKpVrY

>>5757724
>Sony moves from Japan to California
>Everything goes to shit
Thanks, Sony! I'm so glad you forced Capcom to censor the naked lady butt in DMC5.

>>5758601
Don't you mean Pac-Panic, friend?

>>5770062
Don't forget, no upskirt shot of Blaze in the American version of Streets of Rage 2.

>>5774552
That's not copyright infringement, that's sampling. If sampling were illegal, Hideki Naganuma would be in jail by this point.

>>5775373
>>5757530
I'd bet it's more to do with trying to incite brand confusion with Street Fighter, since that was a huge phenomenon in the early '90s and the game is similar to Final Fight as it is. People to this day like to garnish their recognizing Cody in Street Fighter by saying, "Isn't he that guy from Streets of Rage?"

>>5760624
Other than it being exceptionally difficult if I remember, I can't think of why it'd be a bad game. I liked the idea of the five teams competing in various events, with RPG like systems where you can upgrade your characters or get a (sometimes unfair) edge on the competition.

>Sci-fi cosplayers in Snatcher get replaced with Konami cameos because >muh copyright infringement.
>The bartender dressed as a Metaluna Mutant is somehow left untouched.

>>5775368
I have this game in Spanish.

>>5780794
Outside Japan is a copyright infringment, so they have to change the whole soundtrack in the USA version.
European version kept the JAP sountrack for some reason.

>>5781131
If there were copyright issues, then they wouldn't be able to use the JP soundtrack in the Taxman remake, but the only song that was altered in that remake is You Can Do Anything (because there's supposedly some actual copyright issues with the song in Japan, it was altered in all regions).

>>5767460
The apes have escaped on the EU cover. I don't see the problem with this.

Why did they change the title to “Aztec Adventure” if the Aztecs are from Mexico and this game clearly takes place in Peru?

why does yoshi eat the dolphins?

>>5783867
Because it’s Japan.

>>5760449
I remembet the SNK vs Capcom game localizing takoyaki as "Octo-Balls" and getting a giggle out of that.

>>5780794
naganuma mentioned on Twitter that he uses licensed sample CDs, he doesn't go recording them himself
so all the effort of having to clear samples is already done by the company that sells the discs

a lot of samples used back in the day came from sample CDs
there were a handful of famous companies selling sample CDs that didn't clear their samples though, which makes a fair few older songs become a legal pain in the ass to deal with

https://tcrf.net/Totally_Rad/Regional_Differences
>redesign the main characters
>keep this guy the same

>>5758912
>rr
Why can't nips into Ls?

>>5785087
Maybe it was intentional to avoid confusion with this one.

>>5758912
JOHN'S GETTING UPSET

>>5769586
No, I'm more irritated by modern jrpg-fags who genuinely belive that localization is censorship, but refuse to just learn Japanese and play the originals. I'm not entirely certain how congratulating someone for actually putting in the work to play a game they like in another language is an anti-weeb sentiment.

>>5785093

>>5774552
If you're gonna accuse Sonic CD of plagiarism at least include the actual plagiarized song instead of a sample
https://youtu.be/21ZSrPIFETg?t=45
https://youtu.be/ZPtg9xOsJ40?t=13

>>5785087
It's somewhat of a pun, since the game is about a boy named Jerry who's turned into a jelly boy