game that got changes to foreign releases

The Megaman one is worse... A lot worse!

By the way, nice site in your sig! :smt023 (I enabled signature showing in my options, so I'm seeing people's sigs for the 1st time, foolish me!)

 

Its one of the first ones in the thread.

http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=606&highlight=horror

 

Master System
Black Belt: This was a Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) game in Japan. They changed Kenshiro into some generic dude in a gi. The generic thugs sprites were also changed as were all the backgrounds.

Genesis/Megadrive
Last Battle: This was actually HnK 2. The main character sprites had their clothing colors changed and they got rid of the amazingly violent for the time explosions of blood that came out of the thugs when you killed them; here they just fly off the screen. The names and story were changed to protect the incredibly awesome.

I wish knowing about Hokuto no Ken games were a marketable skill.

 

lol i laughed my ass off about black belt, oh yea

gba
metroid fushion-more endings
metroid zero mission-more endings.

 

Interesting topic! Only things I can think of right now which have not yet been mentioned:

Turok (N64):
German version has robots instead of humans and no blood.

Shadows of the Empire (N64):
I read once that a "very easy" difficulty setting was added to the japanese version.

 

Looks like Shaolin Monks released on Germany has the fatality scenes censured too, but I can't confirm that.

 

Target Earth for the Genesis/MD is in the same boat.
Japan: http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/genesis02/assaultsuit.html
http://www.videogameimports.com/images/pictures/AssaultSuitLeynos-md-jp.jpg
US:
http://www.genesiscollective.com/Genesis/Screenshots/Target%20Earth%20(SS).png
http://www.juegomania.org/Target+Earth/fotos/genesis/0/735_c/Caratula+Target+Earth.jpg

I dunno how many games we could find that go into the "It was an anime game in Japan" mould. For the record there were at least two Ranma 1/2 fighting games released on the SNES. The first which went through the Americanizer 4000 Game "Processor" (TM) and turned into Street Combat, and the second one on one fighter was actually released intact.

 

Zelda Ocarina of Time when you meet Ganondorf in his tower, and kill him... he spews Red blood in US game and Green blood in PAL versions.

Mystical Ninja
Has different title screen logo on US version than PAL.

StarFox 64
Games name got changed to Lylatwars 64

 

Damn, how i was pissed back in the days, btw: Turok was my first N64 game

Turok 2 - Seeds of Evil PAL German:
-Cerebal Bore replaced with some fucked up boring Laser Gun
-not sure about Blood

 

Tekken 3 japanese ending of either Anna or Nina has been more "softcore" in the pal version.

Soulblade(Souledge) has the name changed, and the numbchucks were edited to a "nonchuck"

 

i remember that the us release of gomens great adventure for 64 had all the music cues cut out, as well ganon spewing blood was actually aval in all or most gold cart versions of its us release, i can confirm this as i had one of the first gold carts, as well they cut out some muslim refrences as well as a muslim chant that was in the fire temple music.

 

Also the ending is cut as well !! I have a beta of the Konami release of NCS Misaya's amazing shooter which actually has a sound test and the full endind. Still missing the anime characters though and the guy shooting himself.

Yakumo

 

The japanese version has new levels, more caharcters, loads of extra costumes with some being rather sexy oh and a slight tweek in the handling. Overall the JPN version is much nicer.

Yakumo