Regional Differences 2
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
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344 - Sometimes they make minor changes when bringing games to the west from Japan... and something they make pretty big changes. Let's check out some of those changes which I find interesting.
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What are some more games that feature some striking regional differences?
I would love to see differences between arcade games/cabinets regionally and the difference between arcade/console versions (I didn't get to go to an arcade very much growing up)
Pokemon Crystal, they censored the female trainers.
I'm surprised Ninja Gaiden 3 for NES wasn't on here
It's another example kind alike Bayou Billy where they made the north American version harder for no reason
Also you should consider adding Zombie Nation next time if you haven't already
Since your end skit has Streets of Rage 2, Bare Knuckle 2 is also changed for the US version. The infamous white panties on Blaze.
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 😏
When Dave left, I was afraid Joe wouldn't enjoy making these videos anymore and GameSack would peter out. I'm really glad this channel is still around and making great content. Thanks Joe!
Where has Dave gone?
@@nickygwilson He left to spend more time with his family.
I get a weird feeling Joe DOESN'T want to keep doing these though.
As far as I recall, he hasn't even been back as a guest, but I could be wrong on this.
@@nickygwilson Dave is safe. Please stop asking about Dave.
Im so freakin happy that Joe is still making awesome videos.
Joe's the fucking Man
Joe is my preferred GS team!!
Yo Joe!
Me2
He sure have more time than James Rolfe
Part of what makes Game Sack so comfy is your _consistency,_ Joe. Every other Saturday night, as sure as death and taxes, there's a new 'Sack for me to relax to, just before bed. I love it.
Or in my case every other Sunday morning.
"A new sack for to relax to, just before bed" 😂😂😂😂 that is hilarious 👏👏👏👏
@@jkajmo I said what I meant and I meant what I said! 😁
@RockManLP_Radio if you don't like it, quit watching his channel then.
@RockManLP_Radio more like the same dummybutt comments like yours returning too many times
"Thems the brakes" might be the funniest voiced line in a retro game next to "OH NO! MOLLY!"
Always enjoying *post credit scene" keep the good work Joe 💪😀
i wonder how many people don't know it exists.
Man, I always hate when my electricity gets shut off when playing Streets Of Rage, because of too much Mega Power. It's a very real problem.
Try playing a game with 8 Mega Power instead. That should avoid any more incidents.
My place has wimpy circuit breakers, so I have to play games like Sword of Vermilion (with just "5 MEGA MEMORY") to stop the power from going out.
Or a Super Nintendo game. Those are never a problem. ;)
Thanks for all these videos! It took my cousin and I several days of playing Bayou Billy for hours and hours before we finally became good enough to rescue Annabelle back when we bought the game on clearance in the 1990s. Also, having lived in Louisiana, the southern part of the state is filled with swamps, gators and narrow roads.
Thanks Trevor! So the game felt like home? Also congrats on beating the game legit.
@@GameSack I laughed when you showed how the roads were narrowed and replaced with poles - that's how I remember south Louisiana as crop dusting planes buzzed overhead. And alligators are territorial - just avoid where they are instead of trying to fight them!
Joe is the man. After over 7/8 years of watching Game Sack I can comfortably say that this channel influenced my love for retro gaming and collecting the most. Thanks for it all 🙏🏾
It's Sunday morning Gamesack time, ooooh yeah !
One of the best ending skits yet.
8 Years Ago!
I was just starting college 8 years ago and Dave was still here!!!
It feels like yesterday,
Now I'm an adult with a job and responsibilities, AHHH!!!
It only gets worse.
Strider did have a continue option, you had to hold the D pad down and press A, C, B, C, A on the game over screen, it had to be timed just right though and I could never get it to work all the time!
ESWAT is yet another example of a game that could be a lot better with some very minor tweaks. This is what the hacking community was made for! Someone go into the code & slow the jetpack down!
Or why Game Genie was invented
@@Boss-Bot Ah very true! I wonder if it could be slowed down via Game Genie code. It can do a lot of things but not everything unfortunately. Now if we had unlimited code lines in the Game Genie...
Or don't
Mega power should never be throttled. Especially when in the middle of some SoR 2.
Joe must live in California.
In the 90's through early 00's Japanese games released in South Korea (especially in the arcade) were heavily censored on Japanese language content and imagery. Best example I can give is Street Fighter Alpha 3. Load up the ASIA region arcade version and you'll start to notice things right away. There's also the fact that Japanese companies couldn't even release their own games and systems in Korea without going through another company like Samsung (Mega Drive and Saturn for example).
Now that you mentioned it yeah. Cultural differences right there 🦝
Yeah, I remember visiting my cousins in South Korea in 1987 and being comforted that they have an NES too! Later in life when I discovered the Famicom, I started to wonder "wait, wouldn't they release the Famicom in Korea versus the NES?", and that let me down a huge rabbit hole about how Japanese merchandise was banned in South Korea until like 2000 (and as late as 2006) and therefore Korean companies would skirt around those laws by importing AMERICAN versions.
Samsung/Hyundai: _"Yeah is says 'Nintendo' on it, but we're importing it from 'Nintendo of America', which is an American company, not a Japanese one, and therefore it doesn't count against the ban!"_
ROK Gov't: _"Sounds legit."_
South Korea protects its market, they also hate japan for what they did in ww2
@@nickfifteen , at least South Korea COULD get those things, unlike North Korea, where video games are STILL banned over there!
Oh, yeah, like SoulCalibur replacing Mitsurugi with Arthur (who started as little more than a texture replacement, but later ended up becoming his own character with a unique backstory, IIRC).
Streets of Rage 2 had no right going that hard with the music. Definitely cranking up the speakers next time I play... take THAT lousy neighbors!!!
Then SoR3 came out and it sounded like robot farts.
@@ShadoMoosess SOR3's music was good. It just wasn't pop music. It sounded more like the modern era Synthwave & EBSM, than the New Jack Swing pop that SOR1 & 2 had.
@@ShadoMoosess it was such a sad departure from the 2nd game. I think the only tune I liked was the dance club at the beginning.
@@BoozeAholic I couldn't vibe with it.
8yrs! Jesus, we’re gray now. Time flies, but I’m hella appreciative of the fact that you’re still making quality content. 🤙🏼🤘🏼
I love Game Sack. These videos make my boring life a little more bearable.
This video makes a difference in my nether regions!
Always a good video inside the game sack
the presentation on this channel is unparalleled. I've always got those Saturday morning cartoon feelings from this place.
I don’t know if anyone has said this in the last year or two…
But thank you Joe!
Thank you for continuing to do this show at the same level of quality, consistency and format that you guy(s) have done for years - even if CZcams sucks now and it’s resulted in slow growth, etc.
There are tens of thousands of us out there that have watched since the early days, after the departure of Dave (though it’s awesome seeing him every now and again when he does do a show!) and amidst CZcamss blatant disregard for genuinely talented creators.
Keep doing what you do man. And we’ll always keep watching and supporting!
Eswat is one of my favourite mega drive game
And the Streets of Rage 2 ending just awesome 👍😄
Pandemonium on the Saturn is another one where the Japanese version is very different. It's called Magical Hoppers and features different characters that even have slightly different attacks. It also has a traditional anime intro instead of the 3d polygon rendered intro of the US version.
The Playstation also got Magical Hoppers instead of Pandemonium, I own both versions. The Saturn version has brighter colors but worse textures and more slowdown. Supposedly, both versions have less slowdown than Pandemonium, but I'm only going off what I heard there, since I only own the Japanese version of both.
I bet George Wood is gonna like Nikki's BREATS.
Contra, Castlevania 3, and mr gimmick always come to mind immediately. It’s a shame the us missed out on the extra audio channels.
Game Sack time!
Criminally underrated channel
Thanks Joe for still having the passion to keep making videos after all these years. Love them all!
Wasnt expecting so many regional differences in this video but here we are.
Always a treat thanks for all the entertainment
Square used to annoy me by giving the Japanese versions of their games more/extra content. Fortunately we got the extra stuff eventually when they charged for the same again but now in HD.
I love your sense of humour. The gags are always a great part of your channel!
Late Saturday early Sunday's sack is best sack.
Piping hot Sack, fresh from the oven.
Jesus joe that skit at the end cut close to home. Seriously; in the UK our electricity has shot up by 52% and in October they claim another 30% - in reality it isn't 52% its more like double!! So yeah... I felt one lol
Don't worry, Nvidia will save us from freezing while gaming as their 4090 apparently is over 500w.
Shinobi on the arcade has a very satisfying _feel_ to it: the running, the jumping, and *especially* when enemies are hit by shurikens. There's something to the graphics plus audio that make everything about it feel punchy and weighty. I've never seen another game rival its "texture," but seeing E-SWAT for the first time: it came 95% close.
I heard that someone is making a port of the game to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.
Demon Sword for the NES in the US is vastly different from its Japanese counterpart. more stages magic enemies everything
A new Games Sack video! Let's get it on!
I gotta have my sack DO MORE OF THESE!!
It just ain't a proper Sunday morning without the ol' sack of games
I have been watching game sack since 2013. This channel and these videos make me feel good. They help me escape to a younger mindset but yet still appreciate my older mindset. You mean a lot to me Joe, always keep me feeling at my prime. Thank you very very much.
The US version of Metal Storm doesn't have the intro because it actually came out first - the JP release came out a year later and the changes were made on top of the prior release.
The recent retrobit re-release allows you to swap the direction you have to hold to flip gravity and includes all the additions, complete with english translation. It's pretty cool and worth picking up if you can find it.
I love my Sunday mornings with game sack. Greetings from Berlin Germany
Great episode. That end sequence was funny and that music in Streets of Rage kicks ass.
"two nerds with one stone"
Admit it, Mr. Redifer, you just say you dislike Working Deisgns humor because it's some serious dad joke competition.
I think that was one of my favourite Gamesack outros ever 😂
Regional differences: The Xbox version of Outrun 2's got graphically superior and more arcade accurate versions of the Daytona USA 2 and Scud Race bonus tracks in Japan than in the west. Also, the JPN version was tougher, because it got rid of the code input system you use to cheat and unlock stuff in the west.
Just in time for my morning coffee. 😊
Joe, I want to thank you for all the videos you do. I work for USPS, as a mail carrier. I’m outside all day, and listening to things like Game Sack and MLIG help me get through the day.
I was hoping you'd mention the best part of the SCAT intro being that the two protagonists are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sigourney Weaver
"Awful boxart in my opinion."
Yeah, that is ugly.
"And yours too."
…Did he hear me?!
Watched the first regional differences video so many times back in middle school. What a treat this is!
hiya, just like to say thanks for your hard work, your back-catalogue got me through lockdown.. thanks.
@ 7:01, these comparative screen shot scenes really help me appreciate the regional differences, more please
Ninja Gaiden 3 for North American NES, you took more damage and some enemies appeared earlier in teh game. Also the item layouts were changed, often in more difficult to reach areas. The Japanese original was the easiest in the trilogy.
That final skit, you're great. XD
8 years? There no goddamn way I've been watching GameSack for 8 years. Oh no. I've wasted my whole life. 🙃
Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, but the game sack episode was even better.
You need a trip to Alcoholics Anonymous.
@@ilikecurry2345 lol, you're not a Kris Kristofferson fan, I take it?
Zombie nation on the NES is completely different than the Japanese original in story and tone.
It was originally released in Japan as Abarenbou Tengu 👺
Maaan I love this channel so much. Thank you so much Joe for all of your hard work and dedication!
Legendary as always, you guys were and still are my favorite retro gaming channel on CZcams.
Joe its been two weeks and I still can't hear Never Return Alive without imaging you rocking out to it and I'm grateful 😂
CPS1 Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition.
Name changes were not the only thing adjusted.
USA came out first and then Japan released it later with a few balance changes.
Boxer: Dash Straight can hit crouching opponents, has a smoother crouch animation and his Turn Around Punch gains more power for longer charge.
Claw: Rolling Crystal Flash MP and HP were adjusted.
Sagat; Tiger Uppercut MP and HP versions can knock down grounded oppobents.
Dictator: Psycho Crusher hits less against blocking opponents (less chip dmg).
Ken: Rear side of Tatsu pushes opponents away and not sucked in (so less dmg).
Zangief: Spinning Piledriver dishes out more damage for a 3 hit KO instead of a 4 hit KO.
Lastly the 99 second timer clocks down to 00 faster in the Japanese release.
I've owned Bayou Billy for about 30 years and I've never seen the driving stages. That game is just unfair
I actually beat it 2 years ago. I managed to keep trying until I found a strategy.
@@Gatorade69 I did do the practice mode to make some parts a slight easier. The driving stages were my least favorite part.
I appreciate your hustle man. This is a great show in the evening.
This is the only channel in youtube where I stay till the very end to make sure i never miss the end skits. They never disappoint.
The Skit at the end of the video made my day. Thank you for that Joe.
Would love to see more of this series! This should be fun!
"Hello and welcome to gamesack." Never gets old!
I did not know Bayou Billy was a port. This game was so hard I didn't get past the start of the New Orleans stage. Had to get a game Genie in order to beat it! Still not as ridiculous as Silver Surfer's difficulty! 🙄
They are tough games but not invincible. I beat them 2 years ago and they took me many attempts until I tried some strategies.
I even defeated TMNT, Ninja Gaiden 3 and Battletoads (With a warp.)
@@Matt-Rat I was so dedicated to beating TMNT, I didn't find it difficult just challenging, beat it a couple times back in the NES days! But Battletoads & Ninja Gaiden were a different story!
I loved the idea of Bayou Billy. I mean it's basically Crocodile Dundee II: The Video Game, but that difficulty. I've never been able to beat the game without the Game Genie and after a while, I stopped trying
That was the best ending scene so far. I have also played SoR2 super loud in my house and jammed to the soundtrack; much to my wife's dismay. She's gonna be out of town for the weekend soon. Time to BUMP IT!
Love the ending bit. Great music can make you lose yourself in almost any game.
Incredible sketch Joe, from all of us who play SOR games just to jam to mega-powered music!
With great mega power, comes great mega responsibility.
These videos make my whole day. Appreciate you man.
I feel like this show took a notable turn once you got good at stop motion and I'm 100% here for it
Love and cheers from Italy!Keep it up Joe
Pure Nostalgia at the end. Appreciate it.
Hope this Sunday will have a video.
If not then I understand the constant grinding every time to complete that scheduled routine.
Keep your head up Game Sacker
I know you were totally kidding about the human brain being smaller than 8Mb, but you inspired me to look it up. Apparently, the human brain has a memory capacity of 2.5 million gigabytes! In the famous words of the Saturday morning cartoon sages, "Now ya know!" Lol
Amazing work. Thank you Mr. Sack 🙏
Keep the quality content coming, my guy. Great stuff as always!
Been a fan since 10 years. Keep it up!!
Keep it up! I’ve been watching your videos for years. Love the content.
Joe shows tremendous restraint in talking about exile and not mentioning Ys III
When Joe mentioned how long ago it was since the first regional differences I was a bit shocked. I've been watching for that long. I guess since Joe continues to make a good show, you don't notice. Good job Joe!
Oh hell yeah, always love seeing how things were different overseas. Really gives you a perspective on how wide the world is, yknow?
that bit at the end with the rave music got me going lol
That’s the music from streets of rage 2.
Working Designs doesn't get crapped on enough in the retro gaming community. Nice work Joe!
Let's get into it😁
Gotta watch that MEGA POWER usage man, it'll get ya every time.
This is easily my favorite channel. Like.. hands down nothing comes close. Thank you so much for the years of great content. I always fear you're going to run out of stuff to talk about but luckily it just ain't happening! I would love an episode dedicated to the violence wars of the 90's.. all the games trying to out gore each other. Time Killers, NARC, Weapon Lord (such a fucking AWESOME game with online SNES multiplayer!), Mortal Kombat, Splatterhouse, Battletoads Arcade, etc.
The best game sack skid ever! I love it! 😊👍🏻
I love your sound system too 😊👍🏻
what a joy to flip on CZcams as I'm walking 1.5 miles to work and see a new game sack episode." pure joygasm"
Loved the guest appearance from Dave at the end! Is it just me or is he looking a bit bony these days?
Great idea for an epsiode!! Thanks Joe!!
LOL the part at the very end after the credits was brilliant
Thank you so much for these videos! :)
Joe I love your channel!! Keep it alive!
Dude The Music was Spot on ese! on the last Segment ! I Fricking Love it !