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Post by wanderingshadow on Jun 4, 2010 23:30:19 GMT -5
Also the slots were censored out and replaced with Voltorb flip. That's a piece of censorship I don't mind. I hated the slots, but I have honestly spent hours playing Voltorb Flip.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jun 4, 2010 23:31:04 GMT -5
Nice finds. I think working so hard on the obscure ones may have made you guys forget this one
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jun 5, 2010 0:58:15 GMT -5
What? He's an old man who wants to be a crab-ass and park it in the middle of the road because he needs coffee. So what?
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Post by The Qu on Jun 5, 2010 1:03:49 GMT -5
In the original he was stone cold shitfaced, and that's why he needed coffee.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jun 5, 2010 1:17:22 GMT -5
Holy shit, that's funny. I can no longer consider him a grumpy old fart who values his coffee over everyone else and now am only capable of seeing him as a drunken bastard. Thank you. That just made my night.
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Post by TV Eye on Jun 9, 2010 15:36:54 GMT -5
Here's something, in the original Pokemon Red and Green, Cue Balls were called Skinheads.
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Post by Grandy02 on Sept 28, 2010 6:35:27 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it counts, but the game has a licensed cameo (Murasame Castle) and is published by Nintendo outside of Japan, so: The original Japanese Samurai Warriors 3 box art and its European and Australian counterparts reveal more cleavage of Kai than the American one now does : gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=136990Gladly NoE often handles cover art independent of NoA today.
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Post by Wildcat on Sept 28, 2010 9:24:20 GMT -5
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Post by Johans Nidorino on May 21, 2011 16:12:26 GMT -5
A recent one for Pokémon. Not in-game, but in associated artwork. Lenora, the Nacrene City Gym Leader was originally depicted wearing an apron. Her design was modified later, and the common speculation is that it was to avoid the possibility that the outfit could be seen reminiscent of black slavery.
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Post by Koopaul on May 21, 2011 20:56:57 GMT -5
Any examples of reverse censorship?
I know the Japanese have this thing with characters having four digits, I was wondering if anything was changed in Rare games brought over there?
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Sept 26, 2011 18:18:13 GMT -5
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Post by Evie ❤✿ on Sept 30, 2011 15:47:16 GMT -5
I haven't played Pokémon Black and White for months, until when English language Cofagrigus started appearing on the Global Trade System. However, a Bulbapedia user Blazios later realized that English language Nosepass stopped appearing on the GTS. A list of almost all banned keywords extracted from the game can be found here. Whereas trying to input a Pokémon name in something like the nickname screen only blocks the whole word e.g. 'sau' instead of dinosaur, the GTS would block a name simply for containing the keyword, which was the reason why trying to initiate a trade with Cofagrigus would use to give out an error code. There is a lot of censorship in the Pokémon games. Registeel's original Diamond and Pearl sprite was changed in the non-English, European release of the games and succeeding games because it was standing with a pose reminiscent to the Nazi salute. A handful of Trainer sprites were changed from Pocket Monsters Kin & Gin to Pokémon Gold and Silver. The original designs included winking beauties and swimmers. Fishermen with cigarettes, sages in a praying position and mediums with beads. Unless I'm mistaken, there were also references to Buddhism in Sprout Tower in the original Japanese version which were filtered out in the English version. I'm trying to be careful because regarding the alleged Lavender Town music tone pitch differences between early Red/Green and Red/Blue; hackers on TCRF found no differences between the soundtrack of version 1.0 Red/Green and Red/Blue's version. Pocket Monsters Kin & Gin also still had Jynx with black skin. This was changed to purple in the English versions, but due to technical limitations Jynx's hair was turned from yellow to white because you could only have four different colours in Pokémon sprites in Generation II. ( Source). While I probably wouldn't count them as censorship, the source IIMarckus also lists minor sprite differences between Pokémon between Kin & Gin and Gold/Silver. In Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen, there were a lot of smaller changes. As Parrothead mentioned on another thread, the Japanese version of FireRed/LeafGreen still referenced Space Shuttle Columbia as it does in Red/Green/Blue/Yellow, but this reference was removed in the English versions, probably due to Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated early in 2003. There were a handful of changes in the choice of words from the original Red/Blue dialogue in FireRed/LeafGreen, including changes like 'evil' to 'malevolent', 'gambler' to 'gamer', 'fight' to 'battle' and 'soul' to 'all'. In the Japanese version of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, hex maniacs (occult maniacs) had no pupils. Other sprite changes were from female psychics' hands and male cooltrainers' hair. Sailors' hands were also changed for showing a hand gesture considered offensive in the west. In the German Red/Blue, apparently references to the real world were removed. For example, "Guyana, South America" was replaced with "Dschungel tief im Niemandsland" (jungle, deep in no man's land). A bit more on the slots being removed in English HeartGold/SoulSilver. Although they were removed, the building still exists within the game code, but all of the dialogue was blanked. It's still possible to exchange coins there, but the machines play Voltorb Flip as usual. The removal of the entrance to the original Game Corner meant that you couldn't get the extra Captivate TM which existed there in the Japanese HeartGold/SoulSilver. (Not the first video, but best quality I could find)
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Sept 30, 2011 16:11:09 GMT -5
Not sure if this is a change in translation or that the Japanese version itself modified the script, but I remember one geezer NPC standing outside the Celadon gym in gold/silver going all hehehehe creepy because the gym's full of women. In the remake he's so excited the gym is full of strong trainers. I think they pulled that strong trainer change more than once too
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Post by kirbychu on Sept 30, 2011 17:10:36 GMT -5
Huh. I never got to Celadon in the original Gold, but I remember that guy saying the same thing in Red. I wonder if it was changed in FRLG?
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Sept 30, 2011 18:14:55 GMT -5
Amazed at the Hex Maniacs' eyes ;D Were the Sailors redrawn in the English R/S/E? Someone needs to complete their Bulbapedia article. The "fight"/"battle" thing reminds me of this screenshot I took just yesterday. Different platform, different developer, but still curious.
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