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King of Fighters Censored for Stateside Release

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the less-jubble-to-go-around dept.

Coreyh writes "The just-released King of Fighters 2000/2001 game compilation for the PlayStation 2 has been censored. The content removed from the 2D fighter includes blood, guns, and Mai's 'bouncing.' Apparently SNK Japan is a bit cautious about the USA's acceptance of content. I wish SNK USA had more control over this sort of thing. The content changed seems very mild to me. King of Fighters 2003 has also had a limited Jamma PCB release for arcades around the world this week. Here is a trailer of the opening and gameplay. It has tagging and interesting new characters along with old favorites."

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  1. hrm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's playmore that's rlsing them, not SNK since SNK is out of business. So blame them. But oh well. Makes you wonder though with all the other crap that's released (i.e., silent hill 3). Probably those bastard MOM's with nothing else to do.

    1. Re:hrm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      No, Playmore was the company created from the ashes of SNK. And they're no longer called Playmore, but SNK Playmore.

      It's more or less the old SNK in terms of employees.

      http://playmore.co.jp/

    2. Re:hrm by tenton · · Score: 2, Informative

      Playmore is SNK; Playmore is mostly comprised of the former SNK people (lead by former SNK CEO Eikichi Kawasaki); after Aruze (a pachinko company) bought SNK, Playmore was founded and successfully bought the intellectual rights (as Aruze just planned to use the characters in pachinko games). The company was renamed to SNK Playmore (that's the official name).

  2. Censored in arcades, too by tuffy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mai's "bounciness" was taken out of KoF2002 in US region MVS units, as I recall (the game code would check which region it was running in and run accordingly) - though the blood was selectable as always.

    The big question is will anyone care? The whole KoF series has been recycling sprites for years and is looking increasingly dated. I'm not sure how much longer Eolith/Playmore can milk the series without an overhaul.

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  3. Mai's bouncing by gasaraki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, Mai's bouncing is reduced even in the arcades since KOF 2000. She still bounces during her moves but her standing/walking animation (in which the bounce is MOST obvious) is removed. Obviously they weren't willing to make 2 animations for everything, but it is her walking/standing animation have makes her bounce seem most obvious.

    Interestingly, if the Neo Geo machine is set to the Japan locality, the bouncing will return. So it's not removed from the game as such, but rather "swtiched off" when the machine is set to English.

  4. The originals are emulated! by axolotl_farmer · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who want to play the original versions, all the KOF games are perfectly emulated in MAME and several other emulators such as Nebula or Kawaks.

    Really sad that these games will be censored. Especially about Mai Shiranui's bouncing!

  5. This happens all the time by caffeineHacker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Xenogears the orginal for PSone almost didn't make it to the states, and when it finally did it had 'horrid' voice acting, all due to it's religious overtones. Even as far back as Lunar 2 for Sega CD they changed the warp pads from pentagrams to Star Trek symbols so as not to offend over here. I don't think Pretty Fighter X ever made it over either, due to strong sexual content. This is nothing new...and it will continue to happen until people wake up and realize they are just games.

    1. Re:This happens all the time by silentbobdp · · Score: 3, Informative

      "Xenogears the orginal for PSone almost didn't make it to the states, and when it finally did it had 'horrid' voice acting, all due to it's religious overtones."

      After the release Square admitted that it wasn't due to the religious themes, but to the volumes of text that had to be translated.

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  6. Re:Mai's bouncing?! by TCM · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, this is the standard attempt to hide the real host behind a username. Nothing to do with exploit.

    http://www.snkneogeousa.com/kof03_video.WMV@goat se .cx

    What this troll failed to realize is it doesn't work in the path part of the url.

    The requested URL /kof03_video.WMV@goatse.cx was not found on this server.

    Amateur..

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  7. Re:Watch Bowling for Columbine by 403Forbidden · · Score: 5, Informative

    While there are numerous debunkings, this seems to have the most info on one page.

  8. Re:Grrrrrr... by leonscape · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you could try MPlayer, and be able to play all those windows formats under Linux.

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  9. Dead or Alive by Control-Z · · Score: 4, Informative


    If you want to see massive boob bouncage, try Dead or Alive for the PS1. Behold the giant perky braless wonders on the redhead chick. They bounce probably twice as long as they should when she stops moving. Kinda weird in a facsinating way. :)

  10. Re:Watch Bowling for Columbine by Senjutsu · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the interests of balance, it's worth pointing out that the second link (to hardylaw) is written by David T. Hardy, an ex-legal council for the NRA, and is not necessarily any more objective about Bowling than Bowling was itself.

  11. $20 says they're fake. by Mmm+coffee · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mai's bouncing, in case any non-gamers want to see the offending material. SFW, slightly hypnotizing.