Samurai Shodown V Special Homecart CENSORED

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95547

Split your opponent in half? No. Decapitation? Uh-uh. Ralf501 played it with the Japanese language on and that didn't mean a damn thing- still no true fatalities.

Apparently a Japanese arcade had some complaints, so the home version is locked onto the Violence 1 setting with watered-down overkills/zetsumei ougi. Hanzo's deathmove in the arcade version is particularly sweet, with bone-breaking depictions similar to Namco's Death by Degrees.

You can not boot the homecart in the debug BIOS' MVS mode, or you'll have the game lock up with a red copyright screen. You may go to MVS mode once you have started a game, but you still haven't beat the lockout. If the cart tries to read MVS Soft Dip settings, BAM- lock up.

Ben Herman said he's not sure if they will be in the US ports, citing worldwide concerns due to issues in Iraq (yeah right). Abster on neo-geo.com got this reply from him:

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Originally Posted by Abster quoting Ben Herman

"Candid and honest....With the issues in Iraq where hostages are
constantly taken and beheaded, I can not promise your request. We are
probably 12 months from USA release of both titles. I will send your
concern to development team but no promises. Please understand this is
a worldwide issue."

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Why, SNKPlaymore? :icepick: Please don't censor the other consoles' versions like this. Go for the complete original, even if you gotta take the M rating.

For the 1000th time, all of Neo-geo.com gets shit on by SNK/Playmore...

... yet they still wont learn.

Bah. NG.com hates everything SNK releases. Some fans still hold true, but most only complain. So at least this time they have a reason.

Seriously, SNK has to be one of the stupidest companies in existence. If I'm buying one of their NeoGeo carts, I'm paying over $200. And if I'm paying that much, I'm old enough to see violence.

Reason #7352 why MVS > AES

Wow.... that's pretty retarded. That's the final farewell gift to us NG fans? Hahaha, I still laugh about those special US "classic" inserts Playmore gave us as "gifts" for years of fan support, only to jack up the prices of Metal Slug 5 (and other) games to obscene level. Really, thanks but no thanks, I will stick with the Xbox/PS2 ports when they hit $14.99. ;)

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

For the 1000th time, all of Neo-geo.com gets shit on by SNK/Playmore...

... yet they still wont learn.

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Sad. But they will still pay $325 for it.

In this case, I can sympathize with the censorship. For alot of people, watching decapitations for the sake of coolness is in poor taste right now. Besides, what kind of sick freak wants to see Nakoruru's head get cut off? This isn't 1992 anymore - blood and gore shouldn't really be selling points any longer.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

In this case, I can sympathize with the censorship. For alot of people, watching decapitations for the sake of coolness is in poor taste right now. Besides, what kind of sick freak wants to see Nakoruru's head get cut off? This isn't 1992 anymore - blood and gore shouldn't really be selling points any longer.

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Though I agree with you on this, an option to unlock this stuff would be nice. It's not like I'm looking for a new Mortal Kombat, but if that's the way a game was made than I don't see any reason to censor it.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Reason #7352 why MVS > AES

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This bears repeating. :D