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:
Quote:
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."
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.
You win some & you lose some.
http://neo-geo.com/snk/releases/ss0s/recall/recall.htm
Well, Shawn at the NeoStore is helping get carts on their way to SNKP for reprogramming. If you go this route, SNKP will give you "lessened fatalities", cut-down versions of the Zetsumei Ougi.
Why did SNK remove the fatalities? It was due to that damn Nagasaki Incident, I heard. :mad: Outrageously lame. Did Konami take the blood out of the US versions of Silent Scope due to stuff happening here? No, they did NOT.
From what Razoola said, if you get your SS0S cart fixed that you may well be SOL as far as a fully uncensored mode- his Universe Bios may not be able to help you there. So much for a 1:1 version with Zangyaku level 3, especially when the cart is $359. Come on SNKPlaymore- the Neo-Geo is not a console that those under 16 will generally be buying games for given its cart prices.
You probably shouldn't be in a hurry to send your cart back. Who knows whether or not SNK just may be ready to rip out the original ZL3 fatality code?