joshd2012

In possibly the most retarded move this month, reports are coming in that SNKUSA has censored the US release of King of Fighters 2000/2001. Blood, guns, and the all important boob-shaking have all been removed from all releases. Many fans are returning their US copies in favor of the Japanese releases or previous versions of the game.

What is most concerning about this move is the possibility that this trend might continue in future US releases of games in the Metal Slug series. All I know, is that I'm going to start looking for the KoF games they ported to DC. I can't believe they screwed up so bad.

Groucho

I only clicked this thread to see what KoF was.

bluntman72

that sucks!! I have been a fan of Neo Geo since the beginning and would not want to buy a game that has been censored.


is the Japanese release of this game uncensored, I dont own a DC and would like to play the games without having to buy another system.

I am also hoping this is not a sign of how they are going to treat Samurai Showdown Zero.

Lastblade

Looks like it is SNK Japan's fault for doing the 'translation', and SNK USA lied to us by claiming that it won't be censored all along.

It is too bad.

DVDKrayzie

i dunno if this is true, they seem to be going gaga over this at gamefaqs. if my local BB has it I'm going to pick it and see today

BabiG

I thought this was pretty normal for the KOF series. Not so much the blood I think, but I seem to remember in the arcade boards (and roms) if you switched the region from Japan to USA you would lose bouncing boobs and some other things (like name changes, etc.).

flashburn

It's like the early 90's all over again! Anyone have the blood code?!?!

Outlaw

Yeah there's not much blood in KoF, but it is most satisfying seeing that streak of blood when you pull of Iori's special on an opponent. I don't see why they'd take out the bouncing boobs either, there's countless games here that have it. It might be a mistranslation or something, because it doesn't make any sense why they'd do it. Of course, game censoring is not a thing of the past, it still happens to lots of games today, but this sounds a little extreme or there must be an option or sometihng for it.

sararekuforever

Can anyone prove this? I wanted to buy this, but if it is censored, I won't. I mean, I have no problem with the censorship, as I am not really into blood or boobs that much [except my sarah's]

but...

still, that's cutting out frames of animation or modifying them, and seeing Mai seriously fight with her breasts spilling out is quite funny

Oh well, I play with Rock and Athena anyways

Dan Average

Were the DC versions "uncensored"? I never played them (not a big fan here) but the fact that the DC version of Last Blade 2 was altered pretty heavily makes me wonder if they were.

joshd2012

From everything I have read, the DC versions are still the original versions. If anyone can confirm this, it would be appreciated.

bluntman72

As much as I like SNK games I think the company is stuck in the early 90's when it comes to games. with the games we have out now there is no need to censor such minor things.

I might have to just get the original Cartridge version of Samurai Showdown and the KOF's if there are no good ports.

Dan Average

If by "original Cartridge version" you mean the Neo-Geo versions (which is what I'm assuming, since AFAIK the only other cartridge versions of the KoF games are the portable versions for the Game Boy and Neo-Geo Pocket), those are censored too. From what I understand the only way to get the uncensored versions is to either have a Japanese-model Neo-Geo or get a debug chip that allows you to fiddle with the region settings. (I believe the Neo-Geo CD versions are uncensored.) However there are so many KoF games out there I'm not sure if they're all censored.

DVDKrayzie

ok im playing it right now
1st of all this game has not aged well at all, it's pretty bad. But yea all the blood looks like sweat ala MK1 SNES. haven't checked on the boobage yet.

DVDKrayzie

negative on the boobage as well

Jtnguyen12

mai ==== > Censored

flashburn

What the hell?

DVDKrayzie

Werd

AGuyNamedMike

sigh

bluntman72

the cartridges have both versions on it, and I am in the process of purchasing a Japanese Neo AES system so I wont have to worry about the Censorship since it only comes into play if you have a US version of the system, the only problem is having to pay $330 for one game (Samurai Showdown Zero)

Lastblade

I have all the KOFs (except for 2002) for Neo Geo home cartridges, and yes, they are censored for the US systems. But I flip the language to Japan (or developer's bios) and all the bounce/blood is restored.

Retarded.

Dan Average

This isn't really the thread for this, but: rumor has it SNK will be phasing out MVS (Neo-Geo) carts pretty soon because they've become too easy to pirate. From now on they'll use standard JAMMA games. Like I said it's just a rumor but they've already started going down this path (by making a MVS-to-JAMMA converter) so it wouldn't surprise me.

~~ PAL ~~

This stinks.

But either way, I probably wouldn't have purchased it anyway. The censorship just made it an easier decision.

NoahWhtly

I wrote SNK NeoGeo US Consumer Corp. a big long email on why I think their self censorship is such a bad idea, and to my great surprise I got a reply back for the president of the company, Ben Herman (on a Sunday even). All he said was thanks for the letter, but it's good to know my voice was heard that far up the chain and that they're listening.

I wrote a letter to SNK Playmore too, but I imagine my chances of getting a reply from them is a lot less (then agian I wasn't exspecting a reply of SNK US either).

So I recomend any of you with any interest in these games write letters to them as well. It can only help.

PixyJunket

Censored.