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| DarkZero 614th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):SNK & Sony"
, posted Sun 8 Feb 23:30
Parts of this are right and parts of this are wrong. I can't cite everything here, but I can at least assure you that it's SOMEWHAT reliable, as I usually don't put any stock at all in random forum posts (ironic, I know).
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I talked to a guy that had a slightly different version than I'd heard last time: S.N.K. U.S. wanted to release KoF2000 and 2001 as 2 separate games for 39.95 or so each. Sony U.S. was opposed to this not because they were old games, but because they were 2D.
That's six of one and a half dozen of another. The only older 3D games that the PS2 doesn't play are N64 games and older PC games like X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter. Given that PS2 games that are ports of N64 games or older PC games probably don't show up very often at SCEA's testing office, it's kind of hard to tell whether they have a policy against older games or 2D games. The only older games that ever come across their desks ARE 2D games.
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Sony said you could release them but they had to be released together. S.N.K. U.S. did this and didn't get any money. So they said that they had enough of Sony and on future releases (other than ones already in production) they will be X-Box only. He said no Gamecube either.
And this came from... where?
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Also he say the difference between Japanese and U.S. releases of SNK games is the blood being changed to white.
He say SNK is still very conserned about their rating, and they try to get a "Teen" rating instead of just letting the fighting games be "Mature" like they should be. I mentioned SNK getting sued before.
He say that a lot of the delay in the U.S. release occurs because they are trying to change stuff like the blood.
This part is absolute crap. Anyone with a NeoGeo emulator knows that if you set any NeoGeo game's region settings to North America (or US, or USA, or whatever they call it), the game is automatically censored. Guns are removed from KOF, Mai's breasts no longer bounce, the blood is white in SamSho and Metal Slug games, the fatalities are turned off in Last Blade 2, etc. This is built into every NeoGeo game long before they're ported.
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