I'm thinking about TASing the game "Assault Suits Valken" (Cybernator for Americans) for SNES, which originally released in Japan. However, they made a censored version for Americans.
Main differences (copied from http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/assaultsuits/assaultsuits.htm)
Konami published this title in North America under the name Cybernator. For some reason, they removed the portraits by the dialogue (even though they still appear unaltered in the intro) and significant chunks of text. including several supporting characters, and a hidden message after the credits. It's a bit lame, considering the character designs were provided by Satoshi Urushihara, who also did Masaya's Langrisser series. One scene was removed completely, where your mech flies into an office and meets up with a corporate official, who proceeds to take out a pistol and blow his pixellated little head off. Obviously such brutal suicide would not have gone over well with the censors at Nintendo of America.
Here's a video if you want to see it in action (suicide scene differences starts at 5:03)
Link to video
So what do you think. Would you rather watch a TAS with the full plot in japanese or a faster TAS (same TAS without the suicide scene) in english without portraits, random names, random texts, no hidden message and no fancy cutscene?
Also there's a cancelled submission for Cybernator: #519: mazzeneko's SNES Cybernator in 18:04.42. I think it's cancelled because of obvious mistakes/flaws based on the responses on the discussion forum.
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Do we get to see these removed scenes in a TAS?
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Bisqwit wrote:
- The skippable dialogue texts (occurs 1-2 times in a stage) will be skipped (you have no chance to see it in realtime)
- The suicide scene adds approx. 40 sec to the final TAS (text will be skipped too)
- The hidden message doesn't needs input as far as I know (you only have to wait in the Japanese version. English version doesn't has this).
edit: - The intro is skipped entirely by pressing S before the intro. The first thing you will see is the main menu.
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I'd say use the uncensored version. IMO, this should always count as a good reason for using J.
This submission used the J-Rom for the same reason and was accepted. However, the differences could be seen during regular gameplay in that case.
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