List of Famicom/NES game differences

[ReyVGM]

NES
Gun-Nac: The intro and ending were severely cut short for the USA version.

Chou Jinrou Senki - Warwolf: Japanese version of Werewolf: The Last Warrior. Story was changed in the USA version and the ending was "americanized".

Juuryoku Soukou Metal Storm: Japanese MetalStorm. The USA version had the cool intro cut out and the last boss says some stuff while you fight him which was also cut out. The ending is still in English, but the credits were cut short in the USA version too.

Moero Twinbee: Japanese Stinger. The USA version cut out all traces of the 3 pilots intro and ending text.

Mad City: Japanese Bayou Billy. Most of the story in the USA game is faithful to the Japanese version (as far as I could tell), but the USA version completely cut out the bad ending found in the Japanese version.

Mickey Mouse 3 - Yume Fuusen: Japanese Kid Klown. This one is pretty well known. Due to licensing issues, the USA version changed all the story and characters to some stupid clown.

FDS
Hao Kun no Fushigina Tabi: Released on the NES as Mystery Quest, but it removed all the story and even a bunch of levels.

Gyruss: The Japanese version has a cool intro and ending that was cut out from the USA version.

[ReyVGM]

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The Japanese version of Bayou Billy, titled Mad City, allows you to make one of the best decisions ever: to run the hell away from that psycho girl you just rescued. This was removed in the USA version.

In the Japanese version, after you beat the last boss, you have the option of moving around while your girl (which is wearing a dress, instead of some Daisy Dukes) comes out of a door. If you avoid her by running in circles, she starts to cry and you get a bad ending. Billy is a insensitive bastard.



*Not the full ending.

[ReyVGM]

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The Japanese Kid Icarus for the Famicom Disk System, titled Hikari Shinwa Parutena no Kagami, had an extra ending not found in the USA version.
To our defense, the NES version also had an ending not found on the FDS version.

The Japanese version's worst ending was removed for the USA version, but the USA version added a best ending not found in the original.


These screenies are the same on both versions. Minus the text, which the English version only says "Thank you Pit", but the Japanese version says much more. If anyone cares to translate it, I won't mind.

Ranked from 1 (best) - 5 (worst) according to the game:


1 (Jpn), 2 (USA)



2 (Jpn), 3 (USA)



3 (Jpn), 4 (USA)



4 (Jpn), 5 (USA)



Best Ending USA version:



Worst Ending Japanese version:



Not too many people have seen that ending with that... weird creature before.

[ReyVGM]

Cherry Naked.

We've all heard (and some have seen) the famous NES Golgo 13 Top Secret Episode scene where Golgo gets it on with a girl (named Cherry). Well, in the Japanese version of Golgo 13, the girl actually takes her clothes off!

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Some Japanese Maniac Mansion endings.

We all know (don't we?) the Japanese Maniac Mansion looks completely different (it also came out much earlier) compared to the USA version. Now here's a look at some of the slightly different Japanese endings.




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Taken from this page:
http://www25.atwiki.jp/famicomall

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Some differences between Blaster Master and Meta Fight.
USA on the left, Japanese on the Right

[JC]

They didn't correct the "Very Thanks" for the US version.

[ReyVGM]

Air Fortress

Japanese Air Fortress has a different ending for both quests.

There's another thing in place of the escape ship in the 2nd quest.


Final Mission / SCAT:

Japanese version has only 1 ending, the USA version has 2.
Japanese version has a slideshow of all the bosses in the ending, the USA version does not.

[nensondubois]

heh, ReyVGM is here.

Battletoads in Japan has a different company logo on the intro screen. The option to play 1 or 2 players is on the Famicom version unlike in the US where it was a hidden feature. There is no pause music in the Japanese version.

Argos No Senshi is Rygar in Japan and both versions have different music without completely different soundtracks.

[b1aCkDeA7h]

Battletoads in Japan has a different company logo on the intro screen. The option to play 1 or 2 players is on the Famicom version unlike in the US where it was a hidden feature. There is no pause music in the Japanese version.

Not sure, I'd say it's hidden, I would say its more arcade like.

[nintendodork]

It's also considerably easier.  Player two works all the way through the game, too.

[nensondubois]

I think they also fixed the glitches in the wall Clinger level.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Wow, VGM! Lot's of stuff, but could you please warn us if you're going to post ending screenshots, please!

Some of us don't like seeing those until we've legitimately (or non-legitimately) beat the game.

Anyway, Cherry Grace - does she survive? I don't remember.  I remember Maria Lovette only in the beginning, & Tiffany is shot in Greece. Then there's Eve Christy, man so many girls!

I just read on Wikipedia that Nazi references were removed from this game as well, & there's even a swastika on the letter Duke picks up! It's been a while since I've played this game.  Is this true?

Also,



I don't ever remember this ending!

What do I have to do to get that? I already beat it, like 4 times.

(This gives me a reason to get this game again.)

[ReyVGM]

About the swastikas, I wouldn't really know. I used a level select code to go directly into the Cherry scene

To get that Kid icarus ending you need to have everything maxed out (lives, hearts, arrow power) and have all the enchanted weapons.

[ReyVGM]

Mad City has yet a 3rd ending. You need to beat the training mode before beating the game.

There are rumors of a fourth ending, but so far no one has found it.