As everyone knows, games are released in multiple regions, the general ones being Japan, North America, and Europe. And as you probably know as well, the games we get in each reason are slightly different beyond language edits. But while most of the edits are cultural and/or censorship changes, as well as different title screens, credits, and copyright dates. However, many games receive various improvements in each regional release after the first one, ones that have a moderate to significant effect on the game's gameplay and/or presentation. You can view a list of games with regional differences here. What I'm talking about right now is the games that go through actual gameplay and presentational improvements, not the former regional differences. Basically, if you're stuck playing the "inferior" version because the game was released in your country first (this is especially bad for North Americans like me because Japan and/or a PAL region usually gets the game last), you're kind of out of luck. I feel kind of ripped off in a sense. Although, as documented in that link, games sometimes do get re-released in the countries that originally got the "inferior" version with the improvements, such as Final Fantasy VII International or Shindou Super Mario 64, usually they come with even more improvements that will never leave that country, essentially doing nothing to close the cycle. I'm wondering if anyone's tried to make ROM patches backporting these differences to the "inferior" versions. All I could find was this one for the European version of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, and it doesn't even account for all the changes. If not, I would be interested in starting some projects.
(Personally, one of the games I got the "inferior" version of as a North American and wish I could experience the "superior" version of was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. The Japanese version came out 10 months after the American one, and it got some pretty cool improvements like more reasonable target scores for the challenge levels, you being able to keep your power-up after saving and quitting, and also you being able to clear the high score table without erasing the rest of your data.)
(Personally, one of the games I got the "inferior" version of as a North American and wish I could experience the "superior" version of was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. The Japanese version came out 10 months after the American one, and it got some pretty cool improvements like more reasonable target scores for the challenge levels, you being able to keep your power-up after saving and quitting, and also you being able to clear the high score table without erasing the rest of your data.)
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