David Haywood’s MAME(tm) WIP

Thanks to some help from Corrado Tomaselli / Mame Italia Forum another Semicom game, Toppy and Rappy is now working in MAME. The Final Boss is Hyper Pacman :-p

The only thing more terrible than the name is the actual game.

I think it’s missing colour Proms, it runs on what is basically a copy of Dragon Punch hardware, and dates from 1995 ?!? Seriously, this is the worst thing I’ve ever emulated.

Thanks(??) to the Mame Italia Forum guys as is often the case.

When you think of most Korean arcade games ‘Censorship’ isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The Koreans are unrivialed in their ability to take an arcade game, and add adult content to it.

For the Korean releases of NeoGeo games we see a rather different story. I’ve added support for a number of Korean sets, and the main difference you can see with them is how heavily censored they are.

The first thing you notice is that all of the Blood and various other bits of violent content are completely disabled, there is no longer an option in the service mode to enable it, or if there is you can’t actually change it from ‘White’.

Secondly the games are locked to the English language versions, running with a Japanese bios won’t give you back any of the blood, nor Japanese text, nor a Japanese title screen, only the standard ‘For Use In Japan’ message.

A number of characters have been renamed too, the character select screen in Last Solider (the Korean release of Last Blade) is missing the usual character name overlay, ‘Wang’ in Art of Fighting 3 is now ‘Park’ and ‘Xiangfei’ in Real Bout 2 is now ‘Hannah’.

There are a number of other changes, but I found the censorship especially amusing considering the lack of it present in most Korean games.