Gekisha Boy 2

This page details one or more prototype versions of Gekisha Boy 2.

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This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

Two prototypes of a scrapped European localization of Gekisha Boy 2, titled Polaroid Pete, are known to exist. This page covers the latest prototype, dated December 15, 2001.

Luckily, as the game's plot revolves around a photographer travelling abroad to Japan the vast majority of graphics went untranslated, but there were still a couple of changes however.

Title Screen#

• The protagonist David Goldman's name was changed to "Pete" Goldman.
• A video of the game's to-be publisher, JVC Music, was added before the initial loading screen.
• A Polaroid i-Zone logo splash screen was added after the Irem logo.
• The animated logo intro was replaced with two flickering images of the European logo and Pete (David).
  • Due to how the Japanese logo worked (in which animation would play if skipped straight into the title screen), this creates a very awkward-looking sequence if skipped in the European version as the images continue to flicker over the moving background.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

Gameplay#

• The laptop used by the Editor in Chief (used as well on the save file screen) says "gekibo" in the Japanese version, it was changed to include the JVC logo branding in the European version.
• The banner behind the Editor in Chief saying "アイ ウォント ピュリッツァー" (I Want a Pulitzer) was changed to "No news is good news" in English.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

Stage 1A - The GINZA#

• Billboards on the buildings near the Tokyo Tower were replaced with Polaroid product placement in the European version.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

• A boy is seen urinating through the bullet train's door in the Japanese version was changed to a monkey train conductor in the European version.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

Stage 1B - Electric town AKIHABARA#

• Several instances of Polaroid product placement replacing many of the billboards throughout the stage in the European version.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

Option Menu#

• The options menu is opened by pressing the cross button the the Japanese version, triangle instead for the European version.
• The options menu in the European version lacks the "Capture" section, which would have allowed players to transfer photos from a Picture Paradise-compatible camera connected through the USB port and insert them into the game.

Gekisha Boy 2	Polaroid Pete

• In the Japanese version the front pages of the newspaper could be printed through the Sony popegg printer by pressing Start. This feature was removed in the European version and pressing Start only advances to the next front page.