This is a sub-page of Duke Nukem Advance.

Duke Nukem Advance had US and European regional releases. The US version only contains English text, while the European version offers a language selection screen on startup to choose between English, French, German, and Italian text. Oddly, the English text in these two releases differs quite heavily. While conveying the same general information, the US release contains more humor and personality in the dialogue, the European release being relatively blunt and straightforward in comparison, but there are a few instances where the European text actually possesses some unique jokes and even extra storyline information.

Contact with a former employee at Take-Two, the game's publisher who also handled the localization, suggested the differences in the text may have been a result of the localization team modifying the wording due to some expressions not translating one-to-one equally from English into other languages.

The English text differences only pertain to the mission briefs and in-game dialogue boxes. The text in the opening and ending comic cutscenes are unchanged between both regions.

Text Differences

Episode#

Area 51#

1A#

1B#

1C#

Egypt#

2A#

2B#

2C#

No equivalent text appears in the EU ROM.

2D#

Sydney#

3A#

3B#

3C#

3D#

Alien#

4A#

4B#

4C#

4D#

4E#

4F#

4G#

4H#

Credits#

The credits for the Torus Games team are identical between regions and thus omitted here.

In the European release, the 3D Realms credits changes Steven Blackburn's "Producer" credit to "Associate Producer" and his first name from "Steven" to simply "Steve". The European release also acknowledges the original Duke 3D art team, omits Bryan Turner's beta testing credit, and changes the "Executive Producers" credit for Scott Miller and George Broussard to "Lots And Lots Of Thanks To" in addition to moving them to the bottom of the list after a gap.

Under the Take-Two team, each release includes a different set of names for the closing "Special Mentions To" credit.