the cutting room mirror

Fatal Fury (SNES)

A port of the original Neo Geo game, infamous for being considered awful by players due to broken gameplay, sluggish controls, an off-key soundtrack, primitive sound effects, and plenty of decompression times.

It's also awful that it wasn't even included in Nintendo Switch Online's Nintendo Classics lineup, unlike the second one and Special.

Sub-Page#

Regional Differences#

Intro#

Japan

International

The Japanese version shows Takara logo on boot. The International versions replace this with scrolling text, explaining briefly the game's tubular plot.

Title Screen#

Japan

International

Aside the logo change, Takara Amusement copyright's string was shortened to Takara, the year release was updated, the mandatory "Licensed by Nintendo" was added underneath and "Push Start Button" become "Press Start Button" in the International versions.

Japan

International

Indications were added in the International versions, making navigation clearer.

Also, in the Japanese version, there's no music in the Menu. Whereas in the International versions the Character Select theme is used. Sound effects were also added to the international version.

Fighter Portraits#

Japan

International

The international version adds a black background and white border to the portraits, matching how they were in the Neo Geo original.

Loading#

Loadings on a SNES game? That's Lame!
The International versions added WAITING! text that shows up while the game is loading between the versus screen and matches.