Kaido Racer

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Kaido Racer is the 2nd game in the Kaido Battle series. This game brought many additional changes such as more cars, courses, rivals, upgrades, and more. Whilst this game did release in 2004 for Japan, and released the following year in Europe, it was never released in America (instead, two foreign brands from here went sent to the American localization of the first game instead). Thankfully, the third game did get released in both regions.

Cut Cars#

Kaido Battle 2 was planned to feature a lot more cars in the final game. However, a lot of them were cut likely due to licensing or time constraints. The information about these cars can still be found within the final game's data.

(Note: To make things easier, the games are listed by there Japanese names.)

Regional Differences#

Title Screen & Main Menu#

Japan	EU

Japan	EU

Intro Cinematic#

The opening cinematic in the Japanese version used scenes from The previous game's Intro, whilst in the European version, it uses scenes from the battle at the end of the opening cinematic.

Japanese Version's Opening:

Japanese Opening	Opening Differences
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European Version's Opening:

European Opening	Opening Differences
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Car Changes#

Foreign Cars#

Due to licensing issues regarding cars made by DeTomaso and Lotus, those cars were cut out in the European version of the game, with many rivals changing cars. Strangely, the information messages that occur when those cars are unlocked are still in the game, but have their text removed.

Japan	EU

What's also interesting is the fact that the Pantera is still mentioned in-game via mail.

Dark Paladin Car Change#

The rival "Dark Paladin" (Masahiro Hiraue) had his car changed from a Gemballa Turbo R-GT 320 in the Japanese version, to an Opel Calibra DTM in the PAL version. This change is especially odd, since the Gemballa is still present in the PAL version (albeit locked behind the Used Car Dealership).

Japan	EU

Removed Rims#

Various rims from 5Zigen, Hart, Rays (both Volk Racing and Gram Lights) O.Z, Racing Sparco and Speedline Corse were removed in PAL version (likely due to licensing issues). This leaves only five different rim brands in the PAL version of the game.

Rivals or sponsor test cars that used the rims listed below, had their rims changed in PAL version, most notably being Forever Knights/Daiki Kōnoue's Evo 3 having the OEM Evo 3 rims in the European version, compared to the Japanese version's OZ Rally Racing rims.

The removed wheels are as follows:

5Zigen

• Fire-Ball (silver/white/black/bronze)
• FN01R-C (silver/white/black/bronze)
• 5ZR (dark grey/silver)
• M-05 (silver/white/black/dark grey)
• Infperio S-08 (silver/white/black/dark grey)
• Typhoon (silver/black)

Hart

• CP-035 (bright gold/white)
• CP-035R (silver)
• CP-Ftune (silver)
• CP-FtuneR (gold/silver/white/dark grey)
• TYPE-CR (white/gold/black)
• CP-035 (bright gold/white)

RAYS (VOLK Racing)

• TE37 (white/bronze)
• CE28N (bronze/gold/gray)
• SE37K (silver/bronze)
• GT-C (white/black/silver)
• GT-U (silver/bronze/dark gray)
• GT-7 (white/bronze/black/grey)

RAYS (Gram Lights)

• 57F (bronze/silver)
• 57C (gold/white/silver)
• 57S (gold/black/silver/bronze)
• 57PRO (Gray/bronze)

OZ Racing

• SUPERTURISMO COMPETITION (white)
• 5 RAZZE (white)
• F1 COMPETITION (gray)
• RALLY RACING (white with blue/red text)

Racing Sparco

• NS-2 Python (silver/white)
• NT-R (white/black/dark gold)
• Tarmac (silver/gold/white)
• Viper R (dark gray/white)

Speedline Corse

• GT-oneR (gold/black/dark gray)
• Compe-2 (gold/silver/white)
• GT-one (gold/dark gray/silver/white)
• Chrono (gold/dark gray/silver/white)
• Type 2013 (gold)

Blow Off Sticker change#

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The name for the in-game sponsor, "Blow Off", had its name changed to "Scheister" in the PAL version.

Japan	EU

Strangely, the sponsor sticker that is applied to the car still reads as "Blow Off".