Racket Attack

Burn!! Pro Tennis.

Being one of the handful of Famicom games to sport (heh) expansion sound, it and a few other Jaleco games are probably best remembered for the fact its expansion sound hardware isn't emulated yet.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

The original red background was changed to blue when localized and the European title screen shifts the logo down, added the trademark symbol, and recolored the Jaleco logo to white.

Japan	US	Europe

Menu#

Japan	US/Europe

Court#

The US version included Wilson Sporting Goods branding both in-game and on the box art.

US	Japan/Europe

Players#

Most of the player profile portraits were touched up during localization.

Bernard received bigger eyebrows and additional shading on his mouth (or a mustache?). A miscolored pixel was also fixed in his hair.

Japan	US/Europe

First had a different headband, longer hair and an open mouth.

Japan	US/Europe

Brofsky had a hairband and a skinnier face.

Japan	US/Europe

Carter's pupils were recolored.

Japan	US/Europe

Gibco had longer hair and was younger looking.

Japan	US/Europe

Watt received more prominent eyebrows.

Japan	US/Europe

Horn had longer hair and a slightly differently shaped face.

Japan	US/Europe

Eagle had longer hair.

Japan	US/Europe

Juana had longer hair and had her eye adjusted.

Japan	US/Europe

Berry had longer hair.

Japan	US/Europe

McKay had glasses.

Japan	US/Europe

Jansco had the white pixels in her hair colored in.

Japan	US/Europe

Sound#

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The Japanese version is equipped with a special ADPCM chip that contains all the samples used in the game, ranging from the announcer's voice to even novel things like certain sound effects, such as hitting the ball during a serve. Due to Nintendo's stringent rules about cartridge hardware in American and European territories, these versions had to work around this restriction, as the announcer is now sampled via the internal sound hardware's DPCM channel. Ironically, the announcer's voice in the international versions is sampled at a much higher quality than the Japanese one, despite the Japanese version using custom sound hardware.