censored 3rd strike pcb???

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

I got an asian cps3 3rd strike pcb today.
Weird thing is there is no japanese speech in this game.
Title screen says south east asia.
Clearly no bootleg,as there is the capcom logo on the pcb.
Either the character says nothing or "shoryuken" and "hadoken" etc.
are subsituted by other voices.
The japanese speech is accessable through the service mode soundtest.
Everything is in there, but strangely not in the game while playing.
Can anyone help?
Maybe an hidden option to turn the japanese voices back on?

Verythrax · Jul 16, 2004

Is it dubbed in chinese?

I didn't know that the CPS3 boards had different voice acting per region...

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

No new speech.
Just no japanese speech while playing.
Either grunts and moans or the regular english speech.
But no nihongo.
Asian boards are intended for hong kong.
I've never seen something like that before.

Verythrax · Jul 16, 2004

ni-ten said:
No new speech.
Just no japanese speech while playing.
Either grunts and moans or the regular english speech.
But no nihongo.
Asian boards are intended for hong kong.
I've never seen something like that before.

It looks like a sound problem. Maybe your pcb is having some sort of malfunction, or a not-so-well repair was made. Well, let's see if someone with more knowledge on subject have a better funded opinion.

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

990512 asia release

ToeJam · Jul 16, 2004

Could it be possible to have a BOOTLEG CD-ROM or security cart?

Or maybe a scratched CD rom or a defunct security cart?

NGT · Jul 16, 2004

not sure about cps3, but the two cps2 asia region games I own are fully legit and in English. As far as the sound and stuff not being present, everything is there in my games, so I can't help you there. But as for english language on Asia region boards, it's like that on both my cps2 games and is supposed to be like that on my 2 cps2 games.

not sure why they would make asia region games in english,lol....but they did.

Verythrax · Jul 16, 2004

Maybe a wrong CD+ cart combo? (cart from a region, and CD from another?)

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

I reinstalled using the original cd.
No change.
I then installed using the iso thats floating on the net.
Again no change.
It must be something in the cardrige.
Cardrige says "this cassette is for asia only" on the back.
Every english etc. speech is in the actual gaming,every voice except for the japanese
quotes.
Like said they are replaced or missing completly.

I once heard about a korean version of souledge where every
trace of japanese stuff was changed.

Still interested in your opinions about this.

Verythrax · Jul 16, 2004

Are you sure that the main board is 100% ok? Maybe it's a hardware fault.

Mushiki · Jul 16, 2004

Maybe some DIMMs are missing and the game cannot load all the data to the PCB.

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

6 dimm's 7 slots.

http://de.geocities.com/jaytookayone/cps/PICT0118.JPG

save as cause its geocities!

Amano Jacu · Jul 16, 2004

ToeJam said:
Could it be possible to have a BOOTLEG CD-ROM or security cart?

Or maybe a scratched CD rom or a defunct security cart?

It can't be a bootleg, CPS3 was never bootlegged.

I would say is some technical problem, or the Asian release was supposed to be like that for some reason. Take care that most Asian people hate Japan because of WW2, so maybe they didn't want Japanese voices there. It's just a guess.

Verythrax · Jul 16, 2004

Amano Jacu said:
It can't be a bootleg, CPS3 was never bootlegged.

I would say is some technical problem, or the Asian release was supposed to be like that for some reason. Take care that most Asian people hate Japan because of WW2, so maybe they didn't want Japanese voices there. It's just a guess.

I don't think so, japanese games are pretty popular all over asia.

Are you sure that CD/isos are for the asia region? I don't know if they had separated CDs and carts per region, but if it's the case, the code in the cart is expecting to find the sound at a CD address that doesn't exist.

KOF_FANATIK · Jul 16, 2004

ni-ten said:
6 dimm's 7 slots.

http://de.geocities.com/jaytookayone/cps/PICT0118.JPG

save as cause its geocities!

Don't trip man

I have an asian board also it does the same thing
(exact) same thing .

Ryu or ken end up just going "ha" when the shoot out a fireball

Makoto has that one super where punches them alot and then the final blow
knocks them high up into the air and is supposed to say something but says nothing

I seriously think the asian boards do that on purpose maybe capcom felt they did not need all the voice samples on it

ni-ten · Jul 16, 2004

To me it seems like that the cd's have all the same data.
The cardrige makes the difference.
The japanese voice are accessable through soundtest menu,everything is there.

But simm 7 is empty(see the pic).
Is that common with 3rd strike boards,or is there really missing
a rom?

ni-ten · Jul 17, 2004

Has anybody ever tried to use a cardrige from
a different region on his cps3 board?
Is this working?
Maybe reinstalling with a different cardrige?

DaemoN · Jul 17, 2004

No CPS-3 game uses all DIMM slots.

I have JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, they dont use all lots.

I've seen warzard and SFIII New Generation, they dont use all slots either.

- Daemon

Suehirocho · Jul 17, 2004

My USD 0.02 is that asian versions just don't use all the japanese speech contained in the CD ... so everything would be ok, hardware wise.
I think Amano Jacu pointed it right, some games are -officially- altered when released in Korea or other countries, because of herrr... some long disputes.

I remember there was a topic on how at least one of the Samurai Shodown has a specific korean version were too japanese references were wiped off, the word "Samurai" on the title being one.

As for your CPS-3, since the data seems to be there, the only way to go would be to fool the system into thinking you are using it as a japanese system.

But I'm no CPS3 guru so I don't know if this can be done :spock:

ni-ten · Jul 17, 2004

This is the worst case of censoring ever -_-;

ni-ten · Sep 6, 2004

Rival Schools asia has the exact same problem.
Every trace of japanese is edited out there.

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