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European Shin Budokai news

Post by Caracal » Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:45 pm

I just checked Amazon.co.uk, and Shin Budokai will be released on the 21st of April and it looks like we're getting the Japanese boxart. Glad to finally hear a release date (though I wish it was out a week earlier).
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Post by unstable_person99 » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:52 pm

Argh! Why do you guys get to have the original cover while we Americans get the crappy Atari one?! :x
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Post by Tsukento » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:12 am

unstable_person99 wrote:Argh! Why do you guys get to have the original cover while we Americans get the crappy Atari one?! :x
Not just that, but they got the original vocal openings to Budokai 2 and 3 AND they got Advance Adventure long before we ever will. T___T

Oh right, didn't Europe also get the Collector's Edition with Japanese voices included for Budokai 3 first?

Wait, they ALSO got the original Sparking! cover (with the Sparking! logo changed to "Budokai Tenkaichi").

Damn you, Atari. >:O
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Post by DB_Fan » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:07 am

Tsukento wrote:
unstable_person99 wrote:Argh! Why do you guys get to have the original cover while we Americans get the crappy Atari one?! :x
Not just that, but they got the original vocal openings to Budokai 2 and 3 AND they got Advance Adventure long before we ever will. T___T

Oh right, didn't Europe also get the Collector's Edition with Japanese voices included for Budokai 3 first?

Wait, they ALSO got the original Sparking! cover (with the Sparking! logo changed to "Budokai Tenkaichi").

Damn you, Atari. >:O
That makes me proud of living in Europe :P
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Post by Caracal » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:54 am

Tsukento wrote:
unstable_person99 wrote:Argh! Why do you guys get to have the original cover while we Americans get the crappy Atari one?! :x
Not just that, but they got the original vocal openings to Budokai 2 and 3 AND they got Advance Adventure long before we ever will. T___T

Oh right, didn't Europe also get the Collector's Edition with Japanese voices included for Budokai 3 first?

Wait, they ALSO got the original Sparking! cover (with the Sparking! logo changed to "Budokai Tenkaichi").

Damn you, Atari. >:O
Don't forget that Budokai 1 had Japanese voices (though we didn't have an option to turn them into English) and the GameCube version of Budokai 2 had the Japanese track as well as the English one and Goku and Piccolo's extra costumes from the Japanese version (NSS if the American version of GC Budokai 2 had the same features). Finally, we didn't get Saga.
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Post by Pedro The Hutt » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:56 pm

Erm, no, no. European Gamecube Budokai 2 only has Japanese voices. No complaints with that though.
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Post by Azure » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:56 pm

Though to balance this out we're kinda screwed on the English DBZ anime front.
I'm looking forwards to this though it's a bit irritating how close it is to Dragon Quest VIII coming out.
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Post by Tsukento » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:57 pm

Caracal wrote:Don't forget that Budokai 1 had Japanese voices (though we didn't have an option to turn them into English) and the GameCube version of Budokai 2 had the Japanese track as well as the English one and Goku and Piccolo's extra costumes from the Japanese version (NSS if the American version of GC Budokai 2 had the same features). Finally, we didn't get Saga.
Great, now I'm more tempted at importing. More money going down the tube for Dragon Ball products normally not available to me. >__>
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Post by Nyoibo » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:42 am

It's great to see that we're getting the nicer cover :P and it's even greater to see that this is coming out 2 days before my birthday.

Do you guys think the European / Japanese versions of the game will get any extras (just like previous Budokai games)?
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Post by wannywan » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:16 am

We also get Japanese voices in Supersonic Warriors 2. :D

In fact, the only dragonball games I have that don't have japanese voice actors or the option to turn them on is Budokai 2 and Supersonic Warriors.
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Post by Akira » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:35 pm

The PSP is supposedly region free, correct? Meaning I can import for it without need of some boot disc or converter? I just imported Advanced Adventure from a British game store to get that game when I wanted it for GBA 6 months ago. If Shin Budokai gets any features/characters that North America doesn't get, then I might just wait and get it instead. (Provided that PSP is region free of course.)
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Post by Nyoibo » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:17 am

Yup, PSP is region free when talking about games - meaning you can play any game released in any country on any PSP. The only problem is that if you have a PAL (Europe and some other countries) Shin Budokai you can't play against a player with an NTSC (U.S.) copy of the game.

In other words, Ad Hoc mode (Wireless Multiplayer) works only for the same region.

Regarding movies, though, it's a different thing completely. UMD movies are region protected so in the U.S you can only watch Region 1 films.
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Post by Guest » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:04 pm

It's funny that since Sparking!, we have been getting the original Japanese cover art for the video games and Japanese voices(Even Advanced Adventure had the seiyuu in the European version!)

List of reasons why we are better off than the US:

1. Original Japanese cover art for the video games.

2. Original Japanese seiyuu in video games.

3. We got the Ocean Group for all of the TV series!

4. We got Advanced Adventure befor you!! And even now it's still being delayed!! Oh, and by the way, it is the best handheld Dragon Ball game I have ever played. And I have played about 90% of them.

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Post by Nyoibo » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:31 pm

3. We got the Ocean Group for all of the TV series!
That's in the UK. Other countries in Europe get their own dubbing teams. Personally, I've grown up with the Italian dub, which is one of the best there are along with the Spanish one.

Oh, and we're not always that lucky, you know? For the first Budokai we had a CG intro movie - which was all nice - but the NTSC version of the game had a CG animated Cha-la Head-cha-la intro. I wish we had that movie instead of the one we got. :P
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