Cps 3 Third Strike No CD Asia Sound Problem

Tech Talk
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hello

i have a problem with a cps 3 Street fighter III 3rd Strike NO CD asia version.

all the background music plays…but for various characters such as ken:
if i taunt i get no sound
if i do any of his special moves all i get is a grunt.

is there a spot on my board i need to check to see if it damaged or dirty?

thanks

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That’s how it’s supposed to be. AFAIK, all Japanese voice samples were removed when playing under the Asia region setting, replaced with generic samples.

I’m not sure if you can change the region using the same hardware. With emulation the files seem to contain all the regions and the user is able to decide under which region the game runs, but knowing Capcom and all their CPS3 limitations, something tells me it’s more complicated for the actual hardware.

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I’m pretty sure that its like that in the Asian version. That’s one reason most people pay more for the US or JP version.

Ooops, beaten.

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thanks…oh well. learned something new.

5

Is the difference between the Asian version and all others the “no cd” option. How can I differentiate the versions short of asking the owner?

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You can check the startup screen. If nobody is playing it’ll come up once in a while after a demo match or whatever.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4774/sfiii3002fa4.png

If it’s a different region, the text colour will be different (and obviously it will say the region instead of Asia), and if it’s the CD version it will be blank where it says “NO CD.”

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If you want to change the region of the game, there’s a dipswitch setting to do so. So you may have the Asian version but you can easily get the Japanese voices back.

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Absolutely not possible, only way to change the region is to get a different security cart. (We are talking about the real hardware here, not emulation… the CPS3 hardware doesn’t even have any dip switches.)

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Why would they change everything to grunts in the asia version? What’s the reason?

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The most plausible reason I’ve heard was that some Japanese samples could potentially have been misinterpreted as something offensive in one or more of the various native languages across Asia.

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Someone told me that its offense for Ryu and Ken to say “hadoken” and “shoryuken” in Korea. I don’t know if its the word or the context of these words. But for some reason its offensive.

Anyone out there know why? Its interesting how the words hadoken and shoryuken are dirty words and brings out a culture clash. Is it a tension between the Koreans and the Japanese?

Educate me.

12

I don’t have anything positive to add but that just looks like an underwear. lol

13

Totally useless post, but ROFL :rofl:

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looks like a thong to be more precise.

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haha, good one :stuck_out_tongue:

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Why? I’m assuming your talkin about south korea yeah? Even though that sounds more like something that would happen in north korea?

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its not just korea, its pretty much any place nearby japan that had 3S, i guess capcom just decided to kill many birds with one stone. I’m not exactly sure if it has anything to do with it but when japan invaded korea they forced the country to learn its own language, both my grandmothers speak/read japanese because of this. i had assumed there was still some sort of lingering animosity towards the two countries to this day, but my uncle recently visited japan and dispelled that myth

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I see. But I was comment on what he said here : "However, there used to be a game inspection rule in Korea at least that didn’t allow Japanese voice samples. That lasted for about 3-4 years in Korea from about 97 to 99."

rather then on what being asked about 3s etc.