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Blessings bro! Nice vid! Theres any remastered version for this? Doesn’t matter if it’s made by fans thats even better but Im looking for an updated version of this game as it is for sure the best freaking race game of all times (game not sim fosho) thanks in advance!! 🙏
Europe tests or any application documents have this too even today. O is a positive selection and X is a negative selection (cancellation). You circle the correct or desired answer but for some reason the games controls were swapped entirely for the rest of the world and in this case Europe and Oceania too.
About the circle as confirm in the Japanese version: yes. it's one of their things. when Metal Gear Solid was localized for the western release they kept this in.
Yep, that is the first thing I thought of. I remember having my mind blown when I first played MGS on the PS1 and the button mapping was so unconventional and my friend told me that is how they did it in Japan.
yeah i remember gundam breaker 3 on the ps4 was like this as well. wondering if gb4 coming in a couple months will be the same, or if they'll switch it for the us release
If you worked at the EA Games buliding (back in the 2000's) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, you might have missed out on buying the game through their workplace kiosk.
I second this. I feel some of the games running on it run better then original version and doesn't drop frames lot. I played re outbreak on original and i can barely run it with frames dropping and nightly fixed it making the game much more smoothly
Hey, you know another obsure NFS Underground version? It's the arcade version. And, like F&F arcade game, its also similar in style but different HUD, custom tracks, cars with preset customization, a fixed camera movement while you drift, etc. I hope you check that out :)
Wow I didn't know there was a japanese version of Need For Speed Underground. Super cool! Still my favorite NFS game too. Cool video, I went and gave ya a sub!
Team Weld Drift Team got a Livery in Need For Speed...... Well then. o__o The "Samurai" Livery, is a Drift Team or Former Drift Team called "Weld" their Liverys have always been badass.
Fun game I have all the Need for Speed games from Japan and I do play them on a PS2 Slim from Japan. I use my smartphone and Google translate for the menus. I wonder if you have the Need for Speed Carbon Collectors Edition for PS2. I think that was a US release only, but it was a totally different game than the PS3 version. A whole bunch of new races and a bunch of new car. I guess you will have to get one if you don't have one. Need for Speed Most Wanted Black Edition another US release is another fun game with the cops turned up to the extreme. Turbo charged Heavy SUVs and total nonstop attacks from the cops with the heat level turned up to 6.
Back then when companies made an exclusive content for Japanese audience that is cultural based stuff like R Factory Vinyl and such unlike company today making China's exclusive content that I can say "pay to win" content. I don't mind exclusive but most exclusive content that China get is waaay more than global ones. A lot of content that at this point it just becoming it's own entire game.
"more easier way" ... most of us in Europe and Asia had chipped PS1 and PS2 since day one running any format or region you could think of ... emulation is literal garbage unless you waste days setting up each time for a specific game to run good enough or at all not to mention that you waste more electricity with running a PC Especially nowadays even basic things on PC fry my electric bill also hog / fry components let alone running apps or games. (example I lost about 4 GPUs due to GTA5 alone for almost 6 years ...) Thank you for keeping this video under 10 minutes not like others making hour plus long videos about a game that barely have any valuable or even new info about it ... All PlayStation generation JP games always had better packaging quality then the rest of the world. Europe was the cheapest market and it pretty much shows since plenty of times we got black and white prints with barely any images in some releases. Sometimes I couldnt tell wtf am I even looking at when they included a screenshot or render of sorts. The very same reason why I loved making my own packaging design. The buttons layout originally goes like Square is a map button, Circle is "accept" selection and main action button, X is a cancel button, Triangle is a extra action option button. Select is main select button but not many games utilize it for such things. For some reason ALL this was swapped for the rest of the world. Even tho the OG layout makes perfect sense I got use to the other ways so cant play like that for the life of me ... since most games I played were PAL (Europe and Oceania) and NTSC (US CA).
Honestly your GPU issues seem more like you have an unsafe power supply, I have never had a GPU fail since I started playing on PC in 2011 except my 2011 iMac's (known defect that Apple just denies) The default settings of PCSX2 should also always be able to play the game, though it will have no enhancements other than framerate.
3:22 As mentioned by others, it's common to have Circle as confirm in Japan (I think EU as well) for Japanese PS consoles. It was actually a little controversial when PS5 forced everyone to adapt to "X to confirm" control scheme. 6:18 In addition, Underground was the first game in the series in Japan that uses the "Need for Speed" name rather than the former localized title "Over Drivin'".
funnily enough PS4s are (i think) can be configured as a global settings. I played an English version of CODBOCW PS4 at my friends home and surprised that O is confirm and X is cancel.
no, not in eu. x is the confirmer here. i played a lot ntsc japan games back in the day on my chiped ps2. it was one of the confusing things back than.
@@JDMdrifterboy7 Stable builds are major releases that are tested to be stable. Nightly builds are the latest untested versions of the emulator. People are poking fun at him for using the stable version because at this point it's over 4 years old, while the nightly builds are updated every day.
3:37 fun fact i thought would have been mentiones in this video all new vinyls come from real cars, that were either famous on japan or were used by TEAM UNDERGROUND to promote UG1, UG-J, UG2, And UG2 SHA-DO in japan the names also have their own meanings for example AFG-SAM and AFG-HYSSI are the nicknames of the owners of the IRL cars that had those vinyls, SAM drove a modified Toyota Vitz and Hyssi had an imported USDM Acura NSX, both having those exact same vinyls in their respective cars AFG-SPIDER and AFG-SAMURAI are vinyls used by Kazama Auto (who's logo was a spider/bat) and Weld (who used the samurai livery on their most iconic car) AFG-DELSL as its name implies, comes from a modified CRX Del Sol owned by Weber Sports, tho finding photos of it could be a bit difficult as with most of these cars AFG-STREAM is a design used in a 350z made by JUN Auto and Option in 2003, which ended up blowing a tire and rolling over at 300kmh, the name comes from the nickname given to the 350z ''Option STREAM Z'' as for AFG-GL i have yet to see if it was ever used in any car, never seen it IRL unlike all the other vinyls
A pity EA decided to unify the naming since Underground, as I like Overdrivin' more for Japanese copies of NFS. You do need to check the first four NFS titles but in Japanese, especially the two variants of NFS1 but Nissan cars available only for PS1 and Sega Saturn.
Prettysure my step bro had a copy of this game growing up. Might be time to go fishing thru the garage again. Lol. Iirc he got a lot of crap from the older generation about these types of games cause they “glorified and promoted speeding.” lol. Maybe that’s why it’s proving hard to find info. What a wild time the turn of the century was. I’m not sure if this was the game they did it, but it may warrant looking into, I know one of the major “street racing” games (need for speed, burnout, etc.) changed the speed displayed exclusively in Japan release in order to avoid public scrutiny.
I've played a bunch of Japanese exclusive release only games, including games like Touge Max G, Zero 4 Champ, and the JP version of Tokyo xtreme racer, and Circle have always been the default confirm button
