According to a later version of the "Project Wombat" developer bible for Crash Bandicoot (this version was given to a fan by the game's producer David Siller in 2015; an earlier version of it was officially published in 2018 in the book "The Crash Bandicoot Files: How Willy the Wombat Sparked Marsupial Mania"), Dr. Neo Cortex's backstory describes how he and Dr. Nitrus Brio when they were younger destroyed their high school by tampering with the physics department's test nuclear power plant. Afterwards, they traveled the world looking for a new home, but no matter where they went they were ridiculed and ostracized, and it is noted that soon after they left a location, that place was then met with "violent explosions and catastrophes". This culminates in one last account where the pair left the city of Chernobyl, drawing the attention of various international law organizations who connected the dots to their past incidents and soon added Cortex and Brio to the international most-wanted list. Feeling the heat, they finally settled down far away from humanity on the Australian island that he would soon name Cortex Island. This backstory heavily implies that Cortex and Brio were responsible for the real-life 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union.
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Within the game files there's an unused alternate wakeup animation for Morrigan, which shows her temporarily becoming a dark figure while a cloud of bats lift her up. In the final game, her sprite doesn't change colors.
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Lord Raptor's monster type is different across regions. In Japan he's known as a zombie, while internationally he's referred to as a ghoul.
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The game's data contains labels for player 3 up to player 8. It is possible that a mode reminiscent of the Tournament Battle variant of Super Street Fighter II (a special version that networked 4 cabinets together to allow for 8 player elimination tournaments) was considered at one point in development before being scrapped.
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The bottom corner of the Continue screen features advice to the player. These tips remained untranslated in the international version.
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The Japanese version features a stylized border around win quotes that was removed in the international version for unknown reasons.
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In the arcade version, there are armed enemies which drop fire arms when they die, which can later be used by the player. These enemies along with the usable weapons were removed from the SNES version.
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If the player lands a lethal blown with Captain Commando's flamethrower or similar fire attacks the enemy will burn until they turn into ash. This does not happen in the SNES version, where the burned enemies stay on the ground before dissapearing.
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Some of the enemies in the game have Ride Armors which the player can also control. This feature wasn't available in the SNES version, with the Ride Armors being completely removed.
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The enemy known as Mardia attacks by spitting green slime to the player. Because the attack makes it look like she's vomiting, this was changed in the SNES version where she throws bombs to the player instead.
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At the beginning of the level you can see two enemies smoking cigarettes while squatting. This does not happen in the SNES version.
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Most enemies melt away after recieving a lethal hit from Mack. This does not happen in the SNES version and instead they simply drop to the ground.
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Most of the enemies can be dissected if they recieve a lethal hit from Ginzu. This does not happen in the SNES version.
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Blood and pink smoke (the latter happens when Mack hits the enemy) where removed from the SNES version.
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Ginzu's profile in the arcade version mentions he's capable of dissecting his enemies while Mack's says he can melt them. These details were removed from the SNES version.
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The outfits of the female enemies Carol and Brenda show more skin in the arcade version, whereas in the SNES version they are more covered up.
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Some of the characters have different names across regions.
•The playable characters Sho, Jennety, and Hoover were renamed to Ginzu the Ninja, Mack the Knife, and Baby Head respectively.
•The 7th stage boss Blood was changed to Boots. This change was exclusive to the SNES version.
•The final boss Genocide was changed to Scumocide.
•The playable characters Sho, Jennety, and Hoover were renamed to Ginzu the Ninja, Mack the Knife, and Baby Head respectively.
•The 7th stage boss Blood was changed to Boots. This change was exclusive to the SNES version.
•The final boss Genocide was changed to Scumocide.
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The SNES version is missing the Industrial Area stage and the Rolento boss fight, as well as the two-player cooperative mode, rendering the game as single player only.
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On March 21st, 2009, the Nintendo World store in New York City held a Pokémon Platinum Launch Event to celebrate the game's release. However, flyers were distributed around Nintendo World stating that attendees can receive a Mystery Gift, which turned to be a hacked Gengar with the nickname "Nigger" caught in a Safari Ball. Its moves were based on black stereotypes consisting of Thief, Sucker Punch, Sludge Bomb, and Snatch along with the Truant ability. The flyers that were distributed around Nintendo World turned out to be a Photoshop edit of the original flyer that didn't specify any Mystery Gift being given out to attendees at all. The Photoshopped flyers were intended for an unrelated unofficial distribution of an Eevee that was also occurring at Nintendo World. The people distributing the Eevee quickly stopped their distribution when security questioned them about the racist Gengar, as two wi-fi signals were detected at Nintendo World. Reports have speculated that an African-American man dressed as a common Team Rocket grunt was solely responsible for the hacked Gengar distribution, and that he was later arrested by police. Nintendo later issued an apology regarding the controversy stating that anyone should refrain from downloading the hacked Mystery Gift Pokémon to avoid any data corruption.
During the cases "The Black Caesar" and "The Consul's Car", you can find two pieces of toast with images of a cowboy's face burnt into them. This toast is not interactable, and fans have assumed that these are the likenesses of John or Jack Marston from Red Dead Redemption.
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