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In 1994, SNK released a promotional video for Shin Samurai Spirits (aka Samurai Shodown II), which features footage from a prototype/beta version of the game. The video can be seen here. |
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| The video's intro is missing Poppy when Galford appears. | |
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| In the intro, Genjuro's sprite is colored red in places, which would be changed to pink for the final game. | |
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| In the video, when the game's title appears, the word "SPIRITS" overlaps "SAMURAI". Spirits then moves down, whilst the red circle moves up. In the final version, this doesn't happen, the "SPIRITS" is already in place and the red circle doesn't move at all. | |
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| The final game made a small change to the title screen -the 1994 copyright text was swapped from the right to the left. | |
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| "Zigar" was changed to Sieger for the final game. | |
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| "Genjurou" was shortened to just "Genjuro" in the final game. Also of note is that in the video, Kuroko hold his red flag in his right hand, and his white flag in his left hand. The flags were swapped around in the final game. As was also seen in the intro, Genjuro's palette is red in places in the video, the red parts were changed to pink for the final game. |
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| On Gen-An's stage, the flames under the pot are colored blue in the video. Changed to red in the final game. | |
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| The video has Nicotine's name listed as "Jiji". Jiji is a Japanese word for old man, so was most likely just being used as a placeholder here. | |
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| There are some color differences with Kyoshiro's stage in the video, the most notable being the beast picture in the background. | |
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| In the video, Hanzo's stage has a red sky, making it look more like his stage from the first game. In the final version, the sky color was changed to purple. | |
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| The video has one of the Kurokos facing a different way than they do in the final version. They also all hold differently colored flags. | |
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| The character select screen appears to work slightly differently in the video than it does in the final. When P1 joins in, P2's character art is missing. Another difference is that the video never shows the character's sprites at the select screen, only their portraits. In the final version, it only shows the portraits once the character is selected. | |
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| During Amakusa's first cutscene, he's in a slightly different place in the video than he is in the final version. Part of his arm is completely cut off, the text box is a different color, and so is the text. | |
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| In the video, the text box is missing for Gen-An's dialogue here. Oddly, there are some words written in Spanish that appear as well: "DUELO TERMINAR?" which means duel end. These words don't appear in the final version, even if the game's text is changed to Spanish in the options menu. | |