Channel Update - February 2020 | It will be a huge video (Patreon)

Hello there! I have some fresh news for you.

~ GTA SA - Strange Japanese Censorship (Working title) 

I am still working hard on this video and here is what I managed to achieve during this month.

I almost finished the script.The script became massive. I doubt that I can call this video a comparison now. It looks more like an investigation to me and here is why:

First of all, I can prove that the game was several times delayed. Moreover, I have an answer why it was delayed and even censored. I wasted a lot of time just googling the information in foreign language and I am pretty proud of what I've found. Why not to talk about it in the video?

Secondly, I found who censored the game.You won't believe me, but it wasn't the game rating board (CERO), it was SONY! Yeah, the company, who made Playstation 2 and thanks to Japanese magazine, I can easily prove that.

Thirdly, the script is focused only on PS2 version of the game and the answer is left below.

Behind the scenes

I decided to avoid talking about PS3 version, because it's story is uninteresting and doesn't really fit in the video context.Why? Because it has much censorship. It seems that WarDrum Studios had a different approach and for the most part it was done from the scratch and very poorly. In my opinion, it should be a separate video.  

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I also noticed that there are some videos covering Japanese differences. The sad thing is, they are all incomplete. It seems that people didn't even play the game for too long nor looked deeper into the problem. I have more juicy information.... more facts and wasted more time and resources to find cool stuff.

I have around 14 people who helped me to translate some Japanese text and we found a lot. Here is how this document looks now:

 I know that I talked about this document in March, but since then it became bigger. ~~~

Also managed to buy at least two Japanese magazines.

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Was all of this worth it? I hope so. 

My "to do" list:

Try to find more differences.I could easily miss something out and I need to be sure to include everything I can and while I can.

Investigate PS2 JP re-release from 2011.It seems that it has less censorship and I need to find more about it.

Where I failed:

1. Comparing PS2 sound banks.As I previously said, I wanted to compare PS2 sound banks. Well, I have zero clue how to do it and probably will skip this part. I am sorry.

2. Find more information in Japanese magazines.I had no problems to find two Japanese magazines, which were mentioned as a source. However I have no clue how to track down other magazines. I don't know Japanese and retailers translated "GTA San Andreas" to their language. Even if the cover has GTA San Andreas name written in Japanese on it, I won't even identify that.

3. Export Japanese PS2 strings from "Japanese.GXT" file.Due to the fact that Japanese language has more "letters" and GXT has a different structure, there is no tool to export Japanese text. It becomes corrupted. We managed to export PS3 JP text, but it is sometimes different.

4. Find more censorship in text.

Despite the fact that I had around 14 people who helped me to translate JP subtitles by looking at JP footage, we didn't scan the whole game. It is unreal for us to look at every single mission and see if it has censorship or not. Sometimes the censorship is minor. We found only major things. 

~~~~This is it for this month. I guess, I should continue working on the video. See ya!