The Apprentice Regional Variations
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:59 pm
Whilst fixing my LG GDI700 CD-i Player and unwittingly using The Apprentice USA version as my test candidate, I noticed something very unusual. Up rolls the Philips Bumper, followed by the SPC title screen then...then the introduction to the game. Huh!?! this can't be right, turns out the introduction is playing the in game theme music which is rather upbeat as you may recall.
Can my system laser be out of alignment? So I test the same game on another player and the same upbeat introduction music. Then I twig, i've been playing on the European version all this time and that's why it seems odd to me. Sure enough when I play the European version of The Apprentice the music is more in line with the introduction as a more downbeat rythm.
Checking the ISO size from each image made using Clone CD you can see a difference in size to the order of 10MB!!
I wonder why they took out part of the music for the American market, it strikes me as very odd. Perhaps someone can explain, how about CDI DEV do you reckon he'd have any idea why this was cut Bas?
Can my system laser be out of alignment? So I test the same game on another player and the same upbeat introduction music. Then I twig, i've been playing on the European version all this time and that's why it seems odd to me. Sure enough when I play the European version of The Apprentice the music is more in line with the introduction as a more downbeat rythm.
Checking the ISO size from each image made using Clone CD you can see a difference in size to the order of 10MB!!
I wonder why they took out part of the music for the American market, it strikes me as very odd. Perhaps someone can explain, how about CDI DEV do you reckon he'd have any idea why this was cut Bas?