Amiga 500 Longplay [153] North & South

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Played by: Ironclaw

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There's an EU and US version, I chose EU as it had better/more stuff.

The EU version has:
* A different logo (the first thing we get to see). It has a big picture of that Infogrames animal and gray background, while the US version has a big DATA EAST logo with a small picture of the Infogrames animal and text saying:
"Ⓒ INFOGRAMES 1990 small animal here
UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN COPYRIGHT DATA EAST USA. INC."
* Flags under the trumpet guy (to select language), while US has "NORTH & SOUTH" written in green there instead.
* Has the picture and music at 02:46, which the US version completely lacks both of.

Some other differences are the US version has "TM" above the right screw-head on the menu screen. It also has green scrolling text on the trumpet guy part, while EU has blue. Starting the US version in PAL will prompt a box after pressing fire on the trumpet guy screen with text saying "NORTH & SOUTH NTSC VERSION" and an "OK" button underneath. It won't let you continue if you don't switch to NTSC. Then of course EU is 50Hz/fps and US is 60Hz/fps, but neither use more than like 20 or lower, in most cases. It's just the flying birds on the game over screen and fading that uses the 50/60. Could be somewhere else, but ye, mainly 20 or below everywhere. For once the NTSC version didn't make the game or music run faster. Both had the same speed (in the stuff I checked, was just briefly).

The game could be over in like 2 mins after the map appeared (the CPU was so suicidal), but I wanted to show as much as possible so prolonged his defeat and played a bit slowly. Save-states came in handy. Wanted to end the game by owning as much territory as possible, which could have been done way quicker of course, but took my time and had some repeated fun with the different arcade mini-games.

00:00 - Intro, or whatever to call it.
02:42 - Menu selection stuff
03:17 - Before we play, let's listen to this entire tune first.
04:47 - Tune over, time to play
26:31 - Game over with the blue dudes. Game over looks the same for the grey dudes, but different text. When defeated with the grey dude, this text is displayed instead:

"MY GOODNESS, CORPORAL! THE MIRACLE DIDN'T HAPPEN. THE YANKEES CRUSHED YOU IN 3 MONTHS. BUT THE WORST HAS BEEN AVOIDED THANKS TO THEIR LOW MORAL."

I lowered the CPU to almost nothing at 03:37. It was the only way to get the whole tune to play. Any faster and it would be over WAY before the whole thing had played, as the game automatically continues after like 10 secs or something... normally. Due to the lower CPU, the music played about 10% too slow though, so doesn't sound perfect, but I'm sure most people wouldn't notice even if they compared it to normal speed.

My first goal was to take the middle bottom 3 flags so I would cut off the train, and thus get to play that arcade train game. I didn't want to take the fort, so stood around there for a while waiting for an opportunity.

Later at 11:53 he did what I tried to do earlier. Now we get to see the train stuff and I don't have to try and get that anymore. Only thing I regret is not showing more of the train parts, like the very front thingy.

14:16 - He attacks my fort and I should have let him take it over the first time because he kept trying, so I let him have it at his 3rd try or something, so the spamming would stop.

20:14 - Good time to show you can retreat if wanted. -
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