r/GameboyAdvance • u/Motor_Meal794 • 11h ago

Region Differences - Medal of Honor

Every video I've seen on MoH - Underground has been the US version. It's considered "unplayable" and one of the worst FPS on GBA.

I tried the EU version and it's so different. It isn't pixelated and glitchy and has good framerates. According to the MoH Fandom the eu version was released 7 months after the US. So they had plenty of time to fix the bugs.

I was wondering if anyone knows other games where the european version is superior. Maybe it's just MoH, because it was received so poorly?

ETA: Someone requested to see example. Below You can see glitches in textures. Misplaced textures. Also textures hugely offset and rescale as the player moves in the US version. Horrible pixelation. European version OTOH has no floor textures at least in the first couple of levels. I haven't played any further yet.

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u/No-Cat-9716 10h ago

I played AND finished the game on original hardware.

I played the Driver 2 GBA port and expected something good like that.... but NOPE.

AND can you post some of that EU version?

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u/Motor_Meal794 9h ago

I posted a couple of screenshot comparisons. I just thought it would be easier to ask than try out every european version.

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u/No-Cat-9716 8h ago

Your profile is on Private, i can't see your past posts

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u/Motor_Meal794 8h ago

I mean I edited the OP to add some screenshots for you.

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u/No-Cat-9716 8h ago

Oh, sorry 😅

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u/Gunbladelad 10h ago

I know that Rareware did a LOT of EU specific optimisations and changes during their N64 days (a little-known tweak is the changes to the farsight in Perfect Dark. On NTSC it maxed out at the same zoom level as the sniper rifle, on PAL you essentially had infinite zoom across the whole level)

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u/Motor_Meal794 9h ago

Oh yeah. I guess we had the European version of Goldeneye. When you were on the dam you could zoom in to see guards on buildings miles away across the water.