![]() ![]() With these limitations, in addition to the gameplay which features a very short-sighted overlook (graphics looks detailed only if the player is close to them) and a soundtrack which has likewise gone through a set of limitations, the SNES port of Wolfenstein 3D has a devoted following, and numerous resources of the port have featured in many mods, most of all the weapons.Īn ECWolf port of the SNES version was made by AstroCreep, entitled Wolfenstein 3D: Claw of Eisenfaust. The storylines from original Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny are somewhat entertwined, with featured bosses being the Grösse Brothers Hans and Trans, Doctor Schabbs, the Death Knight (using the moniker Black Knight) and the Ubermutant, in addition to the aforementioned Staatmeister. ![]() Blood and gore has likewise been more or less vetoed. Most notoriously, the port featured a different storyline, extra weapons (flamethrower and rocket launcher), differently laid out levels and most importantly - heavy censorship.Īdolf Hitler is now Staatmeister and all Nazi imagery have been removed from the game. In Japan, the game was released as Claw of Eisenfaust. Schabbs instead.The SNES port of Wolfenstein 3D was released in early 1994 for the Japanese and American market, hitting the European shelves later on same year. It seems the Jaguar version attempted to correct this, but swapped the names of Hans Grosse and Dr. Schabbs before the Trans Grosse boss, which is the order which the bosses appeared in the prototype. The mission briefings in the US/Europe version were replaced with black splash screens with the name of the episodes. ![]() The Japanese version removes the "Licensed by Nintendo" text, thus shifting the rest of the text down a little. It is pretty much the exact same game with a few exceptions mostly with the storyline. (Source: catzlol from the RTC Discord server) Regional Differences In addition to this, there are also error strings littered within the first several banks of the ROM, mostly used for sanity checking while testing/debugging. Starting at 000FF5FF are various messages pertaining to errors: ![]() Also unused in the Jaguar version, and was replaced with yellow bricks. Hellish stones from the final level from Spear of Destiny. It's unused because the multicolored stones replace a yellow brick wall, which has no ornament-type variations.Īlso unused in the Jaguar version, but it has a swastika emblem and is visibly unfinished. Multicolored stone wall with a red sign text. The SNES version uses the Game Over/High Scores theme instead. This song is used in the PC version when completing a level. It also ended up spawning an unlicensed and decidedly more kid-friendly reskin from Wisdom Tree known as Super 3D Noah's Ark. Oh, and the dogs are now giant rats, because Nintendo can't be having you kill man's best friend. Aside from being heavily cut down compared to the original version, featuring only 30 levels (2 of them being secret) and half the bosses (all of which are taken from Wolf 3D's sequel Spear of Destiny for some reason), this version is particularily notorious for its censorship: a game where you go up against nazis certainly wasn't safe from Nintendo of America's policies at the time, as had been proven six years earlier, so Hitler (or Staatmeister, as he's now known) had his mustache shaved, all the swastikas were scrubbed, and the infamous German voice acting has been redubbed in English. This game has hidden development-related text. Also known as: Wolfenstein 3D: The Claw of Eisenfaust (JP) ![]()
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