Riddick Bowe Boxing (SNES)

Riddick Bowe Boxing
Also known as: Chavez (Latin America) Developer: Malibu Interactive Publishers: Extreme Entertainment Group (US), Micronet (JP), American Softworks (MX) Platform: SNES Released in JP: November 23, 1993 Released in US: January 1994 Released in MX: 1994 This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

One of the very first attempts at games being officially modified to cater for the Latin American market (outside of Brazil, that is), with a special Spanish-language version produced for sale in Mexico replacing Riddick Bowe with El Gran Campeón Mexicano himself, Julio César Chávez.

Regional Differences

Copyright

In the Japanese version, an additional title card is displayed dedicated to Japanese publisher Micronet, before switching to a slightly simplified version of the normal copyright titlecard that replaces Malibu Interactive's logo with plain text.

In the Latin American version, Extreme Entertainment Group is bumped down to plain text in the copyright spiel, with American Softworks Corporation taking the logo spot.

Japan	US	Latin America

Intro

In Bowe Boxing, it shows the championship belt right before the title screen.

Title Screen

Riddick Bowe Boxing	Chavez

Starting Boxers

Other than obviously changing the main boxer's face, for some reason the boxer on the left was turned white in Chavez.

Riddick Bowe Boxing	Chavez

Their names were changed as well. Clockwise from the top:

Riddick Bowe Boxing	Chavez
Monty Williams	Pablo Aldana
Chan	Raul Ramirez
Hans Dobermann	Hans Dobermann
John Sheriff	Alberto Baez

Riddick Bowe Boxing Leftovers

Riddick Bowe Boxing shows the Hall of Fame if you let the game sit in the title screen for a while. These are seeded with Bowe's real-life career statistics at the time, though a diligent player can beat them to get into the Hall. There's no such thing in Chavez, possibly because Julio Cesar Chavez's real-life records (such as 89 wins) could not be beaten in the game, but the text is still present at 0xC3C3 in the ROM with Bowe's name and statistics. The text is stored out of order.

RIDDICK BOWE    2:16 ROUND 1
RIDDICK BOWE    34 WINS     
RIDDICK BOWE     3 WINS     
HALL OF FAME
FASTEST WORLD TITLE KO
MOST CAREER WINS
MOST WORLD TITLE VICTORIES

Secret Boxers

In Bowe Boxing, there are two secret user-created boxers called RIKKY and IIIAN. These were changed to AXY and SPOT in Chavez. Axy and Spot were the pseudonyms of two popular Club Nintendo magazine editors. There's also a 3rd user-created character called FRIEDA, in Bowe Boxing it just results in a regular Riddick Bowe character, but in Chavez it creates a blue colored Chavez.

Riddick Bowe Boxing	Chavez