World Circuit Series

World Circuit Series
Also known as: F-1 Spirit (JP), The Spirit of F-1 (EU), Konami Racing (Konami GB Collection Vol. 1) Developer: Konami Publishers: Konami (JP), Ultra Games (US), Palcom Software (EU) Platform: Game Boy Released in JP: February 28, 1991 Released in US: March 1992 Released in EU: 1992 This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

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Regional Differences

Publisher Logos

Since the game featured different publishers in US and Europe, the Konami logo was changed appropriately. All logos before the title screen were removed from the Collection rereleases.

Title Screen

The title screens were changed based on the game's names in the respective regions it was released in.

One interesting note is that the Japanese version has "PRESS START" immediately on the title screen and the player can just enter the game immediately. However, the original US/European versions don't display it until after the engine drive-by sound effect plays, so the player has to wait until after it displays before starting the game.

Japan (Original)	US	Europe (Original)	Japan (Collection)	Europe (Collection)

Name Input

The Japanese releases have input for katakana as well as romaji characters. The original US/European release removes the kana characters but rearranges the remaining Latin characters to fill up the space left behind. While the Japanese Collection version still has the same input screen, the European Collection removes the kana but this time does not rearrange the Latin characters and only lazily moves up the remaining characters instead.

Additionally, "NAME INPUT" was changed to "ENTER YOUR NAME" in the original US/European release but was reverted for the European Collection.

Japan (Original)	US/Europe (Original)	Japan (Collection)	Europe (Collection)

Menu Options

Game Select

"TEST RUN", "SPOT ENTRY" and "FULL ENTRY" were changed to "PRACTICE RACE", "SINGLE RACE" and "SERIES CIRCUIT" respectively in the US and European versions. The Collection version reverts this back to the original Japanese menu names.

Japan (Original)	US/Europe (Original)	Japan (Collection)	Europe (Collection)

Course Names

Some of the names of the courses available have been changed in the US and European versions. The "San Marino" course also has an extra space inserted as a typo fix. Interestingly enough, the European version also differs from the US version rather than being the exact same, albeit only changing the name of one course from "Berlin" to "Hockenheim".

The Collection version released in both Japan and Europe axes all of the course names in favor of plainly naming them "Course A", "Course B", etc.

Japan	USA	Europe	Collection
TOKYO	SYDNEY	SYDNEY	COURSE A
NISHINIHON	LONDON	LONDON	COURSE B
KOBE	BERLIN	HOCKENHEIM	COURSE C
FUJI	FUJI	FUJI	COURSE D
SUGO	BRUSSELS	BRUSSELS	COURSE E
TSUKUBA	ROME	ROME	COURSE F
NAGATA	PARIS	PARIS	COURSE G
PORTISLAND	CHICAGO	CHICAGO	COURSE H
OTSUKA	MONTREAL	MONTREAL	COURSE I
SUZUKA	SUZUKA	SUZUKA	COURSE J
U.S.A.	U.S.A.	U.S.A.	COURSE K
BRAZIL	BRAZIL	BRAZIL	COURSE L
SANMARINO	SAN MARINO	SAN MARINO	COURSE M
MONACO	MONACO	MONACO	COURSE N
CANADA	CANADA	CANADA	COURSE O
MEXICO	MEXICO	MEXICO	COURSE P
FRANCE	FRANCE	FRANCE	COURSE Q
BRITAIN	BRITAIN	BRITAIN	COURSE R
GERMANY	GERMANY	GERMANY	COURSE S
HUNGARY	HUNGARY	HUNGARY	COURSE T
BELGIUM	BELGIUM	BELGIUM	COURSE U
ITALY	ITALY	ITALY	COURSE V
PORTUGAL	PORTUGAL	PORTUGAL	COURSE W
SPAIN	SPAIN	SPAIN	COURSE X
AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	COURSE Y

Revisional Differences

The Konami GB Collection Vol. 1 rerelease changes the names of circuits and car models in the game to pseudonyms, i.e. the F-1 and Formula 1 names are removed.

Original	Rerelease

Multiplayer

Additionally, the ability to play multiplayer against 2 players or 4 players has been removed in the Collection version.