Black Tiger (Arcade)

Black Tiger is an action-adventure game by Capcom. It features a hero with a mace and an infinite supply of daggers.

It's also the game that introduces the ubiquitous Zenny currency that appears in many other Capcom games.

Unused Graphics
There are three "sizes" of Potions and Hourglasses in the graphics ROM. Only one of each is used, and even then their designs were changed.

Region Differences
Unlike most of Capcom's arcade games, this one appears to have been released internationally before it was released in Japan! As such, the Japanese version is further refined and balanced.

High Score List
The character limit per name was changed from 3 to 4.

Furthermore, the Japanese game uses a completely different character set for its high score entry screen that includes katakana, hiragana, and numerical symbols.

Shop Prices
The prices of all shop items were changed for the Japanese game. Note that each difficulty level has its own price table. 1 is the easiest difficulty, 5 is the default setting, and 8 is the toughest difficulty.

Prices in bold print differ were increased for the Japanese release. Additionally, the price of keys was changed from 30 Zenny to 80 Zenny. This applies to all difficulty levels.

Graphical Changes
These four Kanji were touched up a bit.

The shading on the top of the cave entrances in Round 3 was redone.

The wall spike tiles were changed to match the brightness of the rest of the adjacent bricks.

More shading changes, this time to Stage 6. The Japanese version certainly looks better.

Some of the edge tiles were changed so that they meld better with the surrounding wall.

Round 1
Some of the cliff tiles in this section are missing in the international release.

Round 2
One of the spikes on the large left "orb" is improperly flipped in the international game.

Round 3
This area looks sloppily constructed in the international versions of the game. The Japanese added more cliff tiles to the game's BG graphics ROM, allowing this area to be redone in a more natural way.