Epic Mickey/Regional Differences

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Japanese Version

Gameplay Adjustments

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• When travelling between Mean Street and OsTown, Ventureland, or Bog Easy, the player is given the option to skip the 2D section if it has already been played.
• Numerous changes were made to the game's camera to address complaints, including allowing camera rotation in certain areas where it was previously prohibited and adjusting fixed camera positions in some platforming sections.
• Pressing the C button to recenter the camera while running no longer halts Mickey's movement.
• The indicator that appears over targeted enemies was made larger.
• Controller button prompts were added to early areas of the game. For example, in Dark Beauty Castle, an A button hovers above a gap to show the player how to jump.

Bugfixes

• A bug that allowed the player to skip the Shadow Blot boss fight and the Battle of OsTown (colloquially referred to as "Shadow Blot skip" by speedrunners) was fixed.
• In the original version, it is impossible to rebuild Animatronic Daisy after the Battle of Ventureland, even if the player has already collected her parts or bought them from Tiki Sam. This was fixed in the Japanese version so that she can be repaired at any time.
• A bug that allowed the player to use Gilda's axe in Mickeyjunk Mountain despite already returning it to her was fixed.
• A bug that allowed the player to repeat Gilda's race in OsTown and earn a second Power Spark by mashing the A button was fixed.
• A bug that prevented the player from talking to the pirate Jean Mark more than once after returning to Ventureland was fixed.
• In the original version, Gremlin Gus's wrench can be seen moving under the floor during one of his animations after the Petetronic fight. This was fixed in the Japanese version.

Lighting

International	Japan

The in-game lighting is brighter in the Japanese version.

Added Dialogue

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Japanese Version	Japanese version set to English

The Japanese version includes some additional dialogue that more thoroughly explains various controls and gameplay features. Oddly enough, these added strings were also translated into English and can be seen by modifying the game's configuration to use English dialogue (an option not normally available in the game). Note that these strings are not present in any other language, and the game will render blank dialogue boxes in their place if set to anything but Japanese or English.

Cutscene Differences

• The Mad Doctor's Lab cutscene near the start of the game is edited to not include the parts where the Mechanical Arm threatens Mickey with sharp tools. Instead, it skips straight to the plunger that the Mad Doctor uses to try to take Mickey's heart.

• Parts of the cutscene where Gus introduces Mickey to Mean Street are edited or completely reanimated in the Japanese version. Instead of being shown as a wave of liquid Thinner washing over Mean Street and its citizens, the Thinner Disaster is depicted as a sort of green Thinner gas. The Japanese version adds a scene of Dark Beauty Castle being warped by the Thinner gas to replace two scenes from the international version: one of a civilian being washed away by a wave of Thinner, and another of a civilian being shoved into a manhole by a Spatter. This was likely changed due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

(Source: Epic Mickey Wiki)

Scandinavian Versions

Language Select

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The EN-DK-SV version of the game

There are two Scandinavian versions of the game: one that includes English, Danish, and Swedish language options (SEMY4Q), and another that includes Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian language options (SEMZ4Q). These two regional variants are the only versions that display a language selection screen upon first launching the game. All other versions automatically select the language based on the Wii console's language setting.