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Front Mission: Gun Hazard is a game from Square

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released in 1996 for the Super Nintendo, only in Japan.

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The second title of the series,

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Gun Hazard is quite different from its predecessor,

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being more a shooter in the style of Contra and Cybernator,

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but with RPG elements, like any good game from Square.

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Despite being a good title,

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something very strange is present in the cartridge:

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digging through the ROM audio files with a specific tool,

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you can find the following sound:

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Again and translated.

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We're gonna burn your building down, you fuckheads.

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C18 is watching you, you communist, nigger-loving, Paki…

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This audio clip can be heard in the game,

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on this screen that appears after the final credits.

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Right under the helicopter sound,

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it is possible to notice the voice.

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Check it out.

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This sound in the game, in fact,

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is an excerpt from an alleged telephone recording of a member of Combat 18,

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a neo-Nazi political organization suspected of numerous killings of immigrants

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and people whom they consider from other races.

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The BNP's got your card marked, you bastards.

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We're gonna burn your building down, you fuckheads.

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C18 is watching you, you communist, nigger-loving, Paki cunts.

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Fucking dickheads, we're gonna hang you for burning the British flag.

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You'll hang from every fucking flagpole in Britain for burning the Union Jack, you bastards.

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The problem is that this recording

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is the introduction of a song of the British hip hop group Fun-Da-Mental.

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The band had songs with lyrics full of political engagement,

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and this track in particular, called Dog Tribe,

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criticizes the various forms of racism and ethnic segregation.

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So it opens with this controversial message,

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in order to criticize the hate that the most conservative sectors and the Far-right

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in our society have about the different ethnic groups and cultures.

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In other versions of the song,

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this introduction ended up being cut.

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So why the hell it ended up in Front Mission: Gun Hazard?

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Apparently, it was just an accident:

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the musicians responsible for the sound of the game,

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including there Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda,

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heard the music of Fun-Da-Mental,

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thought that this message would be a good sound effect,

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since they do not understand English very well,

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and put in the game like a voice talking on the helicopter radio,

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without anyone realizing it was a message of hatred and racism.

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This technique called sampling, that is,

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removing sounds of music and other works,

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was very common in old games,

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but nowadays it stopped for a moment mainly because of the Internet,

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since people easily discover the sound similarities

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and this opens the door to a lovely lawsuit.

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Two cases of this kind we know well here:

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the free advertisement of Kaiser in the menu screen of Capcom vs. SNK…

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Kaiser, a great beer. The beer of happy times.

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…and a TV commercial in Parasite Eve II.

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I suspect that is from C&A.

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Each of these offers for just…

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That voice was shortly after cut off from the American and European versions of the game.

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So do not worry, Front Mission: Gun Hazard is not

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a racist game with subliminal messages.

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It is rather a great title from Square which unfortunately was restricted to Japan,

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but thanks to the Internet, a group of fans made a translated version.

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So, there is the hint, because it's worth checking out.