WEBVTT 00:00:09.541 --> 00:00:12.334 Front Mission: Gun Hazard is a game from Square 00:00:12.335 --> 00:00:16.392 released in 1996 for the Super Nintendo, only in Japan. 00:00:16.827 --> 00:00:18.551 The second title of the series, 00:00:18.552 --> 00:00:21.651 Gun Hazard is quite different from its predecessor, 00:00:21.652 --> 00:00:24.988 being more a shooter in the style of Contra and Cybernator, 00:00:24.989 --> 00:00:28.254 but with RPG elements, like any good game from Square. 00:00:29.143 --> 00:00:30.640 Despite being a good title, 00:00:30.641 --> 00:00:33.177 something very strange is present in the cartridge: 00:00:34.332 --> 00:00:37.863 digging through the ROM audio files with a specific tool, 00:00:37.864 --> 00:00:40.537 you can find the following sound: 00:00:49.658 --> 00:00:51.279 Again and translated. 00:00:51.818 --> 00:00:54.794 We're gonna burn your building down, you fuckheads. 00:00:54.795 --> 00:00:59.760 C18 is watching you, you communist, nigger-loving, Paki… 00:00:59.919 --> 00:01:02.562 This audio clip can be heard in the game, 00:01:02.563 --> 00:01:05.758 on this screen that appears after the final credits. 00:01:05.982 --> 00:01:07.690 Right under the helicopter sound, 00:01:07.691 --> 00:01:09.464 it is possible to notice the voice. 00:01:09.587 --> 00:01:10.185 Check it out. 00:01:20.284 --> 00:01:22.421 This sound in the game, in fact, 00:01:22.422 --> 00:01:27.211 is an excerpt from an alleged telephone recording of a member of Combat 18, 00:01:27.212 --> 00:01:32.014 a neo-Nazi political organization suspected of numerous killings of immigrants 00:01:32.015 --> 00:01:34.611 and people whom they consider from other races. 00:01:35.362 --> 00:01:38.687 The BNP's got your card marked, you bastards. 00:01:38.688 --> 00:01:42.069 We're gonna burn your building down, you fuckheads. 00:01:42.102 --> 00:01:47.941 C18 is watching you, you communist, nigger-loving, Paki cunts. 00:01:47.975 --> 00:01:52.112 Fucking dickheads, we're gonna hang you for burning the British flag. 00:01:52.145 --> 00:01:59.419 You'll hang from every fucking flagpole in Britain for burning the Union Jack, you bastards. 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:03.456 The problem is that this recording 00:02:03.457 --> 00:02:07.670 is the introduction of a song of the British hip hop group Fun-Da-Mental. 00:02:08.163 --> 00:02:12.008 The band had songs with lyrics full of political engagement, 00:02:12.009 --> 00:02:14.842 and this track in particular, called Dog Tribe, 00:02:14.843 --> 00:02:18.646 criticizes the various forms of racism and ethnic segregation. 00:02:28.410 --> 00:02:30.606 So it opens with this controversial message, 00:02:30.607 --> 00:02:35.063 in order to criticize the hate that the most conservative sectors and the Far-right 00:02:35.064 --> 00:02:38.823 in our society have about the different ethnic groups and cultures. 00:02:39.178 --> 00:02:40.729 In other versions of the song, 00:02:40.730 --> 00:02:43.058 this introduction ended up being cut. 00:02:48.986 --> 00:02:52.304 So why the hell it ended up in Front Mission: Gun Hazard? 00:02:52.732 --> 00:02:54.856 Apparently, it was just an accident: 00:02:55.042 --> 00:02:57.387 the musicians responsible for the sound of the game, 00:02:57.388 --> 00:03:00.308 including there Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda, 00:03:00.309 --> 00:03:02.559 heard the music of Fun-Da-Mental, 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.407 thought that this message would be a good sound effect, 00:03:05.408 --> 00:03:07.310 since they do not understand English very well, 00:03:07.311 --> 00:03:11.279 and put in the game like a voice talking on the helicopter radio, 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.602 without anyone realizing it was a message of hatred and racism. 00:03:15.036 --> 00:03:17.549 This technique called sampling, that is, 00:03:17.550 --> 00:03:20.388 removing sounds of music and other works, 00:03:20.389 --> 00:03:22.582 was very common in old games, 00:03:22.583 --> 00:03:26.575 but nowadays it stopped for a moment mainly because of the Internet, 00:03:26.790 --> 00:03:29.779 since people easily discover the sound similarities 00:03:29.780 --> 00:03:32.355 and this opens the door to a lovely lawsuit. 00:03:32.937 --> 00:03:35.276 Two cases of this kind we know well here: 00:03:35.731 --> 00:03:40.451 the free advertisement of Kaiser in the menu screen of Capcom vs. SNK… 00:03:40.978 --> 00:03:45.149 Kaiser, a great beer. The beer of happy times. 00:03:47.277 --> 00:03:50.068 …and a TV commercial in Parasite Eve II. 00:03:50.257 --> 00:03:51.851 I suspect that is from C&A. 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:56.292 Each of these offers for just… 00:03:58.441 --> 00:04:02.816 That voice was shortly after cut off from the American and European versions of the game. 00:04:05.774 --> 00:04:09.442 So do not worry, Front Mission: Gun Hazard is not 00:04:09.443 --> 00:04:11.823 a racist game with subliminal messages. 00:04:12.053 --> 00:04:16.213 It is rather a great title from Square which unfortunately was restricted to Japan, 00:04:16.214 --> 00:04:20.257 but thanks to the Internet, a group of fans made a translated version. 00:04:20.336 --> 00:04:23.278 So, there is the hint, because it's worth checking out.