Sure thing, Q.T.. The game in question is Aero Fighters 3 / Sonic Wings 3.(posted 9379 days ago)All Neo-Geo games default to European mode by default. Country code hardly ever makes a difference except for language or blood color or whatever, but AF3 is one of the few exceptions. For some reason, when the game is in European mode, it is noticably harder than either the American or Japanese counterparts. Why? I really don't know... if you play the 1st level in US mode, then switch to European and play, I'm sure you'll notice that many more bullets are being fired at you.
Despite this I submitted a recording in European mode, and all was ok... until The Ace Man decided to submit a score on US settings. So of course I'm not going to take that lying down, if he can get away with easier settings than I'll do it too. I'm not stupid. So I beat his score on US mode.
Personally, I think default settings should be upheld, tougher or not. I'm rather indifferent when it has no effect on gameplay (I'm just saying this to defend my turning blood on in the Metal Slugs), but when game difficulty is changed it's an important matter. I *think* I've left the country code unchanged in all Neo-Geo recordings I've done with the possible except of Zed Blade, I think I did it in Japanese mode (which only changes two things - the name of the game, Operation Ragnarok, and a longer "intro". Gameplay and difficulty wise it's identical)
-BBH