EDITOR'S NOTE Behold, the perils of not properly documenting how you did something 15 years ago! A horror story for the modern age! So, ahem, back when these pages were first made circa 2008 / 2009, our intrepid writer stooge went onto the segasaturn.co.uk forums and asked about finding a particular application to extract the .BIN files on the Fighting Vipers disc to get the CG images. This is something the writer had, in fact, completely forgotten until in the year 2024, when they went back to try and find that application only to find, to their horror, this thread on the segasaturn.co.uk forums that they themselves had written. Oh, ye Gods, to have been on the internet that long! They curled up into a ball and screamed for a while after that. Anyway, there's no links in the thread and no trace of this extractor online (aside from maybe it being the Sega Saturn Graphics Convertor available here that no longer works on modern computers) so it's a bloody good thing we did it right the first time, eh? You're welcome. Anyway, I remember putting this page together the first time around was a bloody pain in the arse, and there was a joke about me being paid to be an editor, not a bloody HTML monkey. I'm not paid to be an editor either. Hilariously, I also made a joke back then about never touching this page again, but here we are. Bloody hell.

Welcome to the Portrait Gallery for Fighting Vipers.

Whenever you beat Arcade Mode in Fighting Vipers on the Saturn, the credits are accompanied by clips of your victories as well as four CG images of your chosen character. In the Japanese and European versions, you also get the Portrait option in Options Plus, which has twenty-two stills from the FMV intro by default and the CG images you got in your character's ending. Add to your collection by beating Arcade Mode with every character, even the secret ones, and you'll be able to see them again from this menu! Oh, and Tokio and Kumachan also have a hidden picture, but go to the Game Secrets page for more on those. As you might have gathered from my editor's rather verbose and long intro (he loves the sound of his own typing) [Oi, watch it. - Ed] , these images were exctracted from the disc using a Saturn graphics extractor at least a decade ago, and are presented in this lovely table for you to click and embiggen.

Without further ado, here's the full set of CG pictures from Fighting Vipers, in all their mid-90s glory!

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While we're here... It's important to note that the US version is missing the Portrait option on the Options Plus menu.

The pictures are still in the game (although the intro pictures aren't on the disc) but only appear in the credits... And some of them have been replaced!

To clarify, both the Portrait option and the non-replaced images are still in the European version, this is US-exclusive tampering.

They've mostly been replaced with pictures from the intro, and some make less sense than others.

So here's the changes they made, see if you can guess why before we get to the end!

JP / EU Original	US Replacement

Also, the secret Tokio image is different between the Japanese and the US / European version:

JP Original	US / EU Replacement

As you can see, most of these were cut out for mild sexual content- a bit of ass (courtesy of Sanman) and, well, every shot of Honey... Except the second Sanman picture here, probably replaced because it's in a church. The spirit of NES censorship lives on! What does amuse me though is that the advertising of the game in the US and Europe somewhat reflected these changes- the US advert (as seen in Electronic Gaming Monthly emphasises the violence of the game, complete with writing in blood, while the UK advert (as seen in the back of Official Sega Saturn Magazine) seriously goes with a picture of Honey captioned "STORM IN A D CUP". Sega of Europe woke up extra-spicy that day, huh? Just an amusing little difference of focus, I suppose, but it's especially funny given that the US version cut some of this stuff and the European branch just went all-in on it.

Has your curiosity been sated now? Then return to the Fighting Vipers guide page...