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The North American release of the game as "Dragon Warrior II" was created by Enix themselves and published in 1990. Unlike the original Japanese Famicom version, which used passwords for saving, the NES version used an internal battery backup instead to record the player's progress. The storyline introduction in Moonbrooke is presented exclusively in "Dragon Warrior II". In the Japanese original, the game starts right with the injured soldier from Moonbrooke entering Midenhall castle, seeking help from its king. The dialogue of the American localization often used (intentionally) archaic English vocabulary, among other differences from the Japanese version. Like "Dragon Warrior", the American version of "Dragon Warrior II" was censored in some aspects; for example, it used a ghost-like sprite instead of the original defeated character's coffin with cross sprite.