The special edition, which will only be available for rental at Blockbuster stores, improves on the original with better camera angles and more environment detail. It also adds several of the fighters that were cut from the original release of Clay Fighter 63 1/3, such as:
The Zappa Yow Yow Boyz
Interplay also promises the inclusion of more secret characters and a return of the "singing intro" from the original title. Although some of the early Clay Fighter ads showed the aforementioned characters, Interplay removed them from the final version of the game because of space reasons.
There is, however, one notable exception: HoboCop, a homeless fighter with an alcohol problem was apparently not approved by Nintendo -- don't look for this character to appear in the special edition.
For the limited rental release, the company upped the cart size from 96 to 128 megabits, enough to hold the animation frames and sounds for the missing slabs of clay. Only a mere 20,000 copies are being manufactured.
Clay Fighter Sculptor's Cut will be available at Blockbuster video rental stores in April. A commercial retail release is not planned.