When Another Code: Two Memories was released in North America, the script received changes compared to the Japanese and European versions.

This is a list in order to highlight the more interesting changes so players do not feel the need as much to play both versions in order to get the full experience, and so that players can know the different nuance.

General changes

• Ashley is a bit more outspoken, impatient and stubborn in Trace than the more quiet Ashley in Another. She is spunkier, sassier, more skeptical, more independent, more assertive and more capable of backtalk against adults. She could be perceived as more impolite as she says "thank you" less, such as not thanking the Captain when she receives the candy as she did in Another. At one point in Another, Ashley describes a display case in Frannie's room as "pretty" while she calls it "pink" in Trace.
  • Players can get the impression that Jessica and Ashley are closer in Another, while Trace makes it seem they have more of a rift in their relationship. Nintendo of America was apparently aiming for a game that could be more relatable to people who have more strained relationships with their parents or parental figures. Ashley and D also appear closer in Another than Trace, although this difference is slight.
• In Another, characters often say just "..." In Trace, the script tries to get rid of the "..." and adds speech instead, even if it is as simple as someone saying "Oh..." instead of "..."
• The editors of Trace tried for more natural dialog that better suits a thirteen year old. For example, in Another, Ashley says, "There's nothing here that suggests Jessica's whereabouts." This became, "There's nothing here that tells me where Jessica is."
• Trace has more capitalization for emphasis. For example, D asks, "You CAN see me, right?" instead of "You can see me, right?" Jessica says, "I AM sorry" instead of "I am sorry".
• American language is used; "Mom" instead of "Mum", "candy" instead of "sweets", "apartment" instead of "flat", etc.
• In Trace, the Dual Another System is re-named the Dual Trace System (DTS).
• In Another, there is Another I and Another II. In Trace, the system is simply called Trace with having a first and second protocol.
• In Trace, Ashley uses "my mother" and "my father" more instead of "Mom" and "Dad", trying to make her seem more like an orphan who is not used to addressing her parents. This is a tendency, however, and not always the case. As Trace goes on, Ashley uses "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently, showing her vocabulary adjustment.
• In Trace, Robins became Robbins. Franny became Frannie. Marie became Mary. "The captain" became "Captain" as if it were his nickname.
• In Another, Richard's memory card journal mentions his parents died on a plane trip while visiting South America. Trace omits the South America part.

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Chapter one changes

• In Another, the chapter is called The Meeting with D. In Trace, it is Ghost Memories.
• In Trace, Ashley's commentary about how she has mixed emotions is more descriptive.
• In Trace, Ashley says "Where am I?" before speaking to Jessica, as if she forgot she fell asleep on a boat, making her seem more disoriented and forgetful than intended. It is possible she simply meant how far they are on their trip but this still doesn't make sense because Captain told her they're almost at the island and she can see it in the distance in the opening, so her whole question is nonsensical.
• In Another, Jessica says no one remembers thing that happen to them at such a young age. In Trace, she says no one remembers thing that happen to them when they are three. This is untrue as many people do remember events, especially traumatic memories, when they are three, thus making Jessica seem more nonsensical in Trace than she was intended to be. It also creates a bit of a plot hole, as to why Ashley and Jessica know her dream happened when she was three. As far as Ashley knows, she is unsure if it was a real memory and should have no reason to believe it happened at the exact age of three, instead of two, four, five, etc.
• Another clarifies Jessica is Richard's only living family, besides Ashley.
• In Another, Jessica teaches college chemistry. In Trace, it is high school. Strangely, in Another Code: R, Jessica's biography says high school. The Japanese text says high school, so this could be considered one of the rare exceptions where Trace is more faithful to the Japanese script than Another.
• In Trace, Ashley adds that Jessica's lie about her father being deceased "really messed her up".
• In Trace, Jessica (and later, Captain) interrupt Ashley; they don't in Another.
• In Another, Ashley does not know Richard is a scientist until her conversation on the boat with Jessica. In Trace, Ashley already knows this.
• In Trace, Jessica adds "I should have said cheese" after Ashley takes a picture.
• In Trace, Ashley says to Jessica, "I've had a lot of experience not getting myself killed, you know!"
• In Another, Ashley says, "She's fine! She's coming right back! No problem!" In Trace, Ashley says, "Since she's such a know-it-all, she can take care of herself!"
• In Another, Captain says he does not want to tell Ashley about the blonde man because it is confidential information. In Trace, Captain adds he does not really know anything about the man anyway.
• In Another, Captain says Ashley should not be thinking about death at her age. While this point comes across in Trace, he also adds in Trace, "The question of why people die is too big for anyone to answer."
  • This changes some nuance in D's conversation later. In Another, Ashley thinks about how D thinks about death non-stop as a ghost child and how unhealthy that must be. In Trace, Ashley wonders if the question is too big for even the dead to answer.
• In Another, Captain says, "Don't think that there has to be a logical explanation for anything." In Trace, he instead tells her not to become a boring adult who does not ask questions.
• In Another, after giving Ashley candy, he tells her not to tell her aunt. In Trace, Captain tells her not eat it all at once so she doesn't get a stomach ache.
• In Trace, Ashley says "Crud" instead of "..."
• In Trace, Ashley says she has been working out recently before she moves the rock.
• In Trace, Ashley is more self-congratulatory after moving the rock, adding, "I rock! Go me!"
• In Another, when Ashley meets D, she speaks directly with him. In Trace, she does not at first, using language like "Is he..." instead of "Are you..."
• In Another, Ashley shouts for someone to help her because she is terrified of D, saying, "Someone help me!" In Trace, she does not, instead asking D not to hurt her.
• In Another, Ashley finds D's laughing at her to be terrifying. In Trace, Ashley finds it more irritating instead, telling him it's rude to laugh at people.
• In Another, it is clarified Ashley can see D because she can still believe in people. However, in Trace, this nuance is lost, instead being more vague with D saying she can look past the surface of things.
• In Another, when Ashley throws the ball in the hand, D says, "I can't believe it!" as if what she did was an unbelievable feat. In Trace, he simply says it was amazing instead.

Chapter two changes

• The chapter changed from "The House of Lawrence" into "The House of Edward".
• In Another, Ashley says she lives in a flat on the fourth floor. In Trace, she says an apartment on the fifth floor.
• In Another, D asks if Ashley has a butler. In Trace, he assumes she probably doesn't have one. The nuance of D being a character who still has childish nescience, resulting from a wealthy upbringing as well, was lost.
• In Trace, Ashley adds, "Do you think he was born with such a butler-ish sounding name?"
• In Trace, Ashley adds a comment about how it's so empty in the foyer that she feel she should whisper.
• In Another, Ashley bets Jessica can see D and he is open to this possibility, contrasting D in Trace who seems he has lost more faith in adults being pure of heart. In Trace, Ashley never says this, likely in order to make her seem more distant with Jessica.
• In Trace, Ashley claims she loves looking at old photos; she doesn't say this in Another.
• In Trace, Thomas and Henry went to Ivy University, while Another doesn't specify which university. This can be seen as a more nonsensical change because there is no university called "Ivy University", only a group called the "Ivy League" which consists of multiple universities. The player has to assume there is a fictional university in the universe called Ivy University, or assume the writer meant "an Ivy university".
• In Trace, Thomas and Henry enter the WW2 battlefield in 1940, while 1941 in Another.
• In Trace, D mentions it is spooky no one is in the music room after hearing a piano play.
• In Trace, Ashley adds a comment about how her parents were working on Trace when they "disappeared", which gives more of an impression Ashley really thinks Sayoko could be alive.
• In Trace, Ashley adds a comment about how it's weird going through strangers' belongings and that there's so much stuff. D replies, "Life is always messy, Ashley." and says the living leave traces of themselves wherever they go, and once people die, it's the traces that tell the story. This conversation was likely added to Trace Memory to give more meaning to the name of the game.
• In Trace, D thinks the bloodstain could be juice at first, making him seem more innocent.
• In Another, Ashley comments good teamwork after solving the piano puzzle. In Trace, she just calls herself a musical genius instead.

Chapter three changes

• "Hallway 2" was re-named Bronze Hall. Previously, "Hallway" was re-named into Slate Hallway.
• In Trace, Richard seems more apologetic for not appearing with the added, "Sorry for the wild-goose chase."
• In Another, D tells Ashley, "You're right... I'm sorry." In Trace, he says, "You're right. Don't get mad at me."
• In Trace, Ashley adds the line, "It all just seems very inconsiderate" about her father's absence.
• In Another, Ashley says, "D has been as good a friend to me as any living person..." In Trace, she says, "He's lived two lives. His real life and... this one." downplaying the friendship between Ashley and D.
• In Another, Ashley says the teddy bear she got from her father had a red ribbon, while she says pink in Trace. This is an accurate change as the teddy bear does have a pink ribbon.
• In Another, D calls Frannie impudent, while he calls her sassy in Trace.
• In Another, D says Frannie was quick to laugh and cried a lot. In Trace, he only vaguely says she laughed as much as she cried, possibly because Nintendo of America did not want the female characters to seem weak.
• In Another, when D claims Ashley hates to be alone, she does not say anything. However, in Trace, she retorts this, saying she does not hate to be alone.
• Trace specifies Frannie's books are of the mystery genre.

Chapter four changes

• The chapter name went from The Reunion with the Father to Family Reunion.
• In Another, it is specified Richard was 30 when Sayoko died.
• In Trace, when Ashley discovers her mother is dead, she says, "I feel like I've been punched in the stomach" instead of just "Oh..."
• In Another, Ashley bluntly says her mom was dead. In Trace, she says she "wasn't breathing".
• In Trace, Ashley adds, "It's just so sad. I don't know if I can take the sadness."
• In Trace, D adds, "Fine! Just go home, then! Ignorance is bliss after all." In Another, he never tells her to go home.
• In Trace, when Ashley asks D why he's hard on her, he says, "You need it right now." In Another, he just says "...?"
• In Another, when Bill hugs Ashley, he says, "My Ashley..." In Trace, he comments she has her mother's eyes.
• In Trace, Bill adds that he is sorry he lied to her.
• In Trace, Ashley adds Jessica doesn't smoke so she is not used to the smell.
• Hallway 3 was re-named Moss Hall.
• In Another, Jessica says "Thank you" when Ashley returns her glasses, removed in Trace.
• In Trace, Jessica says she is sorry Ashley had to find out about Sayoko's death through a newspaper.
• In Trace, Ashley adds "I rock!" after solving a puzzle.

Chapter five changes

• The chapter name Second Another is now Retraced Steps.
• In Another, Ashley wonders where her father is and D responds with a silent, "..." In Trace, he now has a "Captain Obvious" moment where he replies, "I don't know."
• In Trace, Ashley tells D "Spit it out!" while remembering Henry.
• In Trace, Ashley adds she always wanted a canopy bed.
• In Trace, D specifies the zoetrope was made in 1834 instead of the 1830s in Another.
• In Trace, Ashley seems more annoyed at Richard:
  • She says, "Listen, Mr. Whoeveryouare, you are really ticking me off!"
  • She says, "Oh, man. You're something else. YES, SHE DISAPPEARED!"
  • She says, "Yes, for the millionth time" instead of "Yes, I did!"
• In Trace, "It's an old typewriter" became "Nobody uses typewriters now."
• In Trace, Richard specifies mentally ill people as people he wanted to help with Trace, instead of mentioning only war veterans and trauma victims in Another.
• In Trace, Richard says it's okay if Ashley doesn't want to verify his memory.

Chapter six changes

• The chapter name The Memory of the Right Hand became Buried Truths.
• In Trace, Richard elaborates the classified nature of their work built a trust among him, Bill and Sayoko.
• In Another, Ashley asks Richard if he's seen a ghost and he says never. In Trace, she instead asks if he believes in them, and he says he believes some part of humans live on after death, clarifying, "whether it's a legacy or a spirit, I don't know."
• In Trace, Ashley doesn't like being called a crybaby as much, saying, "I was a baby, and I cried. That doesn't mean I was a crybaby."
• In Trace, Richard mentions baby Ashley vomited her lunch onto his shirt.
• In Trace, Ashley calls Bill a "sick, sick person" for pretending to be her father. While she calls him horrible in both versions, she also adds in Trace that it was really messed up and later adds, "It's so creepy."
• In Trace, Bill denies being horrible, saying he's misguided perhaps, maybe lonely, but surely not horrible. This may be viewed as a nonsensical change for the character, as he knows he's a murderer and an abductor.
• In Trace, Bill interrupts Ashley.
• In Trace, Richard tells Bill to shut up after using his bicycle/fatherhood metaphor.
• In Another, Richard says, "Stop talking about Sayoko like that!" In Trace, "Stop talking about that night!"
• In Trace, Bill adds regarding Richard's experiment, "So, you used the government's and my funding for this?" as if he is more of a money monger in this version.
• In Trace, Bill adds that he and Ashley had to pay (i.e. suffer) for Richard's achievements.
• In Another, Bill attacks Richard's masculinity, saying, "And you call yourself a man!"
• In Trace, Bill tells Ashley she looks so much like Sayoko that his heart is breaking.
• In Trace, when talking about Sayoko hiding Ashley, Bill takes a jab at Richard for being absent that day, saying she had to do it because Richard wasn't there to do it.
• In Trace, Bill appears to want Richard to die ASAP, pressuring Ashley say goodbye to him. In Another, however, he puts focus on getting her to talk more about her memories instead.
• In Trace, Bill says Trace/Another seems like a silly thing for Sayoko to give her life for.
• In Another, when Richard learns Bill killed Sayoko, Bill remains silent. In Trace, he tells Richard to shut up, twice, losing the nuance of his calmness here.
• In Trace, Bill claims Sayoko betrayed their country due to her actions of hiding her research on Trace.
• In Trace, after Bill dies, Richard says Bill was his friend. Ashley replies that he wasn't.
• In Trace, Richard mentions Bill's death was a horrible thing for Ashley to see. She replies she's seen worse.
• In Another, Richard asks Ashley if she's feeling well and she says, "Not really, no..." In Trace, Ashley says, "Um... I'm fine."

Epilogue

• In Trace, D makes a comment about how the bay is peaceful.
• In Trace, Ashley expresses a desire to just go home right away now.
• In Another, Captain tells Ashley growing up is tiring work, while in Trace, he says something very different about how part of growing up means being tired. Ashley then replies, "Well, I must be ancient then, because I'm exhausted!"
• In Another, Ashley thanks the Captain for being willing to listen to her later, omitted in Trace.
• In Another, Ashley says, "D, wait!" In Trace, "I wonder where he ran off to..." This could be seen as another example of how Trace downplays their friendship.
• In Trace, Richard tries to cheer Jessica up by saying she can't change the past.
• In Another, Ashley seems more upset by the idea of Jessica leaving her, asking her "Are you going somewhere without me?" In Trace, she instead says, "What do you mean, "return me"? I'm not an overdue library book!"
• In Another, Ashley is upset by the thought of being left alone. In Trace, Ashley instead vents a bit at Richard and Jessica, saying their decisions affected her life in a negative way.
• In Another's Sad ending, D mentions he's happy Ashley is not alone anymore. In Trace, he mentions he's happy she found Jessica and her father.
• In Another's Sad ending, D suddenly abruptly disappears. In Trace, they get to talk more before he goes; D assures Ashley that he will be all right. Ashley says she is sorry, and D mentions he's already spent 57 years on the island and that a little more time won't hurt. Ashley says she wishes there's something she could do and says goodbye. In Another, Ashley remarks she's standing alone, while in Trace, she wonders how much longer D will be alone on the island.
• In Another, D says, "I am glad I have spent this time with you." In Trace, "This has been the best time of my afterlife."
• In Another, Ashley simply says "OK?" when D thanks her for helping. In Trace, this was changed to "You're welcome." likely so it feels more natural.
• Before D moves on in Trace, he tells Ashley to "Shh."
• In Another, "Goodbye D... my friend." changed into "Good-bye." in Trace.
• In Another, Ashley says, "Yes, Dad." In Trace, this is simply "Yes."
• In Another, Richard tells Ashley that Japanese is her mother's native language. This may have been removed in Trace in order to make it so Ashley seems wiser, and Richard acknowledges this.
• In Trace, Richard adds that he used to also imagine Ashley viewing the same moon elsewhere.
• In Trace, Ashley mentions she is happy she found the truth.
• In Another, Ashley remarks that she will always remember today as the day she found her dad. In Trace, this became the last day she was thirteen.

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