Whoops my bad. I was quoting the Ignition speech essentially when they were talking to SNKP to fix their interass netcode. They told them that California alone was bigger then their country, especially in actual land mass as a lot of Japan is there but with huge water spaces and whatnot and the president of SNKP was in actual shock at how big America was when he first told them the netcode for KOF 12 was FINE.
I'd also have thought that Japan's total area would have been inflated by water, but actually, according to Wikipedia:
Total area of Japan: 145,925 sq mi w/ 0.8% water space
Total area of California: 163,696 sq mi w/ 4.7% water space
California's area is more inflated by water than Japan's. Pretty surprising, right?
And yeah, I remember the episode you're referring to. I think actual quote was something like "They were shocked when I told them that you could fit four or five Japans inside California." Even without checking any statistics, I knew that had to be bullshit. I also couldn't believe that someone would publicly mock someone for not knowing a bullshit fact they just made up. Face palm-worthy. (Although I did appreciate they tried to get SNK to patch the netcode.)
Sorry for the OT, I know this isn't geography class. More on-topic, I've heard 2002UM's netcode is a step back from NGBC, but I've also heard that it utilizes roll-back. Did NGBC also do that and I just missed the memo? Is this the first SNK game to use roll-back?