Cybermorph: Multilingual PAL box?

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Hi people,

 

when I bought my Jaguar back in 1995(?) here in Austria, it came with Cybermorph packed-in.

 

Just to expand my collection of boxed Jaguar games, I recently bought a boxed Cybermorph. The cart has the number J9000E on it, so it is the European PAL version. The manual has three languages (English, French, German), so this is PAL too. But the box is only in English and has the number J9000 on it, meaning it would be an NTSC box.

 

So my question is: Does a multilingual box for Cybermorph exist?

 

Possible that someone just put my PAL Cybermorph cart + manual in an NTSC box. Or was it sold that way in Europe? I know that a boxed Cybermorph is kind of rare because most(?) Jaguars had Cybermorph as pack-in. But maybe someone has a multilingual Cybermorph box or has at least seen one?

Edited December 2, 2013 by ccc---

[Nick Harlow]

This is an interesting question..

 

I bought some boxed Cybermorphs from the US.. sold a couple and then the got asked a question about them.. On examining the contents of the box I found in 3 I had photocopied manuals.. not original and in the last one I had a Japanese manual (original)..

As far as I know the original boxed version (and one did come out) had a 4mb cart and was J9000 but it for the Australasian(?) market only. ( I accept I could be completely wrong on this point but I believe Cybermorph was not released with the Jag there).

 

I have checked the original box's I have for Cybermorph they all have J9000 printed on them.

 

Anyway the long and the short is that I have withdrawn the Cybermorph in boxes that I got sent cause I am pretty certain someone just boxed them with original manual but a boxed version with multi lingual manuals did exist but have not seen a multi lingual box.. tho common sense tells me a Japanese box must have existed as I have a boxed one with a Japanese manual.

 

Please correct me

 

Nick

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Another possibility that came into my mind: What if the J9000E cartridge and the multilingual manual are exactly the ones that were pack-ins with European Jaguar consoles? Later they maybe sold Jaguars without pack-in game, then took the Euro carts + manuals and put them in NTSC boxes and sold them in Europe. Simply because they didn't have multilingual boxes and didn't care to make any, they sold them that way, in US boxes ...

[Gunstar]

There was never a 4MB version of the game.

Cybermorph had two versions, the original 2MB version that was only available with the system with no box and a English-only manual, here in the U.S. and the later 1MB version that may have been included with some Jaguar systems, but was available with a box seperately for sure.

I think by the time the 1MB Cybermorph was out, they stopped including any game with the Jaguar base unit, but I don't know for sure, especially outside the U.S.

But I can't answer if only an NTSC box was made in English only, or if there was a multilingual version too. The boxed version is the rarer version, IIRC.

 

I've only ever owned the 2MB version that came with my Jaguar system and an English manual. B&C sells Jaguar box sets (like 10 boxes-3 different sets) and one of them includes a Cybermorph box. Maybe they are multilingual.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Gunstar

[high voltage]

no multiligual PAL box, here's my European Cybermorph box which I purchased in London (just a sticker on the box from Atari Benelux)

[ccc---]

Thanks guys.

 

Especially the photo from high voltage is another indication that there might be no multilingual box.

 

However, maybe England used the US boxes, so there still might be a multilingual box. But I'd say chances are only 10 - 20 % for a multilingual box.