Has This Happened To You?

[A2600]

Hardcore gamer that I am playing some SNES and all of the sudden FOOOP the power goes out so im like oka!! I grab my GBA SP and contiue my summer gaming spree when it hits me "hey let me go check my local EB Games"

 

I grab my keys and out the door I go!! RAIN AND LOTS OF IT!! i dont care and run to my car and get to EB soaking wet!!

 

I start "checking out the merchandise" as I spot FZERO: Maximum Velocity for GBA I decide on the game and go home happy with the game!!

 

I use a little of goo gone to remove the UPC and the other good stuff they put over the lable I put In the game it works perfect

 

ONE SMALL PROBLEM THOUGH!!

 

Its in Japanese!!

 

I didnt mind much I just found it cool that I managed to get a Japanese game without even noticing

 

Later I see the lable and notice nice japanese font and in the serial I spot JPN instead of USA!!

 

Has this ever happened to you without knowing!!??

[Flack]

Yes I have been rained on before.

[tmont]

My brother bought a gameboy color for like $2 at a garage sale. It came with one game; I don't remember the name, but it was some kind of WWII game, where you blow up tanks and stuff. The resolution was kind of crappy, so I couldn't really see what was going on. Anyway, we noticed that a lot of the words were spelled wrong, and we thought it was just crappy programming. Then we finally realized the entire game was in German! Apparently, the mispelled words were not mispelled, just in German. Needless to say, we blamed our ignorance on the poor resolution.

[vdub_bobby]

My brother bought a gameboy color for like $2 at a garage sale.  It came with one game; I don't remember the name, but it was some kind of WWII game, where you blow up tanks and stuff.  The resolution was kind of crappy, so I couldn't really see what was going on.  Anyway, we noticed that a lot of the words were spelled wrong, and we thought it was just crappy programming.  Then we finally realized the entire game was in German!  Apparently, the mispelled words were not mispelled, just in German.  Needless to say, we blamed our ignorance on the poor resolution.

867433[/snapback]

 

You dope, you pick the language at the beginning; German or English!

[msaeger]

I have a friend that got the European version of Shenmue 2 for Dreamcast at Funcoland.

[SteveW]

I bought a second Neo Geo Pocket Color at Fry's Electronics last week, and the instructions included with it is entirely in Japanese. That was a little strange to me. I thought that these re-issued Neo Geo Pocket Colors were the recalled American releases that have been sitting in warehouses in Japan for years.

[tmont]

My brother bought a gameboy color for like $2 at a garage sale.  It came with one game; I don't remember the name, but it was some kind of WWII game, where you blow up tanks and stuff.  The resolution was kind of crappy, so I couldn't really see what was going on.  Anyway, we noticed that a lot of the words were spelled wrong, and we thought it was just crappy programming.  Then we finally realized the entire game was in German!  Apparently, the mispelled words were not mispelled, just in German.  Needless to say, we blamed our ignorance on the poor resolution.

867433[/snapback]

 

You dope, you pick the language at the beginning; German or English!

867445[/snapback]

 

Are you serious?! Well, I only played it once. That game straight up sucked!

[Jess Ragan]

I can't think of any Japanese games that I purchased by accident. I try to buy 'em on purpose! There were, oddly enough, a few Japanese Game Gear titles that I found at K-Mart, and in pawn shops. One of these was Ninku Hiroyuki, which was a very excellent clone of Pengo; far better than the one Sega released for the Game Gear in the States. I wish I had bought the game, because it was fantastic, and to this day nobody's dumped it for use with emulators like Meka.

 

JR

[rockman_x_2002]

I can't think of any Japanese games that I purchased by accident.  I try to buy 'em on purpose!  There were, oddly enough, a few Japanese Game Gear titles that I found at K-Mart, and in pawn shops.  One of these was Ninku Hiroyuki, which was a very excellent clone of Pengo; far better than the one Sega released for the Game Gear in the States.  I wish I had bought the game, because it was fantastic, and to this day nobody's dumped it for use with emulators like Meka.

 

JR

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I have the game. Picked it up for about $5 used at some kinda warehouse closeouts store or something. Had it for several years now (since 1999). I would dump it for you but I don't know how to do that personally.

[JB]

I bought a second Neo Geo Pocket Color at Fry's Electronics last week, and the instructions included with it is entirely in Japanese. That was a little strange to me. I thought that these re-issued Neo Geo Pocket Colors were the recalled American releases that have been sitting in warehouses in Japan for years.

867594[/snapback]

Doubly strange, since the US releasese came with like 6 diffrent instruction manuals anyways.

 

I've got 2 of the original boxed ones. Both of them came with a pile of manuals, one for each language they released it in.

 

I think the only real localization that went on was the box.

[SteveW]

I bought a second Neo Geo Pocket Color at Fry's Electronics last week, and the instructions included with it is entirely in Japanese. That was a little strange to me. I thought that these re-issued Neo Geo Pocket Colors were the recalled American releases that have been sitting in warehouses in Japan for years.

867594[/snapback]

Doubly strange, since the US releasese came with like 6 diffrent instruction manuals anyways.

 

I've got 2 of the original boxed ones. Both of them came with a pile of manuals, one for each language they released it in.

 

I think the only real localization that went on was the box.

872646[/snapback]

 

 

The one I bought was the rerelease in a blister pack with 6 games. There was only one instruction manual (just a poster sized folded up piece of paper). I really only bought it for Metal Slug and Pac-Man. For $49, I couldn't pass it up.

[JB]

I bought a second Neo Geo Pocket Color at Fry's Electronics last week, and the instructions included with it is entirely in Japanese. That was a little strange to me. I thought that these re-issued Neo Geo Pocket Colors were the recalled American releases that have been sitting in warehouses in Japan for years.

867594[/snapback]

Doubly strange, since the US releasese came with like 6 diffrent instruction manuals anyways.

 

I've got 2 of the original boxed ones. Both of them came with a pile of manuals, one for each language they released it in.

 

I think the only real localization that went on was the box.

872646[/snapback]

 

 

The one I bought was the rerelease in a blister pack with 6 games. There was only one instruction manual (just a poster sized folded up piece of paper). I really only bought it for Metal Slug and Pac-Man. For $49, I couldn't pass it up.

872696[/snapback]

 

Sounds like they're using the original SNK manuals, and just grabbed the wrong fold-out sheet.

 

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Do those come with the game manuals too? I've been wondering that for a while.

[SteveW]

Nope, no manuals for games. I guess they think that you can just look it up online. There's a web site on the package that has just about all the games that ever came out for it. Most are Japanese issued, so I don't know if they would work in English if that's selected in the Pocket Color's preferences menu. I wish I could remember the name of the site.

[JB]

Nope, no manuals for games. I guess they think that you can just look it up online. There's a web site on the package that has just about all the games that ever came out for it. Most are Japanese issued, so I don't know if they would work in English if that's selected in the Pocket Color's preferences menu. I wish I could remember the name of the site.

872731[/snapback]

There's no regional lockout on the system.

 

As I understand things, inserteing a japanese cart into a system set to english will, depending on game:

A. play the english version(much like it's big brother, the NeoGeo Pocket can contain multiple versions of a game in one set of ROMs), or...

B. play the game in japanese(bigger games, such as RPGs, only include one set of text to conserve space).