European manuals? Collectable or junk...

Comrade Porn King Mikhail

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Hey Cowboys and Cowgirls,

I haven't seen this topic in a while and it seems like one that should be addressed in a faq or master list. The question is, which European English language release games had supplementary language manuals printed for them? I am talking about additional manuals that would have been printed in French, Spanish or other languages by the respective SNK branches, mostly in black and white.

I have personally seen these manuals for Viewpoint and Sengoku 2, and have just noticed one in an auction for Spinmaster. This obviously peaked my interest as I was not aware that Spinmaster had this supplementary European manual. If anyone else has such manuals in their possession, I'd appreciate hearing from you on the matter.

Lastly, I wonder what the collectability of these items is. Does anyone here think that a complete European English language release should contain one of these manuals and if so, should the same game released in the US without the manual be addressed as "incomplete"?

Sincerely,

Mikhail
 
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there's one in top players golf, and fatal fury special.
 
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i like em,me

got a couple here

all french

spinmaster,aodk,wh2,ff2,viewpoint and a few others

they're worth nothing - hell,they're not even official i think

but they're a nice addition so there ya go
 
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These manuals are official for sure... for the european market only (or maybe for less than europe and only for few countries). The distributor of the neogeo AES (Guillemot... maybe not the only one) in the past, probably had the right from SNK to produce these manuals. It was a marketing policy. But SNK japan probably didn't care much about them. When Guillemot stoped to import the games, than the manuals disapeared.

For my part, I have these manuals for Windjamer, burning fight, magician lord, alpha mission 2, fatal fury 2, sengoku, samourai shadown 2 and maybe more.

For me, they aren't valuable at all because I'm conviced that only few countries had such manuals.
But people can collect what ever they want... and if many people think the same then a market will open and the price of these manuals will increase... I don't care.

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I have some French manuals, but they are the "2nd" manuals.

If anyone wants them, you just have to pay the shipping. I'll give them. <img src="graemlins/mrt2.gif" border="0" alt="[Mr T]" />
 
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Originally posted by Atrophyed:
<strong>I have some French manuals, but they are the "2nd" manuals.

If anyone wants them, you just have to pay the shipping. I'll give them. <img src="graemlins/mrt2.gif" border="0" alt="[Mr T]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

if what you wrote aint BS,
i'm all for it
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Originally posted by Fran:
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if what you wrote aint BS,
i'm all for it</strong><hr></blockquote>

Send me a PM with your name and adress.

Should get Italy in a few days. ;)
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Originally posted by Atrophyed:
<strong>

Send me a PM with your name and adress.

Should get Italy in a few days. ;) </strong><hr></blockquote>

do you have one for KOF 96 ?? i need a manual for it, any will do :)
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Atro

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Originally posted by pyrokilla:
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do you have one for KOF 96 ?? i need a manual for it, any will do :) </strong><hr></blockquote>

I don't even have that game.

All the games I have are the ones on my collection pictures. go check them.

And only a few have repeated manuals.

+/- 6/7 games. :rolleyes:
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I have a German AoF manual, in black and white, which seems to be legit given the quality of the print, paper and binding.

The text is written/translated in/to very good German, so it must have been an official job.

The cart is a dog tag version, btw.

I've posted about this a year ago and wanted to upload some scans, but I forgot about it after a while... This thread reminded me again, so I will scan the whole shit and put the pics on my side on mon or tue as soon as I'm back to my office where I have a nice scanner (no digi cam here).
 
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OK.

It seems that a lot of you guys want to take some of the french manuals I still own.

Since the demand is very high, I will post here the manuals I still have.

If you can share all the 8 manuals it'll be fine, otherwise I'll give them all to Fran since he was the first interested on the french manuals.

Here they are :

NAM 1975 - Poor photocopy
Super Sidekicks - Good condition
Thrash Rally - Excellent
Karnov's Revenge - Excellent
Samurai Shodown II - OK, this is the weirdest manual of them all
Agressors of Dark Kombat - Good
Art of Fighting 2 - Acceptable condition
Windjammers - Good, but it's a bit bended

NOW PLEASE, DON'T ACT AS VULTURES!!!!! :D ;) :rolleyes:
 
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So? no takers ? another call..

get your chance. :rolleyes: <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" />
 
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