oliverclaude
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The question was already answered in one post of mine thought. Shock Troopers 2 got no english release, so when i buy a copy of em go figure.
No need to get excited, I could imagine lithy's question did not concern jpn-only releases, but those released both inside and outside of Japan. And yes, they sold those, too. SNK had no strict consistency, so did MARO.
That's the key question with that advert - it doesn't say whether the titles are Japanese or English, ...
But at least it does say Ultimate 11, not Super Sidekicks 4 or Tokuten Ou - Hono no Libero. Anyway, I'm with frazer99 here:
I believe Kizuna and Ultimate 11 to be genuine and I would expect that SNK shipped a small amount to the distributors in Europe (Germany, UK, possibly Italy/France) to test the market for those titles. Effectively sale/return basis. If no-one bought them (and they clearly didn't) they returned them to SNK and they were re-purposed for the Japanese market. Production runs around 1996 I would expect to have been around 500 carts but that is just my estimate (not fact).
This is also evident:
Given the cartridges themselves were universal it was only a matter of printing an insert, manual and sticker to make an 'english' copy.
A friend of mine, Takato, had an Ultimate 11, which he sold to, iirc, FTL, who came with Fran to Köln to pick it up first-hand. According to Takato, his copy had a double label, which fits frazer99's test the market assumption. It would be interesting to know, if all U11's came with double labels. Then again, both Kizuna's I know (formerly Herzog Drei & BRANDI copies) have no doubles, so it could be either way.