SNK IP's
During the interview I asked a specific question about that stuff.
They replied that they can publish only the IP they own.
Great information.
May not have been mentioned by them, but surely they own the IP's of FACE, because they published the unreleased 1994 zupapa in 2001 under their own label. And seeing as Treasure of the Caribbean was a FACE game, this could eventually lead to it surfacing as well.
Secondly, I am fairly certain that the relationship between Alpha & SNK has always been very close, most of the titles at launch were done by Alpha Denshi but released under the SNK label. Bottom Line, if titles like Magician Lord & Ninja Combat are available on the virtual console, then any Alpha game could be a future possibility. (and they hold the record for the most unreleased neogeo games by any one licensee)
It's ironic if you think about all this. To think that after all this searching throughout the four corners of the globe hoping against hope that some cartridge will turn up tossed on some shelf in some back room of some obscure arcade, and in the end we end up finding the games in our own homes by simply downloading them onto our modern home systems in an instant second of time.
