Andros Dunos kit: part real, part boot, all cop

wyo

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I have this weird Andro Dunos kit and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on its origin.

The cart is a standard English label cart with legit boards.

The flyers and dip sheets appear to be legit. There is a third dip sheet (the one in the middle) with a different layout and text. The mini marquee looks like a laminated copy and there's an extra cart label included. The box was repurposed, turned inside out and new label attached. The plastic bag containing the kit paperwork is typical of Japanese sellers when they include copied art. Seems like someone went to a lot of trouble to "complete" a kit using some real parts along with some reproduction. Anyone seen something like this?
 

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Vectorman0

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The mini marquee copy appears slightly different than pictures of an original I could find - the "2P SIMULTANEOUS" text is black instead of red, and the C&D buttons don't appear to be dark gray/black. This alteration from an original seems like a clue. The cart label font and printing look "old" to me, making me wonder if this was done a long time ago. Does the repurposed box have the old game label still attached? What game?

As a side note, I have my own 'weird kit mystery' which I have been meaning to post about. It also happens to be a Visco game. I have a "Puzzle I II III Revolution" kit, for a cart with legit Puzzle de Pon R boards. The labels, dip sheet, flyer and paper mini took a moderate effort to make. Who would make this, and why?

This is very speculative, but I wonder if Visco did some kind of pre-production localization mock up in-house for test/sample/promo purposes. That doesn't really explain the mix you have, so maybe yours originally had a japanese cart, but a collector got an english cart with some amount of flyers/dip/mini to add to everything else. Bootlegging is probably a more likely explanation, but it's weird everything isn't photocopied.

I hope someone with real answers turns up.
 
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