No it was. Japhei From my understanding brought those legit kits. Funnily enough he ended up being a scammer later.
This was already mentioned, but I also heard that Japhei was in some capacity involved with the MVS release of SVC. I used to own a kit but never really got into it...wish I'd of kept it as it seems hard to come by a legit cart.
Just to set the record straight, Japhei was a long time problem member of this site, years before SvC came out. He would pretty regularly scam people on the forums, advertising games as original here or on ebay and then sending boots or sometimes nothing at all. One of your basic roll the dice and maybe you'll get your stuff or maybe you won't kind of sellers. He was run off the forums long before SvC came out, and was a known scammer in this community and several others.
SvC comes out as a JAMMA board, and everyone here is pissed. For the longest time that was the only way to get the game, and bootleg SvC carts were on ebay and being sold through back doors on this site. Back then you didn't openly buy or sell bootlegs here or you would have been driven off the site. These 161 in 1 carts would have gotten you a nice trip to Unregistered Island. So, everyone is wanting SvC for MVS, but fuck there's no legit way to get it... Then, out of nowhere Japhei shows up with what appear to be legit MVS carts.
I don't mean Japhei was selling them here, I mean Japhei was the only fucking person selling the damn things anywhere. It was the cruelest form of irony. The guy many people hated the most at the time had the game most people wanted so bad... So, brokers were setup. Japhei actually started sending the carts to people here, free, to sell for him since his cred was shit and he was sitting on tons of carts. The brokers would sell the games and Japhei would give them one or two freebies out of the stash for their trouble.
The carts were checked out and wouldn't you know... They were the real deal. It took a very, very long time for the carts to be available from anywhere else, and most people here had to suck up their pride and buy an original SvC from a known bootlegger and scammer.