Thankyou for the links.
Assuming the documents are correct, I can't see: Bust a Move Again EX, Bomberman, Neo Mr. Do, Puzzled, Neo Bomberman, Panic Bomber, Prehistoric Isle and Zupapa in the authorised MVS to AES list.
I do see Breakers Revenge, Captain Tornaday, Metal Slug, Monkey Puzzle Exchanger and World Soccer 96 in the list however and these were titles stated converted from MVS to AES which would appear to legitimise some conversions but not all. It does however put a spanner in the words of the alleged daughter of a CEO at SNK USA's claims to NO rights though.
They also have Twinkle Star Sprites in the MVS to AES seizure list, but fail to state the language, but in the distribution list they accept he had the rights to distribute the Japanese version, so whether his version was Japanese or not who knows but the list appears to be based on seized titles only - it's possible Dion had titles which were not seized, but at the same token, it is possible Dion had the rights to more titles but insufficient documentation at the time of the hearing. Typically Judges don't like to fuck around waiting for you to get that last little bit of proof, when they just want you to GTFO of their court - so you either have it to hand or you don't and they go off that.
I think if the documents are clear, from the rights presented Dion may have taken a few liberties, but many of the allegations, even if some are true, are off the mark as well. For example someone stated all MVS to AES conversions were illigitimate - having gone through the injucntion/seizure and press release, clearly this is not the case.
Whatever discredit Dion may have brought to the Neo community, I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but the Neo community would have done things wrong too. Personally the misinformation about the events would be one of them. Not recognising the legitimised reprints and conversions on the master list is one of them - if the master list is for officially recognised titles, even if you're not happy with the freaked quality or Dion's behaviour, in many cases it is still the official quality and the official product so that should grant them entitlement to the master list. Forgetting freaked titles exist is silly - it is up to people if they want to collect freaked titles or not, but given as many freaked titles are official titles, they belong on your list too.
Assuming the documents are correct, I also see the unreleased Diggerman in the original claim, but this does not mean the prototype is a fake, only that he didn't appear to have the right to redistribute it. It does go some way towards proving the game did exist and it was in his possession though.
There is a saying, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. There is also the saying let by gones be bygones. What happened, happned a long time ago. If there was any legal recourse, your time limit would have likely expired. As for Adol, Shock Troopers is on the approved product list, so again it doesn't look like YOU got scammed, even if everyone else did. You really need to start forgetting about all that French law crap, because that is all it is - merde.
Obviously people have questions for Dion, but if you're going to keep shouting at him, he isn't going to be listening.
What I would like to know is what do people expect from Dion:
A manual?
Money?
Closure?
It seems to me that everyone involved lost, even Dion and it is clear whatever your hopes are now Dion showed up, it is unlikely anything will come of it. If I were in your shoes, as someone who has been scammed out of many thousands of pounds I'd have taken legal action when I was able to and if not, forgot about it and got on with life as there is more to living than 14 year old hate campaign.
