> > In this case, how come that the screen texts are all in Japanese and were > > (imperfectly) translated to English? > > Because it was created in Japan. > > > Also, if the USA was supposed to be the primary market, why does the whole name > > switching between Balrog, Vega and M. Bison exist? > > Game designers & developers aren't lawyers. If you're making a game for the USA > market then putting in a character based on Mike Tyson would seem like a brilliant > move. > > I have no idea why they didn't change it for the Japan release of the game, maybe > their legal department weren't scared and they still wanted their Mike Tyson > character. > > The localisation could easily have been done before the game was even programmed, or > at least before it was first released. You can't draw anything about what revisions > exist from it. > > Capcom USA might have demanded a build before Capcom Japan thought the game was > ready, so the first version shipped may have been a USA build. In some cases software > isn't so much released as it escapes. > > We can't prove that there wasn't an earlier dump, all you can do is try to find one > and get it dumped. Good luck with that.
False. The first version shipped was a Japanese build. It was only after the Japanese version's release that work started on a USA build.
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