> > 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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