mkl
11-14-2009, 02:47 PM
Hi,
First, some background to my question. I'm from germany. The german version of
the game "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box" or "Professor Layton und die
Schatulle der Pandora", as it is called in germany, is completely translated,
even the voice acting. No language selection possible. German translations are
usually pretty crappy, so I went on to obtain an english language version of
the game. I found one on ebay, from a seller in the UK.
Now I have an english language version of the game. It appears to be a northern
american version, the front cover reads "NTR-TVVE-USA", the cartrigde itself
reads "NTR-TYVE-USA".
The thing is, there are some oddities about the box (the game's, not pandora's)
and the instruction booklet I got. First, the shrink wrap. It looked okay, but
felt somewhat different than usual. Somewhat cheaper, I don't know how to put
it. The cover image is a bit blurry. Then the instruction booklet. I didn't
even look at it until this particular puzzle which mentions that there is a
"Train Ticket" in the booklet. Well, not in mine it is. Then, the booklet
itself looks odd. Although it has the usual disclaimers (seizures, eyestrain,
battery leakage) and looks like properly offset printed, the text is random
meaningless crap. There is no "manual" section that explains how to play the
game or the minigames, as one would expect. Instead, there are parts of
descriptions of puzzles. There even is part of a review you can find on the
web (google for "neither as explicitly casual as Personal Trainer") intermixed
with random screenshots and artwork. Some of the images have watermarks from
ign dot com. The whole thing appears to be like put together from random
sources about the game from the internet.
The plastic box looks like any other NDS plastic box. The cartridge looks okay
(serial number, offset printed label with transparent sticky foil on top).
No train ticket, odd instruction booklet. Does anyone know what's going on? Do
some regions of our planet get less love from Nintendo? Is this some kind of
fake? What did I get there?
Thanks,
mkl
First, some background to my question. I'm from germany. The german version of
the game "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box" or "Professor Layton und die
Schatulle der Pandora", as it is called in germany, is completely translated,
even the voice acting. No language selection possible. German translations are
usually pretty crappy, so I went on to obtain an english language version of
the game. I found one on ebay, from a seller in the UK.
Now I have an english language version of the game. It appears to be a northern
american version, the front cover reads "NTR-TVVE-USA", the cartrigde itself
reads "NTR-TYVE-USA".
The thing is, there are some oddities about the box (the game's, not pandora's)
and the instruction booklet I got. First, the shrink wrap. It looked okay, but
felt somewhat different than usual. Somewhat cheaper, I don't know how to put
it. The cover image is a bit blurry. Then the instruction booklet. I didn't
even look at it until this particular puzzle which mentions that there is a
"Train Ticket" in the booklet. Well, not in mine it is. Then, the booklet
itself looks odd. Although it has the usual disclaimers (seizures, eyestrain,
battery leakage) and looks like properly offset printed, the text is random
meaningless crap. There is no "manual" section that explains how to play the
game or the minigames, as one would expect. Instead, there are parts of
descriptions of puzzles. There even is part of a review you can find on the
web (google for "neither as explicitly casual as Personal Trainer") intermixed
with random screenshots and artwork. Some of the images have watermarks from
ign dot com. The whole thing appears to be like put together from random
sources about the game from the internet.
The plastic box looks like any other NDS plastic box. The cartridge looks okay
(serial number, offset printed label with transparent sticky foil on top).
No train ticket, odd instruction booklet. Does anyone know what's going on? Do
some regions of our planet get less love from Nintendo? Is this some kind of
fake? What did I get there?
Thanks,
mkl