Originally posted by: JosephLeo
Originally posted by: Holy-SNES
Is this going under the assumption that because the competition was held over there also, that there should be carts with those languages?
I know most Scandenavian SNES titles are in English. French is a different story but I think perhpas they just made the German version at the time due to the sheer number of people with native German tongue.
I don't know though
Based on the fact that there was a full blown competition in France I would say that there is a high probability of there being a French cart. We didn't get a competition here in America, only the store promotion (I think PowerFest also had stations with the competition cart- I know as a fact that it had the DK Competition there too) so it's fair to say a country with a real competition based on the game probably got a cartridge although it could have been in one of those SNES Test boards like the PowerFest and Campus Challenge carts are in (as well as that one special DK Competition Cart)
Canada also had a competition, although I think it was a sideshow to a much larger competition.
I am completely speculating on the Scandanavian version though and I know even less if there was a competition in Japan.
It makes sense but yeah, lack of information anywhere on this still leaves a lot of questions unanswered which sucks, especially for us PAL collectors
Will have to look into that one further.
On another note, I did figure out the main differences between the UK and German carts.
I think you're right about there being a very faint white line underneath the word 'Starwing' on the UK cart.
I have found a German close up and can't see this white line, but it could be the angle of the photo or the flash which makes it still not 100% confirmed.
What I did find though, was that backings are different.
* EVERY UKV (English) Starwing Comp cart should have an
English backing with the
stamp no. 20 and the code
02-SNSP-UKV
* EVERY EUR (German) Starwing Comp cart should have a
German backing with the
stamp no. 20 and the code
02-SNSP-NOE
The backing you'd be very hard pressed to replace as it must have the extra compartment for the extended pins on the board, and MUST have the stamp no. 20.
There are only few games that have this extended backing (Yoshi's Island, Stunt Race FX etc.) so trying to find a matching back with the 20 stamp no. might not be possible.
I don't have my standard Starwing cart at hand so I'll have to dig that up and see if it's a matching backing for the comp cart. I'm not sure it would be though.
So yeah, just thought I'd get that out there.