Battle Gear 3 North America
Turns out Battle Gear 3 did release in the USA and Canada in 2003 with NESYS online support I recently discovered a cabinet a friend of mine purchased, despite being Japanese was running English software. I initially assumed they had converted it to run the EU Offline build, but I saw something peculiar when it was in attract mode. NO "NESYS" SETUP. CAN'T USE KEY. I hadn't seen much footage of the EU build but I was 100% sure that game did not have the NESYS features in the EU. Entering the TEST MENU revealed this was BATTLE GEAR3 V2.01A Aug 11 2003 18:37:01. Which seemed strange as I recall the earliest version of Battle Gear 3 Japan we knew of was V2.04J. The ID Taito used to identify these games did not match on the HDD or Dongle either. (BG3-USA) M9005951A VER.2.00A (the hard drive being a 30.0GB MAXTOR) BATTLE GEAR 3 B3900068A (the dongle which is likely where it derives 2.01A from) Talking to some folks we found out this cab likely participated in the 2003-2...