International Yoshi's Story?

OK, so I found this http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170920877646 and i wanted to ask you guys, is this true?

 

Looks more like someone took an American cart and swapped in the guts of a Japanese cart to me.

 

That's what i thought. And besides, why would they show the game off in japanese?

 

The label is obviously the American one. It even says, "NUS-006 (USA)".

 

I messaged the guy and it seems his cart has the title screen in English where as the Japanese version is in Japanese? I'm not familiar enough with the international version to say but a GIS look up shows it has a special label with K-A on it for a rating rather than E. Same concept, different time frame for the rating.

 

There IS such thing as an International version, this does not seem to be it though, unless the sticker has indeed been pulled off, which I guess is possible. Would be extremely hard to verify.

http://www.gamesniped.com/2010/12/15/yoshis-story-international-version-n64-2/

 

Could be a rom hack. English title screen tacked onto the Japanese game isn't impossible.

 

Seems legit.

 

If legit I'm not sure this rom is dumped. Aren't the ones labeled international said to be completely japanese?

 

You don't see many ROM hacks on actual 64 carts for a reason though.

 

The international version was used as a demo in store. It is one of the hardest to find produced N64 carts. A friend of mine who worked at Toys R Us back in the mid 90's was able to keep the cartrdige after it wasn't out to demo any longer.

I can distinctly remember playing it in that very TRU in Japanese but with an English label.

 

Yeah but this seller is claiming their game has the English title screen with Japanese menus. Which fits neither the US, Japan, or known international version.

 

That's for sure. Hopefully it doesn't become more common like NES is...

 

Hmm... interesting quote on the site Borman mentioned:

The damage on the label of the eBay cart implies that someone may well have done that: peeled the NFR label off to reveal what's underneath.

 

I rented internation Yoshis Story from a blockbuster back in the day, im pretty sure this is fake though

 

In SE Asia, there were these type of releases when the 64 first debuted there. I recall specifically seeing Killer Instinct Gold in a store in Taipei with US packaging but Japanese shell.

 

I know for a fact these versions were NFR kiosk carts, this doesn't have that label... Even though it appears the label was removed, but why would it have two stickers?

 

I used to have the International Version kiosk cart. It did indeed have a sticker placed on top of another sticker label; I never knew for sure but from the tiny bit I could make out, the sticker beneath it did appear to be the standard US-style one.

You can see another copy here, oddly with two of the International Version stickers:
http://nintendemos.com/?id=game&sys=n64&game=yoshistory

 

Just the JP version with a US Fitting back and a label slapped on top of the Japanese one. Honestly, $300+ for a semi-common import with a US back and a NFR label on it isn't worth it. maybe $50 but that's just seance it's a NFR game that was used in a Kiosk.