Do PAL games released exclusively in a non-UK country tend to have English options?

[theclaw]

Goes to show what time can change.

[Mayhem]

The Giana Sisters revamp was only released in Germany, but that's got English as part of it. The key is looking (or asking about) the coloured flash on the spine, it tells you which countries the game is supposed to be released in, and gives a good indication about which languages would be included.

[Swamperon]

The Giana Sisters revamp was only released in Germany, but that's got English as part of it. The key is looking (or asking about) the coloured flash on the spine, it tells you which countries the game is supposed to be released in, and gives a good indication about which languages would be included.

That's true. I tend to forget about them, I remember:

Green = UK
Purple = Germany
Yellow = Spain (I think)

There's also pink and blue at least, which I guess belong to France and Italy. Apparently there's also brown but I've never seen one. Anyone got a list of these?

[Nebagram]

Brown is apparently Australia, though I can't confirm that.

I've always wondered about those flashes myself. Interestingly, virtually all of my Konami DS games are Purple flashes...

[baraka]

That's true. I tend to forget about them, I remember:

Green = UK
Purple = Germany
Yellow = Spain (I think)

There's also pink and blue at least, which I guess belong to France and Italy. Apparently there's also brown but I've never seen one. Anyone got a list of these?

blue = the netherlands

[Swamperon]

So that's:

Green = UK
Purple = Germany
Yellow = Spain (confirmation needed)
Blue = Netherlands
Brown = Australia (confirmation needed)
Pink = ???

Pink could be France. Italy will have a colour. Portugal may be separate or counted as part of Spain. Not sure if Nintendo releases games in Europe east of Germany?

EDIT: Yellow could actually be the Scandinavia countries. Recently got Henry Hatsworth and that had a yellow flash with the Scandinavia flags printed on the back.

[Mayhem]

The thing is, it's not as simple as that. Most flashes represent groups of countries, not single ones afaik. Plus some of the PAL exclusive Cube titles I've bought in the UK have got pink and purple flashes on them, not just green, and an English manual and text has been present.

[Swamperon]

The thing is, it's not as simple as that. Most flashes represent groups of countries, not single ones afaik. Plus some of the PAL exclusive Cube titles I've bought in the UK have got pink and purple flashes on them, not just green, and an English manual and text has been present.

Yeah so do some of mine, but I believe the flash represents their original country of translation/release? There is some system to it... surprised Nintendo don't have an official page for it.

[Bojay1997]

The Giana Sisters revamp was only released in Germany, but that's got English as part of it. The key is looking (or asking about) the coloured flash on the spine, it tells you which countries the game is supposed to be released in, and gives a good indication about which languages would be included.

It was released in Australia as well and was intended for worldwide release at some point which never happened, but that's why there is an English option. The color on the spine tells you the countries, but it doesn't always indicate whether or not the game has an English option. There are lots of German, French and Italian market games that are monolingual in both packaging and in-game content. There are also lots that are multilingual on the packaging and in-game.