As the topic suggests, I'm curious about Japanese games that've been converted to English on the cheap and released by companies on budget labels.

Midas in the UK have done quite a bit of this, starting with PS1 - I would imagine quite a few of the games are from the Simple1500 series in Japan.

Similarly, there have been a few releases of Japanese games for PS2, like the arcade conversion of "Battle Gear 2" by Taito being released in PAL as "Tokyo Road Racer", again by Midas.

Is anyone out there interested in tracking these down, so we know what corresponds to what, and what's been changed, and.. etc etc? Is this already being done somewhere and I don't know about it?

Anyone interested?