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Battle Gear 3 has an US version + export ver. dongle info + MotoGP should be 1 word #12093

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@FMecha FMecha commented Mar 2, 2024

Battle Gear 3 has an US version released by Betson in 2004, using American-style budget/wooden cabinets. Contrary to disclaimers printed throughout the bilingual flyer, it does have Honda cars (contrast to sidebs2u and batlgear, the US versions for Side by Side 2 and Battle Gear 1) and even shown prominently in the cabinet marquee. Since the export BG3 has a notice against exporting that version to the U.S. on startup, it seems to have its own unique region dongle - apparently to show a Japanese model disclaimer, as well to use Betson's North American NESYS (online service, closed after 2005) server.

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  • Betson's BG3 NESYS server site; Honda cars are mentioned on US server leaderboards (there were also Japanese and Hong Kong NESYS servers, but the latter is completely lost)
  • Video of the US cabinet; does not go to gameplay, but not only there's Honda logo on the marquee, there's a Honda Civic on the attract mode.

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