Can't find a release date for deluxe edition of Thracia 776 - any ideas where to look?

[TWRogue | 0]

Hi guys, I heard about this site from Collector's Quest and after searching high and low I cannot seem to find this info and was hoping either someone here might know, or might know where to point me to get started.

Thracia 776 was a JPN only fire emblem game released for the super famicom. It was released on September 1, 1999 for nintendo power flash carts, and then January 21st, 2000 in it's own rom (release dates here). However, the game also had it's own deluxe edition, seen on play-asia here. I know it's a legitimate edition and I've seen not a ton but enough to be confident it's real. But I can't seem to find anything on its actual release date.

It has a flash cart in it, which makes me think it's before the January release. However, from what I can gather, the main point of the flash cart was that Lawson's didn't have to carry games themselves, just these carts and the kiosk, so it seems like they wouldn't have been the ones to sell the deluxe editions. Who knows, maybe they did? But I'm just at a dead end, and while I'm doing my best to navigate old sites in Japanese using google translate, it's difficult for me to find them in the first place because I don't know the proper characters to search. Thank you so much for any help you can provide!

[TWRogue | 0]

In case someone comes looking for this in the future - someone on twitter who speaks Japanese was able to find some old store sites still up - the answer is August 28, 1999.

 

[Tabonga | 2,313]

Gamefaqs shows 1/21/00.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/577344-fire-emblem-thracia-776/data