This box is a generic Vice City retail version box that you'd find in the UK, but it should be quite similar throughout regions.

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Notice how on the back, it says "© 2003 Rockstar Games"

This is the back of the box of my Japanese retail Vice City game.
This time, notice how it says "© 2002-2004 Rockstar Games, Inc." This makes sense, seeing as the game was released in Japan in 2004. This is why I think that the next image will be very relevant.

Credit for this image goes to jmoyer07 on eBay, who I just bought this version cheap from. I was not aware that there was such a thing as this until I Google'd stuff about different Vice City releases, and "Vice City Jewel Box (2004)" or something along those lines showed up.

Anyway, yeah, notice that this time it says "© 2004 Rockstar Games, Inc." Just like the Japanese version, sorta. Japanese version says 2002-2004 but they both mention 2004. This strikes me as interesting because my own retail international case says "2003-2006" on the back, completely ignoring 2004, while this other English/international jewel case thing only says 2004, as if it's a totally different thing.

It seems to me that anything post-JP has the new SCM crap. The German Green Pepper version was released in 2009, and it functions pretty much the same, as in, the Cherry Poppers instapass works. So I am hoping that it would apply to this English version as well.

TL;DR I bought what may be a slightly different version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and it might be useful for speedrunning, cause maybe language switch + CP instapass.

Picking up the shotgun is a small price to pay for no cop car RNG.

The rating icon is from the UK before PEGI became legally enforceable. It's the same rating we use on films and it made it illegal for anyone under 18 to buy the game (it was the only thing we had back then that achieved this). It's why the UK didn't give a fuck about Hot Coffee because you already had to be over 18 to buy the game.

Alright, so it turns out that it's no different than a normal version of the game. Oh well.