Oh! A while back some person on the GameFAQs message boards said the same thing - that there was a curse word somewhere at the beginning of the game. I thought, "What on earth is he talking about?" But that clears it all up.
Also, another guy on those boards once said that in YI the crayon doodles on Baby Bowser's wall might have the 3-letter S-word (it's not a bad word but I won't risk typing it) hidden among them. I felt quite disturbed for a time after that, for I only had the GBA version (which didn't have a part like that) and I thought that the SNES version had it. I actually tried posting here about it, but I couldn't post that day for some reason. When I finally got the SNES version, though, I found that it was not in it either. But maybe it was some unofficial version, like the one you described, that that guy was talking about...?
As for the talk about fake/weird products, I never had any problems of that kind with Half.com. I always bought stuff from other people who lived in the U.S.
Edited by - smfan1085 on 4/15/2005 10:33:00 PM