Trivia / Breath of Fire IV

• Christmas Rushed: The English localization was rushed (read: only took seven months) to make it into the 2000 holiday season. Not helping things was Capcom's American branch facing financial difficulties at the start of that year. The result? An untranslated title screen and credits sequence, among others (at least the official English logo was implemented in the European PS1 and PC releases).
• Completely Different Title: The manga adaptation is officially called Utsurowazarumono - Breath of Fire IV in Japan, while the source material is present as a subtitle in the proper official name, many references and print information that the publisher makes to reference the manga only uses Utsurowazarumono, so is not unheard of some people not knowing that the manga known as Utsurowazarumono is the fourth Breath of Fire game's official adaptation.
• Defictionalization: Copies of the "Dragon Tear" (in this case, a magatama) were distributed as promo items. (These can occasionally be found on Amazon Japan, but generally from No Export for You vendors.)
• Dummied Out: Scias' naturally-learned "Identify" spell was removed from the English version. It can still be assigned to any character with a GameShark, though in a buggy state. A patch thankfully makes this ability working again.
• Fan Translation: An unofficial English translation of the manga adaptation exists via Something-Or-Other Scanlations which was completed in full.
• Game Mod: A patch was released that restored most of the stuff removed in the International version including four scenes (See Bowdlerize entry in the main page), Scias's original drunken slur and his Dummied Out Identify skill. Another patch was made soon after to add English subtitles to the game's opening FMV.
• No Export for You: Much like the PSP version of the third game, the PC version was never released in North America.
• What Could Have Been: In one of the planned endings, General Rhun would have been the one to strangle Yuna.

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