- No Export for You: Unfortunately, the Updated Re-release was not localized. With Nintendo moving on from the DS to the 3DS and DQ Monsters moving on to the Terry's Wonderland 3D remake (announced on the same day as the US Joker 2 release, even), it didn't make much sense to invest time and money in the same game again. (And to rub salt in the wound, Terry's Wonderland 3D was never localized either.)
- This hurt the Japanese too, as they were promised international tournaments, and they got them, but for the version that most people had already stopped playing.
- This is more an example of bad timing than anything else. Professional was announced literally just as the localization of the original version was finished. Square Enix and Nintendo had to choose between releasing the localized normal version, or spend another several months localizing Professional. For obvious reasons, they chose the former. The fact that many of the new monsters are from DQ games that never got released overseas (Magarugi,note pretty much every Rocket Slime character aside from the Hero Slime and Slival's tanks, Ghadis,note the monkey demon with the throne, etc) probably didn't help matters, nor did the fact that both editions of the game were released at the very end of the DS's lifetime.
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