Yukawa treasure hunt riddle

[MentalMan]

I hope this fits here ;)

A long while ago I bought a Sealed copy of said game. Later I found out (On yakumo's website) that there has been two versions of the game. Then, a few days ago browsing sega.jp's dreamcast release list I stumbled upon the game and found the ID's:

HDR-0025(配布用ソフト) (The pack in one?)
HDR-0024(販売用ソフト) (The one for sale?)
http://sega.jp/dc/990005/

I also noticed the cover being different, My version (0025) has a black border while the one Yakumo has displayed has a red border.

Now having found that, is one of these more rare then the other? I cant remember what I payed for mine, maybe 12€ or something. But this is of no importance of me, it is just the curiousity that has driven me to ask you guys :)

Oh yeah, also, does anyone know how exactly they where given away? Where they packed in with the executive box dreamcast's? Curious, curious.

Edit: Duh, I should have tryed reading more of that sega page. So you could apply for a free copy if you had a dreamcast (probably forward your serial number) or did you had to pay 980 yen? :S My japanese sucks and translations make it more confusing.

[ave]

As far as I know, the Yukawa games that have the HDR-0025 serial were not sold by transmitting the serial number but they were simply put into the boxes before retail as a give-away during a certain period of time in spring 1999. I'm not 100% sure about that, mabye just 95%.

The pack-in version is way rarer IMO. If nothing has changed since last month, the regular version is still (?) for sale on Play-Asia for 10 bucks (new).

[Kron]

The info on the Sega site saying which HDR number were sold and given away are actually back to front.

The one with the black border (HDR-0025) was given away free when people purchased a Dreamcast. It has a blue Not For Sale marking on the spine and rear insert.

The one with the red border (HDR-0024) was sold independently for 980 yen and has no 'Not For Sale' marking.

Weirdly both came sealed with spinecards.

[MentalMan]

Interesting, the spring-1999 give-away sounds very likely indeed. At least the release date would match this up as well.

Thanks to both of you!