That's not an Australian logo, that's a BBFC rating logo which is still used today. Oddly enough I can't seem to find evidence that LE II was released in Europe other than Portugal and the UK, every copy I've seen has the BBFC rating and I've never seen it for sale by European mainland sellers.
As for changing regions, I think that function's only limited to database editors and above.
Eheh Portugal is a very small country but it's in mainland Europe.
It was sold here, and I have photos of the game with Portuguese labels and manual, that I will submit soon.
I saw that the Euro variation already have the bbfc rating, but not the Portuguese.
Also the Portuguese games always comes with game rating , like this "CE +3" .
Just had a look at that lethal enforcers ii. That is obviously a BBFC logo on it. However it does have the multiple European languages which is what we generally use to determine which countries to assign it to. Wouldn't be unheard of for a UK certification to be stuck on a pan-European release back in the day (this is before PEGI was introduced and I believe ratings were optional).
The database is thankfully moving away from generic European releases so really the game should at least be assigned to each of the countries corresponding to the languages on the box. This would make more sense with e.g. Toze's Portuguese specific releases. But then just about every mega drive game in the database is set to European so would be a huge job for someone to update that without much real payoff. It's more relevant for non-Sega releases where every country would get its own variant.
Agree, for Sega retro games, except the dreamcast, I would say that 95% of the games titles have an European region wide variation. So going to change all that to only the languages of the box isn't the most correct and will be a huge job.
There are some games that had translations for German, because Germany was a big market, besides that most of the games are in English, and some could have French and Spanish to choose.
In Portugal we get a lot of repack in that time, made by Ecofilmes, so we get imports from the Pal , genesis and also a Japanese game that came with an adaptor. Most of then have repackaged box, reprinted or with stickers with Portuguese description, rating, part# and some with Portuguese UPC. In some cases it's a great confusion, but I'm working on that with others Portuguese collectors.
Even now we have repackaged games by ecofilmes, now it's ecoplay, because they have the rights for square enix, Sega, konami, and others.
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