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===In French=== | ===In French=== | ||
While Canadian law requires bilingual packaging and instruction manuals to be included with the sale of all video games in Canada, Pokémon games were available in English only until the release of {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}}, which received a French release for the province of {{wp|Quebec}} in addition to the regular English release. This was due to an agreement between Quebec's government and major video game publishers requiring any video games in Quebec to be offered in French if available in that language elsewhere in the world. | While Canadian law requires bilingual packaging and instruction manuals to be included with the sale of all video games in Canada, Pokémon games were available in English only until the release of {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}}, which received a French release for the province of {{wp|Quebec}} in addition to the regular English release. This was due to an agreement between Quebec's government and major video game publishers requiring any video games in Quebec to be offered in French if available in that language elsewhere in the world. | ||
====Separate releases==== | ====Separate releases==== | ||
[[File:HeartGold CA boxart.jpg|thumb|200px|left|French edition of Pokémon HeartGold released in Canada; the actual product features a {{wp|PEGI}} "3+" rating rather than the {{wp|ESRB}} rating seen here.]] | |||
{{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} and all [[Generation V]] games received separate French-language releases in Quebec, which can also be found somewhat rarely in other provinces. These releases contain exactly the same content as those from {{pmin|France}}, with the packaging slightly modified to include elements such as a "Play in French" logo (upper-left corner), although they retain their {{wp|PEGI}} ratings rather than changing them to those of the {{wp|ESRB}}. As they are from France, the games are incompatible with some North American features, such as [[Pal Park]] with North American [[Generation III]] games and [[Poké Transfer]] and [[Pokémon Dream Radar]] with North American copies of {{3v2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}}. Despite the content of the games being almost identical to that of the releases from France, the Canadian French versions of the games for Nintendo DS have their own country code in the serial numbers, CDF (instead of USA for English North America, or EUR for Europe, etc). | {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} and all [[Generation V]] games received separate French-language releases in Quebec, which can also be found somewhat rarely in other provinces. These releases contain exactly the same content as those from {{pmin|France}}, with the packaging slightly modified to include elements such as a "Play in French" logo (upper-left corner), although they retain their {{wp|PEGI}} ratings rather than changing them to those of the {{wp|ESRB}}. As they are from France, the games are incompatible with some North American features, such as [[Pal Park]] with North American [[Generation III]] games and [[Poké Transfer]] and [[Pokémon Dream Radar]] with North American copies of {{3v2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}}. Despite the content of the games being almost identical to that of the releases from France, the Canadian French versions of the games for Nintendo DS have their own country code in the serial numbers, CDF (instead of USA for English North America, or EUR for Europe, etc). | ||