Why are we listing Initial D: The Arcade cabinets in America as Initial D Arcade Stage cabinets?

I know that Initial D: The Arcade (2021), or ID:TA, is never officially released in North America, nor are any Initial D arcade titles beyond Stage 4 (2007), but there are a several Initial D: The Arcade [along with any Initial D Arcade Stage titles from 5 (2009) to Zero (2017)] that can be found in North America, that is considering that they can be shipped as pre-owned cabinets to that area from Asia/Oceania by third party contractors. However, the two arcades (I have visited) that has one in the United States of America, Arcade Monsters in Orlando, FL and Leaderboard Arcade on Shad Road in Jacksonville, FL, had to change Initial D: The Arcade listings I added to Initial D Arcade Stage listings (in the former's case, "Don't change title" is added to the listing's comment). That feels wrong to me, since an Initial D: The Arcade cabinet is not to be confused with the actual Initial D Arcade Stage cabinet from 2001, especially when the former is listed under the latter's title in the website. I just want to know the reason why I have to list these racing arcade cabinets in the United States as Initial D Arcade Stage cabinets.

To be fair, two of the arcades in America, Arcade Monsters of Lido Beach (which is temporarily closed due to the damages caused by Hurricane Helene) and Arcade Monsters of San Diego, has ID:TA cabinets listed under their original names in the website. Also, many, if not all, ID:TA cabinets (or at least those from the arcades I have visited that have one) in the country run on version 1.31, which is an older version than what a network of ID:TA cabinets in Japan run on. Not to mention, instead of running on a Sega Japan server that a network of ID:TA cabinets in Japan run on, the ID:TA cabinets tend to either run on private servers (or at least the one that allows me to continue my data, which originated from my session on an ID:TA cabinet inside Leaderboard Arcade of Shad Road in Jacksonville, FL, on another ID:TA cabinet inside 8 On The Break in Dunellen, NJ) or on offline mode. (The latter of which would disable the racing arcade cabinet's Aime card functionality, leading to it only being able to play in Guest mode with a restricted roster of a few cars rather than all of them, such as the one in Arcade Monsters in Orlando, FL.)

It may be because the newer Initial D machines don't have a North American release, while the older ones do. I believe that imported machines use a third-party network. In that case, it may be best to have an option for "Initial D (Unknown Version)" if people are concerned with listing new machines.

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Oh, OK. BTW, just because an imported Initial D cabinet in the United States is branded as an Initial D: The Arcade cabinet, does not always mean that it truly is an Initial D: The Arcade cabinet like in Japan. Also, to be fair, any imported Initial D Arcade Stage cabinets in the United States between Stage 5 (2009) and Zero (2017) are typically listed by their original names.

In fact, an arcade cabinet can run a game that is different than what the cabinet is branded as. For example, an H2Overdrive (2010) cabinet can take the form of a retrofitted Hydro Thunder cabinet from 1999, while a WMMT3 cabinet can run on MK Arcade GP's software and a WMMT 6RR cabinet can run on 6R's software.

I have heard in the past that the site has been sent a c&d explicitly regarding the listing of these machines, thus the change in title

I apologize for bringing this post up months later and possibly in the wrong place, but I found this thread after a google search, trying to figure out a memory from my childhood, and y'all seem to be the people who might know this.

The local brewpub near my house is family-friendly and has a games room. There was a game there for a very short while that I think may have been an Initial D machine, but it was in English and set up like LHD. Shifter and handbrake were on my right. It had a handbrake and a clutch. I was too young to be any good at it, and I hadn't had any exposure to Initial D yet, so I can't say for sure that it was... Is there anything it could have been with that equipment and a full Japanese car roster and touge style tracks, but with an English release? I asked the local distributor that rents arcade machines to the pub, and they had no record of it.

This would've been somewhere between 2002 and 2007, I would guess, as I wasn't old enough to drive yet, and didn't understand the more realistic physics, compared to things like Cruisin' USA that they had normally.

Thanks for any light that could be shed on this.