Looking down at my freshly retrieved FF9 CDs...what does it say on them? "PC CDROM". That's right, this very much looks like the PC version of FF9.
I'll start at the beginning. Somone I met yesterday showed me what he believed was the PC version of FF9. His older brother had sent it to him from another country somewhere (didn't ask where). Of course it wasn't FF9PC, we all know such a thing don't exist. Turned out it was five CDs, the last four being identical with the American FF9 and the first one containing a real crappy installation program which installed a (probably cracked) version of VGS and (more interesting) some of the game files, probably just the stuff that is common on all the CDs.
It's not like he got cheated or anything, since it is kind of obvious...comes in a plastic bag I've seen pictures of in those large pirating shops in Singapore. Also the print seems a bit unproffessional, like something done in a hurry.
I bought it of him BTW, since he already owned the NTSC version and I needed one for playing on ePSXe, the UK PAL version of FF9 has the most insane copy protection sceme ever seen on a PSX (checks for CD sub-block all the time not just game startup).