Dylan Cuthbert of Q-games worked for Nintendo in Japan in the 90s and was tweeting that he worked on the game, saying the international version was translated, mastered, good to go.
I played it on Retro's Raspberry-Pi. Which I've just realised I've been referring to as a RetroPie on here for ages. It's more of a technical marvel rather than a decent game - control isn't as tight as Starfox and it's not on rails, so you mop up bogies Colony Wars style.