It's possible that the final product won't be exactly similar, but if I recall correctly, CS1 was pretty similar to the 4th and final loketest. Not to mention that there's a lot from the initial loketest that the 5th loketest did not change this time around, so there's still a good amount of things sticking. I also don't recall arcsys actually specifying that the BBCSII patch date was going to be any different than the arcade release, or very far from it, nor that it was going to be in Japan first. Pretty sure a lot of that is 'likely assumptions' but it doesn't shut out the possibility otherwise.
And if the BBCSII patch was released around the same time of the arcade release, and for America as well, then we would not have weeks to study the actual game before we get to play it.
I'm not saying that most of this thread is shit, or that there's tons of people blowing up the thread with nonsense, but I am saying that this thread serves a purpose.