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Post by ash888 on Apr 19, 2010 1:28:05 GMT 2
Good point. But if there are 10 games per case, wouldn't that mean one game would have to be 00000000? Box #: 0000001 00000000 00000001 00000002 00000003 00000004 00000005 00000006 00000007 00000008 00000009 I wonder if someone's got a 00000000 Ball in their collection...
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Post by mpanayiotakis on Apr 19, 2010 16:41:31 GMT 2
Err.. I don't know.. I think the serial number 0000000010 shoud have been in the first shipping box and I don't think Nintendo ever released a game with a serial consisting of zeros only - what would be the point? Michael
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Post by ash888 on Apr 19, 2010 19:41:48 GMT 2
Err.. I don't know.. I think the serial number 0000000010 shoud have been in the first shipping box and I don't think Nintendo ever released a game with a serial consisting of zeros only - what would be the point? Michael Well in the previous post you said games with a box flap of 0000001 could only be "up to 00000009" so I was basing it on that logic.
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Post by andycole on Apr 20, 2010 11:04:44 GMT 2
Yes, I see your point, Ash. Mike's previous post was incorrect, as serial numbers from 1 - 9 would mean only 9 games in a shipper. It would have been either 0 to 9 or 1 to 10. We have all seen full shippers but I can't remember whether they run from 1-10 or 0-9. If they are 0-9 then it raises the question what were the numbers in the very first box? I'm sure it's a rhetorical question because I don't expect they even shipped the very first games out, they were probably kept for the Nintendo Museum or something!
Andy
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Post by mpanayiotakis on Apr 20, 2010 17:44:22 GMT 2
Well, if the first shipping box was indeed.. well, shipped then it had to be games with serials 00000001 up to 00000010. That doesn't mean that the boxed game with serial 00000010 would read 0000001 on the box flap! It could very well be 0000002. I don't know. It's just that I've never seen a box flap serial to coincide with the game serial exactly! I mean for example I've never seen a box with a flap serial of 0034567 containing a game with a serial of 00345670.. Michael
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Post by sinkbaek on Apr 20, 2010 18:57:31 GMT 2
Well, if the first shipping box was indeed.. well, shipped then it had to be games with serials 00000001 up to 00000010. That doesn't mean that the boxed game with serial 00000010 would read 0000001 on the box flap! It could very well be 0000002. I don't know. It's just that I've never seen a box flap serial to coincide with the game serial exactly! I mean for example I've never seen a box with a flap serial of 0034567 containing a game with a serial of 00345670.. Michael You mean like this:
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Post by ash888 on Apr 20, 2010 20:36:09 GMT 2
I don't expect they even shipped the very first games out, they were probably kept for the Nintendo Museum or something! Andy Well, apparently they shipped out boxes at least as low as 0000008, which I think is incredibly low, and I'm surprised no one on this forum seems surprised by it.
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Post by pheldge on Apr 20, 2010 23:49:52 GMT 2
I have a DK-52 with "strange" serials. I mean they don't match exactly but there's some kind of... (logic ?).
Game : 32763609 Box : 33276361
If you move the box serial from one digit to the left :
_32763609 33276361_
Any thoughts ?
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Post by ash888 on Apr 21, 2010 0:19:49 GMT 2
I have a DK-52 with "strange" serials. I mean they don't match exactly but there's some kind of... (logic ?). Game : 32763609 Box : 33276361 If you move the box serial from one digit to the left : _32763609 33276361_ Any thoughts ? Hi Phledge, The box # must start with a "0" or "3" to be considered matching. I think Damian explained in detail in this thread: mpanayiotakis.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2221Theoretically, games with the following serial numbers would all have the same box# of 33276361: 32763601 32763602 32763603 32763604 32763605 32763606 32763607 32763608 32763609 32763610 Ash
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Post by pheldge on Apr 21, 2010 0:28:37 GMT 2
Hi Ash, and thanks for the reminder.
I probably read this thread one day but... forgot it ;D. I have to say that usually I don't care about details like that (G&W world is so big), so I read almost every thread, but don't recall everything.
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Post by ash888 on Apr 21, 2010 4:03:36 GMT 2
Hi Ash, and thanks for the reminder. I probably read this thread one day but... forgot it ;D. I have to say that usually I don't care about details like that (G&W world is so big), so I read almost every thread, but don't recall everything. I know what you mean Pheldge! This has grown into quite an amazing forum packed with tons of information. Thanks for creating it Mike! I hope you keep it going for years to come. Ash
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Post by pheldge on Apr 21, 2010 9:36:48 GMT 2
I think that Michael's got a lot of free time since a few days, didn't he ?
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Post by andycole on Apr 21, 2010 10:18:21 GMT 2
It's just that I've never seen a box flap serial to coincide with the game serial exactly! I mean for example I've never seen a box with a flap serial of 0034567 containing a game with a serial of 00345670.. Michael You have, you've just forgotten it. Your memory is like swiss cheese lately Well, apparently they shipped out boxes at least as low as 0000008, which I think is incredibly low, and I'm surprised no one on this forum seems surprised by it. That doesn't surprise me at all. In my previous post I was thinking that maybe they kept games from the very first box, but after that, it was all business! I reckon that game 00000001 is at Nintendo HQ somewhere. Andy
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Post by sinkbaek on Apr 21, 2010 12:27:42 GMT 2
Andy
Yeah I was a bit worried for the mental state of Mike as well... Me owning something G&W-related that Mike haven't seen just seems preposterous ;D
P.S. I don't know if I've understood the logic of the matter... But wouldn't there be boxes with matching serials on them? For example my game would be part of a batch with serials on the games going from 00409090 to 00409099...and there would then be 10 boxes in all with the excact same serial on them (0040909)?
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Post by andycole on Apr 22, 2010 11:27:54 GMT 2
Yes, there would be 10 boxes all with the same serial number stamped on them. Going back to shippers, I realised that all the full shippers we've seen are much later than when they stopped stamping boxes, so we have never actually seen more than one box with the same number (not together anyway) but the numbers suggest this would happen. Andy
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