NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2019-10-10T09:03:45 -05.00 rlh 24 Originally posted by: rlh

Originally posted by: 0xDEAFC0DE

That tetris thread was one of the places I started looking, so it's cool to see if it feeds back. I did this research for a similar reason as I'm considering expanding my Zelda thread past the US. Also, I'm sure I've missed a couple post N64 codes, but luckily for us those tend to be country exclusive children's games.

You have any details about the KOR code, or when it started.  I know Nintendo has been in SK since the early-90s, I think, but they had to find manufacturers and license the hardware manufacturing, which is why their brand there was "Com Boy" for a time.  Did they start using the KOR code, when they started officially exporting to South Korea, or were those IDs used for the Com Boy stuff too?


I don't really know much but here are some threads I found. http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=165237 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=165909 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=96726 http://www.autofish.net/hosted/famitek/ It seems like Comboy and Famitek are pretty knowledgeable, so either look at their posts or pm them if you have questions. ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2019-10-10T08:38:55 -05.00 rlh 24 Originally posted by: 0xDEAFC0DE

That tetris thread was one of the places I started looking, so it's cool to see if it feeds back. I did this research for a similar reason as I'm considering expanding my Zelda thread past the US. Also, I'm sure I've missed a couple post N64 codes, but luckily for us those tend to be country exclusive children's games.
You have any details about the KOR code, or when it started.  I know Nintendo has been in SK since the early-90s, I think, but they had to find manufacturers and license the hardware manufacturing, which is why their brand there was "Com Boy" for a time.  Did they start using the KOR code, when they started officially exporting to South Korea, or were those IDs used for the Com Boy stuff too? ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2019-10-10T08:35:37 -05.00 rlh 24 Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2019-10-10T08:18:51 -05.00 rlh 24 Originally posted by: 0xDEAFC0DE

I doesn't seem like anyone made a list for more than PAL (and that list has it's own problems). So, I made one myself. The major rule is the country code must be found in the at the beginning of the third section of code. e.g. SCN in NES-8F-SCN/SWE, but SWE wouldn't count if SWE/SWE didn't also exist. This also excludes codes like EAI that are only found alone on the back of the cart. I've only marked things I've seen picure evidence of. 
 
Code C I B First On Stands for
ASI X X X NES Asia
AUS X X X NES Australia
CAN X X X NES Canada
EEC X   X NES European Economic Community
ESP X X X NES España
FAH   X X NES France and Holland
FRA X X X NES France
FRG X X X NES Federal Republic of Germany
GBR X X X NES Great Britain
GPS X X X NES Game Pack Software?
GRE   X   NES Greece
HKG X X X NES Hong Kong
HOL X X X NES Holland
ISR   X X NES Israel
ITA X X X NES Italy
KOR X X X NES Korea
NOE X X X NES Nintendo of Europe
SCN X X X NES Scandinavia
SWE X X X NES Sweden
UKV X X X NES United Kingdom
USA X X X NES United States of America
CHN X X X GB China
EUR X X X GB Europe
EUU X * * GB Europe?
ROC X X X GB Republic of China
LTN X X X SNES Latin America
ASM X X X N64/GBC Asia (and Malaysia)?
MSA X X X N64 Mexico and South America
DAN X X X DS Danmark
NOR X X X DS Norway
RUS ? ? X DS Russia
USZ     X Wii? ? (North America)
* I've only seen an EEU cart for Gameboy, but I've seen CIB for N64
? For RUS I've only been able to find a picture of the back of a box, but I think it's likely the cart and manual have this code.
Also, some of the names I'm not sure about what they stand for (GPS, EUU, ASM, USZ).

Thank you!  I was actually thinking about this post I made just yesterday.  It's as if you were reading my mind.  I'm going to catalog this info.  I also mentioned (maybe in this thread) that I think I want to try to get every variant of Tetris because for one it's prolific and second, it's "cheap".  This will help me a lot in trying to search and seek out specific region codes. ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2019-10-10T07:58:41 -05.00 rlh 24  
Code C I B First On Stands for
ASI X X X NES Asia
AUS X X X NES Australia
CAN X X X NES Canada
EEC X   X NES European Economic Community
ESP X X X NES España
FAH   X X NES France and Holland
FRA X X X NES France
FRG X X X NES Federal Republic of Germany
GBR X X X NES Great Britain
GPS X X X NES Game Pack Software?
GRE   X   NES Greece
HKG X X X NES Hong Kong
HOL X X X NES Holland
ISR   X X NES Israel
ITA X X X NES Italy
KOR X X X NES Korea
NOE X X X NES Nintendo of Europe
SCN X X X NES Scandinavia
SWE X X X NES Sweden
UKV X X X NES United Kingdom
USA X X X NES United States of America
CHN X X X GB China
EUR X X X GB Europe
EUU X * * GB Europe?
ROC X X X GB Republic of China
LTN X X X SNES Latin America
ASM X X X N64/GBC Asia (and Malaysia)?
MSA X X X N64 Mexico and South America
DAN X X X DS Danmark
NOR X X X DS Norway
RUS ? ? X DS Russia
USZ     X Wii? ? (North America)
* I've only seen an EEU cart for Gameboy, but I've seen CIB for N64
? For RUS I've only been able to find a picture of the back of a box, but I think it's likely the cart and manual have this code.
Also, some of the names I'm not sure about what they stand for (GPS, EUU, ASM, USZ). ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2017-08-10T19:59:09 -05.00 rlh 24
So, hey rlh, if you want to collaborate on a project of putting this list together by hand, with photos per game per region, I'd be interested. It's not a good way of doing it, but it might be the only way. We'd start at retrocollect.com, they seem to have good region data on most games.

Also, nobody has mentioned the EUU region code, which I found on this cart. There's a EUR version of that game as well. I've never seen EUU anywhere else. http://imgur.com/OMtwzwe ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2017-08-10T07:07:09 -05.00 rlh 24  

just two additions from my side. A lot of people think the FRG games are the german releases. However, most of the games release with a "pure" FRG code are actually the austrian and swiss versions, while Germany received NOE coded versions. This does however not apply to the early EEC/FRG releases and to the late NOE/FRG releases (the latter being the games with german screentext I believe).

the DAS code on the back of some cartridges stands for Deutschland / Austria / Schweiz I believe. ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2017-08-09T20:38:08 -05.00 rlh 24 Also the reason for the front being -FRA for some uk games is due to the distributor actually being from France (Ron Judy, and bandai) ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2017-08-09T14:07:39 -05.00 rlh 24 Originally posted by: Of games
SCN/SWE was only one game, right? F-15? Yep, only F-15.

I believe this is linked to the fact, that F-15 is multilingual, in the sense that the menu is in Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian, as opposed to the other three SWE/SWE games, which were only in Swedish.
 
Originally posted by: Of games
The highest I think I've seen it a SMB 3 -UKV-5 manual
Impressive stuff that - Never had anything over a -2 myself.

Another quirky observation is that I used to do collecting of games imported to Denmark, which got added a local Danish manual. These games didn't go through the local Scandinavian distributor (Bergsala was for Scandinavia), but some of them did go through Bergsalas Danish distributor (Electronic Fun). Out of the 40 or so different titles I've found so far, one of them actually came with a PAL-A box (NEJ-JJ-UKV), with a PAL-B cart (NES-JJ-FRA), and a Danish manual.

So again an oddity. Shows that maybe it wasn't just the brits borrowing FRA labels, but maybe also the French borrowing UKV boxes.

PAL collecting (or PAL studying) is often very complex and interesting, compared to NTSC.  

  ]]> Anyone have a link to a list of all Nintendo game regions, and their corresponding codes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=176157 2017-08-09T12:20:57 -05.00 rlh 24 Originally posted by: Of games
 
Originally posted by: rlh

Hey guys, thanks for all of the details, though I don't have time read through them all. What I was basically looking for were the region codes on the serial numbers. For instance, NES-CV-xxx, where xxx would be the region code.

I've not looked at many other games that NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC or GBA so I don't know if there are other stamps are on carts, or other identifiers for later games.

My main reason for asking is so that I can easily identify the region of a game by its region code in the serial, especially when the region is a bit more obscure. Also, it'd be nice to know because I've considered collecting a "complete set" of certain games for a region. Tetris, for instance, on the game boy. I'd like to know where it all has been released what each region ID stands for. There are a couple of other games I may do this for as well, so it'd help to have a master list regions for a starting point.

Do you mean cartridge,manual, or box? They're not all the same  
I guess the cartridge.  I would have assumed that Nintendo would have been organized enough to keep regional codes consistent, regardless of whether the item was a game/box/manual.

I'm now seeing that my assumptions were a bit naive and that this is more complext than I assumed so... feel free to discuss and come to a consensus on details, but I'll modify my question to strictly NES and Game Boy games-- what are the region codes for NES and Game Boy cartridge serial numbers.  Not codes on the back.  I'm talking about the "NES-GG-xxx" and "DMG-GG-xxx" serials.
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