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Wii game spines?

mel the bellmel the bell
edited November 2012 in Chit chat
i dont have many wii games but ive noticed all of em bar one have green triangles, goldeneye is purple??

anybody know why?
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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited November 2012
    mel the bell wrote: »
    i dont have many wii games but ive noticed all of em bar one have green triangles, goldeneye is purple??

    anybody know why?

    It's obviously a pirate copy.

    Seriously, they're just country codes. Green is for the UK, and Purple is pan-European. You might occasionally see other ones as there are apparently 49 of them.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited November 2012
    Matt_B wrote: »
    It's obviously a pirate copy.

    Seriously, they're just country codes. Green is for the UK, and Purple is pan-European. You might occasionally see other ones as there are apparently 49 of them.
    ah cheers dude

    bugger wanna send it back now and get a green one lol, he feels all left out sat on his own
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  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited November 2012
    I've got a couple of purple ones too. Godzilla is one that springs to mind. I think the old Gameboy boxes had something similar too.
  • redballoonredballoon
    edited November 2012
    mel the bell wrote: »
    goldeneye is purple??

    anybody know why?

    You squeezed the box too hard.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited November 2012
    Out of curiousity I checked my Wii games, the US games don't appear to have anything on them other than the game title?
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  • guesserguesser
    edited November 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    don't appear to have anything on them other than the game title?

    Is it written on with a sharpie? :smile:
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited November 2012
    guesser wrote: »
    Is it written on with a sharpie? :smile:

    I've got no hooky "nex' Gen" games, all my Wii and PS3 games are originals.
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  • GrazGraz
    edited November 2012
    Gamecube had the coloured flash as well. I never knew what they stood for either. You learn summink new here every day. :)
  • Patrik RakPatrik Rak
    edited November 2012
    Yep, both GameCube and Wii games have the colored triangles on the cover spine. And if you check the back of the game manual, you'll see that the corner is colored as well.

    These colors show what country/region the cover and manual are for. It doesn't directly relate to what languages the game disc itself contains, though.
    It almost always matches the region part of the product code printed on the cover/manual:

    UKV - Green - UK
    EUR - Purple - European release, usually EFIGS, sometimes more, rarely less.
    NOE - Dark Purple - Germany
    SCN - Lime Green - Scandinavia

    Those above are quite straightforward, but I have few special ones, too:

    EUR - Orange - Looks like Pan-European release, for entire Europe.
    EXP - Yellow - Looks like English only European version for outside of the UK.

    Often the manual and spine colors are the same, but not every time. You can for example have european cover with UK only manual.

    The australian covers don't have the triangle, they have the rating there instead (unless they are the imported UK releases, in which case they have the green triangle and the mandatory rating sticker above it). The american releases have no sign on the spine at all.

    Patrik
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