SNES Serial Codes

[Evan_G]

As part of some general SNES research I am doing, I am trying to catalogue serial codes for SNES items. I've attached an image of the label of NHL 94, with the serial code circled (SNSP-4H-UKV). The serial code on cart labels should be on the bottom left or bottom right part of the label (on Japanese games, they can be pretty much anywhere, though). For manuals, the serial code is on the top right of the front of the manual. For boxes, the serial code is on the small flaps. I would appreciate any serial codes that people can provide!

NHL 94 label with highlighted serial code

SNSP-4H-UKV.jpg (18.66 KiB) 15177 mal betrachtet

[rodarkone]

Hello Evan_G - this is my first post so I hope it will help you

Basicaly the snes codes are composed (mostly) from 3 parts for NTSC and PAL regions

First part indicates the region

SNSP (for PAL)

SNS (for US)

and

SHVC (for JAP region)

the middle part indicates the code for the game title.

And the last part is mostly used for the specific difference between PAL regions (language).

What I figured up for PAL is the following - if the middle part of the code has the 4 characters - the last letter from the code is specific for the language:

P -> english
D -> deutch
F -> french
S -> spanish
I -> Italian

The last part of the code (again for PAL regions) can be (specific to the influence regions)

NOE/SFRG - german region
FAH - french and holland
FRA/SFRA - french region
FRA - french
ITA - italian
ESP - spain
EUR - europe
NOE - nintendo of europe
UKV - england
GPS - ????
FAX - ???
SCN - scandinavian
AUS - australia

Hope this makes sense - and somebody can add some info of the GPS / FAX - regions (but FAX I presume is french region / multilanguage) GPS ... no ideea I have the card

Super Bomberman SNSP-H6-GPS H6 ENGLISH GPS PAL

I have the card which is in english and it was released in PAL.

Anyway if you need a list to make sure I attached my collection

[rodarkone]

forgot - sometimes there is a number (as a forth part of the code) - it represents the "revision" - it's like the updated version.

ex:

Super Mario World SNSP-MW-NOE
Super Mario World SNSP-MW-NOE-1

The second one is a revised version of the first one - probably they found some bugs or they corrected something.

[Evan_G]

I'm already aware of what the codes mean. I'm looking to match the codes and the games.

[rodarkone]

- I've attached my xls list but it would be easier to go to gamefaqs.com they have a good DB of games/codes correlation -