Do Assembled in Mexico SNES carts have a number stamped in their back label?

[Urzu402]

Because my Assembled in Mexico, Battletoads and Double Dragon doesn't. I just wanted to know if it was normal.

[Fatalstar64]

I have Chrono Trigger and Tetris attack that are both "made in Mexico" and they have 40 indented on the back of those games. I'm assuming all games made in Mexico should have this number but again I'm not sure. Does anyone actually know what these numbers mean and why some games have the same some different? Oh and my Battletoads/Double Dragon has 00 on the back made in japan.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I believe they're batch numbers. Nintendo did this for NES games as well.

Also, "Made in Mexico" and "Assembled in Mexico" are completely different. "Assembled" was distributed by Majesco and has the information printed on the cart, while "Made" was distributed by Nintendo and has the information printed on a sticker.

[Eyedunno]

I believe they're batch numbers. Nintendo did this for NES games as well.

Also, "Made in Mexico" and "Assembled in Mexico" are completely different. "Assembled" was distributed by Majesco and has the information printed on the cart, while "Made" was distributed by Nintendo and has the information printed on a sticker.

I've wondered about the stamped numbers as well. Do they vary wildly for the same game, or no? I ask because I got a copy of Clay Fighter Tournament Edition that presumably had a rental sticker of some sort on the back that was ripped off, leaving the back label all torn and ugly, so I replaced the back of the cart with the back of an original Clay Fighter cart. I don't have any intention of selling either, but I wonder how obvious it would be to someone in the know. :P

As for the "Made in Mexico" and "Assembled in Mexico" stuff, I had no idea there were non-Japanese carts. I certainly don't own any. Does this affect any Super Famicom carts too? I would assume not, since the savings on labor would probably not offset the cost of shipping the shells/carts back to Japan, but who knows? A lot of Japanese-market cars are now assembled in the U.S., and it would only take a few hundred SFC carts at 1990s prices to equal the cost of a car today...

[Urzu402]

So what about my "Assembled in Mexico" Battletoads and Double Dragon, it has a Sticker for a back label but no number in it, from what you are saying the number is there just some where else on the Cart? or that someone switched the backs?

[Urzu402]

I need to know for the feedback I'm going to leave this person on Amazon or if I should contact the person for some money back.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

...okay, you're confusing me here. Can you just take a picture of the front and back?

[Kitsune Sniper]

What's so important about a stupid number on the back?

Seriously, what?

[Urzu402]

Sorry I couldnt get it any clearer.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2803/11306534.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7684/bd2g.jpg

Here is a different game for comparison as you can see there is a number stamped next to "Important"
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/3552/otherie.jpg

[allyourblood]

How is it that this person's feedback is hinging on whether or not there's a number stamped in the back? I'm curious!

Oh, and those photos are awesomely bad. I'm not sure you could've taken worse pics.

[Urzu402]

Because I want to know if it is original or not, I mean all other signs point to it being an original game, the gamebit screws, and the number inside by the pins. The only thing that strikes me as off is the lack of the number punched into the back label.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Not all games have that number there, even with NES games. It looks legit to me.
Good luck finding another comparison shot though. I have hell trying to compare label variations.

[Urzu402]

Ok I left positive feedback thanks for the help.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Because I want to know if it is original or not, I mean all other signs point to it being an original game, the gamebit screws, and the number inside by the pins. The only thing that strikes me as off is the lack of the number punched into the back label.

So wait, you're concerned that the game is not legitimate simply because it says "Made / Assembled In Mexico" and that number is missing?

Are you serious?

Trust me, if the game was a pirate, you'd know right away. Besides, pirate carts were never made here, they were imported from China and Taiwan.

[izarate]

The numbers at the back indicate which facility produced the carts. Factory 40 was in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

[Urzu402]

It's not the fact that it says Assembled in Mexico, It's that it has a sticker on the back with no number in it. I thought that Assembled in Mexico games didn't have stickers on the back that's why I am asking.

[savageone]

IIRC made in Mexico games have both engraved and label backsides, but the ones with labels look quite a bit cheaper than normal SNES carts.

[badinsults]

As was stated earlier in the thread, the "assembled in Mexico" carts with the engraved back were Majesco re-releases. The lack of number in the back is probably a mistake in your cart, but if you are really concerned about legitimacy (and really, you shouldn't, pirated games are never this high of quality), you should get a security bit and look at the PCB board.

[Urzu402]

What are the chances of getting these mistakes?, because the Super Street Fighter II I got also has no number stamped into the back label, I just got it today. And it was "Made in Japan"

[PapaStu]

I think that its not that uncommon at all. There were how many millions of carts made for all the games? If we can get mis-cut labels/wrong games on discs, missing color on disc art, the missed stamp on the back of a cart wouldn't be an issue at all.