PSX Title Missing Booklet Due to Factory Mistake?

[tubeway]

Hey guys, got a question here. I recently went through some boxes and found my copy of SaGa Frontier for PS1. It's still sealed from when I bought it at Kay Bee toys like six years ago or whenever. It was the last copy they had left, and it was fresh off the rack behind the game counter.

But here's the thing: there's no manual inside. As far as I can tell, it's factory sealed with all of the original wrapping and the barcode sticker. And there's even a subscription or registration card in the booklet slot of the jewelcase. However, the booklet is just straight up missing. I can't imagine someone resealed and return the game without including the booklet.

Has anyone seen this before with a brand new game? I'm sure it's a factory error, but I don't get how it happened. I remember reading an article back in the day about how Nintendo would weigh each SNES game box to make sure they had all of their contents. I figured they'd still be doing something like this, and an instruction manual in a PSX case makes up a significant amount of the weight....

[ProgrammingAce]

usually a manual weighs about 6 grams. In a lot of cases, a missing manual isn't enough to trigger the scale. These days to make sure a disc is in the case they use metal detectors along side the scales. The scales tell you if there's a second disc inside.

[tubeway]

usually a manual weighs about 6 grams. In a lot of cases, a missing manual isn't enough to trigger the scale. These days to make sure a disc is in the case they use metal detectors along side the scales. The scales tell you if there's a second disc inside.

Thank you for the informative response.

[Bojay1997]

usually a manual weighs about 6 grams. In a lot of cases, a missing manual isn't enough to trigger the scale. These days to make sure a disc is in the case they use metal detectors along side the scales. The scales tell you if there's a second disc inside.

Even still, there are situations where the electronic sensing methods don't work. I believe most replication facilities still have up to a 1% error rate including printing errors and insertion errors. As such, there is always a chance that you can get a sealed game without the disc or manual or inserts.

[ProgrammingAce]

Manual and inserts yes, disc is highly unlikely. But there are always times where a game will fall off of the assembly line and someone mistakenly puts it in a box anyway. Mistakes like that are usually human error.

[JerseyDevil65]

I once bought a CD that had no disc inside, so it can happen. Luckily, the store replaced it with no problem.

[Haoie]

And then, there's the difference in jewel cases.

[Dangerboy]

Mistakes like that happen all the time. Just in the last few years I've had PS2 factory sealed games missing discs, missing manuals, had the wrong discs, or my favorite, multiples of the same rather than the 3 chronological ones.

Worst was probably Syphon Filter PS2 - I tore open an entire shipping carton of them (about 12) and not a singe one had the disc in it. Somewhere a loader got their ass canned, robotic or not.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

We had a couple of Squaresoft titles in Canada ship without English manuals (only French). Chrono Cross, FFVIII, and KH:GBA So it wouldn't surprise me at all if Square screwed that one up too ;)

[calistarwind]

Just three years ago when I worked at a game store an entire shipment of factory sealed Shin Megami Devil Summoner games for PS2 came in without any of their cover art. The plastic on them all had the folds in the plastic and everything but no cover art at all and man was it hard to sell them to people.

[traser]

only similer thing I ever experiensed, is that I got a game whit 2 identical manuals in it once.
dont remember what game it was.

[link1110]

I once bought a new PSP game without the disc. It had the white casing for the disc, but no disc inside.