ABSOLUTELY the wierdest thing I have EVER seen....

[Tony Montana]

All right, I work at one of the big bad Video Game chains, and today a guy called and said he bought MGS 3: Snake Eater yesterday and when he popped it in his system it was actually ESPN College Hoops 2k5. I was like well thats wierd and I told him to bring it back in, I figured either he was crazy or maybe at most it was a burned copy with the wrong label. Well he brings it in and I look at it, it is absolutely a legit copy, normal label, playstation hologram on the bottom of the disc, everything looks normal. So he exchanges it for another copy, and I decide to try it out, I pop it in the demo unit and sure enough I cant believe my eyes but ESPN College Hoops 2k5 is the game that loads up!

So, I'll probably pick it up, just cuz its wierd as hell but has anyone seen or heard of this before? And how could it happen? I could understand if they were from the same company but they're not.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I've heard about that happening once before. Come to think about it, it was yesterday:

Similar Thread: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77829

[Johnny_Rock]

This happened to another person on the forums with Donkey Konga being Wario World. Could this be related at all? Factorys putting the wrong game in the wrong package? But with the wrong label aswell?

Its like the X-Files man.

[Tony Montana]

I hadnt seen the Dokey Konga thread, but I could see something like that happening since they are both 1st Party games right?

But this is 2 separate companies - Konami and SEGA, unless they have something in common where the games are pressed or whatever, thats what really made it strange.

[Ed Oscuro]

Hop in the other thread and find out where that guy's from...maybe a disc plant near you is screwing up orders.

[slip81]

Well is turns out the guy in the other thread was just outting Donkey Konga on top of WW in his GC by accident.

This seems to be an actual case of a misprint. Unless the both of you already had College Hoops in your systems and didn't notice it when the tray slid out.

[Tony Montana]

Well is turns out the guy in the other thread was just outting Donkey Konga on top of WW in his GC by accident.

This seems to be an actual case of a misprint. Unless the both of you already had College Hoops in your systems and didn't notice it when the tray slid out.

Yeah I saw that, it would be pretty funny if that is what had happened in my case, but its not.

Im still not sure if this is something that is nothing more than an interesting conversation topic or something that actually might be collectible.

[FantasiaWHT]

I once saw a sealed Halo 2 get opened up and have a CD-shaped piece of clear plastic inside the box. Even had that code imprinted on the inner ring, but otherwise just clear plastic.

[slip81]

Well is turns out the guy in the other thread was just outting Donkey Konga on top of WW in his GC by accident.

This seems to be an actual case of a misprint. Unless the both of you already had College Hoops in your systems and didn't notice it when the tray slid out.

Yeah I saw that, it would be pretty funny if that is what had happened in my case, but its not.

Im still not sure if this is something that is nothing more than an interesting conversation topic or something that actually might be collectible.

I would assume that it will be worth at least a little more than a normal copy of MGS 3 down the line, just for the simple fact that it is in fact a missprint. In other forms of collecting (comics, cards, coins etc.) missprints can go for a great deal more than a normal version simply because of the fact that it was a factory screw up, and there for (usually) aren't available in high numbers.

[rbudrick]

Ok...so there aren't 2 discs glued together? Or maybe the hologram was a sticky placed on there?

Too weird...

-Rob

[GrandAmChandler]

I once saw a sealed Halo 2 get opened up and have a CD-shaped piece of clear plastic inside the box. Even had that code imprinted on the inner ring, but otherwise just clear plastic.

That my friend is a straight up print error, I have seen that before as well.

[pacmanhat]

Those 2 games were released around the same time last year. Maybe someone was able to swap disc labels to make a profit on trade-ins? That's probably impossible, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

[DonMarco]

The most odd disc I have is an old PlayStation game. The disc looks a pale/light blue instead of black.

[mjluther]

Happened to a friend of mine a couple years back with a Dreamcast game, though I don't remember which. It seems strange that these incidents are, apparently, isolated. Shouldn't there be more stories about MGS:3/NCAA discs?

[PapaStu]

Theres a documented issue with Genji disc labels and NHL 2K5 (or whatever the current one is) as well for the PS2.

I worked at a chain music store for years and we once had a customer buy a Bob Marley cd and he popped it into his car only to hear smooth jazz. We never did figure out who they accidently burned onto that disc instead.


The most odd disc I have is an old PlayStation game. The disc looks a pale/light blue instead of black.

Actually PS discs are a purpley color and not black. Its just that the label prevents the light from coming thru the other side and illuminating it to let you really see the purple. The disc art is probably the reason that it looks funny (color wise) as some light is probably bleeding thru it. What game is it?

If you pick it up i'm interested in getting it. This all seems to be happening a little more often than it used to.

[Tony Montana]

Those 2 games were released around the same time last year. Maybe someone was able to swap disc labels to make a profit on trade-ins? That's probably impossible, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

That was the first thing I thought of too but everything appeared completely in tact. I will do some more investigating, but I quickly compared it to another copy of MGS 3 and they appeared completely identical.

[ProgrammingAce]

It would be incredably dificult for this to happen, but not impossible. Is the barcode on the inner spindle of the disc identical to the real MGS3? If it is, then must have made a screwed up master, however i find this highly unlikely. The security for the PS2 is based off of a check sum of the entire disc, and if it doesn't match the barcode, then the disc won't play. If the barcode doesn't match MGS3 (which i would believe to be the case), then basicly somone stuck the wrong spindle in the machine when they went to put the disc art on. There are safeguards to prevent this, but they seem to have failed. Then when the disc was packaged, the barcode was read again to check for contamination such as this, but apparently that failed too. Since the disc plays, i'm lead to believe that the barcode on the disc matches the basketball game and there were 2 Quality Assurance failures along the disc's path. In the grand scheme of things, this is very rare.

[Tony Montana]

It would be incredably dificult for this to happen, but not impossible. Is the barcode on the inner spindle of the disc identical to the real MGS3? If it is, then must have made a screwed up master, however i find this highly unlikely. The security for the PS2 is based off of a check sum of the entire disc, and if it doesn't match the barcode, then the disc won't play. If the barcode doesn't match MGS3 (which i would believe to be the case), then basicly somone stuck the wrong spindle in the machine when they went to put the disc art on. There are safeguards to prevent this, but they seem to have failed. Then when the disc was packaged, the barcode was read again to check for contamination such as this, but apparently that failed too. Since the disc plays, i'm lead to believe that the barcode on the disc matches the basketball game and there were 2 Quality Assurance failures along the disc's path. In the grand scheme of things, this is very rare.

I will double check it today, but when we looked at it Im pretty sure we compared a set of numbers on the back on the inner ring and they matched, but I will make sure.

[Tony Montana]

It would be incredably dificult for this to happen, but not impossible. Is the barcode on the inner spindle of the disc identical to the real MGS3? If it is, then must have made a screwed up master, however i find this highly unlikely. The security for the PS2 is based off of a check sum of the entire disc, and if it doesn't match the barcode, then the disc won't play. If the barcode doesn't match MGS3 (which i would believe to be the case), then basicly somone stuck the wrong spindle in the machine when they went to put the disc art on. There are safeguards to prevent this, but they seem to have failed. Then when the disc was packaged, the barcode was read again to check for contamination such as this, but apparently that failed too. Since the disc plays, i'm lead to believe that the barcode on the disc matches the basketball game and there were 2 Quality Assurance failures along the disc's path. In the grand scheme of things, this is very rare.

Ding, Ding, we have a winner.

The first time I checked the numbers I just noticed the first set which were identical but there is a single digit after that I didnt notice because it is separated quite abit from the first, but that number on the MGS3/ESPN game matches the other ESPN games rather than the other MGS3 games. Also, its interesting taht the initial set matches both MGS3 and the ESPN game with only this single digit differentiating them, so it must have been the next game in the series of manufacturing or whatever. So, since this is what happened and you obviously know something about it, have you ever heard of this getting out to the shelves before?

[goatdan]

Ding, Ding, we have a winner.

The first time I checked the numbers I just noticed the first set which were identical but there is a single digit after that I didnt notice because it is separated quite abit from the first, but that number on the MGS3/ESPN game matches the other ESPN games rather than the other MGS3 games. Also, its interesting taht the initial set matches both MGS3 and the ESPN game with only this single digit differentiating them, so it must have been the next game in the series of manufacturing or whatever. So, since this is what happened and you obviously know something about it, have you ever heard of this getting out to the shelves before?

I have heard of such things happening before.

Needless to say it's extremely rare. Unfortunately, it really isn't worth much of anything more. Collectors don't seem to value "error" games any more than other games. I think it's just the difficulty to prove them legit or not. Either way, it's a cool conversation peice!

[nildem]

This happened to me years ago with a PSX game when I purchased "Power Move Pro Wrestling" at Toys 'R Us, only to find "Ninja: Shadow of Darkness" burned onto the disc when I tried to play the game.