Video Game Manufacturing errors

[hybrid0]

PLAYSTATION

TITLE	GH	ERROR TYPE	Disc Code	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Battle Arena Toshinden (PAL)	Y	Typo	N/A	complete	All	Area Instead of Arena used on CD
Big Race USA	N	Data	???	complete	1	Plays Ape Escape
Castlevania Symphony of the Night	Y	Data	???	N	1	plays Elmo's Number Journey
*NEW*Deathtrap Dungeon	N	Printing	N/A	Back Art	All	uses two of the Same Screenshots on the back
*NEW*Deathtrap Dungeon	N	Assembly	N/A	page 2 and 2 dupe page	1	repeated pages in instructions
Die Hard Trilogy(PAL)	Y	Typo	N/A	N	All	One is spelled as Once on back
Evil Zone	N	typo	N/A	N	all	says SLOS instead of SLUS on the spine
Final Fantasy 7	N	Printing	N/A	Back Cover	Many	Floating "i" in Masterpiece in description on back
Final Fantasy 7	Y	Data	N/A	N	1	Disc 3 Plays Spongebob Squarepants Super Spongue
Final Fantasy 7	Y	Printing	N/A	Case	Many	Sepheroth printed on Both sides of inside inserts
Final Fantasy 7	Y	Assembly	N/A	sealed copy	2 sealed copy	has both Black Label and Greatest hits inserts
Final Fantasy 7	N	Disc Printing	N/A	Image on Disc	1	has Comet on Disc 2
Final Fantasy 7	N	manual assembly	N/A	pic 1 pic 2 pic 3 pic 4	1	second page stapled backwords
Final Fantasy 8	N	Disc Printing	N/A	Discs	1	Disc 3 is blank
Final Fantasy 9	N	Disc Printing	N/A	Discs	1	no black printing on disc 2
Final Fantasy Tactics	Y	prog	????	N	?	Defective Game quickly recalled, first run of GH discs
Game of Life	N	Disc Printing	N/A	Disc	1	missing all but red printing on disc
Gundam Battle Assault 2	N	Typo	N/A	Spines	many	says Gundum instead of Gundam thanks to game-rave.com for image
Jet Moto 2	Y	Data	N/A	Front Cover Back Cover	All	Jet Moto 2 Championship Edition Was Released Instead
King of Fighters 95	N	Disc Printing	N/A	N	1	Missing Black Layer of Ink
Legend of Dragoon	?	Data	???	N	1	Disc 2 Plays Road Writer
Les Boucliers de Quetzalcoatl(PAL)	N	Typo	N/A	N	All	Les Bouchliers de Quetzalcoatl is used on CD and spine
Metal Gear Solid (PAL Demo)	N	Typo	N/A	complete	1	says Metalgear instead of Metal Gear
Metal Gear Solid	N	Cutting	N/A	page 1 page 2	1	miscut and misaligned pages in manual thanks to game-rave.com for images
Metal Gear Solid	Y	printing	N/A	sealed	1	no silver on front
Mortal Kombat 4	N	Disc	N/A	Front back	1	silver backed disc
Namco Museum vol 1	Y	Data	N/A	N	1 known	Plays Rugrats Search for Reptar
NGEN Racing	N	Typo	N/A	N	many	says NGENN Racing on Spine
NFL Blitz 2000	N	Cutting	N/A	complete	1	slight miscut
Pandemonium	?	Data	N/A	N	0 known	Plays Snowboarding
Persona 2	N	printing/cutting	N/A	pic 1 pic 2	2	multiple errors manual was moved while being printed resulting in a very bad cut to the pages
Power Move Pro Wrestling	?	Data	???	N	1	Plays Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
Raiden Project	N	Data	IPFI 5017	Video go to 4:30	6	Plays Killeak DNA Imperative
Raystorm	N	Printing	IPFI 5017	Complete	1	No Ink on Title foil
Resident Evil 2	?	Disc Printing	N/A	N	1	Light Blue Disc 2
Resident Evil Director's Cut	Y	Disc Printing	N/A	Disc	1	Completely missing all printing on Disc except Red
Rugrats Search for Reptar	N	Manual Binding	N/A	complete w/ closeup	1	no staples in binding
Saga Frontier 2	N	Cutting	N/A	complete	1	slight miscut
Sheep	N	Printing	N/A	Back Cover	All	Misplaced Y in Stuipidity in center of sign
Spec Ops Ranger Elite	N	Disc Print	N/A	complete	1	Off-Center Disc Printing
Strider	N	Data	N/A	N	All	Discs Swapped
Syphon Filter 3	N	Cutting	N/A	N	1	Off center Manual
Tall Infinity	N	Printing	N/A	N	?	upside down or inverted pics on back
Tekken 3	N	Cutting	N/A	complete	2	very nice example of an off center cut
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2	Y	Data	PSRM 020280	Complete	4	Plays Action Bass
Wheel of Fortune 2	Y	Data	N/A	Complete	1	Plays Fifa

PLAYSTATION 2

TITLE	GH	ERROR TYPE	Disc Code	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Bully	?	Assembly	N/A	sealed	1	no cover slip
Buzz! Junior: RoboJam (PAL)	N	Data	N/A	Discs	1	Plays Apocolypto with Italian Subtitles
City Crisis	N	Typo	N/A	N	Many	no title
Crash 'n Burn	?	Assembly	N/A	Sealed Case	1	No Insert included with Case
Crash 'n Burn (French Canadian)	?	Assembly	N/A	N	1	No Insert included with Case
*NEW*Disney Golf	?	DATA	???	N	1	plays Gauntlet Dark Legacy
God of War 2 (platinum edition)	N	printing	N/A	front back	1	nice off center printing
Grandia Xtreme	N	Data	???	N	?	Plays Spiderman bonus footage
*NEW*Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings	N	Assembly	N/A	Sealed Case	1	No Insert included with Case
Lord of the Rings: The Third Age	N	Data	???	Disc Title	2-3	Plays Crash Twinsanity
Metal Gear Solid 2	N	Printing	N/A	sealed	1	no printing on cover
Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater	?	Data	???	N	1	Plays ESPN College Hoops 2k5
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance	N	Disc Printing	N/A	Complete	1	Disc is completely Blank
*NEW*Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance	N	Data	N/A	N	1	Plays Final Fantasy :Spirits Within
MVP Basball 2005	N	Typo	N/A	N	First Run	No 2005 on spine
NHL 2K6	N	Data	PDSS-019195A1	Video	5	Plays Genji: Dawn of the Samurai
Power Drome	N	Data	DVDL-241670A1 DVDL-241670B1	Complete	1	Plays Plays Good Times Season 5 Disc 1
Ratchet Deadlocked	N	Cutting	N/A	N	1	case insert cut improperly
Seven Samurai 20XX	N	Typo	N/A	N	All	says 200XX on spine
Silent Hill 3 (Music CD version)	N	Packing	N/A	N	?	came with 2 music CD's no game
Spongebob The Movie	Y	Printing	N/A	N	?	Missing Title From Front Cover
Sypgon filter Omega Strain	N	Packing	N/A	N	?	came with no game
Star Ocean ~Till the End of Time~ (J)	N	prog	N/A	N	0?	Crashing on SCPH-10000
Twisted Metal Black Online (PAL)	N	printing	N/A	case and disc	all?	used DVD Icon instead of CD ROM icon

PSP

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Tales of Eternia (PAL)	programing	N	0	can only be played about 2/3 the crash is unavoidable

Sega Master System

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Cloud Master (PAL)	Printing	cover	many	text for Wanted on back
Monopoly	Printing	cart	many	titled Mono poly on cart
Psycho Fox	Printing	complete	many	titled Psyco Fox on Cart

Sega Genesis

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Altered Beast	Label Position	N	1	Upside Down Label
Barkley: Shut Up And Jam!	Label Position	N	1	Upside Down Label
*NEW*Batman	printing	Back	All	Uses NES version for screenshots
Jurrasic Park (PAL)	Label Position	N	1	Upside Down Label
Sonic 2(NFR)	Label Position	Side Angle Bottom Top	1	Upside Down Label
Sonic 3	Label Position	pic1 pic2	1	Upside Down Label
Strider II:Strider Returns	double labeled	N	1	strider 1 label under strider 2 label

Sega 32X

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Doom	Printing	spine	all	upsidedown 32X logo on spine its the 3rd in game from left
Virtua Racing	Printing	box	All	upside down 32X logo on front

Sega Saturn

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Astal	Printing	Case	Many	No Title on spine
Battle Arena Toshinden URA	Printing	N	all	Inverted Saturn logo on spine
Rayman	Printing	spine	All	Inverted Saturn logo on spine

Dreamcast

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	Disc Code	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Blue Stinger	prog	N/A	N	0?	lacked proper boot code article mention it HERE
Fighting Force 2	printing	N/A	N	All?	Toy Commander's retail barcode (0 10086 51020 1)
Midway Arcade Greatest hits Vol 1	Data	T-121N B520F0	Disc	1	Plays Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Jeremy McGrath Motocross	Data	???	N	1	Plays Crazy Taxi 2
Sonic Adventure	prog	N/A	N	200	lacked proper boot code article mention it HERE
Web Browser	prog	N/A	N	0?	lacked proper boot code article mention it HERE

Nintendo Entertainment System

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
6 in 1 (Caltron)	Label Position	complete	1	upside down Label
Arch Rivals	chip setting	Board1 board 2 board 3 board 4	1	CIC chip set improperly half of it not soldiered down
Battle Kid Fortress of Peril	Data	N	25	has Prototype Version on it
Bubble Bobble	printing	cart close up	1	no writing inside seal
Captain Comic	Label Position	N	Many	upside down label
Code Name Viper	Label Position	N	1	upside down label
Dragon Strike	Label Position	cart	1	upside down Label
Eliminator Boat Duel	typo	N	All	Says "Elimonator" on top
Golf	printing	N	1	rainbow pixels?
Legends of the Diamonds	typo	N	All	Says "Daimonds" on top
*NEW*Legend of Zelda	Label Position	cart	1	upside down Label
Life Force	Label Position	cart	1	upside down label
*NEW*Super C	Printing	Box close up	1	silk screen shift creating doubling of images
Super Mario Bros.	Label Position	cart	1	upside down label
super mario 3 (Challenge set)	assembly	N	1	taped sideways
Turbo Racing (PAL)	Label Position	cart	1	upside down label
Wheel of Fortune Jr Edition	Label Position	N	1	upside down label
Yoshi	Label Position	N	1	upside down label

SNES

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Battle Clash	Label Position	cart	1	upside down label
Spider-Man X-Men Arcade's Revenge	Typo	N	All	Acrade's Revenge on top
Super Metroid	Upside down Label	N	1	N/A
Street Fighter II	Data	N	3	Plays Japanese Version

Nintendo 64

TITLE	PC	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time CE	N	Typo	close up	all	environments spelled as enivironments
Top Gear Overdrive (AU)	N	Typo	case	all	says it was made for the expansion pack and missing rating. rating was sticker corrected with later copies

Gamecube

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Donkey Konga	Data	N	1	Plays Wario World
Resident Evil 0 (PC)	Packing	N	1	Resident Evil 4 discs
Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles (PAL)	typo	complete	print run	Teennage on spine

Wii

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Arcade Shooting Gal	Label Position	complete	1	Upside Down Label
New Super Mario Bros Wii	Printing	case	1	No silver wii on front and spine
Tales of Graces (J)	prog	N	0?	unplayable quickly recalled

Game Boy

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters	Printing	cart	1	slight silk screen shift

Game Boy Advanced

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Final Fight One	Label Position	cart	1	upside down label

Nintendo DS

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Petz Monkeys	Data	N	1-2	Plays Sprung a news story about it can be found HERE

Nintendo 3DS

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
One Piece unlimited SP (PAL)	typo	spine	first print run	unlimlited on spine
Resident Evil Revelations	typo	spine	first print run	Revelaitons on spine

N-Gage

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater	packing	N	1	came with Sims: Bustin' Out in the case

Xbox

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Blinx	Label Cutting	N	1	case insert cut improperly
Serious Sam	prog	N	1	Defective Disc Recalled (if you wanted to pay $7.50 to fix their mistake)

Xbox 360

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Call of Duty 4	Packing	N	0	Blank Philips DVD inside
Condemned Criminal Origins (PH)	Printing	N	1	No Title on Spine
Elder Scrolls III Marrowind (PAL)	Disc Printing	Complete	1	Labeled as NTSC
Madden 07	Data	N	1	Contained a porno news story HERE
*NEW* Mass Effect 3	Printing	sealed copy	1	Ink Transfer shows a backwards printing of back on the front
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition	Printing	case	?	Missing the "360" in Xbox 360 Article can be found HERE

Atari 800

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Pharaoh's Curse	typo	Case	all	main title spelled "Pharoah's" spine and back spelled correctly
Star Raiders	typo	complete	many	called Star Raider on cart

Atari 2600

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	NOTES
3-D Tic Tack toe	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Air-Sea Battle	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Circus Atari	label position	cart	end label upside down
Concentration	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Dark Chambers	label position	cart	end label upside down
Dodge em	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Flag Capture	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Fun With Numbers	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Golf	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Grand Prix	label position	cart	upside down label
Joust	typo	end label cart	P on end label and Atari spelled as Atar on main label
Pengo (Pal)	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers"
Pele's Soccer	typo	cart	says "Atari Game Program Instructions" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected
Pole Position	typo	End Label	says Pole Positn' on end label
Raiders of the Lost Ark	typo	End Label	says Raiders Lost Ark on end label
Slot Machine	label position	cart	upside down label
Video Checkers	typo	cart	says "For use with paddle controllers" part of 1986 releases maybe tape corrected

Computer Games

TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Left 4 Dead GOTY ed	Assembly	spine	1	no inserts included

STRATEGY GUIDES

GAME TITLE	ERROR TYPE	IMAGE	HOW MANY	NOTES
Dark Souls	typo	close up	first print run	has a dues ex paragraph on back
Final Fantasy Chronicles	Binding	N	first print run	repeated pages
Final Fantasy XIII-2	binding	pages	first print run	omitted pages 179-194
Valkyrie Profile	Binding	mixup	1	bound part way through with a text book

[Genesaturn]

Wow that's a crazy lot of info...where did you find all this? It makes me wonder if these could be worth money to some collectors...

[RoryDropkick]

The first run of Grandia Xtreme we recieved in Texas at EB had the bonus material for the first Spiderman movie pressed onto it.

[hybrid0]

yeah its alot of info i found alot of these on the internet through game forums and such this list is a older one of mine i do have to update it i've been tracking this stuff for some time now probily will update it tomorrow i do also plan to include strategy guides there is at least two strategy guide errors i know of right now

Rory you wouldn't happen to have one of those do you i'm always looking to increase my collection

[tom]

Cool, you gonna do the classics? VCS, Coleco, Inty, Vectrex

[hybrid0]

i do plan on covering the classic systems once i get caught up i may venture to those

[Collector_Gaming]

This goes with the saying............ Shit happens

Since i work for a manufacturing plant i personally call this the "Its Friday Fuck Up"

you know when its friday........ end of the day... your wanting to get out now... Your boss won't remember if you make a fuck up at this point cause you won't see each other for 2 days so your like "fuck it let it go"

[understatement]

That would suck to have one of the 2nd or 3ed disc data error games back in the day.
“Sweet, finally made it to disc 3 of FF7… WTF is dis shit!”

Also, I seem to remember having a misprinted Xenogears manual where IIRC somewhere in the middle it repeated the first few pages (the character and Gear info was in there twice.) Maybe the first run had two languages in it? The greatest hits ver. I have now doesn’t repeat like the black ver. I had.

[Oobgarm]

This was my cart but I sold it long ago.

[Bojay1997]

Does anyone really care all that much about errors of this type though or collect them? It can happen with any mass produced consumer item and often does. I know there are tons of CDs that have the wrong audio on them and DVDs with the wrong movies. While it's a bit of a novelty, ultimately you're gonna have to buy another copy to get the right content and it's not like replication facilities are similar to the US Mint with excessive quality control which is why error coins are so unusual and sought after compared to something like this.

[xelement5x]

My copy of Persona 2 has a printing error with the manual. I actually remember someone else mentioning in the pickup thread that theirs did too.

[understatement]

Does anyone really care all that much about errors of this type though or collect them? It can happen with any mass produced consumer item and often does. I know there are tons of CDs that have the wrong audio on them and DVDs with the wrong movies. While it's a bit of a novelty, ultimately you're gonna have to buy another copy to get the right content and it's not like replication facilities are similar to the US Mint with excessive quality control which is why error coins are so unusual and sought after compared to something like this.

Isn’t most of this stuff (namely the printing errors) considered variants? If so then yea, I’d say some people care.

[Flashback2012]

I bought the PS1 game Tall Infinity years ago and the back insert was printed in error (either upside down or backwards). I don't know if it was every single copy because I could swear I managed to find a fixed insert (I'd check but the game is buried in a box in the basement).

[MarioMania]

Street Fighter II Data N 3 Plays Japanese Version

Was this the 1st batch of Carts?

[markusman64ds]

Personally I would love to play as Cloud Strife in Spongebob SuperSponge. Fighting giant jellyfish with the buster sword would be so awesome!

[Tupin]

When I got Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, there was an America Online trial disc inside. I'm not sure why.

[Bojay1997]

When I got Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, there was an America Online trial disc inside. I'm not sure why.

Not sure if you're kidding or not, but that probably wasn't an error, that was probably somebody committing return fraud. Thieves used to buy games from Target and other retailers, take them home and carefully open the side of the wrap, slip out the disc and replace it with an AOL disc and then reseal it. I had a friend who worked at Target in the 90s/early 2000s and he said they actually sent out multiple corporate memos about it as it was a very common theft technique.

[Bojay1997]

Isn’t most of this stuff (namely the printing errors) considered variants? If so then yea, I’d say some people care.

If you're talking about the printing errors that were widespread perhaps, but how exactly would someone go about collecting the wrong label or game on a particular disc? It just seems ridiculous and a waste of time and money.

[hybrid0]

Was this the 1st batch of Carts?

yes from what i can tell it was an earl run of street fighter which had the japanese rom

If you're talking about the printing errors that were widespread perhaps, but how exactly would someone go about collecting the wrong label or game on a particular disc? It just seems ridiculous and a waste of time and money.

spoken from a gamer not a collector point of view. just like stamps coins and other things. errors can be worth more to the right person
some people collect sealed games never to play. to me thats a waste of money but i personally have a soft spot for the weird and unusual

[Bojay1997]

yes from what i can tell it was an earl run of street fighter which had the japanese rom






spoken from a gamer not a collector point of view. just like stamps coins and other things. errors can be worth more to the right person
some people collect sealed games never to play. to me thats a waste of money but i personally have a soft spot for the weird and unusual

Not at all, I consider myself a collector first and a gamer second. Having said that, I respect that people may collect things for different reasons and I can understand the whole variant collecting thing even though I don't collect them myself for the most part. I guess what I find odd is trying to track the limited number of reports of misprinted discs when an average replication facility can have an error rate of several percent and still be considered acceptable by industry standards. Unlike coins and stamps which are manufactured under strict quality controls, most replication facilities are designed to pump out a ton of product in the shortest time possible for as little money as possible. As such, mistakes can and do happen regularly. I guess I just don't see much of a resale market for misprinted discs which I guess is actually good for you as it will make putting together your collection all that much cheaper.