Fire Emblem - Info. Request

[Darius_Rucker]

Hello. While searching for some old items to sell I recently came across my Fire Emblem game for the Game Boy Advance, still in new condition. However it has a book sealed on the outside of the box, which I have no clue as to what it may be. I did notice the ESRB rating on this book is in what I believe to be French, so it might be Canadian? Also, the book has a UPC code identical to the one that it is covering on the back of the box. The other new or complete copies of Fire Emblem that I have seen did not have this book sealed in this manner. I thought it could be the instruction manual but all the manuals I have seen have "Instruction Booklet" printed on it. Maybe a mini strategy guide? Can anyone here help me identify this version of the game or what this book might be?

[Guntz]

It's probably just a Canadian version. There was never much consistency in Canadian packaging. Sometimes the game would get a new box with the additional French. Sometimes a french instruction booklet would be included inside the seal. Other times, games wouldn't be altered at all, but that was a bit less common.

[Phénix]

French Canadian packaging . In fact, it really looks like my own copy that I sold to someone in the USA in 2008, on this forum ... The box is damaged in the same way on the left.

[Darius_Rucker]

@Guntz: Thanks for your help, really appreciate it.

@Phénix: Wonder if there were several with that crease in the box or if it's just a coincidence that ours both have it? I bought mine from an online retailer - I think eToys, KBToys, or Amazon way back in the day. Probably sometime around 2004 or so, when I discovered CheapAssGamer lol.

Thanks for the help friends!

[Phénix]

Ah ! So it was not mine. Yeah that crease happens easily, it's the first place that do that when you crush the box a bit. At least I can confirm you that here in Quebec a lot of games have their French manual wrapped over the box, and the original wrapping is still almost always under (with some exceptions)

[LINK398]

Wow interesting....great game