ItsNumber84

I got my hands on a retail display box for Sheep Raider, and the box lists it as SLUS-00887. But the actual game was released with SLUS-01369.

My understanding is that these codes were assigned in incremental order as companies applied to put their games on the PS1, so my best guess is that something happened during production and they had to re-apply for a new number. But that means nearly 500 games were assigned numbers between the two applications, right?

Idk, this is really interesting to me and I'm wondering if anyone knows any more about when during development these IDs would normally be assigned, and what might cause a developer to have to get a whole new ID.

I was looking at some old retail display materials, and I noticed an alphanumeric code on them. The last four digits seem to depend on the game, and since the seller's other listings have codes that also start with "GDB", I'm guessing the first three values are region- or retailer-specific.
I can't find anything about these codes online, so I'm wondering if anyone here knows anything about them?

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I'm not sure where it was from, but I'm pretty sure it was from a kids meal. I drew a beautiful depiction of the car for reference. It had black bubble-like windshields, and was probably about 4-6 inches long, not like a Hot Wheel car. I'm sure it was from some show or something, but I've never been able to track it down.

The car: https://i.imgur.com/8IxT3Zg.jpg

This jackass spent the entire game trying to place a cheeky beakon on the enemy side. What's your plan if it doesn't get broken in the next few milliseconds due to idiotic placement? Great, you can chase the other team to our pedestal. It's truly unfair that you've robbed me of the satisfaction of seeing your face as you realize what a fucking moron you are for ignoring our fight for the objective to place a useless beakon that'll be broken before you respawn, by being so additionally stupid that you'd probably actually think putting the enemy between yourself and their goal is a "potential payoff."

Please for the love of God just help us with the Rainmaker. It's the name of the mode. I

This fucknugget is so bad at Splatoon Zones, legitimately the best way he could help his team was by disappearing. We got the zone down about halfway before he decided to disconnect and end the game out of either spite, or the complete inability to mentally cope with his own mediocrity.

Seriously though, if you do happen to see this, shoot me a DM with an address or PO box so I can mail you a controller with a programmable macro button that I can pre-program to close and uninstall your game so you don't have to strain either of your still-flickering neurons trying to figure it out yourself.

Don't just fucking sit around pretending to be a beakon while we're fighting for the zone. We need a fourth player more than we need a sneaky spot to jump to. Just fucking play the game.