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Euro Nintendo Regions?
Bungleboss:
I guess that explains why we have to wait so long for our damn releases.
I wouldn't want to work on the localization of that many games!
KaiserWAVE:
I got a reply from Nintendo germany regarding my question about the coloured traingles. They told me that these triangles represent the languages included in the manual (which we already knew) and that this issue shouldn't be of any interest to me (no joke, that's what they said, they basically told me it's none of my f'n business). Maybe Nintendo UK is more helpful when you send them an email. I doubt it though.
So, again, we have to find them out ourselves. Going through my collection of Wii, GC and DS games I can confirm that Germany is dark blue and UK is dark green.
My Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO for Gamecube has a light green triangle and German and Spanish text on the back and in the manual as well as the German and Spanish age rating.
WWE Day of Reckoning has a pink triangle and has German and French text on the back and the manual is also in French and German.
Curiously enough my Castlevania Dawn Of Sorrow also has a pink triangle but has English, German, Spanish, Italian and dutch included in the manual. Maybe they use different triangle codes for DS games than Wii and Gamecube? Man this is weird :)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown has a violet triangle and the languages in the manual are French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and English.
Project Rub (aka Feel the Magic XY/XX) also has a violet triangle but has only French, German and Dutch in the manual.
Well there you have it, the only thing that seems to be set in stone is that dark blue means German language only and dark green is English language only.
Bungleboss:
I did a little homework and found a bit on wikipedia under the topic of video game packaging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_packaging
The boxes of Nintendo games (Game Cube, DS and Wii) from PAL territories all have a little coloured triangle on their spines, but in each territory it's a different colour (to show the region that copy of the game came from), Some common ones are: Green = UK, Pink = Spain, Red = France, Light Blue = Italy, Dark Blue = Germany, Brown = Australia. There are 49 different colours. As well as geographic region it is also to do with the language of the box art & booklets, though PAL region Nintendo games are made in Germany, the Triangles show the region that the game is shipped to.
That's 6 out of 49. Why is it that the little trivial questions need the most digging for answers?
KaiserWAVE:
I wonder how all this adds up to 49? I mean they seem to have different colors for all possible combinations otherwise there's no chance in hell you'd get 49. Taking into account that I have games with 6 different languages included, which alone covers the biggest part of Europe, there's gotta be some pretty wild combinations :)
Conn:
It seems pretty ridiculous to have 49 different coloured triangles...