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See the next chapter for explanation of the other components of the Product Code.
See the next chapter for explanation of the other components of the Product Code.


== Physical (only?) Serial ==
== Physical Serial ==


[Product][Retail/Demo]-CTR-[Type][Identifier][Region]
[Product][Retail/Demo]-CTR-[Type][Identifier][Region]-[Label Region]


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| Region || 1 || [E/P/J/K/C/Y/W/Z/A] - English (US) / PAL (Europe/Australia) / Japanese (Japan) / Korean (Korea) / Chinese (China/Taiwan) / Multiple regions / Taiwan/Hong Kong / Multiple regions / All (region-free)
| Region || 1 || [E/P/J/K/C/Y/W/Z/A] - English (US) / PAL (Europe/Australia) / Japanese (Japan) / Korean (Korea) / Chinese (China/Taiwan) / Multiple regions / Taiwan/Hong Kong / Multiple regions / All (region-free)
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| Label Region || 3 || [USA/EUR/CAN/JPN/KOR/TWN/CHN] - USA / Europe / Canada / Japan / Korea / Taiwan/Hong Kong / China
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The longer version of the serial number adds a geographical region (usually because of extra languages).
Those are 3 letters codes at the end of the serial (can be found mostly on demos).
For example, the code of the Canadian version of Mario Kart 7 is CAN (link removed, links to incorrect image).


=== Electronic Manuals ===
=== Electronic Manuals ===