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After looking at the games with serials G-5XXX on the sega archive website, I’ve noted that all thoses games use backup ram for saves. I’ve also noted that some games with saves have for serial G-45XX.

I’ve come to the conclusion that all SEGA published games which uses backup ram have for serial either G-5XXX or G- 45XX.
The only thing I’m not sure for now is why there is two serial schemes for sram games (but I think that games who have two ROMs are the G-5XXX ones and games who uses only one ROM the G-45XX, I’ll confirm that or not this weekend probably).

It has to be at a non-working day that I receive packages at work … but it’s not really a problen as I live on the same street
I just got a french Sega Pico with the box and a lot of games (I had most of them but loose or without the manual). Now I got all the released french titles complete in box except for Wiinie the Pooh (don’t know if it exists as it was bundle with the console).

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SEGA published all the software for the pre-MegaDrive era in Japan.

For MegaDrive and next systems SEGA attributed a prefix code to each publisher for their games serial. This code start by T- and is followed by two or three digits.

After that there is the game unique identifier, which is two digits then the console code (digit or letter).

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For the 101 I’ve took the easiest part. It’s the easiest because SEGA published all their game serial (see http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/) and all games follows “almost” strict rules.

Part 1 – SG1000/SC3000

Game cartridges serial is G-10XX. G means Game and XX is the software unique identifier.

Card game serial is C- XX. C means Cart and XX is the software unique identifier

Educational cartridges serial is E-1XX. E means Educational and XX is the software unique identifier (the only two software that don’t have serials are 物理(運動と力編) and 物理(エネルギー編)

Basic cartridge serial is B-XX. B means Basic and XX is the software unique identifier.

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