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http://redump.org/disc/1155/

What part of this tells us it's a revision? I don't see an original dump anywhere, and I don't see anything in the missing games list.

They were all Rev 2 XD

Here's what confuses me. I'm gonna share my findings about collecting Japanese Wii games and paying attention to the many different things that can come with them.

Included with every game is an operation card of some sort. These cards had many revisions over the lifespan of the Wii, and I've cataloged what games come with them, as well as when those games were released. Here's a detailed list of findings for my entire collection.

T-RVL-JPN(A)-1  Yellow card
 - 2007-02-22 Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami
T-RVL-JPN(B)    Red card
 - 2007-07-26 Mario Party 8
T-RVL-JPN(D)    Green card
 - 2007-07-26 Mario Party 8
T-RVL-JPN(E)    Blue card
 ! 2007-11-22 Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympic
T-RVL-JPN(F)    Orange card (single-sided)
 - 2007-11-15 Biohazard: Umbrella Chronicles
 - 2007-12-06 Minna de Asobou! Namco Carnival
 - 2007-12-13 Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Toki Wasure no Meikyuu
 - 2007-12-13 NiGHTS: Hoshi Furu Yoru no Monogatari
 - 2007-12-13 Shikigami no Shiro III: Shikigami no Shiro Episode-3
 - 2007-12-13 SoulCalibur Legends
T-RVL-JPN(H)    Yellow card
 - 2008-01-31 Dairantou Smash Brothers X
 - 2008-02-07 Oneechanbara Revolution
T-RVL-JPN(H)-1  Red card
 - 2008-04-10 Mario Kart Wii
 - 2008-06-26 Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi
T-RVL-JPN(H)-3  Green card
 - 2008-12-11 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes
 - 2008-12-18 Sonic World Adventure
 - 2009-01-29 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
 - 2009-03-12 Phantom Brave Wii
T-RVL-JPN(H)-4  Blue card
 - 2009-08-01 Monster Hunter 3 (Tri)
 - 2009-11-05 Mario & Sonic at Vancouver Olympic
 - 2009-11-26 Puyo Puyo 7
 - 2009-12-03 New Super Mario Bros. Wii
 - 2009-12-03 Sengoku Musou 3
 - 2009-12-10 Tales of Graces
 - 2010-07-29 Sengoku Basara 3
 - 2010-08-26 Twinkle Queen
T-RVL-JPN(H)-5  Orange card
 - 2010-09-02 Metroid: Other M
 - 2010-10-14 Keito no Kirby
 - 2011-02-10 Sengoku Musou 3 Moushouden
T-RVL-JPN(H)-6  Yellow card
 - 2011-10-27 Hoshi no Kirby Wii
 - 2011-11-10 Sengoku Basara 3 Utage
 - 2011-11-23 Zelda no Densetsu: Skyward Sword
 - 2011-12-01 Itadaki Street Wii
 - 2012-04-26 Mario Party 9

As you can see, other than one little oddity, which is Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympic, the chronology makes absolute perfect sense with every single game. I don't have the biggest collection, but even for this sample size, I think that's pretty incredible. These dates are for the original releases. For example, my Rev 1 copy of Dairantou Smash Brothers X comes with the (H)-6 yellow card.

As well, every single one of these games comes with a Club Nintendo card with a product code on it, as well as a date, presumably indicating when the code expires. I've checked my Club Nintendo cards for all of these games, and the date for every single code expires exactly 2 years from the release date of the game, and to the end of the month (so for example, the code for Itadaki Street Wii, which was released on 2011-12-01, expires on 2013-12-31). For posterity's sake, the Club Nintendo code for my Rev 1 copy of Dairantou Smash Brothers X expires on 2013-01-31, rather than 2010-01-31, so later releases of games do get updated Club Nintendo cards.

When I decided to buy Mario Party 8, I looked at the Wiki and saw it's likely that we're missing Rev 0 and Rev 1. Having this information at my disposal, I looked at every copy available on YJA and bookmarked the ones that had various different colors of cards. You may have noticed that the first two entries of the list above are both Mario Party 8. Before these copies arrived, I had no idea those two cards even existed. The oldest cards I'd found at the time were T-RVL-JPN(E) and T-RVL-JPN(F) since I hadn't yet purchased Fire Emblem.

This is the part that blows my mind: every copy, like I said, was a Rev 2. Not a single copy, even the ones with old cards whose release dates conceivably check out in the timeline, was a Rev 0 or a Rev 1. As well, 3 of the 5 copies included Club Nintendo cards, and 2 of the cards (one of which was included with the copy containing the red T-RVL-JPN(B) operation card) had the correct dates on them! 2009-07-31, which is two years after the 2007-07-26 release date of the game. I've been unlucky before trying to find other versions of games, but I was honestly a bit blown away.

Anyway, what am I saying with all of this? Not much, I guess. Maybe it seems a little unlikely to me that these revisions of the game are actually out there, but hey, all of these people could have replaced their discs with Rev 2 discs, right? But that's the little adventure I went on recently, as well as some information about identifying Wii games... not that it helped me here, I guess :')

Is it possible to see the total size of a collection somehow?

Like, say I wanted to know how big, collectively, all of the USA PS1 dumps are. Any way to do that? EDIT: I was terribly vague, I meant disk size, like bytes.

Also, is there any way to look for only Italian ones? You can filter for Europe, but specific countries?

I want to buy this game, so I decided to research versions. Some hours later...

Slipcase (2004): 756059111692              98/ME/2000/XP
Slipcase (2004): 811930100698 (1009-10069) 98/ME/2000/XP
Long box (2004): 811930100704 (1009-10070) 98/ME/2000/XP
Slipcase (2004): 811930102531 (1009-10253) 98/ME/2000/XP
Slipcase (2006): 811930102531 (1009-10253) 98/ME/2000/XP
Slipcase (2003): 899274001109              98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Long box (2003): 899274001109              98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Slipcase (2003): 899274001109              XP/Vista/7
Slipcase (2003): 756059114716              2000/XP/Vista
Slim box (2003):                           2000/XP/Vista/7

Pictures:

Slipcase (2004): 756059111692 98/ME/2000/XP

Slipcase (2004): 811930100698 (1009-10069) 98/ME/2000/XP

Long box (2004): 811930100704 (1009-10070) 98/ME/2000/XP

Slipcase (2004): 811930102531 (1009-10253) 98/ME/2000/XP

Slipcase (2006): 811930102531 (1009-10253) 98/ME/2000/XP

Slipcase (2003): 899274001109 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Long box (2003): 899274001109 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Slipcase (2003): 899274001109 XP/Vista/7

Slipcase (2003): 756059114716 2000/XP/Vista

Slim box (2003): 2000/XP/Vista/7

I find the Vista/Win7 reprints to be odd. Despite clearly being reprints, as Vista was released in 2006 and Win7 in 2009, they're the only ones to listed both the earlier year (2003) and the earlier name (Zuma, not Zuma Deluxe). Quite odd. Anyway... hopefully somebody finds this interesting

Also, can anyone tell which version is the original version? I would guess either the 756059111692 barcode, or the 811930100698, but I couldn't say which one, since I don't really understand barcode numbers. I know that the digits nearer to the end of some of the UPC numbers match the catalog(?) numbers too (10069, 10070, 10253), but the difference between 756059111692 and 811930100698 eludes me.

Just to let you guys know, I've already hassled virtually every seller on eBay selling a copy of this game asking them to supply information about the ringcode, so if anyone was going to get the idea to do that... please don't, it will just hassle them again (Not that I think anyone was going to do this, but...)

By the way, of the several that have answered, every single one has reported a 1 being after the PTRM-002565 Mastering Code. I'm really starting to think it's just another one of these stupid discs not properly identified by a 2 and that I'll have to buy every copy on eBay to find this stupid v1.03.