Re: Anyone else having this problem?

Chris Pickett wrote:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem.
> 
> I'm trying to register my GBA, purchased about a month before North
> American release, from Buy Rite Games(don't get me started there, OK).
> Anyhow, got a fully functioning GBA, white, no problems at all.
> 
> I tried registering it and the Nintendo site tells me that my Serial
> number is invalid. Real nice. What, I gotta toe-the-line and do things
> their way? Hell no, it's a free marketplace. A serial number is a serial
> number and GameBoys(any flavor) are not region specific.

  They may not be region specific in the sense that you can play any GBA
cart on any GBA, regardless of what country it was produced in, however,
Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Japan are two separate corporate
identities.  They are related, obviously, but their operations, records,
and procedures are not connected.  They can't be since they answer to
different legal systems.  Nintendo of America does not (I suspect) have
any Japanese GBAs' serial codes on file, since they were produced,
distributed and sold by Nintendo of Japan (and then imported to
America).