Step by step instructions on finding the serial number on the console.

This serial number should be partially printed on the chip that holds the ROM data. It is laser etched on the chip after the game is flashed to the ROM chips. In my example, see the #2 annotations. On these flash chips, you see 'NES-PY-0'. Note, on the front of the game, the serial number was 'NES-PY-USA'. If the serial number (found under the QR code on the testing device) has the format of three letters followed by eight numbers you should enter the first letter (in capital letter) only followed by the eight numbers. Date of Manufacture: The eighth digit in the serial number indicates the year of manufacture; “0” is 2010 or 2020. China Importer: Bose Electronics (Shanghai) Company Limited, Part C, Plant 9, No. 353 North Riying Road, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone EU Importer: Bose Products B.V., Gorslaan 60, 1441 RG Purmerend, The Netherlands. Metal Gear for the Nintendo Entertainment System (Family Computer in Japan) is an altered port of the original MSX2 game. It was first released in Japan on December 22, 1987 (only five months after the MSX2 version), followed by a North American release in June 1988 and in PAL territories (Europe and Australia) sometime in 1989. The NES version was developed by a separate team without Hideo.

What to Do:

Consult the table below for information on where to locate the serial number of the console in question.

Console	Example of serial number	Location
Nintendo Switch	XAW70000000000	You can find the serial number on the thin bottom of the unit, near the input for the AC Adapter.
Wii U	FAH100000000 or GAH100000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit, when it is laying down flat.
Wii	LAH100000000 or KAM100000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit, when it is standing vertically.
GameCube	DA10000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
Nintendo 64	NUP10000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)	UP10000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)	PM1000000 or NP10000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
Nintendo Classic Mini: NES	CAE100000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
New Nintendo 2DS XL	NAG100000000	You can find the serial number underneath the game slot cover.
New Nintendo 3DS XL	QAH100000000	You can find the serial number on the bottom of the unit.
New Nintendo 3DS	YAF100000000	You can find the serial number underneath the cover plate of the top screen.
Nintendo 2DS	AAM100000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo 3DS XL	SAF100000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo 3DS	CAH100000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo DSi XL	WAF100000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo DSi	TAH100000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo DS Lite	UAF10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
Nintendo DS	NAH10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy Micro	MAF10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy Advance SP	XAH10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy Advance	AS10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy Color	CH20000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy Pocket	MH10000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.
GameBoy	GH1000000	You can find the serial number on the back of the unit.

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(RECORD GROUP 24)
1798-1991
(bulk 1798-1956)

Table of Contents

24.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
24.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL AND ITS PREDECESSORS 1801-1966
24.2.1 Correspondence
24.2.2 Logs
24.2.3 Muster rolls
24.2.4 Records of units attached to the Bureau of Navigation
24.2.5 Other records
24.3 RECORDS RELATING TO NAVAL OFFICERS, ENLISTED MEN, ANDAPPRENTICES1798-1943
24.3.1 Records relating to naval officers
24.3.2 Records relating to enlisted men
24.3.3 Records relating to naval apprentices
24.4 RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF DETAIL 1865-90
24.5 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING 1856-1928 (bulk 1862-89)
24.6 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF NAVIGATION 1804-1946
24.6.1 Records of the Chaplains Division
24.6.2 Records of the Division of Naval Militia Affairs
24.6.3 Records of the Naval Reserve Division
24.6.4 Records of the Division of Officers and Fleet
24.6.5 Records of the Naval Academy Division
24.6.6 Records of the Morale Division
24.6.7 Records of the Training Division
24.7 RECORDS OF OPERATING UNITS OF THE BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL 1940-46
24.8 RECORDS OF FIELD ESTABLISHMENTS 1838-1970 (bulk 1838-1946)
24.8.1 Records of the U.S. Naval Home, Philadelphia, PA
24.8.2 Records of the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
24.8.3 Records of the Indoctrination School for Officers, Fort Schuyler, NY
24.8.4 Records of the Enlisted Naval Training School (Radio), Bedford Springs, PA
24.8.5 Records of the V-12 Unit, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
24.8.6 Records of the Naval Midshipmen's School, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
24.8.7 Records of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, Yale University, New Haven, CT
24.9 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS (GENERAL) 1898-1944
24.10 MOTION PICTURES (GENERAL) 1917-27
24.11 SOUND RECORDINGS (GENERAL)
24.12 STILL PICTURES (GENERAL) 1892-1945
24.13 MACHINE-READABLE RECORDS (GENERAL)

24.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Established: In the Department of the Navy by an act of May 13,1942 (56 Stat. 276).

Predecessor Agencies:

In the War Department:

Office of the Secretary of War (personnel functions, 1789-98)

In the Department of the Navy:

Office of the Secretary of the Navy (personnel functions, 1798-1862)
Board of Navy Commissioners (personnel functions, 1815-42)
Office of Detail (1861-89)
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting (personnel functions, 1862-89)
Bureau of Navigation (personnel functions, 1889-1942)

Functions: Exercises oversight responsibility for the NavalMilitary Personnel Command, Navy Recruiting Command, and NavalCivilian Personnel Center. Administers all personnel matters forthe U.S. Navy.

Finding Aids: Virgil E. Baugh, comp., Preliminary Inventory ofthe Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, PI 123 (1960); LeeD. Saegesser and Harry Schwartz, comps., 'Supplement toPreliminary Inventory No. 123, Records of the Bureau of NavalPersonnel,' NM 74 (Jan. 1967); supplement in National Archivesmicrofiche edition of preliminary in

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