Sony PlayStation 2 - Magazine Coverdisc Lists

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Official PlayStation 2 Magazine was released in the United States as well as many PAL territories with accompanying demo discs. All of the USA discs are dumped, so this list is only related to PAL OPS2M demos.

The PAL territory releases are particularly confusing for several reasons:

• Discs were often re-released in different regions.
• Discs were sometimes unique to different regions.
• Discs were often released with a different Issue number on packaging versus disc label. This occurred because UK discs were often repackaged to other PAL regions which followed a different numbering system.
• Usually serial numbers can differentiate whether a disc from one region will match a disc from another region. However in some instances, the same serial number from different regional OPS2M variants does NOT match.
• Serial numbers on the spines of some cases were not updated between issues, leaving an incorrect serial number on the spine (versus the disc), often repeating spine serial numbers across Issues. This phenomenon was noticed in Australia, but may extend to other regions.

How to determine how a Redump entry should be named:

• UK acts as the "master" title for two reasons. English is preferential as a lingua franca, and UK got first release of discs. As a result of this latter point, in UK Case and Disc labels always match with issue numbering (creating the most accurate and intuitive naming convention) - with the exception of demos #2-#4 (where disc and packaging #'s do NOT match).
• Titles are normalized. Because packaging titles are often ambiguous due to coming from cover, spine, and sometimes back - naming convention that has been used by redump is to normalize the title to follow a format. For example packaging art for the UK variant of OPS2M demo #1 would perhaps more accurately be "PlayStation 2 Official Magazine-UK Demo Disc One", but in redump is normalized as "Official PlayStation 2 Magazine Demo 1". It is good to provide details on titles in the Comments section of an entry, including title info from packaging spine / cover / rear as well as disc label title.
• If a dump from somewhere other than UK does NOT match the UK entry, then the numbering system of the magazine should be used. For example, if the case packaging has one Issue number, and the disc has a different number in the title, then use the case Issue number. The reason this mismatch might occur is if a disc from UK was brought over to a PAL region, modified, but kept the old disc label title.

The goals of this checklist:

1. Dump all unique serial numbers. They will all be unique dumps. Serial number extensions (example: SCED-12345-ANZ) are NOT likely to differ from their non-extended counterparts (SCED-12345).
2. Confirm regional variants with entries of matching serial numbers. For any regional variant verifications, please add the regional details to the master entry which is being verified.
3. To be accurate. Please only add data to this list if it can be confirmed coming from regional original packaging AND disc label info.

Legend

UK

The final OPS2M UK demo disc was #100. Many special OPS2M UK demos were released as well.

Special demos:

WIP

Australia

OPS2M Australia demo series completed with the final demo disc #62 [1].

France

Germany

Italy

Special demos:

WIP

Belgium & Netherlands

OPS2M Belgium & Netherlands regions got the same releases (discs and packaging are the same).

Portugal

Spain