I just created a new cover for the instructions. Let me know what you all think before I finalize it and remove my name.

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What does Nintendo do?

doesbenfoldfive wrote:
What does Nintendo do?

Nothing, I think they won’t do anything at all 😛

I’m not too fussed about it really if people think it’s unnecessary – but please, please put the maintenance on one line and the URL call to action on the line below. That would read much better. So, like this:

NEED HELP WITH INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE OR SERVICE?
VISIT WW.PLANETVB.COM

(I couldn’t center text – but center the lower line in the red box I’d say. Also only WW. here as the website turned it into a hyperlink and changed formatting with three)

L___E___T wrote:
I’m not too fussed about it really if people think it’s unnecessary – but please, please put the maintenance on one line and the URL call to action on the line below. That would read much better. So, like this:

NEED HELP WITH INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE OR SERVICE?
VISIT WW.PLANETVB.COM

(I couldn’t center text – but center the lower line in the red box I’d say. Also only WW. here as the website turned it into a hyperlink and changed formatting with three)

The problem with this is you are getting farther and farther away from an official manual. The whole point is to make a very subtle change that is hardly noticeable.

Ironically it’s more noticeable as is, because there’s a gap that shows it’s been tampered with.

Officially, it would be laid up this way. I do this with Nintendo as part of my job and it’s something I’d expect to see, but I’m not married to it if it’s just me.

no WWW

Saludos

No “WWW.”

Yes WWW

Though I think it would be legitimate either way, since you see either “www.nintendo.com” or “support.nintendo.com” on game covers and manuals now. (when looking to the “Need help…” section)

There’s something about it without the WWW that just doesn’t look right to me.

Though I think it’s kinda silly, Nintendo usually include the http:// in their manuals even. That’s usually on the inside though, I wouldn’t imagine them insisting on it for the manual covers and haven’t seen that before.

I’m not trying to sound like a jerk or anything, and I’m not normally one to write this sort of thing. But isn’t everyone worrying just a little to much about the web address thats on the back of the instructions. This has been going on now for almost a week, instead of debating on it. Why not just make a poll so that everyone getting the instructions can vote on what way they want them, then when the poll closes just go with what one got the most votes.

Out of curiosity, I just scanned a random sampling of game (and movie) cases I had lying around, to see how they tended to display website URLs.

Almost without exception, it appears that common practice is still to include the www (but not the http://). Yes, most browsers now truncate it from the address bar display, and don’t require it to be entered when you’re typing in an address, but it’s sort of become ingrained into social consciousness that the www immediately signifies a website.

Granted, in 1995 and 1996 (the timeframe in which this manual “would have” been printed), the Web was just starting to get its feet under it… so there’s some element of breaking the illusion, whatever we do. The question in my mind really isn’t “what do we think it should say?” so much as “what would Nintendo have printed?”

I’m probably thinking about this way too much.

Here’s my recommendations:
1) Include the www.
2) Keep it all caps, rather than camel case as previously suggested. Web browsers don’t care what the case is, and it would be distracting to the eye to have an uneven block of text after a string of all-caps words. If the preceding text were mixed-case, that would be a different matter, but let’s stick with the given template.

Too many different opinions on this. I say we just go back to how it was originally with the phone number.

Srimok wrote:
Too many different opinions on this. I say we just go back to how it was originally with the phone number.

I agree. You can’t go wrong with leaving all the original stuff completely in tact.

Glover wrote:

Almost without exception, it appears that common practice is still to include the www (but not the http://). Yes, most browsers now truncate it from the address bar display, and don’t require it to be entered when you’re typing in an address, but it’s sort of become ingrained into social consciousness that the www immediately signifies a website.

Granted, in 1995 and 1996 (the timeframe in which this manual “would have” been printed), the Web was just starting to get its feet under it… so there’s some element of breaking the illusion, whatever we do. The question in my mind really isn’t “what do we think it should say?” so much as “what would Nintendo have printed?”

I’m agree with you. Nintendo would have printed “WWW” in 1995 .