First print — sleeve, USA-1 cover code

Two things, and the packaging comes first.

1. It is a cardboard sleeve, not a keep case. The sleeve is the launch packaging — this is the disc that came in the box with the console. A keep-case copy is a different product and no amount of checking codes makes it an early one.

2. The cover code ends USA-1. In full it reads C/RVL-RSPE-USA-1, and Redump records it under "Cover ID". The same code is printed on the instruction booklet, so a sleeve missing its manual can still be checked and a loose manual can still be placed.

Note that the disc's own serial is not the same string. Redump lists the disc as RVL-RSPE-USA with no numeric suffix, so a disc reading plain RVL-RSPE-USA does not contradict a -1 sleeve.

Also worth photographing: the disc's inner ring. A 2006-era thread reports RVL-RSPE-0A-0 USA on a launch copy against RVL-RSPE-0A-1 USA on one bought later. If that holds, it is a tell on the disc itself and survives a sleeve going missing — which, for a cardboard sleeve, happens.

On Wii packaging the product code sits to the left of the barcode and the five-digit satellite code to its right. Redump records an additional case serial of 62022C for this title.

The print order is the owner's report from copies in hand, and is consistent with how collectors read an ascending numeric suffix. It is not a published rule: the one documented Nintendo ordering rule covers letter suffixes on a product code, not numbers on a cover ID.

Rarity is Unknown. Wii Sports shipped with almost every North American Wii, so the title is one of the most common discs ever pressed — but nobody has counted the sleeve prints separately, and commonness overall says nothing about how common this print is.

Still wanted: photographs of the sleeve showing the cover code, the barcode area, and the disc's inner ring. The ring code would be the most useful, because it is the one tell that cannot be separated from the game.

Source: Cover codes reported by a collector holding the copies, cross-checked against Redump's disc record — Brandon Green (his own copies, October 2026).