Books and Guides

Secret of Mana Advanced Knowledge Guide – Japanese

	Details: ISBN4-87188-230-6
	Release Date: 1993
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	Pages: 176
	Summary: If you could read Japanese this would be an amazing walkthrough. It links together story details for you and has lots of little bits of information everywhere. There are a few cute chibi images of a few characters and a foldout map and reference, but this is basically just a walkthrough guide. If you want pretty pictures go for one of the other Japanese guides.
	Images: Front cover, Inside pages

Secret of Mana Basic Knowledge Guide – Japanese

	Details: ISBN4-87188-229-2
	Release Date: 1993
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	Pages: 144
	Summary: Now this is the guide to get. This guide contains illustrations of each and every armor, weapon and item you encounter in the game. It also has some nice character images. This is definitely the guide for people who love art. The enemy section is a little lacking however, all of the enemies are just represented as sprites.
	Images: Front Cover, Armor illustrations, Weapon illustrations, Enemy data

Secret of Mana Guidebook – Japanese

	Details: ISBN4-87188-231-4
	Release Date: 1993
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	Pages: 144
	Summary: While this might not be the most in-depth guide, it certainly is really fun. It has some interesting illustrations in it and each boss fight has a small one panel comic which goes over some details to help you beat it. Scattered throughout the guide are various enemy illustrations. There is also a fold out reference guide and map.
	Images: Front Cover, Part of foldout and intro illustration, Inside pages

Secret of Mana Unknown Guidebook – Japanese

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	Release Date: 1993
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	Summary: I have only seen this up for auction once, I know nothing about it.

Secret of Mana Official Game Secrets – Russel DelMara – English

	Details: Isbn 1-55958-465-3
	Release Date: 1993
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	Summary: English guide, really lacking in any good images, but the author makes the walkthrough fun by guiding you through events in the form of a novel, which is pretty interesting.

Secret of Mana Nintendo Guidebook – German

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	Release Date: 1993
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	Summary: This guidebook came packaged with the German box of the game down below.

Nintendo Power Issues

	Issues: 54, 62, 63 and 64
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	Summary: The issues are kind of fun, they’re a nice little trip down nostalgia lane. Issue 54 has the special cover and a small intro to the game, the rest have a game guide, weapons and armor illustrations and some very interesting illustrations done by Nintendo. The poster is pretty neat to have hanging around. For unknown reasons there is a red dragon flying in front of the Mana Tree. Weird.
	Images: All issues, SoM special cover, SoM content, Poster

Soundtracks

Secret of Mana OSV

	Details: NTT Publishing, Catalog Numbers N25D-019, PSCN-5030 and NTCP-5030
	Release Dates: 8/6/1993, 8/25/1995, 10/1/2004
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	CDs: 1 CD, 44 Tracks
	Summary: Soundtrack information. The soundtrack comes with a neat little sticker of the cover and has a few images of the characters made out of clay. Not much for eyecandy, but the music sure does rock.
	Images: Frontside of case, Inside and CD

Secret of Mana +

	Details: NTT Publishing,
	Release Date: 10/29/1993, 8/25/1995, 10/1/2004
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	CDs and Tracks: 1 CD, 1 Track
	Summary: Soundtrack information. Ok… the cover has a praying angel and an old person in a diaper… well, at least the music is as awesome as the case is weird. Definitely get this if you’re into the music from Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3, this is a really wild musical adventure.
	Images: Frontside of case, Inside and CD

Games

Secret of Mana – Japanese

	Release Date: 1993
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	Summary: It is the game in Japanese. The box is a lot cooler than the American one. I managed to find an empty box in Japan for like 30 cents, so if you can get the box you might as well. Nothing really interesting as far as inserts go.
	Images: Box, cartridge and insert

Secret of Mana – American

	Release Date: 1993
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	Summary: Buy this game if you own a Super Nintendo! Do it now! Tracking down a complete copy is really hard to do. I am missing the guide insert myself. The map insert is really hard to find, but it makes for an awesome poster if you can get it.
	Images: Box and cartridge, Poster front, Map reverse

Secret of Mana – The Rest

	Versions: English, German, French
	Summary: Um, collect these if you want to, or if you speak the language. That huge box is the German version, it is huge because it had a guidebook with it.