ABOUT THIS LIST:
This is a photographical archive of all known Working Designs game releases and their variation re-releases. All games presented in this catalog are in my personal collection, so they are obviously verified to exist. More importantly, this doubles as a checklist and a want list. If you have a release that is not represented here, I would love for you to provide photographical proof, and more importantly, I would love to buy it off of you. You can contact me here!

HOW THE LIST WORKS: Each game features their respective variant releases. I have photographed in both cover, back, insert, and all CDs to cover all bases. If you see something missing, please let me know.

ID TYPES:
SLUS - This is the game's ID number. You can find it on the lower left side of the CD's cover artwork. Usually (and I use that term loosely here), a game's first print run with have a 5 digit SLUS number. If there were variants to the disc, each successive variant would be lettered. As in SLUS-12345 would be SLUS-12345a, 12345b, etc. However, not all of Working Designs variants follow that rule.

PSRM - This is the US exclusive printer's mark. You can find it at the very end of the Copyright information that encircles the outside edge of the cover art work. This number has helped with various Variant hunts, and has been used in different ways through-out the PSX history. More research is being done on it.

SPECIAL NOTES:
Let me first thank my friend Steve (aka PapaStu) for all the help early on in this adventure. It is in fact his very quest that started me down the dark and dirty path of Variant hunting. Without him this list would be nothing. Also special thanks to all the readers who have e-mailed me and gave me amazing tips and leads to help further along all the various projects we have cooking up.

Note 1: Several e-mails with Victor Ireland, the once president of now defunct Working Designs, seem to show that there were only the 8 found disc variants for the Alundra set. According to Mr. Ireland, sometimes for whatever reasons, Sony would not print certain runs. This would make sense, especially with some of the sets that bounce around all over the ID board.

Note 2: Several variant sets have inserts that match up to them (Alundra, ThunderForce V, etc) by a corresponding PSRM number located in the bottom right corner of the back insert.

Alundra uses this technique up to a point. Two of the same-style CD artworks have no matching insert. It is assumed that since they share the same illustrative pattern (blue background with one character in front), that they simply shared the same insert sans PSRM notation. If anyone has the "Stairs" insert image, and it does NOT have 008943 in the lower right corner, PLEASE CONTACT ME.

That said, on to the variants!

The two inserts can be aligned to become one picture - the two girls are looking at each other. 

The Red Ship version is far and away the rarer of the two; in my many trails I have only come across a handful of them, maybe 5 tops.

Like Silhouette Mirage, these are pretty easy to collect. I nabbed the 2nd variant on my first hunt for it.
 

Collecting Notes:
The yellow robot seems to be the harder to find one. The discs' PSRM numbers are sequential, but not variant based. They're numbered as if they were parts of the same game.

The game features a slightly typo ESRB font. This game was originally supposed to be called "Detonator Gauntlet" but Midway complained about the Trademark on "Gauntlet". Thus, Working Designs simply renamed it Vanguard Bandits, from the original Epica Stella.