phart010

2 hours ago, RetroNESNerd said:

Sadly dragon fighter and sword master are the last 2 licensed games I need(minus SE). They do cost a pretty penny but are tough to find.

 

 

Buy Japanese. They’re the same Dagon game. Sword master Japanese is even better than US

So in other words, you're looking for minty, not mint

8 hours ago, fsped09 said:

Nice clean up!!

Did you take a shot at the tape on the back sticker or just left it as is? Think you could probably get the rest of the magic marker off with rubbing alcohol?

Thanks. Didn’t want to mess with the sticker on the back because I thought it might do some damage. The stuff is really on there good. Only comes off with goo gone and even then it’s an exercise.

I was looking to just replace the back half of the shell, but this is one of those special shells that only a few games use.

On the front, the remaining black marks are impregnated into scratches. Can’t do much about those. If you rub into the Megaman X3 label, you’ll start to rub away all of the color. So I’m just going to leave it as is

4 hours ago, The Strangest said:

My honest answer: I think complete DS games will be pricey in the future since Gamestop trashed so many cases and manuals. Also a lot of games on the DS utilize the unique features of that handheld and are either impossible to port or can’t be done without compromising important parts of the gameplay.

It isn’t as bad as Game Boy, but the price difference between loose and CIB is wide for a lot of DS games already.

Possibly. But I’ve seen tons of DS fakes that look pretty real. I kind of wonder if fakes will screw up the collector market for ds

11 hours ago, Fleck586 said:

I have been seriously considering dropping LRG and just buying if they have something I want.  I have ordered all their games to this point, but I might stop after #50.  Seems like a nice round number.

I was buying everything for like the first 1.5 years. Now I buy like half of the stuff that comes out. Has to be something I think I’m gonna like. 

It used to be special in the beginning. Now there’s so many Limited Run style companies that it’s hard to keep up with all the releases.

I think we could possibly see bunnyboy here. I don’t think the new owners of NA have any animosity towards VGS. They’ve just been deafeningly silent and unresponsive.

If anyone has been showing any animosity, it’s been us towards NA. We should work on not burning the bridge.

1 hour ago, Bronty said:

Oh and sorry but that’s not something I can help with.   I don’t own the IP so it would still be illegal and I’m not tbh a fan of reproduction boxes in general .. I like it when things are simple and there are no reproductions or fakes.   I know that ship has sailed and I don’t begrudge other people who are into it but it’s not for me personally

Totally understand. I usually shy away from fake stuff too. But sometimes I break the rules. This would be one of those cases

One could argue that every original Contra boxart in existence is a fake when compared to what you now have  

On 10/24/2019 at 8:51 AM, Futureman said:

I vaguely remember that Thimbleweed was for sale again through another site. I can't remember which one though.

I believe the Thimbleweed CE content (minus the actual game) was available from fan gamer

I think when they get orders for x amount of games, they actually place an order to Nintendo for like 10% more than the actual orders. This way if someone’s game is lost in the mail, if there are warranty claims, or anything else happens, they can replace the game. 

After new years, the whatever is remaining from that 10% safety net gets sold off to customers 

If it weren’t for crossing the Pacific ocean by plane, I would have never beat axiom verge. Oh my God

Congratulations!

Would you share this with us? How about a run of some ultra hi-res reproduction boxes to celebrate??

I’m gonna continue using both sites.  If activity on Nintendo age starts to dwindle then I might stop checking it as often 

When I started middle school it was always emphasized as two spaces. By the time I was a junior in high school they were saying it could go both ways. In college they always said only one space

I have nothing against these reproductions. I bought both Mega Men, the street fighter, Holy Diver and R Types.  

And these are both good games.. But $100  Aladdin or Lion King? Ehhh......

6 hours ago, Gloves said:

FYI you can tag people with an "@" symbol - @phart010 Like that! That sends the person a notification that you've called to them.

As for cost to code, we do have some features in mind that I think the community will really love for commerce style stuff (ebay-like). 

Frankly, what you've described would require a complete database of games to create the selection criteria you mentioned, and that's not something we're looking to do juuuuust yet. Potentially down the road. 

For the short term, I don't see why we can't simply use a "WTB" list (see the BST forum) and carry on similarly to before where we can say "I have my list of wants over here". VGS has a very easy to use copy-paste-from-google-sheets feature that will let you manage your want list in a Google Sheet (great cuz now you're not tied to our platform, if we die tomorrow your data isn't lost, it's always in your hands) and just paste the updated list straight into your thread.

I hear you. Will try out the google sheets idea.

But the main reason I didn’t have much trading activity on NA was the time it took to scan through everyone’s trade list. Then if I were ever fortunate enough to find something I was looking for it would be very rare that the other person wanted something I had. The exercise gets old after a while. Automating the process some may turn out to be be a huge winner.

If you ever reconsider I’d be willing to start putting a database together in whatever format you like. I’m sure others would volunteer also. And a trading tool wouldn’t need to be a final release on day one. It could be NES only to start testing (or gauge interest) and then you could drop games for other systems into the database in phases if it looks like a popular feature.

I will test out GameTZ in the meantime to see how good the experience is

Gloves, how much money would you estimate a feature like this would cost to code?

12 hours ago, scaryice said:

Are you on GameTZ? That's pretty much the same thing that they do already.

I never heard of GameTZ, but now that I’ve looked it up, you’re right. It has the functionality I was talking about. I can’t believe something like that exists.

I wonder how difficult it would be to get something like that on VGS? I get that GameTZ already exists, but it’s not about the tool, it’s about the community using it. Would be much harder to get everyone here using GameTZ than the bring a tool similar to it over here for all the existing users

Nah. The pricepoint is for the diehard gamers and collectors. Not enough of us.

The casuals will just keep on playing the clone systems with sd cards

By the way, is that thing gonna play hu cards?

I don’t know if this idea is too complex to code for the architecture, but here goes. 

I think for the trading system you should be  able to select all of the games that you would like to a “want” list. Then you should be able to select all of the games that you  like to a “for trade” list. 

Then you can run a search and the trade system will identify all of the members that have a game for trade that appears on your want list as long as you have an item for trade that is on their want list. Then you can initiate a conversation or even look over that persons complete want list to see if there’s anything they want that you have..

Example:

Lets say I want Chrono Trigger SNES.  I have a whole bunch of $15 - $30 games in my collection like SMB3, Megaman 4, TMNT 3 etc, but only SMB3 is listed in my “for trade” list. I run the search and it matches me with a user who has Chrono Trigger for trade and he wants SMB3, which is on my for trade list. 

However, that’s not an even trade. So I go to that users profile and I see that he also has Megaman 4 and TMNT3 on his “want” list.  He doesn’t know I have these games because they are not on my “for trade” list, but I decide I’d be willing to offer them up in order to get Chrono Trigger so I initiate a conversation and offer all 3 games for Chrono Trigger.

Thats the idea I had. What do you think, is it possible to code something like that?

It must be the same feeling the pilgrims felt when they landed on Plymouth Rock