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I agree with some of your points. Before commenting here, I was severely underestimating the size of the pc gamer base. According to Statista, Steam has 120M active users. Here’s where I have questions though: How many of those users would actually buy this system? I wonder how many of those users are in poorer countries in South America, India and Southeast Asia.. maybe the only reason they are Steam is because gaming consoles are too expensive for them. Those types of users won’t be buying this (by the way India’s population is 1B).. Also, how many pc gamers are power users with high end pc setups, or are primarily keyboard and mouse gamers? Some people might prefer the larger displays and higher resolutions/framerates and skip out on this. And while you can use a keyboard and mouse with this, if you are going to play that way, why get a handheld to begin with? So of those 120M active Steam users, I wonder how many of them are middle to upper class salaried people living in Western countries that could actually afford this? And of those people, how many are casual gamers (non power-setup users). I actually have no clue, but I can’t help it to wonder whether the PC gamer segment alone probably would actually buy the quantity of units needed for this to be considered hugely successful. But we do know how big the market is for console gaming. There’s potential for 50M-100M console sales over the lifetime of a successful $300+ gaming console. If you could get those console gamers to buy this as a second or third system, that would make it successful. While there are console gamers that also do Steam, I think the typical console gamer is looking for something plug and play, which pc gaming is not (and yes even if it is, it’s not perceived that way). So this is why I was saying they should market it as a console. I agree with you on customer service, reliability and price point though.

They’re not really being sold through distribution channels. They are sold direct by Square on their website. Given that the plastic seal is different from the Sony standard and that fact that the discs are silver bottom when all PS1 games were black bottom discs, I question whether Sony actually made these. It is not unprecedented for the big video game companies (Nintendo, Sony, Sega) to give major publishers permission to manufacture their own games. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony just gave Square the instructions needed to make PS1 games boot up without the use of a mod chip. Then Square could just press their own games even long after Sony stopped manufacturing PS1 games. Either that, or they bought TONS of copies of these games and had them sitting in storage for decades.

I just want the game to be genuinely fun. That trumps all other things. Things don’t have to be realistic in games. Like you can be driving car and ram into a tank of gas, and instead of denting your car or causing a fire, it somehow ends up filling up the car while your driving. Or you can be running and step on a box of pizza which instantly disappears and makes you stronger. You only start picking things apart and complaining about how unrealistic things are when the game isn’t fun and it can’t hold your attention

These were made VERY late, like as late 2016 or even 2017. I know I bought a bunch of titles direct from the Squaresoft online store around that time. I wonder if Sony even manufactured them or if they just gave the secrets to printing PS1 discs to Squaresoft.

I think their success with this device will 100% depend on them successfully marketing it as a new console as opposed a powerful handheld pc. There are so many gamers that are turned off by pc gaming, I’m one of them, but I know plenty of others. This is kind of like trying to position the Samsung Galaxy or the Google Pixel against the iPhone. It’s a difficult thing to pull off because there are so many other Android phones that cause a lot of noise and confusion in the Android environment. Some people just want a simple and seamless solution so they pick iPhone.

I think with records it is implied that the record holders are only from among those who registered with the organization. Like in athletics, I’m sure there are people out there in the wild that can jump higher, run faster, etc than the world record holders. But the real winners didn’t register so they are not relevant.

I’ve thought about this before. And it’s not a conspiracy theory when it is something so easily doable and get-away-with-able. Running a business like this, you could very realistically take keep someone’s 9.7 sealed game and swap it out with your own 9.5 sealed game of if it’s an identical variant without being detected.

It comes preloaded with a custom build of Linux. But you can install Windows. It will work with Proton, meaning that Windows games don’t need you to install Windows. As a non-pc gamer, I have always wanted to get into Steam, but the pc interface has always kept me from stepping forward. This being in a dedicated console form factor may be what it takes to bring me into Steam gaming

I preordered the last one at my local GameStop just because I thought they’d be hard to come by. And I have a friend who actually wanted one that I will be handing it over to.

The Megaman is an active listing on eBay. I don’t know anything about it. Astro Boy is mine, I bought it online from a person that owns a small toy shop in Cyprus. That was long ago, didn’t pick up any details from him and I probably lost contact details by now

@JVOSSso are we saying a standard PAL version box with a distributor sticker on it counts as a distributor box variant? Or are we saying the distributor regional exclusive box with the distributor name printed on the box is the distributor box variant? Or both??

This is getting into a grey area. There’s a company called Nortec in Cyprus that was Nintendo’s official distributor for Cyprus. Part of their MO was they would get PAL region games, carefully cut the seal, open the box and slip a Greek language instruction manual into the box and reseal the game using Nortec labeled tape. So the game is technically a PAL version, but it’s still considered the official Cyprus version. You can’t really tell much difference from opened copies, but a sealed copy of a Cyprus game in my opinion counts as a variant because their process was officially sanctioned by Nintendo.

Open it

I let my daughter play SMB starting when she was 2 on and off. She had gotten pretty good by the time she was 4. By good I don’t mean great, but definitely better than a lot of adults. I wonder if my skills are being passed down through bloodline

Or send them to Wata for grading

If the contacts are really messed up, you could try a little brasso. But use sparingly as it actually wears away at the pins. Also if you do that, then be VERY diligent about cleaning it all off with alcohol. It often looks like you got it all off, but you’ll notice there’s still some there after it’s all dried

Use for parts. At least 3 shell backs and 3 fronts with labels. Also you have likely have working chips, it’s probably the pcb’s that are bad. Or give them to @bowser

By typically I meant under normal storage conditions. If they are exposed to prolonged high heat or humidity, there could be an issue. But the type of batteries that Nintendo selected were high quality and normally would not leak as these button cells are designed to not leak. Now, if you buy those cheap Chinese made button cell replacements on Amazon, this may be a whole different outcome

I don’t mind battery replacements in games , actually I welcome them as long as they are done correctly. But to be fair, old button cell batteries ‘typically’ do not leak.

It’s all relative to how important the game is. For all the 99% of games it probably won’t matter. If there was a game as rare as Stadium Events that used a battery, people would probably think twice before desoldering the original battery.. Not that there is a battery save Gameboy game that actually exists with Stadium Events level of rarity. But conceptually I think you can see what I’m saying

There is potentially a compromise solution to make both camps happy. Instead of desoldering the original battery, you could insert a new battery and wire it up to the battery terminals in parallel. This would be a little goofy looking as you’d have a battery connected to wires floating around inside of the cart. You’d have to find a different set of contact points to solder the new battery wires onto as you are not removing the original battery. This would be a reversible battery mod as the new battery could be desoldered and it’s contacts could be cleaned up without disturbing the original battery. Lot of extra work though for something that a lot of people don’t really seem to care about

That looks pretty interesting. Given that it’s printed on a disc instead of handwritten, I’d guess there’s at least several dozen sets of them. I wouldn’t say thousands or even hundreds though as there is only so much press out there. Maybe 200 sets max out there if I had to take a guess

My understanding is that original Doom floppies can be worth a hefty amount. But you have to find the pc game collectors that want them. I think the collector community around here is mostly into Console games

Not sure if this is an acceptable alternative to you, but the Everdrive GBA plays Game Gear games. Could save by getting an original GBA with the backlight screen mod. There’s also rechargeable lithium battery mods for GBA available, which beats Game Gears 6AA batteries

Come on guys grow up. If you don’t like an offer just decline it or ignore it. No need to block people.. or brag about how you circumvented being blocked.