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I had one of those. Cheap $50 hdmi NES clones. It wasn’t too bad. But I gave it to a friend who was getting into NES gaming. Didn’t need it anyways as I have an AVS

My brother picked me up some third-party manuals for first-party switch games. So now my first-party games are CIB.

Oh, I thought you were also tracking who has which ones. I mis-spoke @Hollywoodcaddy

Someone here already has a list of all the publicly known copies of authentic NWC and who holds them. The problem is that there are likely still authentic copies of NWC out there in the wild or in private collections of people who remain anonymous. Assuming there are “perfect fakes” and we only consider the ones that are on the list up until the cutoff date of when the “perfect fakes” were introduced, then we would disregarding some legitimate copies simply because they were not put on the list.

I feel that they may be using the term junk to release themselves from any return liability. In many cases the stuff is perfectly fine

I’m so glad I don’t give one single hoot about NWC

If you were interested in the Mega SG cartridge adapter set, maybe you should buy right now while it’s in stock. When Mega SG does get a restock, those adapters may get sold out quick

It is not modified. This is why I thought it was strange. How would the renters be able to play it? Maybe they had a cart converter that they lent out with it?? Cant you use a SNES game genie to play JP imports?

Well it is 30 year old hardware. Electronics don’t last forever. I’m willing to bet the chips are still good maybe capacitors or some other common components blown

Searching online in other forums/Reddit, I found these: https://www.mortoffgames.com/nintendo-nes-/repair-and-replacement-parts142/controller-repair-parts150/nintendo-nes-controller-repair-kit-conductive-pads- https://www.retromodding.com/collections/nes/products/nes-silicone-pads I’m going to try both and compare

Really interested in getting those OEM-like replacement ones that you mentioned

I need to replace the rubber parts under the buttons in my NES controllers. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences to share. I’m guessing all the different listings of replacement parts online are of varying levels of quality. Links to product listings would be great

You did the right thing. In my opinion it’s always best to return it to the owner if it has identifying information. If there’s no info, then just leave it where you found it, or put it in a more conspicuous place close to where you found it, maybe the owner will be retracing their steps trying to find it. I dropped my prescription glasses while walking through Turkey on vacation one time. Retraced my steps and found them on sitting top of the platform around a monument close to where I was walking. Someone must have put them there so they wouldn’t get stepped on

I was guessing 8 track tapes

Just received this in the mail from Durham, NC. One of the games is a Super Famicom game. Interestingly, it has a tamper evident security sticker over one of the screws. This was typically done on rentals in the US. I am puzzled because this is a Japanese title. Japan didn’t use these stickers because they didn’t rent out games. Did any American rental stores rent out Japanese games?

I watched a documentary about Nintendo first person shooter that got canceled. Basically what they said is that there was a smaller developer working on the FPS shooter and the game was going to use water guns. Things were moving along pretty well but then one of the people on the dev team leaked something. Nintendo became outraged and they demanded that the developer take corrective measures. This would have included investigations into who the leaker was, making his/her identity known to Nintendo and also firing that person. The developer did the internal investigation, but ultimately they did not identify the leaker. Either they didn’t know who it was, or they were trying to protect that person from Nintendo’s legal wrath. Anyhow Nintendo was so pissed that the developer wouldn’t identify the leaker that they cancelled the contract with the developer. They later took some of the ideas that came up in developing that game to make Splatoon.

I think there’s a cutoff. Find a new word to use

Still need the Venezuela zapper

No risk no reward

I meant one man show figuratively. He may have some support, but I’m sure he’s single point of decision making for all of the money related decisions. Which is the way things usually happen in smaller companies. I guess it’s easier to define what they are not. They are not a departmentalized business. I doubt they have a customer service department, a marketing department, a design department, a legal department, a finance/accounting department, and a CEO. I’m willing to bet all of these responsibilities funnel through one guy and he has a few people that he delegates some design responsibilities over to. Which is fair, they’re still a small business, that’s how small businesses usually run.

I wouldn’t have known any better

I’m pretty sure that’s what it is. It’s a one man show operation. When you have the technical ability to design things like this, it usually means you have a very single-task focused brain. So he’s 100% laser focused on producing the next design at the expense of all of the support, communications, restock, etc. Working at a manufacturing company, I know too many engineers like this.

I should have just quoted your last paragraph to be more clear. I wasn’t really questioning your comments on AUS or CAD or even relative strengths of any currency. Just wanted to elaborate further on the point you made about US pumping out the most stimulus money in absolute terms. We haven’t seen the effects of it in the real economy because it’s just been inflating the stock market. A significant chunk of the money in the stock market is tucked away in retirement accounts. I wonder if we’ll see another “black swan” if/when all these baby boomers decide to splurge some of that money all at the same time... I guess it’s not really a Black Swan if we’re forecasting it.

Maybe something happens when covid restrictions are lifted and people feel safe vacationing again. All the baby boomers retirement savings have been getting pumped up. When things open back up, maybe they’ll be wanting to spend some of that money back into circulation all at the same time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯