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On 7/23/2020 at 6:26 PM, Bighab said:

I love collecting strategy guides. Some of my favorites. The Landstalker one is a Japanese guide. I'm curious if anyone else has other import guides and how useful they are.

 

That Shining Force guide is awesome

On 2/2/2021 at 6:58 PM, hardstyletoaster said:

Looks like I'm not too late to this party, I wanted to say thank you to @DefaultGen@Johnny and Stefan but since Stefan is on twitter I'll just stick with the cool guys instead. Jokes aside, I really appreciate the three of you taking the time to put together the podcast. I'm not sure if I would say there is a direct correlation between me getting into videogame collecting and listening to the collector's quest but I can say that when I was ready to start collecting I already had a wealth of great tips and tricks thanks to you three. Johnny was actually true to his word and super responsive on instagram about a gamecube collecting question I had and that speaks volumes to me. I also would not have of found this wonderful community as easily as I did had it not been for the three of you that and I'd probably be collecting disc only (ew). So thanks guys, keep up the excellent work!

(Also gimme those deets on the patreon if you're being serious, you guys I'd gladly contribute financially towards if it helps you out.)

I appreciate the kind words and I do my best to respond to people, even if I am very slow, especially here on VGS.

We were serious about the Patreon, it is up and running. https://www.patreon.com/CollectorsQuest

15 hours ago, fcgamer said:

@Johnny It's all speculation either way, but either scenario is possible, and I have my reasons for believing a lot more of these will appear.

Sure, but possible vs probable, it seems less probable more would appear.  People love to talk about mythical pallets appearing, but that is quite rare. Could it happen though, sure it is possible. If you have information that makes the scenario more likely, great you should use that information to make the best decision. As far as hoping, I hope we do find more, these controllers are kind of awesome, I hope you know something we don't so more people can get these. 

@supergamboy They were sold by Gamers Express Online, which appears to have no affiliation with Realtec, I am not sure if other amazon sellers had it though, but this is what my receipt shows.

As far as demand you are probably right, I am not sure who wants these, I am also not sure how many people really know about them.  

On 8/21/2020 at 3:38 PM, Richardhead said:

Starting kinda early

@Johnny @DefaultGen @Archon 1981

Are you guys ready ??  
cant wait for some Halloween episodes.

@Richardhead So you want to collect Halloween Games...

We have you covered

On 9/9/2020 at 12:39 PM, MrMark0673 said:

That’s awesome! I’d love to hear johnny’s take on it (or any other Genny collector for that matter).  I snatched it up when I saw it as I knew it was near impossible to find, and I *think* it was around 2012.  Again, haven’t heard or seen one pop up since, so I’d love to know what the deal is with them (More out there? Desirable? Expensive?)

So for a long time, like pre 2012 these things were crazy hard to find, they were really expensive for the time too being at 100+ easy. It was March 2012,when the seller Games Express Online (Selling out of NJ) dumped a bunch of New Old Stock on Amazon. they were clearing them out for $20. That batch sat for a little bit but not long and were eventually all snapped up. I haven't seen many more since then. I am not positive they made it to a full retail release, and if they did it wasn't very wide.

As far as a big crate popping up, maybe but that's gambling. Odds are we have seen what we have seen of these and the ones that will find there way into the market will be from collectors and not from some warehouse that is probably guarded by "Top Men".

50 minutes ago, 0xDEAFC0DE said:

Turns out there's a lot more. Here's the other ones I could find that aren't already on your list.

 

 

US	PAL (Different Name)
The Adventures of Kid Kleets	Soccer Kid
Adventures of Yogi Bear	Yogi Bear's Cartoon Capers
Blackthorne	Blackhawk
Brawl Brothers	Brawl Brothers: Rival Turf! 2
Capcom's Soccer Shootout	Soccer Shootout
Contra III: The Alien Wars	Super Probotector: Alien Rebels
Dennis the Menace	Dennis
Flashback: The Quest for Identity	Flashback
Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf	Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank
Goal!	Super Goal!
Head-On Soccer	Fever Pitch Soccer
Joe & Mac	Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja
Kirby Super Star	Kirby's Fun Pak
Kirby's Avalanche	Kirby's Ghost Trap
Looney Tunes B-Ball	Looney Tunes Basketball
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals	Lufia
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow	Donald in Maui Mallard
NCAA Basketball	World League Basketball
NHL Stanley Cup	Super Hockey
Ninja Warriors	Ninja Warriors: The New Generation
Out of This World	Another World
Ranma ½: Hard Battle	Ranma ½
Road Runner's Death Valley Rally	Looney Tunes: Road Runner
Space Megaforce	Super Aleste
Sports Illustrated: Championship Football & Baseball	All-American Championship Football
Star Fox	Starwing
Strike Gunner S.T.G.	Super Strike Gunner
Super Bonk	Super B.C. Kid
Super Buster Bros.	Super Pang
Super Scope 6	Nintendo Scope 6
Super Soccer Champ	Euro Football Champ
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters
The Irem Skins Game	Major Title
Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge	Tiny Toon Adventures: Wild & Wacky Sports
Skiing & Snowboarding: Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme	Val d'Isere Championship
Uniracers	Unirally
Zombies Ate My Neighbors	Zombies

Additionally some small corrections to your list. The US version of "James Pond Crazy Sports" is "The Super Aquatic Games Starring the Aquabats" not "James Pond Aquatic Games". "Eric Cantona Football Challenge" is PAL but it's specific to France. The rest of Europe called it "Striker".

There are some other edge cases too. The Star Fox competition cart got a rename to match it's Pal name: "Star Fox: Super Weekend" / "Starwing Competition". "Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer" (US) was not released in Europe but was released in Brazil as "Super Copa". "Kevin Keegan's Player Manager" was not released in the US but in Germany it got renamed to "K.H. Rummenigge's Player Manger".

My source for finding these was Wikipedia, but I verified them with snescentral or when necessary, ebay.

Thanks for all the info, I will add it in. I am doing some PAL collecting right now so I figured it might be nice for other collectors to know the in and outs as well

Pretty Sure this is the complete list of SNES Titles that had name swaps for PAL. let me know if you see any that were missed.

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I am looking for these manuals, please let me know if you have any and how much you would like to sell for.

Thank you

On 3/11/2020 at 5:57 PM, The Strangest said:

Hi I’m a young, impressionable, and faithful listener and I would like to know what it means to backdoor someone or be backdoored and why it’s such a pain in the ass?

Thank you.

You will have to ask @DefaultGen

On 3/30/2020 at 12:49 PM, CasualCart said:

Just throwing this out there @Johnny and @Archon 1981 - there are a lot of Pirates of Dark Water animation cels on ebay right now. Not to make you sad or anything...

-CasualCart

You have my attention

On 11/8/2019 at 9:47 AM, B.A. said:

I've listened to the 1st 30 minutes so far.  Allow me to address some of the comments made.

@Johnny made the point about how much should GoCollect care about making a new forum when the entire userbase left.  For the record, VGS was not created because of the speculation that NA was shutting down, that was not how the chain of events were set in motion.  

If I were to identify a point where things really reached a point of no return with NA it would be when your video was taken down @DefaultGen .  A little background, that was a good 3-4 months after the sale to GC and we as a staff had heard next to nothing from Jeff in that timeframe.  Jeff actually told us that forums weren't the future for GoCollect.  That statement went along with everything we had seen from him, confirmed our suspicion that he had no interest.  We had asked if we could make improvements to the site ourselves and were told flat out no, he wouldn't allow it.

That brings us to your video.  We were told that people weren't happy about the content and wanted it deleted.  The message read like that was what Jeff wanted (which days later he clarifed that he was only asking our opinion).  The video gets taken down, shitshow ensues, I publicly resigned (which I asked Jeff to remove me that day and he never bothered).  After that mess Jeff asked if anyone on the staff wanted to purchase the site (the impression was that he felt he couldn't win with the community).  So he initiated selling the site to some of us, we exchanged emails and set up a time for a phone call to discuss details.  He didn't show up for the call, and we didn't hear another word from him until he popped in a couple months later to say some of his GoCollect lackey's were joining the staff as admins/mods.  

That blown handling of the potential sale was when we decided we were going to create an alternative and the wheels really went in motion for VGS.  We tried guys! The entire NA server being shut down forcing GoCollects hand to make their "improvements" had nothing to do with what we were building here.  

One other thing Johnny brought up about Dain being above criticism from so many, I couldn't agree more!  How can people say "NA sucks!! Except for Dain"  Now I'm not complaining about Dain, I like some stuff he did and don't like some other stuff.  But how does a person get all the credit but none of the blame? If people didn't like NA, wouldn't it stand to reason Dain could have fixed whatever they didn't like about it?  How Dain pulled that trick off I will never know.    

Anyway, hopefully that clears some things up. 

Thank you for the clarification

Good list