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My guess is that these are NOT refurbs. The main pieces of evidence that they're not refurbs are 1. The only rare Konami/Ultra 5 screws we see have oval seals. If they were refurbs, anyone with any seal could send it in and get their label put on a 5 screw shell, and we don't see that. 2. The earliest and latest K/U games haven't been found with rare 5 screw variants. If any K/U game could be sent in to get refurbished, this wouldn't be the case. 3. We see these things in all kinds of conditions. If the owner cared enough to send it in to get it refurbished, you would think that refurbished copy would be less likely to get messed up again. I may be totally wrong, but that's what it seems like to me.

8752 on the PRG on mine https://imgur.com/P6LNRGQ

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Getting back into Astral Chain. It's the same every time with Platinum games. I play them at launch, and they don't really click, then I come back to them later and start a new file and things are much easier and I'm able to have fun. Combat's really fun, but I could do without the police work investigation missions. This has me thinking that it would be a good idea to revisit The Wonderful 101. I'm also trying to beat Solar Jetman for the first time. Going through it very slowly, I play it like once a week.

Getting good at Bayonetta was probably my moment. I remember things just started clicking and I was kicking ass and it felt like I was riding a motorcycle at like 120 mph.

NES > Genesis > N64 > Dreamcast > 360 > finally a PS3 Never liked my friend's PS1 or 2. N64 carried me from 4th grade through college. It was the same with all my friends wherever I went. They all had an N64 and nothing else.

Thanks for the info. I love your samurai collection.

posting on a dead thread, hoping i can get some answers. Does anybody know if Super Mario Bros for the Samurai came in a black cart? If it did, I would love to get my hands on one.

Yes, and I updated the above post with pics.

I'm on the rare variant grind and I find something on eBay just often enough to keep me motivated. Found this TMNT 5 screw a couple weeks ago. https://www.ebay.com/itm/174754962525

Collection update. I have for trade toward something I don't have yet: 1 x Jaws 1 x Gyromite 1 x TMNT 1 x TMNT II 1 x Ski or Die 1 x Silent Service Panic Restaurant + manual (Water damage. Wavy and some colors bleed, but no tears and all the pages open.) TRADE ONLY. Boner killer, I know, sorry. And I'm not trading either MTPO.

Thought you all might be interested in this. I completed this run through my favorite game, Ninja Gaiden Black, back in January. Master Ninja mode (highest difficulty level), no deaths, no buying healing or magic items, almost 100%. I thought it might be cool to one day do this same run killing every enemy, but I haven't felt like playing games at all since I completed this run. Check it out!

I just asked the seller and they said 2 others asked about the N7.

Apparently you guys are getting a lot better at finding Tecmo N7s. I found one in a lot on eBay and offered to buy the whole lot for a good price, and the seller responded that he'd had several people ask about Tecmo NBA. He cancelled the lot and has relisted the Tecmo NBA N7. https://www.ebay.com/itm/265158979869 Here's the original lot it was in: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265157015173

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Track and Field II - 8952 I think Castlevania II - 8929 Castlevania II - 8916 Metal Gear - 8912 Snake's Revenge - 9011 Q*bert - 8852 Silent Service - 8935 Silent Service - 8935 Jackal - 8928 TMNT - 9024 TMNT II - 9038 TMNT II - 9037 Adventures of Bayou Billy - 8935 Skate or Die - April 89, I think Quite a few new ones to add to the list, I'll get pics later.

Which chip are these dates pulled from? Some Konami games don't have CHRs and no particular chip consistently has the latest date.

I made a document recently with all my rare variants' chip dates, and I documented the date on every chip. Which date(s) should we post? Posting our 3 screw versions' dates could be helpful, too, I think. Also, another thought I had was that the fact that a lot of these rare 5 screw Konamis have messed up labels seems like it would suggest that they weren't refurbs. A game that was sent in to get fixed would be a lot less likely to get messed up again. Why would somebody care enough to put it in a box and send it off to get it fixed and then be careless enough to mess the label up again? Might be subsequent owners messing up the label again, but you would still think that if they were refurbs that these labels would be nicer on average than the average NES game, but they're not really. And the Castlevania II I recently traded away was a CIB, which suggests something other than them being refurbs. I don't think the guy I got it from knows its origin.

One tool in solving the Konami/Ultra 5 screw dilemma would be chip dates, I think. If the chip dates are spread out, that probably indicates something like them being refurbs, and if they're bunched together, that probably indicates that they were made at the same time for some reason. I have two 5 screw Silent Services with identical PRG and CHR chip dates. I have two TMNT IIs with dates one week apart. I have used to have two Castlevania IIs, and they have dates 3 months apart. So according to these dates, the data is..... inconclusive. Don't know what Castlevania II's dates being so spread out means.

http://bootgod.dyndns.org/ It seemed like it had been unattended and in disrepair for a while, but lately it's been down completely. Doesn't even show up in a Google search. Anybody know what's going on?

So if Stormarov's theory is right, and I think it probably is, would that mean that there are late generation Konami refurb 3 screws out there without a back label that were made after they ran out of 5 screw shells?

Found a curiosity I could use y'all's help in figuring out. I have 3 Gyromite 3 screws, two of them have "Made in Japan" and security screws, and the third has no "Made in Japan" and flathead screws. The chip dates of the third one fall in between the first two, and there is evidence that the odd one might have had a label transplant. So the signs are pointing toward it being a refurb, but I was wondering if anybody else has a Gyromite 3 screw with no Made in Japan and flathead screws. Interestingly, there is one with no Made in Japan on eBay right now, but the pictures don't show the screws.