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What the hell is this exactly?

Oh it's real. Iconic game and only one of five in that grade known to exist.

Great. I am happy it worked out for you. Let me know if you come across any roms that don't work properly. It was impossible to test them all.

I enjoy playing the originals on original hardware. I like to see / experience exactly what it would have been like to play the game in the 80s or 90s.

Ok cool. So was that HDD full of US PS1 roms ever useful to you? I assume you are transferring those roms off the HDD onto your SD card. Just curious. It was hard to get the full US library onto one HDD. There are a ton of US PS1 games.

Hey Estel, it seems you finally got your PSIO up and running. Were you able to use that HDD with every PS1 game ever? If so how do the roms work?

Play the originals first. Then play the PS1 versions if you really loved them and want to run them again. Best part about playing on the Sega CD is you can just burn them via a CDR and play. No copyright protection on Sega CD.

Maybe a promo copy released for people involved with the making of the movie or at a screening of it?

It seems Jeff was somehow involved when WATA filed for incorporation. You have to list certain info when you file but I didn't know WATA was a public company. Don't think they are so not sure why the SEC is involved. People with more knowledge here can speak on that. It just seems shady to me that Heritage is "advising" WATA and Jeff possibly has some involvement with WATA as a company as per the SEC filings. It seems like a racket to me. IDK call me crazy. This was all talked about before. There was also an article about how one of these owners/advisors were previously linked to a coin grading scam. I am trying to dig it up now. I believe they got busted for it too. Well what do I know anyways. I would still use Heritage and WATA if I had a high end sealed game to sell. Business is business.

I understand they are two different companies but isn't there some overlap on who sits on the board of both companies. Like I could have sworn the guy who bought NintendoAge had his hand in both WATA and Heritage. This is why the selling of Dain's collection at insane, graded prices, was so sketchy. If true, don't you see the conflict of interest here? " Jim Halperin, co-founder of Heritage Auctions, is an advisor to WATA Games, as is Josh Nathanson, the founder of ComicLink." https://antiquesandauctionnews.net/articles/The-Rise-Of-WATA-Games-And-The-Mass-Speculation-Of-Factory–Sealed-Vintage-Video-Games/ Oh there is actually a whole thread on here about it... I just keep getting a weird vibe a guy named Jeff Meyer is listed on the Wata SEC filing, if its the same Jeff Meyer who owns Go Collect and bought the “Carolina” collection and NA and is selling that collection on Clink and HA. Am I over reading into it? Or does it feel like a big conflict of interest. Maybe just a different Jeff Meyer. Gut check here people. Now Go Collect is sponsoring video game conventions. I totally get the capitalist fervor. Gotta respect the hustle! Maybe someone with better knowledge of corporate structure and such can educate me. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1711064/000171106418000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

I thought if it was a high enough value game they would cover the costs of getting it WATA graded. They are practically the same company anyway. Like with that person that found the black box Mario game in their drawer. I don't think they got it graded first then sent it into Heritage.

I should have known better. He isn't really a close friend as I met him at a game convention and we have been texting back and forth now for years. Similar thing happened when someone told me they had a Sony / SNES CD proto system. That was a funny thread on the old NintendoAge. I am so gullible. I will update if/when this guy ever sends me pics. He says he will. Let's see. Thanks.

Ok well then it seems he is a bullshitter. Thanks for the info.

So I am trying to help a friend out. He wants to sell his brand new sealed Earthbound in good condition. Reason it is only good is that it has a rip in the plastic on the right corner. I am waiting on pics but I trust him. Let's see if he can actually produce the pics. In the mean time I told him I would try and get a ball park market price for him. Someone already offered him a trade worth of 5k in games and I told him to hold off for now. I recommended he just send it in to Heritage and have them grade and sell it for him. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

I agree with this. Good chance he offed himself. Now Epstein.... that's a whole other story.

Oh that's the guy, yes. I knew he sounded familiar. I heard that story too.

Certainly seems like it.

Holy shit. I never even knew these existed TBH. What games does it play? What kind of monitor? Is it an RGB arcade monitor? Very cool.

They said they wanted the information to help identify variants, understand populations/rarity of games, gaming trends, etc. Honestly I think the main thing they were after was Dain's entire physical game collection. From what I understand, NA was just tossed in on top of everything else as an after thought.

I enjoyed Jedi Power Battles on PSX and Dreamcast.

Wow what a gem you have there. Good luck with the sale.

They never had controllers with them. Only the LE versions did.

Commodore 1702 for NES, JVC D-series for all other retro gaming and a Samsung 1080p lcd for original XBOX and above. I am amazed at some OG XBOX games that run in 720p and 480p widescreen. System was ahead of it's time.

I hear Neutopia is a good game. I just beat Dragon Warrior 1. Maybe I will jump on Neutopia next.