inasuma

2 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Are you saying that you do not understand sarcasm? Are you actually just an AI generated person?

Well their username is Code Monkey. Surely they are a non-zero amount of AI.

34 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I watched the first ten seconds and threw up in my mouth a little.

it's produced by the pawn stars crew apparently. it looks like trash tv. but i guess thats what happens when you hire trash tv people to make tv show.

On 4/26/2023 at 7:39 PM, MrWunderful said:

Not sure if im tripping, but I couldnt them see in either of the blog posts or the video. Do the pins lock them in lip to lip, or is it an anti tamper function?

 

Maybe ill get this graded now and check out the new holder myself:

 

For the record, my wife bought it on amazon  for 19.99 because it was listed as “new”. Dead mint.  Glad they are doing game gear now. 

I honestly couldn't tell you - i was going off of the close ups on the sides from their insta vid. i saw what looked like clips at the top where the frosted plastic is.

nice game

On 4/24/2023 at 6:34 PM, MrWunderful said:

The best part is the consistent size from bottom to top, outside of the little lip at top and bottom. 
 

I assume the lip is so the actual faces of holder dont rub on each other, but wonder if they will stay “stacked” (or, just slip off the lips). I get that they are designed to stand up though.
 

The lips do seem like smart product design. I would wager they hired someone to develop it. 
 

Im curious what the anti-tamper security is, looking forward to your report @inasuma

Heh based on the vid and pics there are pins in the inside of the holder, on the sides near the top still. Should be fun to play with lol

Wata posted a glam vid of the new designs: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrbNObSsRhD/

Also on their blog: https://blog.watagames.com/2023/04/20/the-new-wata-holder/

Available for all orders made today and onward. Seems like any order before today will be put in the legacy holder. I asked if my in process orders could be moved into new cases but they said no.

One thing I find interesting is they made the jewel cases perfectly shallow (makes sense, very thin). But sadly the dvd cases still have ~2x the dvd game depth if I'm seeing it right. I'll know for sure when my reholder test is back.

Overall I like the design. Curious what y'all think.

Alright. I have six games ready to reholder in the new case design. I'll write about it on my blog but i'll also share some photos after as well, with same size games side-by-side in the old holder.

Any other sizes I should consider? I don't have any Sega or Atari sadly but I'd include those if I did.

On 4/19/2023 at 12:10 PM, 3rdStrongestMole said:

Yeah,  it feels like a lot of empty space on the front. I'll probably go Legacy as long as they let me, unless it's gonna cost more. 

the label design does leave a lot of empty space. i think that's more a side effect of the new notation strategy which aims to add much fewer details, but more meaningful details.

that said, if the new case is better in meaningful ways then i'll be happy. the label isn't overbearing like in cgc's case (who TF thought a giantblue label was a good idea)

Waiting for vga to drop prices rofl

Not first prints but still dope.

On 4/6/2023 at 11:52 AM, ApebitMusic said:

Hey guys, readying a submission to GCG and trying to narrow it down. Don't want to spend a fortune at the moment so trying to decide on 5 games to get graded. Out of these which 5 would you get graded? I'm thinking mostly based on value but if you want to share a "personal taste" aspect I'm all for it.. these are all games I love!!  These are all SEALED:

NES:

Tecmo Bowl (white oval seal)

Metroid (white oval seal)

Double Dribble (black circle seal)

Blaster Master (white oval seal)

Blades of Steel (white oval seal)

Batman(white oval seal)

Double Dragon II (suuuper nice high grade, methinks!)

Castlevania III  ("Win a trip" version)

Hydlide (ok probably not gonna be a pick, let's be honest). haha

Goonies II (white circle seal. This one might be a slightly lower grade, not bad though)

SNES:

Super Metroid

GENESIS:

Phantasy Star IV

GB:

Metroid II (reeaally nice!)

GBA:

Ninja Five-O

 

 

Metroid, Metroid II, Super Metroid, double dragon II, castlevania III

On 4/9/2023 at 12:21 AM, Code Monkey said:

A conversation I had in 2012:

girlfriend - Hey, can you check into this Bitcoin thing my accountant told me about? It's supposed to get big and it's at $10 each.

me - I'll look at it eventually.

------- 6 months later ---------

girlfriend - Hey, did you look at that Bitcoin thing? It's at $100 now.

me - Yes, it looks stupid, I don't really get it. Probably not worth buying.

girlfriend - Okie dokie!

A house of cards in hindsight is still a house of cards lol

I’m always ready for a good certified. 

Couple recent subs now that CIB grading isn’t super expensive. Gold and Silver still in post grading but will post when they’re back.

a sticker like that, i'd immediately have given up

you're probably more or less capped at A+ with the sticker.

with creasing and other impressions on the box, you're probably looking at 8.0-8.5 territory.

So uh, i never came back to share what happened with my modern subs to CGC.

DS and 3DS games are very loose in the holder. both the blister is loose, and game inside the blister is loose.

When I reached out to CGC to let them know so they could fix the dang thing for future customers (I wasn't even asking for a refund or reholder, because I knew the outcome would have been the same), they told me "the cases aren't meant to be shaken." no word on whether they're telling anyone about the issue. Just "don't shake the game."

i mean, i'm not sure how else i was going to figure out the games are loose, but cool.

anyway, if you have DS/3DS, don't send them to CGC. send to Wata or VGA. who knows if CGC will ever fix their holder.

anywhere, here are the games i ended up grading with this issue, and will likely bust out in the near future and submit somewhere else lmao

• Metroid Samus Returns 9.9 A++ (pack-in)
• Metroid Samus Returns 9.8 A++ (pack-in)
• Mega Man Battle network Double Team DS 9.8 A++
• Super mario 64 DS 9.6 A

These two things couldn’t be further apart in the financial sector

3DS fam

5 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

Im guessing wata doesnt grade big box pc. Hopefully with the attention brought to the mistakes VGA wont make any

Ye they only grade dvd case pc. Lmao

3 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

They good news is they can grade it (throw a “mistake” A++ seal grade on it) and now its worth 100k!

Well ”good” news is wata can’t grade it! Vga will just need to pick up the slack and give it a mistake 90+!

Recently added the last handheld KH game I was missing  forgot to include 3D but that one isn’t graded yet

4 hours ago, CIB_Wholesale_no_split said:

but hey, you've got a ton of wata games to sell to so I get where you're coming from

yes, i would very much like to pump my games. you're ruining the pump and it's not cool. how does that make you feel, that you're ruining the pump

Completed gen 2 jp recently.

5 minutes ago, darkchylde28 said:

...where?  ...when?

I should clarify, it's just CIB_Wholesale complaining. lol

On 3/2/2023 at 11:01 AM, CIB_Wholesale_no_split said:

those are off the top of my head ... what else? I never invested from the start because of the whole Dain/NA fiasco. I couldnt get over it and still cant

and just like that, we're back to complaining about wata's origins again.

good chat.