PapaStu

I’ve talked with Josh about 3DS stuff over the last few years and the hope for more. They’ve got no other 3DS titles done/made. They ran into bumps with Atooi and while they wanted to get more out, knew the hurdles to get stuff done were not going to work in their favor. He had asked publicly should there be any stuff to try and get physical, but it was real late in 2021 and with how it all came to a super fast times up they didn’t have the chance to get anything else through before the window closed. As for spiked 3DS games, nearly everything has spiked up since the eShop announcement closing was made and Gardening Mama is no exception. Titles that were uncommon from go are getting more notice again as people are in panic buying mode right now and making prices spiral up even more.

He/Squire Games ended up dropping the game like a week before Andro Dunos II started shipping to leave them with that claim. Though I’ve seen rumors that there is one other on cart game (possibly up to 4 others) that could still come up. However, if what Squire Games said is right, his 3 other games got certified but he didn’t make copies, leaving a potential 4th mystery game that coulda gotten cert and gone to press, or that had died on the vine too due to the final timetables being rushed like they were.

They put some kind of scent card/scent on the game. If I’m remembering the note correctly there are like 9 different ones. Mine doesn’t smell great that’s for sure. Kinda like musty or peppery, something like that. it’s also reviewed horribly and is incredibly short. Like to the tune of 15 minutes short. Even on the hardest difficulty it’s capping at 20 minutes based on what I saw folks saying as they were getting their copies in.

Oh I’ve shared it, just in the background is all…

Goofs like this aren’t uncommon, but ones this big always stand out. I had a beast of a time finding a copy for myself when I found out about this one. I don’t think it’s nearly as common as you and others have stated. There is one other 3DS game that’s got a big glaring mistake like this (that’s not a spelling mistake like Naruto or Resident Evil) and that’s flown even more under the radar because it’s a game few care about.

This. It was an error made when they were pulling the art together and then sent it off to printers. This wasn't something where at the factory they missed the yellow ink or the pages were offset and miscut and the logo fell off because of that, the image file they used to run this release was missing the logo art entirely on the layout when it went to print. This came about because of a revision, so something else changed that triggered the updated packaging, be it a code revision or major manual update. The NOA secondary barcode is 00001 and it has 77639B designation on all these copies, while the first 'run' has the standard 00000 secondary barcode and is 77639A.

While it's an error, it's not a misprint. It was a revision that they done goofed up on and forgot the darn game logo on the front of the insert. I went down the rabbit hole when I was chasing this when I realized it existed when the FB group had a few folks share their copies year+ ago and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was an 01 release when I got my copy in. Best I can tell, Canada didn't get the revision, just the US.

Actually things weren't TOO bad, save some Pokemon and more niche titles during the majority of COVID (I was deep in variant chasing during much of the last 2 years and watched some sealed Pokemon stuff just jump on me week over week when I didn't go deep enough on variants), but what really blew it up was the announcement that the e-shop was shutting down that just straight spiked everything. End of this month will be the next kick when you can't use a CC any more to pay for titles.

Kinda? From release until about 2 years ago, I did one of everything for any of the console (no PC stuff) releases and I've been buying releases from LRG since Saturday Morning RPG. That included base games as well as any CE/LE/SE type release. It just became too much both in cost as well as space needed for it all. Then that chase coupled with the N64/GB/NES type re-releases and it just became WAY too much. I have kept up with the console base games for "new" releases (Switch/3DS/Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5 type things) but have ignored the rest (retro console re-releases & CEs and 98% of the Distribution line releases) and while I've had a few FOMO moments (the Star Wars carts in the action figure blister packs) I'm not remotely sad about any of those misses at this point. I'm far too invested at this point in keeping up with the base set for their numbered releases so those keep getting bought at least for now...

Any US DS game with a 'pull strip' is a bootleg copy of the game. NO US games came with the Nintendo pull strip shrink wrap. I'm also seeing some of those copies that have a golden colored pull strip. Those also should be bootlegs. The red case would have triggered a revision/reprint/update (or whatever exactly the secondary SKU (00000/00001) represents) as that was done for the Anniversary of Mario that hit at the time. Anything that's carrying the 60457B (and possibly a 60457C/00002 barcode if it exists) would correct as the game never went back to a black case once the red case editions hit the market. **edit to add** Looking at other new copies, I did find a few correct black case 60457B/00001 copies of the game, both graded and not. This could imply that the revision hit prior to the red cases and then additional copies got the red cases, or an incredibly late last batch were produced with more black cases, but by that point the DS was pretty long in the tooth and the 3DS had taken over.

It was not a GS exclusive. I bought mine directly from Amazon in 2012. Ordered it along with the 3DS version. Yep. I have far more sealed DS/3DS stuff than I probably should, but then again... I've got way more DS & 3DS stuff than I probably should. Correct. As others have listed, this was one of the numerous Atlus releases that came w/ the CD and the cardboard box. As a side note, none of those games came any other way than but with the big box and the CD. The entire print run was that Limited Edition-esque release.

This only released as a 'big box' w/ the cd. There is no outer wrap for it.

I don't understand what you mean. It's a real item. Yours is incomplete as it's missing the slipcover.

I'm really really really glad I got this game back in 2017. I won't share what mine cost me. But on a side note, @Galdiusare you currently in Brazil? Because if you are i'd love to have a chat if you were interested in being a middleman for some 3DS games.

It started with the site remodel 2 weeks ago.

I fell into the less care on my PS1 collection when I hit about 75% of the base library years ago. At that point, I started to go deeper into some subsets for it (like GH games) when I found stuff and stopped actively chasing the rest unless I fell into some stuff real cheap at a place selling games to keep it fresh. For DS, I kinda did the same thing, but just would snag cheap games and again, like with the PS, focused on subsets within the library (like all DBZ or Tony Hawk or Lego games) when I was out and about. Not having enough wall space to display all of either system in a manner I was happy with also helped to slow it all down to a very slow trickle. In both the cases of the PS1 and DS collections I stopped active auction/online site chasing them because there wasn't a need to sink that $ into it when I wasn't so mentally invested. I didn't and haven't gotten rid of a thing, but am totally fine not really adding to either set.

Simply put, the 'World' release for a lack of a better descriptor are NTSC region, Nintendo published games that were designated for a number of small markets across the world (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia,, Singapore) and denoted so by a colored circle on the insert. Games for the Wii/WiiU/DS and 3DS all got this treatment and games enclosed are standard US copies of the games, carrying the normal US product codes for those games. The inserts carry unique Nintendo catalog numbers, their own barcodes and were distributed by a single company across those regions. I'm not sure what manuals/inserts were packaged in the DS games, but the 3DS games typically just had a single insert sheet and no manuals of any kind. The images below I pulled off eBay from THIS auction. While I'm not super on top of the DS side of world releases (I remember stumbling into a number of Pokemon titles when I was requiring games post a split from my ex) , I've got what I think are all the 3DS ones, as I do a very, very, very gotta catch them all North American complete 3DS library (what it sounds like you're trying to figure out for the DS).

Personally having +/- 1100 DS games with some variants sprinkled in, nearly all NFRs and some other stuff, I can only suggest that at a library as large as this is, pick a way to collect it and stay there. Starting out one way (CIB or loose) and then flipping means you've gone and created more work because you now have to sell/acquire other stuff to make it all line up. Also, this will eat up a TON of wall space displaying single deep before you factor in any kind of variants (and there are lots and lots of them). If you're not a variant hunter, chasing all those down will just burn your wallet and drive with things you aren't that deeply invested in now overtaking your life in numerous ways. For example, when getting into variants, how deep do you dive? The revisions/name changes/publisher changes/special pack-ins/game+merch or do you start getting all the games with their insert variations for Canada releases... cause that'll almost double the library. Oh, and don't forget those 'world' releases!

That ink can indeed be rubbed off as well as even lifted off by price stickers placed on the back of the carts. It's not a permanent ink by any means.

It was a late release for the system (10/19/2018, only 5 new games and 3 selects titles hit after that) had what felt like a smaller print run and was a one and done. I had a beast of a time chasing down a Canadian copy of the game and finally had to lean on a friend up north to chase one down for me due to a lack of hits on eBay and other places for longer than I was expecting. It also didn't help that it's name blends so much with the other Luigi's Mansion sequel, Dark Moon that the system got first that was in print for a long time and got a Selects run as well.

I've talked to Josh about that a few times over the years. There weren't a lot of games that they felt that they could get the developers to go back and get the work done that was needed to make a physical cart, plus there was a larger minimum order that they'd have to hit from the offset that also tempered things.

This was a TRU exclusive. Overall there were a small number of Lego 'big boxes' and all of them were exclusive to specific retailers. Additionally Lego Lord of the Rings had an exclusive version that mentions it comes with a exclusive in-game mini-fig (via code). If you've got it sealed you'll see a sticker on the insert. The insert itself has it's own UPC different from the standard release. I'm pretty sure that this exclusive version came from Target, as that's where I got mine when new. Lego Batman 3 - Keychain minifig - TRU Lego Chima: Lava's Journey - Keychain minifig - Walmart Lego Jurassic World - Minifig - Target Lego Marvel Avengers - Quinjet kit -TRU Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe In Peril - Keychain minifig - Target Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Poe's X-Wing kit - Target Both the Quinjet and Poe's X-Wing kits weren't exclusive kits, they're just the poly-bagged kits that were available for ~$5 at the time that you could find in stores Lego sections usually on endcap sidekicks. The 'big box' for those are the exclusives (and the fact that the game's inserts for those editions are Not For Resale version). The Dr. Wu minifig is also a polybagged fig. I don't know if it was sold in stores as some exclusive minifigs were at the time.

You've also got to remember that the second batch is usually a 30% drop for the total inventory since AM sale is their bigger one. So since this was a 1k/1k (1k regular, 1k 'LE') they likely went 700/300 for both of them. And that's not including the lost item hold back OR those that were slated for mega bundles. This wasn't going to be anything but insanely fast no matter how your looked at it with everyone gunning for it.

Unless you can double up by using GB/GBC/GBA boxes, they don't have a NGPC protector up on the site (I checked before posting last night).

They were/are made in the same factories that made them before, just Sony no longer has nor has stores of the 'black' bottom discs in a number of years, and the requirements for a PS1 game to be on those discs is gone. Square gets them on silver bottoms because that's all there is. It's the same reason they don't come with the security sticker on them. Sony dropped that as a US requirement for games back in May of 2005 during the PS2 lifespan, and thus anything released after that for any of the North American systems no longer came with the security sticker. These games have gone 'out of print' and come back later a number of times over the last few years. Square isn't sitting on a factory load, but they're likely not producing more than whatever a minimum run is and hasn't since they began getting them made for their store and do it when they deplete the store quantity and decided if they're going to do another run.