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Analogue Duo is the answer here edit: unless it’s that little gear that always breaks or a cable that needs reseating

My only gripe with the NES weekly contest is all the rules. The TG16 contest was cool because the rules were easy. I blame Skinny with his turtle hopping bs

My strat with this one since board pics on Famicom are impossible is to look for the ones that don’t have pristine labels. The other fakes have really obvious fake labels and some are missing the label on the back is what I’ve noticed thus far

Based on the offers I’ve been trying to make Japanese sellers on eBay you got a heck of a deal lol

I think @OptOut might be another overseas contact that may know of a local one for sale?

I have noticed since I’m playing TG16 more that the manual scans are not as readily available online like NES or SNES are. Some I can find and others I can’t

It’s definitely nice you have them all pretty much CIB. A lot of my set is loose and I had to store them in like card collecting binder so you can’t seem them in all their glory!

Oh yeah 100% a follower but to an extent. I never got on the sealed or graded train but I’m fully onboard the homebrew scene. I didn’t get into the collecting game early enough to where there was still like a bunch of unknown things like variant collecting. I like to think I got in before everyone and their mother was on the scene hitting up yard sales and what not and buying up every single game someone was selling. I like to think of collecting in eras like pre 2010, 2011-2016ish, 2017-2020, 2021-present. Pioneers to me are pre 2010 for sure and the 50/50s are 2011-2016 and everyone else that came onboard is a follower, which isn’t a negative term for me it just means a lot of history is uncovered at that point and all the weird stuff has been documented. I came in around 2014 so I’m probably still mostly a follower but early on the homebrew scene lol

Didn’t Mattel release the early games in Canada? Would make sense since I’ve seen an early SMB with a sticker seal but that box had French on it as well. I’d be on team Canada release on this one and it’s not sealed but still probably has value as a very very early Zelda release. All speculation of course maybe the keeper of odd variants knows? @ThePhleo

I can name like 3 I haven’t bought because of cost/lack of interest and then leave two slots open for the future? 1. Stadium Events to complete my NTSC US set 2. Magical Chase to complete TG-16 (I have the PCEworks but it isn’t the same 3. The SNES Life Fitness Exertainment dual cart - complete my SNES set 4. Slot for future use 5. Slot for future use edit: if I can’t reserve slots 4 would be a NWC gold and 5…hmmm

Jeez can you people just stop trying to right price games? Overpay and be happy at the opportunity!

Sweet! I haven’t seen another one like mine!

You’ve gone off the defensive end and completely misunderstood what I said. I wasn’t even talking about your games, I was just saying, as a joke, they all look suspicious to me in general hence the lol I understand that sometimes sarcasm doesn’t come across well as words but you need a chill pill my man

Depends on how much money is involved with the last 5 games. I have zero patience so I’ll likely just buy all 5 at once on whatever platform (probably eBay) and be done. If they are a lot of money I’ll spread it out over a couple months. Luckily when I finished most of my sets, down to the last 5-10, I had a good spread of game costs. It wasn’t like every game I need was $500+ Some people have really great patience and will take 3-5 years to get the last 5 games they need for sets. I envy them lmao

Saw that this is on the list for the NES weekly contest this year and wanted to grab a physical copy. The going rates on eBay seem a bit high so I was hoping people could chime in and speak on if they thought $600-$700 USD was a good rate. Also, if anyone has a legit one they’d like to part with I’m always down to deal. Or if @fcgamer or @Tanookiknow of one for sale local to them. eBay filtering didn’t really help me out for sold listings as it seems most people aren’t buying these and pricing charting seems to think the current listings are way overpriced. Anyway, all thoughts appreciated! Edit: Or is it stylized as Summer Carnival 92: Recca?

I’ve done all of them except order from Columbia House. I remember the first time using an always on internet connection (DSL) and being amazed on how you just launch internet explorer and boom internet.

I’m always suspect of prototypes, something just seems off on all of them to me lol I leave it to the big guns like @Code Monkey who collects these regularly and even he wasn’t immune to catching a fake one

Successfully recapped one I got on eBay today. Screen wasn’t displaying the game when loaded but it was on. Swapped mine out with radial caps. The old caps are pretty easy to remove with a reflow station. There were a couple that are hard to reach and that white insulation on those two caps is a pain to clear away partly to get to the caps. $325 for the non working one was expensive but a $6 cap kit from console5 and two hours of time probably saved me about $300 on a working one. Came with the OEM AC adapter as well.

Sent!

So it didn’t sell before but now you are back asking more than double the 2020 price?

Recca is definitely a cool addition and going to seriously test my having to play every game on its legitimate physical medium ideology lol

I’m not apart of the club but y’all should make chili one week

Oh no it flew to me lmao I think it’s something like a 20 flight from NY to Japan haha

18,770 213,260 - man the person you are chasing really takes a beating. I was all over it and got him on fire but he still kept going lol 232,270 - basically if you spin out twice against the runner give up cause there isn’t enough time to catch back up. If you spin out twice before spotting him give up as well 301,850 - Select for the turbos helps but isn’t great. Made a bust in the first level and didn’t even get close in the second level so I’ll call it a day on this one I only played till the first time I run out time, I was considering that game over

The best Zelda knockoff - Crusader of Centy! Is it worth those thousands of dollars?? Tune in at 6