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I think the worst part of this is trying Tetris pack the box back up for shipping lol

2 minutes ago, A_Feisty_Pickle said:

I'll be there as a first timer. Not looking forward to an 11 hour drive but it's the closest big expo for me. I've been to smaller shows like Retropalooza, Mo Game Con, Super Bit-Con (RIP), so I'm excited to see how a big show is!

Holy crap an eleven hour drive! You are a trooper

Just booked up a hotel room and a Saturday only ticket for this event. Shit better be crazy cause $60 for a one day pass is expensive! At least I don’t have to fly for this one it’s about a 3 hour drive from me. Midwest Gaming Convention is less than a month away so I’m excited for that as well. I think next year I’m going to hit a west coast event.

Anyone else headed to this one?

Well that’s a bummer I went to play my new adventure island hucard and the shit doesn’t work. Goddamn 30+ year old games!

Are there plans to get a US distributor? $85 for a CIB with shipping is a bit steep for me. 

Field of Dreams. Man Costner made great baseball movies ️ 

52 minutes ago, Red said:

I'd like to join you on this if I can get my TurboGrafx-CD working.  I bought  a broken one years ago and never made an attempt to get it repaired.  It powers on fine, but the disc doesn't spin.  Hopefully it's an easy fix.

Analogue Duo is the answer here

edit: unless it’s that little gear that always breaks or a cable that needs reseating

13 minutes ago, SuperJimtendo said:

Super mario bros 3 up first. Last time was a total bloodbath. Looking forward to what the rule set will be 

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

3 minutes ago, Brickman said:

Yep it’s why I haven’t picked up one. Just too much money to risk from pictures on the internet.

If you can find someone who bought it 5+ years ago you should be fine but anything in the last few years is risky imo. Unless you know the seller of course.

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

32 minutes ago, SteelGeneral said:

Just to add a recent data point, I paid $415 for a legitimate loose Recca a few months ago from Retro Taku in Detroit. I also bought Spriggan, Crisis Force and a few other games from them (Apparently a major collector in the area passed, and the collection ended up being traded in there).

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? 

36 minutes ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

I tried really hard to make sure I at least got manuals with everything. Only missing 4 manuals

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 

1 hour ago, Crabmaster2000 said:

I dont think Ive ever actually pulled the entire collection off the shelf for a photo so here's a glamour shot of the full collection now that's its been beaten.

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! 

6 hours ago, Mydogsrule said:

I posted a bunch of mine on EBay.  I’m curious what makes you think it’s fake?  All are 100 percent legit.   Post like these are unfair to people trying to sell games.  Granted those that actually understand prototypes will know mine are legit but still this post is annoying.  Many of mine came from Jason Wilson(Dreamtr) who had a ton from working for a magazine company back in the day.  I also got a lot from another person who obtained most of their prototypes from the same person.  These aren’t fake. I’ve collected for years and put in a lot of time and effort to obtain some of the things I managed to get over the years.  I like unique and rare gaming items. I collect Prototypes and original video game artwork. That’s what I like.  Just because someone doesn’t understand what they are looking at doesn’t mean its all fake.  

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

11 minutes ago, DarkKobold said:

You've only got 5 games left to complete your X set. Maybe it's a CIB Gameboy collection, maybe it's every Battletoads game ever made, or maybe it's a supergrafx set (which means you have zero supergrafx games). 

What do you do? Do you start throwing money around like it ain't no thang? Do you get frustrated? Do you advertising what you need on forums, twitter, instagram and onlyfans? How do you go about life when you're so close to a goal? 

(I made this thread partially in jest, because I got excited thinking this is what the other thread was about.) 

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. 

2 minutes ago, RH said:

I've been informed the box is heading my way!

@a3quit4s send me your address, and I'll get the box to you ASAP, once it arrives.  Thanks!

Sent!