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Yes. That happened to me very recently with a game I was trying to import. I paid and went a week with no updates from my agent only to hear that the seller was missing the one game I was looking for. The price was still ok, but I try to avoid buying games just because they are cheap unless I'm actually interested in them, so I wound up cancelling my order. It didn't feel great to have that happen, but I guess it's better to get started on looking for the next copy than to dwell on the past

Buying that GP2000 PCE clone I showed off earlier was a mistake. It was way bigger than I realized, and while though it does not look like it, the body is metal. That thing costed a ton to ship. No point in getting rid of it now though

I haven't seen it and probably won't because of what I've heard about John Kricfalusi, but it sounds like it was a positive experience for a lot of people, so that's nice

I don't think I've ever dunked on a new collector, but I've definitely made suggestions when I saw things that I thought could be done better. Usually to the effect of "If you put in a bit more time and do X, Y, and Z you'll be able to get more stuff for cheaper". If they don't like the suggestion then I just move on. I will skim over posts I find uninteresting, but I think to some extent everyone does that I'm not at the point where I need to chase people away to reduce the competition...yet

Konami is a surprisingly common brand for oldschool pirate carts. They're built better than the cheapo stuff that you can get on aliexpress, and are a lot harder to find. You might be be able to get a little bit for it Here's a Tokopedia (Indonesian shopping website) listing with a couple types of "Konami" pirate carts https://www.tokopedia.com/zoomelektro/kaset-nes-adventure-island-doble-dragon-ninja-turtles-dll-puzzel-924f1?extParam=ivf%3Dfalse%26src%3Dsearch

I dug up the old picture of the flyer I mentioned earlier

Woah, those are really hard to come by. Did yours come with any pack in titles? Some old fliers for these show them being sold with unlicensed originals, but I never see them actually being sold with the carts Edit: Probably should have finished reading the post before reacting, that's my bad. Still really cool to see

Found this on eBay (as well as a copy of Night Arrow for Famicom). I'm not super huge on multicarts that don't have unlicensed originals on them, but this one is kinda neat. It is by the same company that did the Megacom and Supervision(?) multis for NES, which are some of the more popular multis to collect for the system. This is the only Genesis/Mega Drive one I'm aware of them making. It is taller and heavier than regular Genesis carts and has an unusually high game count for a Genesis multi...is what I would say but they actually just put a small handful of games on it and gave more menu options that let you skip further into the game. The game selection is still decent for a Genesis multi, but not some impossibly high number

Which Aladdin on Famicom? Aren't there three different ones

Seems to be a proto of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Punch_II

Perhaps a more flattering term than follower would be pilgrim. Going for an established full set is sort of like going on a long journey to a place of widely accepted significance, or in other words, a pilgrimage. The experience in this case would not be spiritual, though I think anyone who wants to make the trek all the way to the top of full set mountain would feel the experience was quite special, and would be able to have plenty of fascinating tales of their adventures along the way With that being said I don't think I'd ever want to reach the finish line on something like that, I'd get too attached to the journey. I'd keep finding excuses to keep going and keep on adding stuff to the list of games I am hunting (not that I have all that clear of goals in mind to begin with, I enjoy the mystery of knowing that there is more stuff I'd like, I just don't know what it is). Maybe I'll feel differently one day but those are my thoughts right now

How would you answer this?

Practice patience and confidence. If I can whittle a set down to just five games remaining, then I can probably find the rest organically. It might take a really long time, and it might take a lot of effort, but I feel that folding like a tin can and breaking whatever rules and mentality I had when getting the rest of the set would make the ending feel less special. That's not to say I wouldn't get creative and try and think of new ways to search for games, but if I upheld a principle when collecting, then the finish line is the last place I'd want to give up on it

This one isn't a North America release, but Street Heroes by Sachen has link cable support. There's other unlicensed fighting games that use it, but those were built on top of officially licensed Gameboy games, so they don't really count

With those kinds of rules I may as well swing for the fences and go for prototypes. If I could magically reach into the past and resurrect stuff that does not exist anymore (at least I don't think this one is still around) then I'd look for the oldest known video game (I think it's Draughts from 1952) and nab that as well. I already have plenty of games I enjoy playing That would be more of exploiting the rules of the question to get unobtainable stuff though. In terms of stuff that given enough time and effort I could realistically acquire I'd nab a few unlicensed games I've been looking for for a long time. Recently I found out some ex-Gamate/Super A'can developers made a Dream of the Red Chamber game for Sega Genesis, so maybe I'd throw that in as well

This seller has some old video game related letters they have saved listed. Not too long ago they sold one from Taiwan with some info on LCD games and Famicom multis, but this time they have listed some mail in flyers on Atari stuff https://www.ebay.com/itm/355373815107

I'd say that a series is a set of games in a franchise that have a clear sequential order (maybe not released in that order though), while a spinoff would be anything in a franchise that does not do that. I also tend to assume that for any franchise still getting games that the main series for it is ongoing SMB→SMB2J/SMB-USA→SMB3→SMB4 (SMW)→?→SMB Wonder There can be entire spinoff series for larger franchises. Like calling Megaman X a spinoff of the Megaman franchise, but it having its own series at this point What would be trickiest for me is when a franchise's main titles shift considerably in direction and the old style titles stop getting released. If Capcom stopped making classic games after releasing Megaman X and only released X games after that point, then I guess I'd acknowledge them as the main Megaman series

Nice selection. I really like the Megaman glitches. Have you heard of the Iceman stage glitch from Megaman 1? If you jump and rapidly change directions on a certain part of the stage it seems to have a bunch of weird effects (though it's unpredictable)

As someone who grew up playing Kirby games and is blinded by nostalgia for them, I wasn't huge on Dreamland 3 either

There's a pretty cool glitch that can only be done on the GBA version. Once you get all 96 exits you are able to press select and select levels on a menu to warp to their location on the map. If you do this the same frame you try to move on the map the game will then try to input that movement after it places you back on the map, which can allow you to move off of the normal paths. Most of the time this doesn't lead to anything special, but there are a couple of places where unused levels can be accessed

My straightforward answer would be Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky. I like the music in that game a lot more than the main series Pokemon games (though those games have solid music too) If I felt like cheating I'd go with Super Smash Bros Ultimate since it essentially has a bunch of other game soundtracks baked into it I also really like the Fusion Disk arranged soundtrack to Megami Tensei II, but that's for a game I haven't played, and its arranged so it doesn't really count I could listen to this all day though

Something I should probably mention is that the NES to SNES conversions are a bit wacky. The sound effects are all wrong. Here's a short clip of Super Mario Bros for reference

Three new pickups A possible sample plug and play: A lot of plug and plays on the market are/were published by a variety of different companies, each with their own alternate version. This would suggest that they are all just paying the same manufacturer to have their own version made. If this is the case, then perhaps those manufacturers have their own original version of their plug and plays, which they send out to companies interested in having their own version made. That's what I think this might be. It has very little branding on it (aside from the company name "All Star Marketing" on the box), and comes in a plain white box, and on top of that does not seem to be any of the usual customized versions of this PNP. This one just has generic version of hacks by Inventor (Strange and often humorous hacks that often appear on XB multicarts) Multicart with Shinobi demake: There used to be a company called Super Game that would do demakes of Mega Drive games for the Famicom. These were usually solid, though they obviously were trimmed down from the original versions. One of the devs behind Super Game, maxzhou88, later went on to work on a bunch of Anbernic devices. In Mainland China a popular nickname for Anbernic devices is Brother Zhou as a result Game Line multicart for Super Comboy: A multicart with 19 NES games converted to play on a SNES by an unknown means (this was way before Project Nested was a thing), plus a strange Christmas themed Tetris clone. It was made by the same people who published Bugtris. As far as Korean game cartridges go these are actually pretty affordable