Nintendopower4ever

Yeah crazy like I expected lol I just asked you what you meant about not being "shocked" about that a game being overgraded or damaged post grade here in Colorado has to do with anything because "you lived here" I've collected sealed games for over 20 years and cards, coins, etc before that and can do a pretty good a job just eyeballing things as to what grade something should get and of course you should have pregrading photos. lol It's not rocket science.

Not much of what you post ever makes sense, but I was curious what you mean when you say you aren't "shocked" that the damaged overgraded games were graded here in Colorado compared to somewhere else because you used to live here? lol

Madden '93 was the same way with a -1 and even a -2 revision where they added the '93 https://www.ebay.com/itm/314397907571 https://www.ebay.com/itm/394487833309

It was printed both ways. There is a -1 revision with '93 on the top label https://www.ebay.com/itm/185769122079

My city is a shithole too. I would probably never do a local deal either, but I've done multiple 5 figure ebay sales. I'm just saying it might take longer than you think to work out a deal for a price you like and you need the most people you can get to see it to be able to buy it. Good luck!

I feel like you're overthinking this lol If it's niche but you think it's really valuable, then you are going to have to market it and ebay's the best place for getting people to view it. You can always list it high and take offers and then work out some kind of local deal or take the buyer here or somewhere else to make the sale, but selling fees and shipping costs are deductible anyways if you do sell it on ebay or with paypal and have to pay taxes.

All of the the copies of player's guides guides and Nintendo Power magazines I've bought that were used at NOA or directly from Game Play Counselors just had their desk numbers written on the front cover in black marker

I wouldn't scrape the original label off just for a replacement label. It's not that bad

I’d say it’s probably close to 50/50 with the Latin and US versions from what I’ve seen. Neither version is rare and the Latin version is much more common sealed

Mega Man 7 was only Made in Mexico

rpgarcana. He was into making reseals and even went as far as starting a fake grading company if I remember correctly. lol I see an old digitpres thread https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?141731-RPGArcana-(video_game_quality)-must-be-reported-constantly!

I remember this guy! He was always doing shady shit and was a known scammer on Nintendoage over 10 years ago. Pretty sad if he extorted a bunch of money out of them to just to buy it back lol

Nice Prototypes!

No metroid II for game boy. It was all beat to shit on all 4 corners and I only paid $20 for it, and I have like 2000 SNES games and 5000 Nintendo Powers to sell and don't need to spend 100K on grading just to hope I can maximize every penny like you noobs, so I don't mind leaving a little meat on the bone for someone else lol

Yeah I've seen a few of those for #20 opened and sold individually over the years just like the 12 issue sealed bundle of #31s I just sold for $2500 lol I still see the back issue 1-50 sets you could buy from the order from in issue #50 occasionally and smaller bundles of back issues people never even opened. Funny thing is those are mostly #1-6 and #6-12 sets so there's tons of high grade early issues out there

Both of those are stupid. Nintendo kept reprinting the early issues and selling them as back issues for like 10 years lol

I've never used Brasso for games, but I really like Weiman's glass stovetop polish on a q-tip for rusty or corroded contacts and then clean them up with alcohol afterwards and they are so bright and clean and it doesn't seem very abrasive. I remember seeing it recommended all the time back when I first joined Nintendoage like 15 years ago and still have my original bottle. It works great! lol

Both of my Factory sealed copies had V-seams. That came from a member here and I want to say he submitted a few unused games sealed like this when WATA first started and they graded them as sealed with a 3rd party seal, but I don't know how they do that nowadays.

Of the top of my head there's a Street Fighter II Turbo and Aladdin VHS for Super Nintendo that I know of

They dropped the ball when they started up by using guys who only knew NES just try to wing it with everything else. All they had to do was put a call out to the nerds who built the Nintendoage databases for years who were actual experts on each system and they would have built their database for free. Instead they chose to add people like a friend who was a ban happy mod on NA who I never saw with any actual collecting knowledge onto anything to their "board of experts" and who tried to enrich themselves by pumping common EA sports games' values lol

I just noticed this! lol When I was helping a bunch of people complete their sets a few years ago that needed the hard to find higher number cards, I figured out to look in one issue because it (#66 DKC?) actually was the only issue that had the sheet with all of the cards everyone needed on it, so it was actually very issue specific!

I know this is advanced SNES collecting and no one cares, so I'll just break it down and simplify it for anyone (including grading companies) who might be confused and leave it here. NES games are literally collected and graded by seal of quality, REV-A, hangtab, matter or gloss sticker, round or oval seal of quality, number of screws, etc. , so this deserves to be mentioned. It''s pretty basic and any good variant collector should get it and all you have to do is read the back of the box on a sealed copy lol They are like the Playtronic or Gradiente releases and would never count in an NTSC -USA complete set and shouldn't be grouped together or graded as such. Aero the Acro-Bat 2 -USA was only Made in Japan and all parts coded -USA The Latin games' parts are all coded -LTN except the generic inserts which are the same and they didn't come with posters or registration cards like the -USA versions would have had.

Also, if you have any idea what I'm talking about you would see the problem with WATA grading Latin versions of games like Mega Man 7 and Captain Commando where both versions were made in Mexico and the Latin version is much more common sealed and I've seen a few listed into the 5 figures. Heritage auctions literally claimed there was only one production run and there are no variants with one of the misgraded Latin versions they auctioned! Who at WATA wrote that description last year??? lol "Mega Man 7 - Wata 8.0 B Sealed, SNES Capcom 1995 USA. There's pretty much only one production run for this game as far as variants are concerned! All copies were produced in Mexico. Produced by Tokuro Fujiwara. Released as a sequel to Mega Man 6, but was released after Meg Man X. Cover art by Greg Winters. Video game for Super Nintendo Entertainment System." https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/mega-man-7-wata-80-b-sealed-snes-capcom-1995-usa/a/7261-29100.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

What was painful to read? Even if he did stop grading, he still had 2 years to fix the error of grading Latin games as USA games with the wrong region code after we discussed it and never corrected the issue. I know he was always an NES guy so I tried to help them because I actually do know SNES pretty well lol

I just noticed that Kenneth still has absolutely no idea what he's doing with grading the Made in Mexico -LTN region Super Nintendo games after we discussed it in great detail on here over 2 years ago that they are NOT USA version and are NOT -USA Code and he tried to argue with me about them grading them as USA versions. I can still see they are grading them wrong as May 2022 from the date on the back of the case lol https://www.ebay.com/itm/284861148045