Nintendopower4ever

10 hours ago, FenrirZero said:

 

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.

3 hours ago, FenrirZero said:

Since we are talking about companies like Wata and CGC, they use pre-made cases. Which itself has the issue become both who was inserting the game into the case and if they are trying to meet a quota. And seeing that a lot of their mistakes were tied to the Colorado location (which is a state I used to live in, thus not being shocked by this), it sounds like at least one of the people in charge of casing these games chose to put quantity over quality. Which tells me that the new owners included this in part of their post-move shake-up.

However... If we were talking about CGA, UKG, or CAS... I would have said it was probably more of a miscalculation on the fabricator's end. Just because I had that happen when I used both CGA and CAS for two different submissions. With the last one being tied to the fact I paid a 7-day turnaround, and it was getting close to a major holiday.

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

17 minutes ago, Foxhack said:

It'd be too difficult to explain, but this city has a very high break-in and home invasion problem. I've managed to avoid that because no one -knows- I have a gaming collection. I've kept to myself, never posted anything online, and so on.

And yes, I did see your message. And yes, I didn't reply to it.

Eh, I probably am. Since selling this thing might be the only way I can raise enough money to move to another state... I'm a bit concerned. Sorry.

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

1 hour ago, Avgn Gamer said:

I had a brain fart, there is a different print that has SNS-A7RE-LTN. That is the version I'm referring to

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

2 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

What was his name?

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!
 

On 1/13/2023 at 7:31 PM, Gloves said:

"The WATA team is also attempting to retrieve the game to ensure it is removed from our holder and the certification is voided. "

Lol good fuckin' luck.

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!

8 minutes ago, tidaldreams said:

is that super metroid? you shoulda graded that and dump on HA i think just one of those sold for like 4k or something

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

3 hours ago, jonebone said:

THere was a case of MM3 NP mags on ebay earlier this year, I was the under bidder.  Think it was about 12 to a case and went around $300 but my memory may be off.  So I'd expect 12 9.0 or higher copies coming out which is a lot for CGC NP mags because the demand outside of the first few issues drops off sharply.  

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

3 minutes ago, tidaldreams said:

biggest loss in one month ever???

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

 

3 hours ago, CodysGameRoom said:

Man, the way you guys talk it's like these guys aren't experts at all...

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

On 5/20/2020 at 10:53 AM, acidjaguar said:

There is no direct correlation between issue numbers and card numbers unfortunately.  They were just put in randomly to the back of issues.  I would make a guess that there may be certain issue ranges that may contain higher number cards, but never dove into that theory.  

 

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.

 

49 minutes ago, inasuma said:

kenneth doesn't grade at wata these days. stopped at the end of april i believe. so it's more likely the current staff are going off whatever knowledgebase existed after he left.

also, this was painful to read lol

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

26 minutes ago, inasuma said:

kenneth doesn't grade at wata these days. stopped at the end of april i believe. so it's more likely the current staff are going off whatever knowledgebase existed after he left.

also, this was painful to read lol

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