Nintendopower4ever

2 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

Tool and die / material costs are probably waayyy higher than it would be worth it for a super limited amount of specific cases. How many sealed carmen sandiegos are floating around? Even if there are 1000 waiting to grade, they would probably only break even if that. 

I have both of them for sealed SNES and they are actually two different sizes! lol

2 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

 

I like Deniz and Kenneth and I don't mind grading and authenticating collectibles in general. I don't really care what they grade but keep it consistent. It's like when they first started and were grading reseals as NS. It all just confuses the noobs lol
 

7 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Just out of curiosity, did they call out the box as reproduction?

Yeah it was on the label. It was one of those comic speculator guys, (redhoodcomics I think it was) that burned out fast and faded away back to the shadows. They wanted like $7-800 and then pulled the ebay listing after they probably got tons of hate about it lol

30 minutes ago, Link said:

It's authentic! They were hired to grade the condition and that is what they did. Nothing wrong with that!

What made me laugh is they give a pretty high percentage of the overall grade to the box (40% maybe?) with CIBs and the cart and manual were shitty (6/6.5 ish), but the repro box score brought the overall total grade up to like a 7.5 or 8 with a 9+ on the box lol

I thought it was interesting when they graded a SNES Super Mario All-Stars + Mario World as a CIB with the original cart and manual mixed with a reproduction box because the game was only ever a system pack-in? lol

final fight guy is fine. they are all made with the white paper stock like that

4 minutes ago, phart010 said:

Uh oh.. Those are erasable chips there. They would be susceptible to bit rot.

I think Limited Run or retrobit did a reprint of this game. I wonder if the reprint is the same data as this version or if this one is unique. May want to make a copy of this game for preservation 

Yeah I know and I think that sleazy Piko bought the rights to this and a bunch of Kemco games and I really hope he just reprinted the broken game without fixing the glitches everyone complained about for years lol
That's why I started this thread and was mostly just curious if anyone else knew about this and dumped this version to compare them. Yes I have prototypes and stuff like Test Carts and the MACS carts and I know about the chips and like I said there are other copies out there and I don't dump games
 

Right around the time Nintendoage died, Kemco liquidated all of their old stock of SNES games through Seattle Goodwill on Ebay.

There were nothing but mint factory sealed games and maybe 10 unused but not factory sealed copies of Dragon View which I thought was kind of strange. A member who won a copy started a topic about the weird prototype looking board after they noticed how heavy the cartridge was. I guessed all of the Goodwill Dragon View copies would be like this and the auctions were still happening, so I put in a big bid to investigate and ended up winning the last copy for really cheap lol

When it came in the mail, I could tell right away the cartridge was a lot heavier than a normal copy too and was the same board from the NA topic when I opened it.
Those 2 brothers who claimed they found the brown power Fentanyl or whatever it was in an NES game guessed it might have been a revision for a known game ending glitch that made the game unplayable towards the end and Kemco might have been sending out replacement copies to people that complained directly to them, but I've never seen any evidence of that happening. I think their NA names were something like Crzoe and Ichisan? 

I don't play RPGs or dump games so I'll never play it and figured I would revive this from the dead and maybe someone else might have new ideas or information or just enjoy the oddity too!
 

Just ebay being ebay. They said they wanted to customize searcher for buyers a few years ago when they started charging sellers more to pay for promoted listings that would get more guaranteed traffic. Sometimes I can't even find my own listings with their search results and even try using multiple accounts with different settings lol

Congrats!
I know it's blasphemy, but way too many RPGs and Street fighters in your top 100 for me personally because I don"t like any of them lol They all seem exactly the same, but I do like the artwork and know they are what most people feel nostalgic about remembering SNES

I appreciate the hard work and effort and you actually completing the project

Sell the loose carts, any duplicates, and then reinvest the money on new games like I wish I had done?

I started out doing a loose SNES cart collection to play like 20 years ago, then went to piecing together CIBs just so I could look at the boxes and manuals too. Then I ended up having to collect sealed because some games I could never find 100% complete, so I have at least 3 copies of most games with up to maybe 10 copies each once I got more condition sensitive lol

I just kept it all and will probably never have much time to ever get around to playing through much of it and it sucks having tons of duplicates when I could have added a lot more variety to my collection when things were cheap

3 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

I imagine you could theoretically make one using an existing blank Nintendo board like the one used above and pop a primo game on there, an existing beta mind you though, which would devalue it some, but hey it's a sneaky option.  Get a cheap board/proto off someone that doesn't work, pull the chip, get another old stock one from the era, put something like a harvest moon beta or whatever people would lose their minds over, and pop it up for sale.  Everything about the labels, stickers, etc are generic as hell, so unless someone is going to like microscope and litmus test the papers, glues, and inks to call bullshit, it's really down to trust.

Not everything is about money lol

I've only ever found mine in the wild, so that's why you document the discoveries as much as possible for down the road like I just did. I wouldn't buy an expensive one that I didn't know a little of the history where it came from so that does matter.

I bought this Redline F-1 Racer Prototype on Amazon for $9 back before pictures on there existed, but they described the homemade labels perfectly in their description with the Please Return to Absolute, so I think I printed a copy of the seller's description and might still have it, but that's all the documentation there was.
 

On 9/9/2022 at 8:54 AM, Nintendopower4ever said:

 

It came in the mail today and looks just like my Sonic Blast Man Proto and all the other SNES Taito protos, but the screw holes were filled.

I love finding poorly listed protos when I'm not even looking!  lol

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385092322023

16 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

Yeah that may be the case, but I really don't want to eat the cost for an original going $120-150 range, it's still legit, just hiding under a ninja cloak basically.

Dude, again, stop, this isn't about your personal issues and venting, I was looking for suggestions where to go with it, not on artistic license.  And pulling out monkey faced jeebus like there's even a sliver of similarity there is just bait and looking for people to come to your side/rescue in here.  The other is thousand+ years old one of one some fool mangled who was paid to do a basic cleaning style job.  This is a video game of no real intrinsic or historical value in the slightest produced in mass for mass consumption, not a holy relic, though by your behavior somehow it does seem a bit holy for you in some shadow way which is a bit disturbing.  Why leave it, because it was ruined, it was jacked up bad, barely intact over a decent chunk of it hanging on.  The options really were to leave it to fall apart with the moldy mess around it, pull the board, and dip the whole plastic shell in dawn soap after a good alcohol disinfection and let it soak until everything just fell away, or do carefully clean it up, seal the damaged edges, and fill in the blanks.  I went in saving what I could and making the best of a bad situation.  That is it.

Perhaps, yeah. I don't really want a conversation piece to have a 1:1 conversation over with myself in time.   Use is it, SNES is what I largely use now to play when I'm in the mood, so it'll get played.  With shipping these days, and it having a unique back, $10 shipped or bought local is about bottom and that's to get another shell and do as you said, repop label.  Cheapest way out really, then find a thrashed X3 cart and stuff the game in this touched up one I have now.  That probably is the path of least resistance financially speaking.  I wouldn't even be engaging in this if prices weren't such crap, even if they are retracting well now, because I used to have all the MM titles on SNES and I'd like them back, just not to the tune of like what $700~ for MMX2 X3 and 7.

You're the one posting walls of text full of personal attacks raging against some invisible enemy just like the the old days lol I don't care what you do. Just don't pretend like you did something noble when it was fine as is.

Might as well have just scraped off the X3 label and printed up a new X2 label for it and called it good?

1 hour ago, Tanooki said:

I didn't ask your opinion on that restoration touch up now did I?  Not sure why you're being a primadonna about a thrashed sticker, but it's pretty sad.

Your suggestion though at least could be done, the MMX3 sticker was jacked up, badly, otherwise I wouldn't have.  Not everyone is out seeing dollar signs in their eyes over a sticker, might be something you need to look inwardly on if that upsets you so much, about what your interests really are.  It's a solid touch up job, and I could have gone further as I did with a Ranger-X on Genesis that had paper missing too, might still yet, I can create a paper patch for that hole on the bottom with an hours work.

This post was about options where to go, not to derail and bitch n' whine about a sticker of all things.  Take it elsewhere.

lol I'm not upset and it wasn't about money? You damaged something authentic that you can't undo. There used to be a guy who ruined every game he resold on ebay like that and I just used to laugh at his bad touchup jobs too

It goes for anything that has stayed original and authentic after all this time. Why not just leave it as found?
I would have told you the same thing if you polished a coin or taped pages back in a book and I always think of this

I was gonna say just throw the X2 in a generic FX shell like Stunt Race shell and trade or sell the X3 shell because it had a halfway intact and decent label for X3, but I saw what you did with that horrible touch-up job! lol
Why would you do that??? 

On 6/22/2022 at 11:31 AM, BirdDogGaming said:

This must be what you were referencing. 

Yeah that's one of the small box variants. This is the other one, but it has a mismatched manual pictured and other inserts that didn't really come with it. Hudson edited the manual down for the small box reprint without the multitap


 

Haters gonna hate

I don't like that lukiegames wins almost every auction on ebay and then they have shitty employees that just grip and rip stickers on the front labels on games you should know that doesn't work with and then toss everything they trash into their 25 cosmetically flawed game lots. Funny thing is that JJgames used to win all of those auctions and it was probably 99% of his inventory for years

DKoldies has always been good to me and quick to respond to questions I had

12 minutes ago, Khromak said:

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff so take this with a gigantic grain of salt but...presuming it was a Blockbuster exclusive and taking that as a fact, wouldn't the games still be sealed when they arrived at Blockbuster? You'd think for protection, they'd still shrink wrap them.

Maybe some Blockbuster got 100 copies of the game, opened 90 of them, and 10 remain in sealed condition somewhere in the world.

Again don't take this for gospel, just a random theory I thought of, food for thought.

Yeah they always came sealed to blockbuster and then the employees would cut the wrap open with box cutters and slap security stickers all over everything. I have some Blockbuster boxes with razor cuts literally on all 4 sides plus the front. Very few sealed games escaped their wrath lol

Does anyone else have one with a V-seam or remember much about the release? Was it a Blockbuster exclusive to start like some of the N64 games then followed by a regular release?
This ad straight up says it was a blockbuster exclusive around the time of the World Championships Tournament lol



I see WATA only has this unsealed NS 7.0 in their population report that Bryan just sold which doesn't make any sense and I have never seen one besides mine I bought from Pink Gorilla Games in Washington state on Amazon years ago and wonder if it maybe came from someone on the inside with Nintendo

https://www.ebay.com/p/4554?iid=274974556627

 

There's 3 versions of Super Bomberman for SNES. As far as I know, the Party Pack was the first print and the 2 small box versions are the variants.

Found this today going through boxes, but I know I have another copy of #20 with 3 posters for some reason? Must have been common with that issue lol

 

On 5/17/2022 at 5:25 PM, TheBiRD said:

 

Well here's the guy who bought that Lufia II guide if anyone here knows them lol

https://www.ebay.com/sch/pau-mccar/m.html?_trksid=p3692

OCD's MTS did pretty good!
$8601.00 4/20/2022

https://www.ebay.com/itm/294923633939