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Same here I see the same parcel mail choice. Also look at what showed up just below it in the related area... the same system but in Arabic?! Check the images: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125205138195

Technically, almost 100% chance it's just stolen property and the "owner" of the prototype doesn't actually own the file, had the rights to obtain or own it, transfer it, duplicate, anything. They own at best what hardware the prototype rests on, but the files are utterly illegal to even have as they're the IP owners property being trafficked illegally here. Uncomfortable truth, unless said proto owner paid for the rights or utter ownership(like Piko Interactive does) that most people love to just conveniently ignore completely. Buying a prototype without getting it from the actual legal owner is no better than buying black market goods out of the back of a truck in some alley.

Same here I want to, but being broken, and getting into a pissing match is not what I want to do. I'd really like to get this, do a tear down, check it out, see if it is repairable, and more so very very curious about both the multicarts contents but also if this is just something with a molding change or stickers/something over what probably is an only unit using the same mold.

It would be fun to be able to see the whole life story bit other than spread out interview tidbits in old publications and all that, if it stays true, as it would be a nice short entertaining watch with some shocking bits and good laughs. And since it's not netflix it won't get canceled and complained about almost immediately either.

Removed GB cases, removed CIB GB battery, removed Zoids GB. Other minor edits. Anyone want to trade?

Yeah it's a real fake fake, you know, an authentic reproduction. It's the corinthian leather of famiclones clearly. Just remember where the blame gets laid on this one this time.

It has been a little while, and my turn. I wanted to get this all sorted out with things coming anytime in the mail and just some good local luck once more in a couple places. To start off, the left side, that was yesterday afternoon a straight trade for the GB dust cases I stored away, a dozen GB manuals, and a jp gb cart so I'm very pleased with that swap out. I went from stored stuff I had virtually nothing into to 2 quality SNES games, and three others people either love or hate. OOTW I got second hand in the late 90s, the other 2 I got at retail new, Zombies I've had before, Battletoads is new to me. The right side, first two came from a peddlers mall spent over 2 days $35 between the two, was looking for Mickey as I've always had #1 and got #3(SFC) recently, Hudson there was new to me. The 3 SFC games, same guy as last time from Japan, always more than fair price and great care of packing and product quality (Lupin, Gundam Wing, Goemon 2.) Thunder Spirits (aka Thunder Force AC arcade port) is really awesome, never had that before got it online for 40% less than average. And the last is my first megadrive game, that's Magical Taruruuto-kun, a cartoony well animated colorful solid platforming game from Game Freak, yeah, the pokemon people a couple years before that was born. Then finally the last one in its own image. I got this online, came out a year or two ago and it usually sells around the $75 mark for the JP or US version, got this new for $46. It's Neko Tako, a fantastic shorter game, handles largely like an early/mid 90s arcade game. Wrangle the fish needed per stage, grab coins to buy helpful perks, punish the kitty thieves. It's a limited release, not sure how many copies, but I've seen a number just over 1500. It won't stay new, was bought to be played with.

Very good setup, don't see my copy though. Was RocmanX included in this edition? Love to see the page on that one.

Yeah like my copy of Quake on the orders page says In Production, but within is now not red but yellow for in warehouse, and days ago got a mail about get your shipping address right now before it's too late. They'll either sit on it for a month or a week, never can tell, as it never makes sense.

The simple answer would be start of retail date somewhere in the world, latest end of retail date somewhere in the world. Some things are more clear cut, and others get really messy like the Master System which TecToy kept going for too many years after the MK3/SMS failed in NTSC markets, overseas PAL too. Do we say the SMS lasted 6 years(US/JP) or do we ignore the fact Brazil still makes/sells the units today? There really isn't a set life, it gets way way too muddy on the back end. It's like real life employment if you think about it. Someone enters the workforce at 18, so called 'retirement' at 65 years old, and off into the sunset. Yet consoles like old people, they're not just dead and gone, they're still supporting places if they don't retire, and they also have a life span and interest that goes years on after until the eventual death of the person(and the console death would be end of repair from the maker.) Even then like an old person, they pass but the memory lives on and impact continues where they were into the future. I know it's weird and I just thought it up, but it oddly fits.

@fox So on a scale of a type of game like that, SA2 on a scale from 0-10 (10 being Super Metroid) would fall in around a 3, lite touch, but nothing too outrageous, kind of like Castlevania II if that, but definitely more than Demon's Crest pulled off. These days $90-100 is about where it sits which isn't as awful as a lot of solid SNES games sadly are now. And while you're right, they're not making them much for SNES sadly. I did get I guess it's a homebrew today for the system though, but it's more of like an early 90s arcade style game with light shopping mechanics.

That image he has though, unless it's a visual trick of the camera seems to have a slight inward bowing of the back plate of the cartridge slot on the adapter. If that is the real deal there and not the angle of it, that's some hit-miss garbage going on there that caused it to compress in enough to scrape the inset label on the GG cart face.

I can agree with that, I'm holding out for a copy to pop up locally. The funny yet sick thing is, I have 2nd attack and it's so much better but stylized the same, the sick being the horrid price of entry I thankfully largely dodged just a few years ago. I didn't like it then paying $80 but when it was at times pushing $300 even like 4 years ago it was an easy grab. I had been tempted to sell it but it's just too good. Mischief Makers, got it when it was new. I've had it once or twice since, but the end result is I get demotivated badly by it and just stop. The ending is great, but it's also held hostage to a large number of gold gems you have to go out of your way, more often not doing some pro league level moves to get at just so you can complete the story. It was a 100% dick move on their part. And if we're taking swings at Treasure...don't forget Bakaretsu Muteki Bangaioh is on N64 and that game we got denied, unless you had a Dreamcast. I'm glad I have that one.

Mine is in the mail from playasia still along with Chrono Cross, so whenever it appears I'm fine. I hate to say it not in a hurry. I have Lodoss War to do first anyway and I'm neck deep in the 16bits right now...so this is about the long game it appears.

I did go by that place again on the way to pick the kid up from school and grabbed it. I guess i just need to figure it out, the stages aren't too bad, but you have to watch how you land as that forward foot doesn't mean it doesn't pass through the floor into a lava pit or something. And I have not figured out the first boss, I mean I could cheat with the faq, don't want to. It's not bad, worth the price at least. I think the 2nd one would be a lot of fun but that price...

A mix of me cutting myself off from ebay has helped a lot with the apathy over the toxic bs going on, along with doing like 95% of my domestic snes/genesis buying locally has helped a LOT... I'm motivated to use the stuff.

That's the train I'm on...well it's more I guess like the train wreck image you can't not look at. One train is SNES/SFC the other is Genesis/MD. I'm buying/trading into both, and actively using them more evenings/days than not so far and trying to stick to it. Currently the time sink more than random play is Final Fantasy II, been probably 10-15 years since I seriously attempted it. Last night did both mountains, Cecil is a paladin, slapped around Yang to get the Baron key then parked it. It's a bit of the reason I'm also releasing more stuff into trades/pp on here or cash locally, get rid of a lot more, get notably less in return that costs a bit more than I care to spend so it's a win win.

That's 100% BS...you got someone making fakes with an eeprom burner and hiding the fact. Legit Sega boards have this number on the primary chip (4 digits) after a MPR before it, they're not gated like that. Sega also brands their boards kind of like Nintendo did. So it looks like someone found a compatible board, jerked a cheap game off it, flashed the game and soldered it in there to make it seem semi-legit. Returns allowed or not, one snap of that board with a simple explanation and ebay would force it for selling counterfeit goods with intent to deceive. Actually @a3quit4s you should trust the PCB, it's the only Sega part involved here other than maybe the shell too. I surprised myself with this one, the awful VGPC has a use, people put legit PCB pictures there and I had no idea, this came off a google image search. This is the board

$90-100 unless you like paying more for impatience.

So fun but nothing special is what I'm getting here. Given it seems to be around $25 shipped on ebay, $5 off isn't such a bad deal locally if it's still there. And sorry there @Reed Rothchild years of your work and I forgot to even think of that. It was only just in the last couple of months I stopped ignoring the system (and genesis) for some years now. My new angle I feel like sticking to it buying 16bit games locally, rarely online anymore as it's just nasty and demotivating. But not just buying, playing, buying to play so that's why I made the thread. I'll read your notes but given the numbers it looks like a higher contender in both cases. I've added more SNES/SFC and Genesis games to my shelf this year than I have in the last 5-7 years easily.

Pretty infuriating. Largely due to fcgamers interest I was too, very curious about it but largely the cart and well the box just because. Whoever talked to this guy to spin this into an ebay boner sucks. I hope it stalls out where it rests as it is broken, so the value largely is the cart if it's not just some $10 junk resticker thing of another multi of that time since the game count matches a known one. This could just be paying $100 for a paperweight and a boring stock cart with a special sticker on it for that odd box. Major investment property right there.

I recently bumped into a copy of it at a local consignment shop for $20 but left it there. I didn't have long to look and what I got off gamefaqs was a mixed bag of comments that didn't make a lot of sense, elsewhere either the little I did see. Is the game divisive for quality and fun? I saw a range of its boring and lacking because of less weapons and no monsters to ride, to being a whole lot of fun as it goes back to the core game and isn't too bad, still retaining the one hit deaths and his ever declining health timer. I get the timer, chunky Higgins there with his blood sugar bar has to keep eating or goes into a diabetic shock and dies, fair enough. The sequel though it's far more expensive on a level of like 5x the price, but it looks like they did a whole bunch of unique things, sort of a lighter Super Metroid style thing with a map, RPG elements, gear. I'm looking to pop for stuff largely locally I have not had before that isn't insane in price so I figured I'd ask if it's worth the bother.

So you want the SNES dimension template, but the full sticker to basically be the SFC art with I guess the top flap being well...something since it didn't exist there.

@3rdStrongestMole The funny thing is, and I haven't gone much into it as it's challenging, the only honest part of the box is the back 3 screen captures from what I can see so far. I kind of wish the random fodder in the stages took less hits, it's a bit much, but it's more nicely done than not when playing. It's also testy, I think it wants maybe a specific famiclone, one of the 3 stages you can access to start has background glitching and while I'm using a hdmi modded top loader, it still is at its core using the original CPU/PPU so I don't think it's a factor as it looks glitched all over on my fc mobile 88 handheld. From what I got from fcgamer he seems to think it's just needing specific hardware I'm not going to go looking for.

Gloves is right, let this fester and grow before pulling the trigger. I'd call this 'in the hundreds' as undervalued for numerous reasons including that comment from LaC just above. This is kind of unseen unknown territory here as it's not the press kit but something far deeper. When this goes it's likely going to go to a KI and/or Nintendo nut who has to catch em all as any insane (to them) cost.