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Only if you're talking about the famicom versions, then definitely. The NES versions with the rigged extra difficulty, more damage per hit, cheapo changed restart points on death near/the end of the game to middle finger renters was just evil. The SNES game may not have been as colorful and audio lovely as other stuff, but at least it was honest to the original source titles. As to other stuff I'd throw another vote for TMNT2, great arcade game, better NES game in ways with the added stages and stuff. I also thought the old NES Kung Fu port was more fun than the arcade as I had access to both for a little time. (Mike Tysons) Punchout NES vs the arcade games I found far better, sure they weren't as large, but there were far more fighters, better combat, more things just to do.

They're the real names, out supposedly holiday of this year, and I did see something about a double pack like the last games (the sorta remasters from DS) got.

I take it if I want to figure this out I need to get out a screwdriver and compare the two carts I have against bootgod I suppose. It's not vital I don't plan on getting that good at castlevania again anytime soon to break stuff for a laugh.

https://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts/datasheet/272/27C1000-10-pdf.php Chip is from around 2003 roughly 1m-bit [128k x 8] CMOS Eprom So that's about a 20 year old chip there because that document is rev1.3 from 2003. Depending when 1.0-1.2 came out there you go roughly speaking. That bootleg is 20 years old.

What are those 2 Mega Drive games, tempting...

Oh this is fun... but I don't think we need a tldr situation here either so I think I'll list a few for whatever box and you can do the work (or someone else can agree and give reasons.) I will add for technology though, this will range from anything from just base system tech like your Pilotwings pickup with the DSP chip to something nuts with a special chipset in there. A - Staying away from US release too easy. So... Macross Scrambled Valkyrie, Parodius (Trilogy), Twinbee (shooter and Rainbow Bell Adventure platformer), pick your first party franchise game C - Instantly comes to mind would be Mortal Kombat 1 and then 2, but also Doom (Doom also fits for technology), Clock Tower, Psycho Dream D - EVO, Earthbound, Legend of the Mystical Ninja(Ganbare Goemon), Parodius trilogy again, Clock Tower again too. E - Starfox 1 & 2, Doom, Pilotwings, Axelay(high res mode rolling background), Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mario RPG and Kirby's Dreamland 3, Parodius 3 (Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius), Tales of Phantasia(for the audio) F - Generally speaking games released by Square and Enix, though some are utter highlights even from them like Secret of Mana, or their games they only published for like Yozo Koshiros stunning work in Actraiser Enix put out, or the quality of Quests's Ogre Battle. Both Castlevanias(especially Dracula X), and Turtles are real stand outs, as are any of their localized or stuck in Japan shooters.

I'm getting curious what I have now you all... See I have had my original copy since the 1980s, and a few years ago I got this amazing CIB copy out of a store here, while it was a really good deal, I don't tend to buy doubles but it was in great shape I wanted to shadowbox it. It's not the same version at least as far as the screw variant of it goes. Kind of curious what version of what each of them are now.

That's too bad, I'd ask to see but you'll always get a better view. Of course a basic bit kit would resolve the issue too. You're right it's one of the more oddball GB games that have an utterly stupid price attached to it. It's not like it has some amazing pedigree of lineage (Kid Dracula) or company (Sunsoft) tied to it. I gave in i bought a 1:1 external plastic/screw/sticker clone of Aerofighters SNES for like $12 shipped from aliexpress as the $1000-1500 price can suck it so I understand entirely.

Well if you ever get just a little less lazy where motivation kicks in I'd be curious. I thought Tusk was still at it. He had a nice little thing going where he'd make boxes and (key thing) manuals usually for prototypes, bootlegs, english translated Japanese stuff like with Virtual Boy and all that. His stuff when I was going nuts on VB back in 2019 would come in and out of stock damn near instantly. That's one thing the ali peddlers largely still won't touch, maybe the engrish is too complicated! (HAH) but they do really fantastic cardboard boxes, plastic sega snap cases(or their cardboard) with the slip art for the plastic cases and it's still super cheap like $20 or less for the game+box/case shipped. The thing they don't bother with are booklets, really not sure why there's got to be a huge market for those types of goods.

Lately I've been thinking a bit more about this and seeing some interesting stuff that comes along. Most people I find tend to just look at the whole Sega vs Nintendo 16bit wars and go into who got the better copy and it's overly debated, argued, and just played out over 30 years. But there are these games you don't always realize in a lot of cases that popped up from like MSDOS or maybe a Japanese only release on a console or one of their computers that made it to the US shores on a console in that period too more or less. An example would be PC Engine having good games vs the endless mistakes of the US office, so you'll end up with like Dragon's Fury on Genesis which is Devils Crush on PCE/TG16, or the non-localized PCE game Bomberman 94 did come over, again, on the Sega Genesis as Mega Bomberman. I never have really seen any site or person bother to really create a list of these gems (or junk) that go transported over, and if they were badly done, as good, or even better for someone looking to try something new or revisit it in another way. Sega Genesis seemingly at first look appears to have picked up a bit more of the slack when it came to PC DOS stuff and some Japanese favored consoles but Nintendo had some solid stuff they didn't get as well. Like from the PC side Genesis got a fantastic version of Star Control and also Dune II while SNES had a really (dumb password save aside) noble done efforts with Wing Commander and a 2nd cart for its 2 chapters of special operations too. Maybe we should try and knock out a list, or at least maybe point out some stuff that would be worth checking out or avoiding someone may not realize made it. And even in some cases both systems got supposedly the same game but were grossly done differently in some way (visuals here) they're almost not the same like Test Drive II the Duel.

Gameboy labels have traditionally in a vast majority of cases a double digit code(or it can be number number letter usually an A) pressed hard into the label, stamped, dented into the label. Fakes 99/100 times don't bother doing something so mindlessly easy to increase the quality of their copies.

Piqued my interest, what have you got? Or should I say, could you patch into english and produce?

Again Castlevania, what's the deal seeing that knocked twice in like 24hours now. Is there like some obvious problems or censoring issues with like the 5screw early run vs the 3 screw standard longer run version of the game?

@phart010 nah that's high. The stuff I've picked up the little there is has been in the $7 shipped average in price on a single 16bit game cart, paid the few extra over that for aerofighters since it externally is accurate. Multicarts though are about twice that price. They fall into the middle ground of the single game and then the china clone cheapo copy of an everdrive.

^ Ooooh that could be seen as sexual harassment. Seriously though, first, second, 10th...as long as it isn't re-done, cheapened up, and otherwise penny pinched for mass market push I could not care less. And by that I mean the annoying gold medals of Nintendo Player's choice with cheap stickers and colorless manuals, the green eyesore border and ghetto print quality disc ink/manuals of PS1, etc...you get the idea.

Oh it's China, at least largely so that. There are also the cases that some people will just do stuff on demand because now you can buy those same boards shells and 1:1 quality stickers(or at least a high quality custom one too) for very little along with a chip writer and you're set. They've over saturated the market with amazing copies of stuff, original or original but translated to enjoy. With aliexpress recently taking paypal I've started to use their services to get what you're talking about and been looking at other stuff largely out of curiosity. I've got Genesis(MD) copies of horribly expensive titles like BattleMania 2, Panorama Cotton, and Mega Man Wily Wars coming in a bundle from one seller that look correct for $20 shipped. I also knowing I'm not utterly reckless and stupid with money did some poking around for Aerofighters SNES on there too, a lot had some pretty close and some not even close copies of the cart, but one solitary seller has a 1:1 copy of it down to the fine details of that sticker and it was just over $12 shipped...vs $1500...tough call right? This was after doing a test on 2 other previous single pack orders one of a Famicom multi and one of Genesis to pop in my nomad. In previous years I could have got those Gen games translated in the NA period had someone done them, it would have been in the $50+ range depending on the extras involved. Those very games up on ali you can pay more, and it's still less than that range and get them at the least with a cloned Sega case and art, some even do manuals too. So it's like, unless you're nuts, very deep pocketed, and just have to have a true complete set, that's really the way to go avoiding sharks and going broke. And because those production qualities are so high yet so cheap, it makes it too hard to compete with such cheap suppliers making stuff like Timewalk and others did a decade ago.

Guy probably should have dropped a tab of something beyond drinking, just that little edge would have suddenly made that taste all the same as a real one, depending on the dollar tree quality peddler of random cheap treats.

Whether collectors like it or not, given your truly unique location, perspective, literal museum of systems+games+paper pieces, you're like the authority on some stuff when it comes to sachen, taiwanese releases, pirate/clone stuff. I think the salt thrown at you for over a decade now is largely people who get pissed off having bought up over time a collection to get told, sorry, it actually isn't complete, doesn't sit well.

I'm hot and I haven't been left in peace until now today... so I really don't want to do pictures, as if you've never seen any of it before. A game delayed in the mail in Missouri (SFC game) for 9 days lost until people complained(seller) it amazingly moved next day to here, Ranma 1/2 Chougi Ranbu Hen which is the SF2 clone style fighter the series had. And then due to my friend I found Joe and Mac for 10 off the usual price for Genesis that came in the mail early as I saw Monday but it appeared. Then locally I dug up for like (combined value) for 1/2 the rate Test Drive 2 Genesis and Biker Mice and Firepower for SNES and all the stuff other than the cheap Gen title are in excellent shape. Nice what you can find in your own county if you dig enough, and I may have a potential package deal on some SNES games too if the guy writes me back.

If that's not photoshopped, gamestop just earned a little bit of respect with that one.

Oooh sweet an old PlayCo sticker, haven't seen one of those since they went bankrupt out in California back in the mid 1990s. I remember when they started folding up stores all over, I took advantage of the video game price cut sales. Why buy FF3 for $60 (or $70-80 at that store) due to their nerdy square tax, when you can get it for like $40-45. I waited for those signs to go up. And yes PlayCo @Justin they did that with their stickers. I think it was both for immediate accounting, but also because they did run second tier stores in early outlet strip malls (like KayBee did too) to take their old stock and slice a good chunk off the cost to get rid of it. That is a game that was bought when it came out as the release date on wikipedia shows Sept 9th, 1994 (your sticker is the 8th) which means they priced it likely after closing and put it out that evening to be ready when the doors opened the next. Also note the price, it didn't retail for it. A large reason why they and KayBee failed was they'd charge like $10-20 MORE than big box stores did, like it was something special where you get to pay more buying it from a toy specialty store. I never bought from them outside of sales or usually their outlet/clearance areas as a kid on a budget isn't going to waste the price or most the price of a new gameboy game on inflated prices.

Was it though? Seriously though, there never will be a solid answer. The NES was an open ended dumpster fire of unlicensed goods once people figured it out back in the era, so even if you did exclude the homebrew, pet projects, or wish it were official release quality stuff you see now, it's still a blur. No one will ever agree on it, the NES is ultimately a system you can never truly 100% collect every cart for, as no one is solidly sure just how many there were before the 21st century gave us cheap rom hacks and personal creations.

No, not at multiple levels no. It's a terrible idea. It's terrible because it would cost them millions of dollars just to start in lost sales alone of repackaged goods to even those just renting what's thrown as the 'freebie' on the NES/SNES/N64 online switch services for 20 or more(n64/gen) a month. It's also terrible as it would in a way water down the financial value of all their IP as well because it basically calls it disposable and cheap. At face value that makes less sense until you see what whoring out your library has done to the Sega Genesis where people value a lot of the games outside of cart collectors to what Steam throws them up in sale for, which is around a dollar each, if that, and they're great titles. You ruin the value of the games, the IP, and viability for future use. So ...no big NO.

Been a stretch as I don't own it but that does seem to look right, never was a quality look to that one. It would help if it was of quite a bit higher resolution, but more so, not fuzzy but sharp. The reseller dkoldies has a nice clean image of the game cart sticker, you could compare it to that.

He's on a 12 hours difference and keeps sometimes strange hours, give it time. That thing is truly strange. I mean it is dead, or just functionally crippled. It could just be a bad trace, cold solder joint somewhere (maybe even to the power adapter port.) Odds are it's fairly easily fixed if you know how solder and test the lines. It would come down it being worth sending it to someone first before overseas mail to get it going, or just leave it be.