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So the fullwis seller got the piss taken out of them?

I've been aware, Xevious is huge, even it's a selfmade meme for Jeremy Parish with his WORKS videos, he had like this 1/2 second popup prank nearly per video which is "DAYS SINCE XEVIOUS WAS LAST MENTIONED: 0" for a reason. To them it was the second coming of shooters after space invaders because everything since can trace a direct or semi-indirect lineage back to it, especially in the 80s and early 90s shooters. But you are right, I stlil can't figure out what the hell they were thinking when they localized only 12 of like 32 games for the US market and gave us some utterly questionable crap which I'd include that in due to lack of US popularity. Mario Bros, Clu Clu Land, Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew, Ghosts n Goblins, US version of Kid Icarus, even Star Soldier US wise is more interesting than some of the odd choices we got. SMB, Zelda 1+2, Castlevania, Dr Mario, Excitebike, and Pac-Man make more sense than the others.

Unless they changed it from when I was selling all year on there, they did for the longest time allow blocking 0 feedback buyers as a safety net just like how you can block anyone with any negative rating too or was that all removed?

Damn I miss that, as I said elsewhere earlier, really good job spotting that one. Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa is an underrated Konami gem, and the vintage famiclone of it with that name is just fun.

A week ago I plotted out how this has been a very strange and irregular month with all those items in quantity and quality having hits each week/weekend. Despite there being a rainy day all weekend I had this 1/2 day due to an appointment in the mid/late morning on Friday so I went across town to the old mans toy/game/etc shop I can hit just a few times a year and it for sure did not disappoint. I walk in hoping to find something useful for the few systems I bother with, and what pops up in my sight, PLOK ($20) and not a wrecked copy of it, as I've been trying to get it for years locally and the last 2 copies were moderately thrashed. I talk to the primary guy that works there now the last year or so, got to know him on a customer level pretty well and got to dig through some other stuff. As I was digging he mentioned I might like something on the magazine rack, he knew, and there were like 30-40 copies of Nintendo Power, and I whipped out my list and 1/2 of them were useful, a couple repeats, the others were ones I avoid (FutureOne) due to that publishers shitty attitude and making it super borrowed time generic so I ended up with 20, and bundled up for only $50. They needed a nice cleaning on the covers, a few mostly, as the former local for a time was a smoker, but whatever, $2.50/issue works for me as they're all intact minimally with their posters/pokemon comics, most other extras too other than TCG freebies. Having put those on the counter I dug some more finding a nice pair of N64 games for only $6 which were the MIdway Arcade and Top Gear Rally. Also saw a bunch of blackbox games, got to talking about the FC converter inside, he had no idea, so I started one after another, and hit one I could feel by weight alone, was able to borrow a screwdriver and found Hogan's Alley, let me have it for almost nothing ($3) too since it was an education. Whole visit ended up with 20 NP, 2 N64, 1 SNES, and 1 NES game for $85. Bonus...went down the street, found The Battle of Olympus for $15, hadn't seen a copy of that in over a decade maybe two, so I grabbed it, and today at another spot found Top Gear Rally 2 for another $15. $115 poorer but richer in quality stuff I actually care about.

What's worse is whether it is right or wrong to your comment, the ones above...they just stick with it, then double and triple down as others bounce of that being coin begging babies up on YT wanting that YT, patreon, etc grift yet supplying or bringing nothing new to the table. Sad thing is, sometimes you even hit a point where it's plausible, yet because you may know better but can't back it up, it gets drowned out with more stupidity it makes you question why to even bother. Well it was the year of it, it was a marketing ploy because it's easier now than say 30 years ago to pull that racket and have it stick thanks to the internet. The game was limited, limited into the millions to the point no matter how much they hyped it you could find stacks well after it was apparently put out of print at major retailers nation wide. It makes me think back to the first time they did that kind of limited bit, SMAS+World, the under a year packin with how many consoles? It still surprises me that one gets off so cheap vs this Switch game with exponentially more copies that weren't tied to bought hardware.

The problem with the DKL games are two fold: - They put so much detail into the ground/background along it's hard to really know when you're going to land on ground or eat it, and you can't always make yourself out on the screens of the time. - They didn't quite adjust the old maps at all to a square screen, stages are meant for tv aspect so you get an annoying level of leap of faith jumps that'll end up in cheap deaths. It's why I just have the first, and largely since it's CIB, not because it's actually really fun without modern solutions to only correct the first problem.

Maniac Mansion is not one you'd want to play on Famicom, stick to the NES. It's a beta of a copy in quality, loaded with bugs, crash issues, poor interface, places to lock yourself from ever ending it. Jaleco broke it so bad Lucasarts pulled the game away from them and re-crafted it themselves for the US version. (Reference: FamiDaily on YT)

So, no love for Mad City (aka: Bayou Billy?) While the NES game was rigged to punish players having 4x the damage you take and giving 1/2 to the enemies to beat down renters it still was a solid multi-genre game: brawler, driver, zapper (or punisher style) gun sections too. After finding out what I did, I'm looking to import Mad City to get the true non-kaizo release.

This part is kind of a concern I had and didn't post that first time. Some people are pretty savvy, more than they should be given the skill set they probably don't need for their jobs, usually from a mix of fun or for taking advantage of (stalking?) others. Images unless you set it up that way with your mobile device or actual camera have all sorts of stamps embedded into them even if you don't see it just as it is on reddit, elsewhere. Look at your phone, drag up in iOS I think it is, and it'll show all sorts of things, including a geotag of some sort from basics to right down to the space it was taken, date, time, etc. What if this image if you used the right tools could skim that out? I mean we're talking a game with a shit ton of cash, like buy a damn nice CAR cash, a 20-50% down payment on a house type good in most states. What's to stop some determined scumbag from trying to hunt the data in the image, take a ride or flight to X shop, and then make a play for it? Even if you let the owner know it was worth 10K let's say (which is a lie) you could drop that brick of 100s on the counter and they'll get Conker $ $ eyes and take it, not realizing they left 10s of Ks left on the counter. OP is screwed being a dumbass posting it, shop is happy with 10K but unaware they could have had what... 40K more? NEVER, never post a damn thing you're thinking you can snag until you snag it.

Denial as your sketchy Taiwanese vidier games have no value as it came from a den of pirates and thieves. Next time you fire up the shrinkwrap machine, remember not to load it with saran wrap.

Or not creepily do that and let the guy have his win? And agree with @drxandy they should all rot, lucky that we're into a minority report style of reality as they'd be erased all quite quickly and deserve it. It shows the true depths of how far our former for the fun of it hobby has degraded into a cash grab, fraud, deceit and manipulation cesspool of degenerates.

I'm surprised that Salamander isn't up there, but then again having jibberish kanji with the real name in small under it likely DQ'd it from that list, yet in a way, with Life Force, there it is. I do agree with you on the selection for the next question, it maybe trying to highlight Obake no Q-Tarou, but if it's not a literal case of obake in the title, there are a good number of spirits, ghosts, ghouls, and other undead/dead type stuff that would make the list fairly interesting. Gegege no Kitarou 1 (and the lousy sequel) would work as you said, also Ghosts n Goblins would fit too. Splatterhouse might fit the bill, it has lots of paranormal/haunted objects. They got 2 Ghostbusters games too, Uninvited might fit the bill. Sweet Home I think could be a possibility but might be a reach. Off the top of my head possibly could see again Getsu Fuuma Den, Youkai Douchuki, Youkai Club, Dracula Kun, Zombie Nation (Abarenbou Tengu), Digital Devil Story Megami Tensei 1 & 2, maybe any of the 1-3 Castlevania titles. Holy Diver?

I might skim some of those, but usually I just don't bother as it's just showing the likely case of someone wanting to knoe what they can sell it for, even if they're not going to admit it. If someone asks how to do a game, improve something, how to remove a rental defacement, repair, etc I'll reply on that, along with uniquely interesting stuff. I get that daily feed email of 5 randoms (and click for more) from reddit so I keep up that way otherwise I'd forget about it for a week or two easily like discord.

I've had Gold Ball and Pin-Bot, honestly wish I had kept the Gold Ball as it wasn't a pain to keep working right and honestly just was more fun even if it was more basic. Pin-Bot became a burden so I sold it to someone I bumped into at the LAX here a couple years back, no regrets and he and his little kids ended up enjoying it. I've been holding the money in an account for a replacement computer, then the flippin CCP got the world sick and prices got stupid so its been waiting. They're fun, and if you don't have a notoriously finicky one which needs precise angles to get the basics to work as it should, they're worth the time if you have the space. These days I'm just back to digital pinball, and this badass long tabletop Sonic the Hedgehog TOMY made table I picked up earlier this year locally. It has oddly a lot in common with some early 80s pinball, a 'whirlwind' style spinner bowl, ramps, pop bumpers, and some other nice gimmicks to keep it fresh.

@DarkTone Your call out of EB and blow-up doll face I would have listed so nice calls. The losers who throw around bounties on stuff would be another, the pay whatever it takes types and either make that very clear and open, or they quietly throw it out there (or mentally cling to it) and when X item comes up they'll throw $500 or maybe even $5000 or more hoping that and not a higher cap they used is taken. They're cringy and cancerous as it just hurts anyone else who cares about the game, not the concept how much they can coax out of the next patsy with a fat wallet and low self control. They're like the newer form of the old attention seekers who would do FIND videos on youtube or talk up so called hidden gems. Given maybe a little leniency to start maybe they really did care about the game, but the effect of it early on caused others to get a bad case of FOMO and made it clear pumping out more videos lined their pockets to increase their financial value in a WATA/HA halperin-bronty style kind of reach around to profit. That former sealed game maybe was worth $1000, but let's make a sale/a video then sale and then throw unfounded speculation of rarity and value and suddenly it's worth 100x more. Sure, that's all because of the love of the game.

I'm late to the game but I remember what @SNESNESCUBE64 was saying way back and it was called conspiracy, and I remember it because I said it and felt the same, that it was a huge racket and that whole Pawn Stars speculation million dollars "could be?!" bit of pure lying on camera made it clear even back then. To see that bronty seemingly is in on this, lying about being out with that 2019 mail that's even putting more nails into the coffin of quite a few people and their integrity. I can only hope in the end when discovery is exposed, this goes fully through, and likely some/most of them will end up destroyed that it causes some panic among the suckers who bought into it. Would be nice to see a nice 1930s style bank run on selling their shit off before it loses 90% of its value due to the trust bottoming out, or them cracking cases to try and get other entities who aren't amoral/bankrupt who have some history (like CGC etc) re-do it. The blowback would hit the press hopefully harm the values in a trickle down effect. While I don't see it going all beanie babies and pogs freakout, a nice slap down is well in order.

I hit the usual flea market east yesterday and had a bit of added luck. Bumped into a friend who gave me MMPR the tiger handheld(vintage) and Tamagotchi(gb) free which is nice. But the real luck, Topps 1989 Nintendo Cards, remember the scratcher game cards mixed with a couple sticker cards with tips 93 to 2 split 5 packs.) Guy asked 80, I got him down to 40. The guy admitted he messed up, he had like a dozen or so sealed packs, OPENED them before arriving, and had sleeved the cards into clear thin protective slips. I've not seen these in person since I was a kid, wanted more, just didn't want to deal with online. And there I have like 1/2 the set at once. Kind of tempted to get more, but...it's more special this way so I don't know. It would be neat to fill the holes. Now I just need to think of a better storage, maybe 1" binder and card holders or leave it be. They're not quite small sleeved to fit in those clear sports card boxes, so I used the higher part and leaned them into it with the pack wraps(got those too) in the smaller part. If you're curious, it's these cards: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/84501/1989-Topps-Nintendo

Whoa...that's more MVS games than I thought you had, and doubles no less -- nice one. Now about that KoF98 etc... You really need to get that consolized MVS off aliexpress or something and put those to good use you won't regret it.

Got no reason not to admit it. I can't remember the last time I warez'd a game would be a statement I would say, if not for a friend I have offline reminding me they existed a couple weeks ago, so I found their WAD files and just grabbed them since I keep dolphin around for lazy moments for random fast play of GC discs I own. That was something nice, I mean I had 2 of the 3 of them (meh on contra) when the Wii was a thing, so I guess it's gray area. They are true losses, play amazing, hold up so well...and they're vapor. GBA got its run again with DracX SNES, let's have a Wiiware bundle. It's not impractical since the GBA games got boosted with DraculaX. Just put the 3 Wiiware games with like Castlevania Chronicles as a 4th since that oddly was excluded from their package deal for Castlevania Anniv Collection.

Nah you're on point, it's a word, well, word-symbol game going off the sounds more than actual meaning of the word to form another word, in this case, Salamander, and to keep it clear, just under the kanji bomb has the name in katakana, then english in larger print yet under that. That said, Salamander hands down by far is the most unique and beautiful Famicom cart. It surprises me no one else or even Konami again would repeat that.

October for me has been the month that just keeps on giving it seems. The first weekend turns up a couple of final fantasy cds (N gen, then 1+2 import), r2r boxing 64(trying to find too long locally) and tom & jerry GG w/manual and lost vikings genesis. The second weekend at the same flea market (CDs were not there) ups the ante and I get a complete atomic purple n64 in the box in stunningly great shape, well 99% complete, the extra folded cardboard for the atomic is missing (anyone?) And then today the cry of #2 SEGA! hits between two flea markets and the first nets dino land, kid chameleon, and sonic 3d blast. With the second location dropping a big wish list knockoff for me a combo of El.Viento and Streets of Rage 3 and nicely under the going rate too or I'd have left it. I'm curious if something happens at the eastern flea tomorrow where the first 2 weeks came from or...?

And I heard that Holly would if she could.

@koifish DQ2 came out in Japan 1/26/87 and DQ3 was 2/10/88 only a year apart. DQ3 was the first to use a battery, it was supposed to be out slightly earlier to make the Japanese new years sales boom, but what did make it for that was Final Fantasy 12/18/87 and it was using a battery too. Up until that time passwords got longer and more heinous if someone didn't go with the FDS read/write format. Faxanadu was out around the time of FF1 in Japan and you know how nasty that code can get. As far as that next question of polling, those games strangely enough usually used utter garbage kanji for appearances that don't have the face value of what the actual name of the game is, so usually they had the name on screen in english and ont he box in smaller english set too like Salamander did. Famidaily series on YT loves to get amusingly critical of this, and the 4 kanji of this one in literal terms at least is Sand, Gauze, Beautiful, Snake ...seriously that's it.

I feel bad for people who may have felt that when they created the NNID format like what a decade ago that was their network going forward. They pitched pretty hard that they were going to streamline and realize proper services compared to the Wii/DS stuff that were being shut down since they couldn't be properly grown/upgraded. But it seems I guess behind the scenes at some point they found even that network the last generation had was still not upgradeable or expansion ready enough for what is there now. The newest now stuff(Switch) has an account that carries over as people thought the older would, but it doesn't even use the NNID it's another NIntendo account, unified this time I hope. I think I'd be upset about it, but as time goes, job(s) now go, I've been offloading more and more and keeping more what I can find time for that matters so the DS and 3DS generation are out. I haven't had a Wii in awhile and the ugly WiiU even longer, debating even offloading my Cube at this rate due to the market behaviors. But with me not having that stuff now, not going to have it again, I don't have a stake in it to feel personally put out. I just wish for stuff that's stuck on digital there was a way of recovery short of very welcome and deserving piracy in that case. My mind draws back to Konami and the Castlevania, Gradius, and Contra unique entries on Wiiware lost to the world outside of theft or buying someones old system which has it still. This is just going to be as bad or worse on 3DS and WiiU given the expansion of non-physical games in the decade since.