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Tbh seller should have sold it as "for parts" not "as is". If you can't test it, sell it for parts, period. Do you have someone with a professional opinion to give you a price on how much it would take to repair it? Probably just a cheap blown capacitor.

With this one it's simple, contact all grading companies and tell em about this, they'll add some notes in order not to grade those numbers of NWC, since everyone would have the idea to but this and grade it sooner or later (if they already haven't lol). If she indeed knows how to make these games, you can't stop her from doing it, just don't buy from her. The thing is, if she knows how to do it, someone else is gonna indeed try it (anything can be copied with enough knowledge). She's missing the big picture though, she could be making quality repros of games with translations, like pair herself with the translation dudes of certain games and make their own quality repros which would totally sell for premium price. Or pair with a company like Strictly limited, limited run games, etc.

So this became a topic today on a facebook game boy group, especially on how low the price was. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Super-Mario-Land-2-6-Golden-Coins-for-Original-Gameboy-New-amp-Sealed-/265070848943?hash=item3db7742baf%3Ag%3AFScAAOSwCl5gO7s1&nma=true&si=5mdivPyZ5ZVuXr%2BREdXhe3%2B8Xdk%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Doesn't the seal seem off? Even if it's a horizontal seal, which is usually uncommon, shouldn't it be more aligned than that? Also it peeling off looks strange. What do you guys think?

Looks like the site is up again (https://www.magicalgamefactory.com/en/), finally updated and looks like you can preorder games, Pier Solar and... Paprium. And orders are being confirmed and apparently shipping. Luis Martins, the art director shared this picture too: No video though, which is weird and is making me being skeptical, again. 2020 was already too weird and this also happens. Hope they really release it but still doesn't washes all the bad taste the whole project left in everyone's mouth. I heard they didn't pay some of the workers, the 2018 release party was a huge disaster and they didn't even bother replying or refunding people as you can see in their facebook. Hope they set all records straight.

Labels are always a giveaway and the missing numbers in it, but in the end you have to open all the carts. Anyone who doesn't open them will end up sooner or later getting hosed.

Nintendo knows they should have gone with this label. Would have sold 2x more.

Well this is kind of old (they've been making these for a while), but basically this is how they are making them these days, donor cart + cases so watch out for these (although the label printing is kind of obvious).

Plot twist: It was not a joke, they realized the game was probably uncommon to rare with low demand (most likely low demand and rare) and planned it out, they gathered a decent number of people in it and raised awareness in a popular group (because they probably have multiple copies of it to sell?) and some less knowledgable people panicked, took the bait and bought some copies. If you're going to do a joke, make it with a really crap game, not so uncommon at best, right? Would be the point of the joke, to actually trick people into buying a common game. Doesn't make sense with a potencially rare one. They probably knew what they were doing.

Having people praise really bad and rare games, even incentivizing others to also buy em'. Unless you got it cheap and you are going to make fun of how bad it is (example streaming it with a few people watching and laughing at all the cringe and awful voice acting, gameplay, etc), I don't wanna hear about it. Just because it's worth a ton of money doesn't mean it looks good on your collection. Why get a really bad 100$ game when you can also get a 100$ awesome game which is way less rare (but more in demand)? We know all the bad games will end up being sold anyways (Looks at Rule of Rose). People who are into retrogaming just for the money. It's ok to sell your own games (it's your money and it's your possession), but entering retrogaming groups, communities, etc, just to learn about what's getting expensive, what's worth selling, where the big buckaroos are atm, and then not sharing any kind of stories, any game talk, literally nothing to share about their childhood games, what games they like, what do they collect, and it's so clear they zero interest in this besides the money. And then they constantly ask the same goddamn stupid questions, like: "Is my pokemon gba cart real? How do I know?". They don't even google, they want YOU to feed them info cause they're too lazy to research.

Dreamcast sucks, wasn't that revolutionary: Has one of the worst modern controllers ever, can't play beat em ups or fighters with it cause that dpad is so bad it could be used as a cross in a church. Analog isn't great, has no rubbery protection in it. No right analog, it was a modern console without a means to properly control a camera in a game, making some games really crappy with their awful cameras (sonic adventure games for example). Triggers were good for racing games but horrible for arcade games. You actually needed to buy an arcade stick to get the most out of a dreamcast. Build quality wasn't great (Saturn was better), still ok, but my God that laser is crap, would die in like 3-7 years and you can't find decent replacements for it. Makes a lot of noise, sure maybe some of you like it, but even ps2 CD games didn't make that much of a noise. GD-ROMs were also crap, I've never seen any other type of disc media more prone to disc rot. Not that many great games, sure it had decent Sega titles (but no panzer dragoons, no shining forces, etc), Capcom titles too, but it lacked RPGs, and it failed against Sony right when the ps2 had mostly crap games (2000-2001 ps2 titles sucked in general). No DVD support. Dreamcast was costly to make compared to Saturn, which basically killed Sega as a hardware company (Saturn also had a ton more games in Japan that enabled a bit of profit). Dreamcast fared terribly in all regions. Wasn't the 32x, Sega CD, Saturn that killed Sega, it was the Dreamcast. Piracy protection was a joke. You could get most of the games that mattered on Gamecube, PS2, Xbox.

Some games have risen a bit like Fire emblem and Doshin the Giant though...

Megaman zero series are megamans X sequels. Originally on gameboy games, action plataformers with shooting too. Megaman ZX games are megaman games that serve as sequels of sorts to megaman zero, also same type of games.

Bought a ps2 game last month from ebay, seller listed it as "good" but then when I boot it, it refuses to load in some parts and music has problems playing too. Not the first time this has happened to me, but what I really wanted to ask is what do you guys normally do in such cases? In my case I'm pretty sure I can salvage the disc, looks to have some sort of spots (not rot) in the disc lower layer, and it can be removed with a disc scratch remover, but should I just wait till it's working and then give a bad feedback to the seller? The seller doesn't reply to me, and by the look of the game it's totally him not caring and trying to flip money over. Send him some messages about the game and video of the game not working. Nothing. Would you guys ask for refund or just a negative feedback if you get the game to work?

This is relevant for you I guess:

These are still US games... just not sealed. Like new at best. They were opened.

Those are Italian resealed games, you can perfectly identify them cause of their holographic stickers they have for taxing purposes (even though they're US games). Seriously it's funnier than you think: These were once US sealed games that were shipped to Italy, imported, then Italy has some taxing BS stuff where they have to identify these games and games have to have these stickers (I think they can't be sold without it, at least in physical stores), but many times (as is in this case and probably cause they had the US holographic sticker inside the seal originally) instead of placing the tax sticker on the original sealing plastic... they take off the original sealing plastic, probably add some italian papers inside the box with info from the supplier, or a health warning in Italian... and re-seal them again with that type of basic sealing plastic lol. THEN THEY PLACE THE STICKER. They probably bought these cheap from... Italy. Yeah. Logic, right?

Don't forget Dragon quest monsters joker 1 and 2, also good games but ESPECIALLY buy Dragon quest Rocket slime, now that's a GREAT game everyone should own.

This is basically why I'm not buying there again, this business now is basically directed towards North America only. JJgames was a great place to get stuff under 25$ that wasn't released in Europe.

I enjoy making them and they're basically for gameboy games only, basically for games I have with cart + manual, like superstar saga on gba, fire emblems, and gb games whose box are waaaay too expensive these days (like TMNT III, kid dracula, ninja gaiden shadow, etc), I am NOT paying 50+€ for a box only, especially if I can get a cart+ manual+ cart holder for less than half the price of a CIB game. I completely understand when people don't like em, we know what repro stuff 95% of the time is for, scamming other people into believing they are real (even though the people who buy them can't be arsed to do a 10 minute google search before to check for stuff or ask in facebook groups), but in the end when you are a player first and a collector second (I don't consider myself a collector, I want to play my games and am fully aware carts will damage, cds will rot, and we won't live forever), you end up avoiding wasting too much money on some CIB games and a nice printed box does the job cheaply. Why would I pay over 500€ for a Kid Dracula or 200€ for a Radical rescue when I repectively bought them for 50€ and 40€ cart + manual and made a nice box? Even though real boxes have demand like anything else in collecting, their prices and can be expensive, in the end they are just that, cardboard. Prices for sealed stuff may increase over the years but we've already seen that is not the case for CIB games. Will the people who hate these boxes keep theirs (or their CIB stuff) or end up selling them before prices drop?

Dunno, but the contact they provide through email is llcvgbrands@gmail.com, dunno who those guys are, but I'm betting it's someone related to gocollect, because they now ONLY sell sealed stuff lol. And it's mostly common games.

I make my own boxes through laser printing when the box is too expensive, even laminate the box in the end, but they always end up looking very different, too glossy, doesn't have the right bending corners, fonts are different to make similar, etc, but these new boxes seem to be made with a different type of printing. Could still be laser printing, but not semi-professional, that's for sure.

JJgames site working again under the new management. Looks like they'll only sell those newer licensed, rerelease games. Guess I'll never use it again, shipment 16$, no thanks lol.

No, I got your back with this. Here, a fine summary:

Watch out for DS bootlegs. Just don't buy cart only 95% of the time. You can feel them by how cheap the cart plastic feels plus weird labels, but some bootlegs have great labels. It's a real minefield when buying cart only, if you think Pokemon gba bootlegs were bad, wait till you see DS lol.

Well here's the back of the pcb: