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I’ve really enjoyed this thread, and I check it regularly. Today, I almost got rid of an early Ruby cartridge if I’m reading it correctly!

I did some eBay surfing and I see sets of the four non-green Yoshi’s 4 that have different sizes. They smaller ones almost look like the size of black/white Yoshi. 
 

Edit: And someone on reddit appears to have the smaller set of 4 Yoshi‘s and some additional variants. 

17 hours ago, ParadoxNoooo said:

 

wondering if you know any info about these couple of smaller variants I have of green and blue yoshi, they aren’t keychains and if the other ones are 6” then these would be an inch or two smaller than that for sure. 

Are the tush tags from BD&A?

I haven’t seen any advertising for them specifically, but the mess of Diddy Kong makes it possible they had different sizes of the Yoshi’s. 

On 5/22/2022 at 8:04 PM, Tanooki said:

Today I did something that usually happens only a few times a year, might have been the first this year, I went across the river and hit 3 places I know of that can get nice things, two of the three worked out, the third I think I'll be writing off entirely for being now scummy.

The other two locations are basically indoor thrifts/peddler places where a store runs a big area and people pay for spaces inside for them to babysit/sell things for a cut.  The first had rows of cases of things from a guy who has spaces between near me and here, and in one, I found a nice Genesis game for a fair price -- Battletoads for $32, given the shape, a solid price.

The third place was a peddlers mall which is a chain of them on both sides of the river.  The cases didn't have much I'd want, but good stuff (like the other, a vendors village), but this one dude who has been there forever had these two nice items in the case.  They were a bit more than I wished combined at $95, so I made an offer and got the pair for $80.   I never had Super Nova before(a Darius game), but Super Valis IV has been on my recovery list for awhile.  Both are in stunningly clean shape with shiny clear labels too.

 

 

The other places if you're in southern Indiana, AVOID it, called Hollywood Video and Games.  You've been warned.  A 25-100% markup over ebay values makes me wonder if this old store will continue to last much longer.

Glen, the owner of Hollywood, was cool when he opened back in 2016 or so. I bought many a cib n64 game from them!

21 minutes ago, ProtonX said:

Bump

I have a ds lite that is a partially disassembled re-shelled Pokemon Dialga & Palkia. The bottom screen originally did not work. Battery included. Charger not included.

Also have a GC (won't read discs), wii that won't read discs, and a skinny ps2 that plays ps1 and dvd, but not ps2 games.

I wish you the best of luck.  I have set up permanent residence at 295.67/296 due to the SC manual.

10 hours ago, Tanooki said:

You called it, bad ribbon is likely what you have there.  It's a replacement of a screen that isn't too cheap to source, not a good position to be stuck in trying to get that right again.

Should I be sending this to hang out with those famed E.T. carts?

This is a Nintendo DS lite that is the Dialga & Palkia edition. The bottom screen doesn’t seem to work. Not sure about the top  

I opened it up. All of the screws are out. It looks like there is a tiny ribbon broken on it. I think someone tried to fix it, then that person closed it and bamboozled me. 

Any advice on what I should do here would be great. Of note, I don’t know how to solder. 
 

Thanks VGS!

It's the shipping. $5 plus $5 in shipping will never sell. $10 with free shipping will sell. People have the Amazon Prime mentality. Shipping better be free, and it better be here in under 48 hours.

15 minutes ago, epiczail said:

Exhibit A from my reply earlier today

Thought you already met your quota?

I kid, I kid.

56 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

......tells us how he's going to ignore the annoying people.

......then makes fun of all of us.

I ignored 1 person on the site. So far. 

In my comment, there’s a delineation between different types of people in this market…

But I’ll put it this way. If I had the ability to unseal every video game out there, I would do it immediately. I’d be stealth like Tom Clancy, COD Warzone dead silence, Halo cloak, a master thief, all in one. Just cracking VGA and Wata cases as sweat poured off my brow. I’d be ripping cellophane and plastic like piranhas eat. I’d need a respirator just to make sure I didn’t inhale any bits of seals as they gently floated back to the ground.

The only reason seals matter in this hobby is because THESE GAMES ARE SO MASSED PRODUCED THAT THE CROSS MATCHING OF COMPONENTS MAKES GRADING CIB A COMPARATIVE NIGHTMARE. That’s it. Cards, coins, comics are all 1 component products that do not come in a protective layer. The actual item you’d play, a CIB game, has a minimum of 3, adding a huge variance to a grade. The seal that by definition is required for the sealed games market, adds absolutely 0 to the game itself, the box art, the manual, or gameplay.

If someone wants to argue that CIB would just skyrocket in place of sealed, then I’ll relent. Until CIB massed produced games are hitting $100K+, I’ll continue to poke fun at people focused on cellophane and plastic.

This entire video game boom just seems like a bunch of 40 to 70 year old sweats with a buncha money that have ran out of comics and coins to fetishize and have switched to games.  This pop report should only help their efforts of speculation, FOMO, and profit.

Once the video game river is dry, it'll be VHS, then DVDs.  "I hAvE tHe OnLy 9.8 A++ Toy Story 2"

It was worth reading this entire thread in 1 sitting just to learn about the ignore feature.

I'm certainly no genius. But if something hasn't worked in 50+ years, (looking at you taxes, healthcare, education, trickle down economics, etc.) why not switch it up and trying something different? We're like a guy that can't figure out why his head is hurting as he hits himself in the head with a hammer.

I went from super hyped for this to out. NSO does not offer 1/10th of the features that are standard from its competitors.  The $30 difference is to catch the reminiscing 30 something year old with kids that would like to show the kids Mario Kart but doesn't want to or can't pay $100 for a system, another $90 for 3 additional controllers, $40 for Mario Kart, and another $40 to $80 for a couple more games. The expansion pak is not directed at us.

Nintendo saw those NES and SNES CIB and Sealed prices, then looked at their $20 plan, then back at the prices, then back at their plan and went, "We priced that entirely too low." I don't agree because the overall service is subpar, but money is money.

The base membership is going to get a price jump at some point.  The consumer will eventually be retroactively paying for all the NES and SNES content.

I can't follow this thread anymore.  It needs a tldr every 10 pages.

32 minutes ago, jonebone said:

Except toothpicks are infinite goods, and games are actually finite.  Oh and toothpicks are more or less exactly identical in condition, where the finite supply bevomes ever smaller Mint.

Todd and John cant create the hobby unless 1000s of people play under them as well.  If Todd and John create 1000 followers overnight with no knowledge of the hobby, then it's very risky.  

In our hobby if you stick to the 1000 number, I'd say it's roughly half and half of well-informed collector vs. complete novice.  Even people who have only been around 2 years at this point have a decent read of the market.  And even if you are a complete novice, it's you choosing to spend your money correct? 

Sure argue for more transparency, I'm not going to argue that.  But huge difference between asking for more transparency and calling them scammers or fraud and what not.  

Again, not focusing on the money.  We're focusing on ethics.  I chose toothpicks as the simplest item I could think of to highlight the behavior of the individuals.  I could've built my example around real estate, cards, swampland, stamps, etc.  I went bare bones to flush it out.  For fun though, are all toothpicks in identical condition? I would think not, especially after use.

We're just on opposite ends of this.

To be fair, I'm going to come to Jone's defense a tiny bit here. There's different niche collecting circles within video games. Jone has a comparatively large number of sealed and/or graded games compared to most of us. My assumption is some of those were probably pretty expensive.  Is he supposed to sit at home and hope all of his games are now worthless? He has an interest in WATA/HA that most of us do not have. Would any of you not defend your point of view if you were him? Remember his position.

4 minutes ago, jonebone said:

Same here, he loves collecting and wanted the hobby to grow.  In doing so Wata has naturally grown as well and values have taken off.  It's what came first the chicken or the egg?  He didn't make up values to grow his business, the market has created their values by using HA and Wata and those companies naturally reap the benefits.

He didn't make up values to grow his business, the market has created their values by using HA and Wata and those companies naturally reap the benefits.

He "wanted the hobby to grow" much like for profit colleges wanted to "educate."  There's no shame in being after money, just don't be unethical or holier than thou about it.

THE MARKET USING WATA AND HERITAGE TO CREATE VALUE IS THE EXACT PROBLEM WE'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT.  Those of us that are "not in the know" don't care about the value, we care about the ethics.

Here's an example.

John starts a company around toothpicks.  The company focuses on making sure the toothpicks are real wood and not some other dental material.  John's goal is to one day sell his company, much like any business.  John goes to Todd to help sell his "authenticated" toothpicks.  Todd starts his relationship with a brand new company by paying a huge amount of money for one of John's toothpicks.  John makes media appearances touting the legitimacy of his toothpicks, thanks to Todd's sale price.  People with no knowledge of toothpicks but that are very bored with their other hobbies, start buying toothpicks.  If Todd got such a good deal on his toothpick, then these people need toothpicks too! ......... Need I go on here?

This whole thing is one big money grab wrapped up in a huge serving of FOMO.

21 hours ago, LutherDestroysTheGond said:

@Wickedwonka I think was in last I chatted him.  he hasn't logged in to VGS for a while though 

Message everyone from last season and get a list of non-payers from Jeff lol.  Jeff might want to play as non-commish too

This is good.

There’s too many Diddy’s. I sold a big blue eyed with my extra cart. I stopped keeping track. 
 

I’m still not doing the talking. Still on the hunt for the 3 midsized I need, and a good open mouth Mario. It’s the same 6 for me. I don’t think I’ve added much in the past 6 months. 

There’s a Banjo Keychain that got posted just now too. 

It wasn’t me.

I didn’t see that listing. My assumption is I’ll just have to get lucky and be looking at time of posting. 

There’s nothing cooler than all the different console and controller variations. And this is the best pick up and play console for friends and family, imo. 

THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN. 

YOU MUST BOW TO THE UNCONTESTED AWESOMENESS OF THE NINTENDO 64.

I can't help myself, but I know there are so many people grinding their teeth that a Nintendo 64 game is now the highest sale of all time. My beloved N64.

THE NINTENDO 64 HAS ASSUMED IS RIGHTFUL PLACE ATOP THE VIDEO GAME PYRAMID!!! 

Just wait for Ocarina of Time!